Новости за 11.03.2016

BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen says global sales were 1.2 percent lower in February than a year earlier, with higher deliveries in Europe offset by drops in the U.S., South America and China as it grapples with its emissions-rigging scandal.

Two suspects have been taken in for questioning in connection with the murder of KZN businessman Morgan Naidoo, who allegedly owed moneylenders almost R4 million.

CNN's Jake Tapper confronted Donald Trump over his recent comments about Islam. 

It doesn't matter if you run Mac, Windows or Linux: update your Flash player. That's the warning from Adobe advising users to update their software to patch 23 security holes in the popular program. The March update, released Thursday, is meant to fix a list of vulnerabilities that could make it possible for a hacker to launch malicious software code on to an unsuspecting user's computer. All it would take for someone to become a victim would be for them to visit an infected website, or unwittingly watch an infected advertisement.

The state dinner was the ultimate intersection of the capitals of North American legislative power — Ottawa and Washington, D.C. — and Hollywood celebrity

MADRID - The Spanish government and Olympic committee have defended Rafael Nadal from doping accusations made by a former French official.

Taking suo motu cognizance of two news reports published in The Times of India, the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has issued notices to Trichy district collector and superintendent of police, Thanjavur district.

Christopher Nolan prefers the real thing when it comes to almost every aspect of filmmaking. Whether it's shooting on celluloid or using practical effects whenever possible, the director aims for realism, and for his upcoming WWII picture, he's once again going the extra mile. The Independent (via Presse Océan) reports that the director has managed to get his hands on the French T-47 Class Destroyer, Maillé-Brézé, an actual battleship that was in use for decades (though not in Dunkirk), before it... Читать дальше...

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Brian Wuebbels, the CFO of SunEdison, the largest renewable-energy firm in the world, will leave the company.

He will be replaced by Ilan Daskal no later than April 4.

Wuebbels will remain at SunEdison as president and CEO of TerraForm Power and TerraForm Global, SunEdison's two subsidiaries created to manage SunEdison projects.

Those companies are known as yieldcos.

SunEdison has seen its stock price collapse by over 90% since July. A defunct attempt to acquire Vivint... Читать дальше...

uMgungundlovu Municipality was forced to implement water restrictions on Pietermaritzburg due to low dam levels.

Historian and author claims most people's knowledge of historical events is now coming from television or film - and it is often wrong

Bristol City sign Nigerian international striker Peter Odemwingie on loan from Stoke for the remainder of the season.

The College of Agriculture lifted the Athletic Trophy (Men and Women) during the 50th Annual Athletic Meet of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), organized by the Directorate of Students’ Welfare, PAU.

There was mixed reaction among political parties to KZN’s R109 billion budget tabled in the provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg.

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

Leaders in Hong Kong decided Thursday to increase the presence of counselors in schools in hopes of improving students' mental health and reversing a recent alarming trend of suicides. At an emergency education bureau meeting Thursday, authorities announced they would send psychologists to train teachers and administrators at more than 1,000 schools on how to identify at-risk students and get them help, the Standard reported.

Summoned by the Enforcement Directorate to appear before it on March 18 in a money laundering case, beleaguered liqour baron Vijay Mallya is yet to confirm when he will join the probe.

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Tech entrepreneur John McAfee is running for president in the US as a member of the Libertarian Party. This is an op-ed article he wrote and gave us permission to run.

This article may disturb some people. For that I apologize in advance, but I feel compelled, at this point, to step outside the narrow path of acceptability. I am moved to bare my heart and confess my thoughts.

I am writing this to the disaffected, the disenfranchised, the angry and frustrated. Читать дальше...

The GOP needs Donald Trump's rivals to stay in the race to force a brokered convention, Sarah Fagen says.

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GLENDALE, Calif., March 11 (UPI) -- Nestle USA announced a recall Friday of some of its DiGiorno Pizza, Lean Cuisine and Stouffer's products.

CCTV footage implicated a police constable in the escape of Kagiso Ledwaba, one of the accused in the Uwe Gemballa murder.

Connacht prop Finlay Bealham is in line for his Ireland debut after replacing Cian Healy on the replacements' bench.

Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev pledged on Friday that the troops recently deployed on the southern border of the country would help border police only in emergency situations, such as when there is a sharp increase in migrant flows, expected to start in the spring, local media reported.

NAYPYITAW - Aung San Suu Kyi, head of Myanmar's National League for Democracy, leaves after a parliamentary sess...