Новости за 10.03.2016

Peter Layton

Security, United States

Restarting F-22 production would help the U.S. stay competitive against Russia and China.

American air supremacy is in a bear market of long-term decline with no end in sight. The RAND Corporation recently determined: “continuous improvements to Chinese air capabilities make it increasingly difficult for the United States to achieve air superiority within a politically and operationally effective time frame. . . .” These improvements... Читать дальше...

Nick Macomber, also known as the Jet-Pack Man, flew above the Liffey River in Dublin for 28 seconds, landing on a floating platform.

Iran was ordered by a New York City judge to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to the families of those killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Bloomberg reported.

DEWITT — Illnesses that have forced staff members and dozens of students to stay home have led to classes being canceled Thursday at a southeast Nebraska district.

Jonah Reider launched a supper club, Pith, in a Columbia dorm room. Now, there are thousands (yes, thousands) of people on Pith's wait list.

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Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence team is making history.

Its AlphaGo program is up 2-0 on Lee Sedol, one of the top Go players alive. This is the first time a computer has beat a human champion without a handicap. 

While there will be three more games between Sedol and AlphaGo, the victory suggests that Go is the latest game that computers are outwitting people in. Checkers fell in 1994, Chess in 1997, and Jeopardy in 2011.

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Jack Nowell is sporting a new look and Joe Marler gets down and dirty as they look ahead to the RBS Six Nations clash with Wales

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The House of Representatives is not through with Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

Ranking members of the House Committee on Oversight, Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-Maryland), just sent the company a letter asking for an explanation as to why it continues to withhold documents about its drug-pricing practices. 

The committee has been looking specifically into heart medications, Isuprel and Nitropress, since August of last year. Читать дальше...

The Russian foreign minister thinks that WADA must approach the alleged doping crisis in Russia's sports without attempts to politicize the issue.

De zogenoemde 'Audi-bende' heeft mogelijk weer toegeslagen. In het Duitse dorp Dalum, net over de grens bij Twente, is in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag een geldautomaat opgeblazen. De daders namen vier cassettes met geld mee. Daarna vluchtten ze in een donkere Audi A6 richting de grens.

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First he disrupted the music business with Napster, then he helped Mark Zuckerberg craft Facebook, changing the way we live our lives.

Now, Sean Parker wants to make movies in theaters more easily available for home viewing.

A company called The Screening Room, founded by Parker and Prem Akkaraju (who is also CEO), is making the rounds at Hollywood studios pitching $50 rental fees for movies still in theaters. The service would use the company's secure antipiracy set-top boxes... Читать дальше...

A year and a half after CVS Health Corp. sacrificed what it estimated to be $2 billion in annual sales by ceasing to sell tobacco products in its stores, it is beefing up its anti-tobacco stance with a $50 million anti-smoking campaign over the next five years.

The Patriots certainly need help at wide receiver. Or maybe, they’re just messing with the Bills because it’s fun. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Patriots are bringing in Bills wide receiver Chris Hogan for a visit today. Hogan is a restricted free agent, and if the Patriots gave him an offer sheet, the…

This child star just gave birth to a child of her very own.  Christine Lakin, the 37-year-old actress synonymous with her breakout role as Al Lambert on Step by Step, gave...

Rob Kardashian showed off his toned body in a new Snapchat video during a barbecue with girlfriend Blac Chyna.

"Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice.”

Last year the EU's crime-fighting body Europol supported the world's largest ever international operation against wildlife crime. All of this could be reversed if we leave

Martin Chilton guides you through Clint Eastwood's remarkable career

Martin Chilton guides you through Clint Eastwood's remarkable career

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Deborah Greene was shopping in Whole Foods last year when she got a phone call that would change her life.

It was her brother on the other end of the line, and he was telling her that her father had killed himself.

Green abandoned her shopping cart in the middle of the store and fell to the floor. She wrote an account of the harrowing moment in an open letter published by the Washington Post:

"After I hung up, I started to cry and scream as my whole body trembled," Greene wrote. Читать дальше...

At least 11 people in nine U.S. states have been infected in a salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios and two of them have been hospitalized.

Detroit’s distinctive urban lifestyle is attracting young professionals and empty-nesters to its downtown. As a result, sales of luxury homes are up 107%

A homeless man has undergone surgery after his throat was slashed in the Sydney CBD.