Новости за 21.04.2016

Luxury vehicles have become more affordable with new entry-level models, strong incentives, and low finance and lease rates

Mercedes-Benz may not sell the most cars, but in an effort to beat BMW, it surely offers the most diverse lineup

HAWTHORN Football Club has done it all. It’s won all the recent titles and remains the toughest fight on the AFL landscape.

A firm facing 142 Consumer Protection Act charges has also been embroiled in a court dispute with a 79-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease whose son alleges was too unwell to legally enter into a contract with Ontario Energy Group.

With the defeat of the Manitoba NDP government, New Democrats hold sway in just one province: Alberta. But far from a sign of the party's wider woes, it is par for the course for the NDP, and part of the political cycle that every party has experienced, writes Eric Grenier.

The devastation from the April 16 earthquake in Ecuador is so great that some communities will likely need to "start from new," the UNICEF representative in that country told CBC News.

Feeling gouged by your cellphone provider? There's a growing number of mobile apps on the market that offer free phone service using Wi-Fi access or a data connection. But the money-saving app doesn't work for everyone.

From a distance, the Trudeau government is dramatic and showy, still perhaps glimmering slightly with the stuff of hope. Within the confines of the House of Commons the idea is somewhat more complicated, tinged with the faint hints of reasons to be cynical.

While most people get one day a year to celebrate their birthday, Queen Elizabeth gets at least two, more if you count the public holidays around the world. History and a desire to avoid bad weather both play into the multiple-birthday phenomenon for Elizabeth, who became Britain's longest-reigning monarch last September.

Taxpayers are being left to pay the cleanup bills as the world's biggest private coal company, America's Peabody Energy, goes into bankruptcy protection. Given Canada's patchwork of rules, could the same thing happen here?

CBC Asia correspondent Saša Petricic revisits Nepal a year after the country was struck by a devastating earthquake. He discovers that Kathmandu remains strewn with rubble as the government continues to withhold aid from quake victims.

The New Development Bank is set to loan Eskom about R2.5 billion to build transmission lines.

A Small Escape (Den Lilla Flykten). A pair of scissors is determined to escape the kitchen, and he’s taking the other office supplies with him!
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Baseball's First All-Black Lineup. The milestone was so low-key that even the players didn’t notice it at first.
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Fighting Superbugs by Hacking Antibiotic Resistance. A variety of tactic are being tested to fight ever-stronger bacterial diseases.  
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The state hardest hit by the opioid crisis thinks it has a solution. A new pain-prescribing algorithm may help... Читать дальше...

A new book explores the urban myths around the world's most famous band.

Kent Police have been fined after they released sensitive personal information to a suspect accused of abusing his partner.

A woman's been sentenced after a child was left to wander the streets wearing just pyjamas and wellies on the wrong feet.

My hero is President Barack Obama. Not because he saved America’s economy. Not because many more Americans are getting health insurance coverage. Not because he has globally taken the lead …

When President Obama departed for Saudi Arabia, an incubator of the 9/11 attacks, he left behind a dispute about government secrecy. The suppression of 28 pages, first from a public congressional inquiry and then from the 2004 report …

How do you get people to stop doing something? If you’re an economist, you might try paying them to stop. That’s just what the town of Richmond, Calif., has done to reduce violent crime. The town has had success with this program so far — so much that other cities …

I now hear that the sate Board of Transportation is concerned because visitors to Las Vegas lack a good way to get from the airport to sites on or near the Strip. Really, does anyone remember the great idea of a monorail? That was the answer …

Soon, there will be no more nights at the Improv. The Improv Comedy Club at Harrah’s, a house of hilarity since April 1995, is reportedly closing at the end of May. The Improv is a legendary brand among comics, ...

Jon Jones and Demetrious Johnson pounced on Conor McGregor after the Irish superstar suffered the first defeat of his UFC career last month. ...

The 73rd annual Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America Expo returned to Caesars Palace Wednesday with the latest twist on some popular spirits and the debut of several concoctions, soon to be found at ...

Plans to bring light rail to Las Vegas are moving forward, at least for now. Proponents of the transit technology are pushing it as a way to better connect McCarran International Airport with the Strip and downtown Las Vegas. Officials have not yet resolved one of the proposal’s biggest uncertainties — how it would be funded — but they have started to make some progress on the general concept ...