Новости за 24.03.2016

In a case as high-profile as this one, the noise around the event became so deafening that it almost succeeded in drowning out the evidence and legal arguments themselves

Investigation into the oil industry of the Islamic State militant group, carried out by journalists of the RT television channel, proves Turkey’s financial ties with extremists, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.

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"There are no small parts, only small actors," famed acting coach Konstantin Stanislavsky once remarked, and it's the kind of statement that can only bring comfort to the many, many aspiring actors who never get their chance to shine in a lead role. However, in the new documentary “Elstree 1976” the players who helped bring George Lucas' "Star Wars" to life — and I'm not talking about Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, or Harrison Ford — do get their moment to share what it was like to make movie history. Читать дальше...

Paul McCartney will be joining Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. At least for one scene. The fifth...

Oil futures pared some losses after data Thursday from Baker Hughes showed that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for crude fell by 15 to 372 as of Thursday. Meanwhile, the total U.S. rig count fell 12 to 464, which is another record low. May crude was at $39.44 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 35 cents, or 0.9%. It was trading lower at around $39.17 before the data.

It took 15 hours for Twitter to teach an artificially intelligent chatbot to be a racist, sexist monster.

Former England soccer star Adam Johnson has been jailed for six years after being found guilty of child sex charges.

For nearly two years, Ukrainian officials have been promising that Western investors would soon flood the country with billions of investment dollars to save the country's troubled economy. However, investment sage Jim Rogers believes otherwise, warning that Ukraine could wind up like Columbia, which is still reeling from a thirty year civil war.

The much-anticipated showdown of superheroes, Warner Bros.’ “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” opens Friday. But if early reviews from movie critics are any indication, audiences might want to hold onto their ticket money.

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Donald Trump is a lot of things.

Right now, he's known mostly as the Republican presidential frontrunner.

But back in 1999, Trump's company — Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts — was the first company to end up on the wrong side of the Securities and Exchange Commission's view on how companies should be "adjusting" their earnings.

The big debate in markets today is over how much companies are really earning.

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There has been a big push in recent years to make government data open so citizens know where their tax money is spent– from snow collection in Chicago and broken street lights in Tbilisi, to what public officials declare about their assets in Mexico and their lobbying meetings with companies in the EU. While data […]

Lawyers for alleged British paedophile Nigel Lee Tucker‚ who was arrested in Cape Town last week‚ asked on Thursday for his immediate release because indecent assault is no longer a punishable offence in South Africa.

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Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer said Thursday that Donald Trump's skepticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would give the Kremlin more breathing room on the world stage.

"That's certainly a reason Putin decided to endorse Trump — he understands that US allies will be supported less in a potential Trump administration, giving the Kremlin more room to maneuver," Bremmer, who is president of the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider in an email.

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President Barack Obama paired up with a pro dancer to dance the tango during a state dinner held in his honor on Wednesday (March 23) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 54-year-old president’s wife Michelle Obama was also seen dancing the tango with a professional dancer that evening! President Obama and his family, including daughters Sasha [...]

«Pourquoi est-ce que je ressemble toujours à une colonne sur les photos?»

Veep, the HBO television series that follows the struggles inside the White House, is supposed to be a parody of dysfunction in politics.

BRUSSELS - Belgium has come up short in its efforts to prevent extremist attacks time and again, experts say - failing to coordinate intelligence, investigate suspects and control its borders.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has come up short in its efforts to prevent extremist attacks time and again, experts say — failing to coordinate intelligence, investigate suspects and control its borders.

Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan dün yaptığı açıklamada "Biz yakaladık Belçika serbest bıraktı" demişti. Bu açıklaması Brüksel'deki saldırıyı Türkiye'nin üzerine yıkmaya çalışan Batı basını ve Türkiye'deki ihanet...Devamı için tıklayınız

INDIANAPOLIS - Customers of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles could benefit from streamlining the department's fees for services under a measure that Gov. Mike Pence has signed into law.

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Belgium's interior and justice ministers offered to resign on Thursday over the failure to track an Islamic State militant expelled twice by Turkey as a suspected fighter last year and who blew himself up at Brussels airport this week.

Ibrahim El Bakraoui was one of three identified suspected suicide bombers who hit the airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 on Tuesday in the worst attack in Belgian history.

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(AP) — Lawmakers in Michigan's Senate voted Thursday to extend $48.7 million in emergency aid to keep Detroit's ailing school district open for the rest of the academic year and avoid the prospect of payless paydays for staff. The Senate tied the legislation to a bill that would provide that a commission made up largely of state appointees — already in existence to review the city's finances after bankruptcy — would be required to sign off on the district's budgets once it is no longer under emergency management.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three state employees and three teenagers were hospitalized earlier this week after an outbreak of violence at a state-run juvenile facility in Kearney.

The NFL doesn’t want to get rid of the kickoff, but it sure would like to get rid of the kickoff return. The ongoing effort to marginalize the kickoff return could result in an external groundswell aimed at scuttling the kickoff entirely. The league could then shrug and say, “Well, if that’s what the people want. .…