Новости за 24.03.2016

Back to the drawing board.

A recent Forbes article revealed that 65% percent of people would rather have a different boss than a raise. Take that in for a moment, people would trade money for a better boss.

When I was 25 years old, my father shared something with me that forever altered my perspective on leadership. I had just been promoted to my first manager position at Procter & Gamble. I called my father to give him the good news. "Congratulations," he said, "You've just become the second most important person... Читать дальше...

The race for a cure and the war against the HIV/AIDS epidemic with its epicentre still in KwaZulu-Natal, are not yet over, writes Lyse Comins

Police officers pulled the woman away from the crowd, and she ended up on the ground. A swarm of media surrounded the woman as police struggled to grab her and pull her up

In 1996, NPR's Scott Simon interviewed first lady Hillary Clinton about her battles with Republicans and her own time as a young booster of Barry Goldwater.

These letters were published in the 25th March – and penultimate – edition of the Independent

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who participated in the occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon has been charged with theft of government property.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 87 million children around the world under seven years of age have been growing up in conflict zones, in conditions that can hinder the development of their brains, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.

Retailers led a fourth day of declines in European shares in a holiday-shortened week.

Cal's Stephen Domingo, Sam Singer named all-academic Pac-12 Cal juniors Stephen Domingo and Sam Singer have been named to the Pac-12 All-Academic team, the conference announced Thursday morning. Domingo received second-team honors, and Singer earned honorable mention. On Feb. 19, after a practice in Seattle, Domingo and Singer learned they were admitted to Cal’s Haas School of Business. To be eligible for the academic team, a player must have at least a 3.0 overall GPA and be either a starter or significant contributor. Читать дальше...

AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands-France friendly on Friday will be halted in the 14th minute for a minute's silence in honor of Johan Cruyff.

7 To 4: Trailer 8

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly after last November’s attacks on Paris by a Brussels-based Islamic State cell, a top U.S. counter-terrorism official traveling in Europe wanted to visit Brussels to learn more about the investigation.

Putin jokes that Kerry brought cash to bargain with Russia

PFA chairman Gordon Taylor says Adam Johnson has damaged the game's reputation after being jailed for six years.

– Kirikiri prison which is over populated, has 175 awaiting trials, 43 convicted persons – Omotilewa Ibirogba, the director, Directorate of Citizens Rights (DCR) says the Lagos state government is making effort‎ to decongest the prisons Nine heavily pregnant women and eight babies are among 222 inmates in the female section of Kirikiri prisons. This was disclosed by […]

The Roman Forum is—along with the Parthenon and the Egyptian pyramids—one of the mandatory sites for reflection on the passing of great powers, the impotence of architectural grandeur, and, these days, on the windfall profiteering of cold soda in places that attract mass tourism. Having come to spend a few days in Rome—for a book festival, the modern author’s equivalent of those pilgrimages that set ancient authors travelling from one marvel to the next—I found myself wandering through the nicely cleaned-up archeological site and brooding. Читать дальше...

The last two decades have been grim for the monarch butterfly.

There used to be more than a billion black-and-orange monarchs fluttering up from Mexico each spring to lay eggs on milkweed plants across North America. But as we've eradicated those native milkweeds with farming, mowing, and herbicide spraying, the population has shrunk 84 percent since 1995. Things have gotten so dire that a new study in Scientific Reports warns the Eastern monarchs could dwindle to near-extinction in just 20 years. Читать дальше...

It’s clear that Urban Outfitters is ready for the skinny jean to go away for good. We ask 69 denim wearers (and one non denim wearer): Are skinny jeans over?

"We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends" - Mary McLeod Bethune

A powerful civil rights activist and educator, Mary McLeod Bethune devoted her career to improving the lives of African Americans. She founded a school, Bethune-Cookman College, and served as president of the National Council of Negro Women and as a top black administrator in the Roosevelt administration. The first... Читать дальше...

"We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends" - Mary McLeod Bethune

A powerful civil rights activist and educator, Mary McLeod Bethune devoted her career to improving the lives of African Americans. She founded a school, Bethune-Cookman College, and served as president of the National Council of Negro Women and as a top black administrator in the Roosevelt administration. The... Читать дальше...

– Traffic lights don’t get to work most times which led to accident most times – The street lights go off when they are supposed to work at night for easy movement of people – Transport system within the state capital is poor making life unbearable for passengers – In general the town is dirty […]

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.