Новости за 21.04.2016

A 15-year-old Vermilion Township boy is dead after performing an experiment he saw on YouTube, police said. The Jacob’s Ladder experiment is done by connecting a 12,000 volt power source to two cooper wires to create an electrical arc. As a result of replicating the popular video, Morgan Wojciechowski was electrocuted. “Futuristic, always experimenting trying to get into the stream of life,” said Morgan’s grandfather as he described his grandson. ...

Two men who were among 41 people picked up over the weekend from a boat found adrift in the Mediterranean described on Thursday surviving what they say was a shipwreck that might have killed up to 500 people

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The modem chip inside every iPhone that connects it to high-speed cellular data networks is made by Qualcomm, a San Diego-based chip giant.

But later this year, in the iPhone 7, it's looking increasingly likely that at least some iPhone cellular modems will be made by a company practically synonymous with Silicon Valley: Intel. 

On an earnings call Wednesday, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said that he expects a "major customer" will give orders to a rival, obliquely referring... Читать дальше...

The New York Daily News editor who was fired earlier this week over a plagiarism fiasco is sharing his side of the story. In a post published Thursday on Medium, Jotham Sederstrom explained why he removed attribution from columns written by the activist Shaun King.According to Sederstrom, those edits — which Daily News editor-in-chief Jim Rich called “egregious and inexplicable” — were the result of a faulty publishing system and ...

Chyna, the tall, muscle-bound, raven-haired pro-wrestler who rocketed to popularity in the 1990s and later made the rounds on reality TV, has died, authorities said.

NYON, Switzerland - UEFA says there are two candidates to be the first elected female member of its executive committee.

Families told they chose the perfect sperm donor soon found out he was a convicted felon who suffers from mental illness. Now Atlanta based sperm bank, Xytec is at the center of several lawsuits. The most recent lawsuit was filed Monday in California. “The families were devastated,” Nancy Hersh a California based lawyer who represents 13 of the families told CBS46. The lawsuit says Xytec promoted donor 9623 as a ...

How to score patriotic points? Blame the sinister, bad Russians for threatening the US, of course.

Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party should represen the interests of the Syrian Kurds at peace talks in Geneva.

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The "Terminator" franchise just took another big body blow. 

Following the poor box-office performance by "Terminator Genisys" last summer, Paramount pulled a sequel from its release schedule. It became very unclear what would happen to the once-mighty action franchise.

Now "Genisys" star Emilia Clarke has shed a little light on what's going on. She revealed to ComingSoon.net that she will not be returning for any more "Terminator" movies.

“No,” Clarke... Читать дальше...

 – A scheme which provides amnesty ex-Niger Delta militants will end in two years  – The scheme provides vocational training and academic programs for 30,000 former militants  – The Niger Delta region remains plagued by extreme poverty and pipeline vandalism despite its abundance of oil Nigeria’s amnesty scheme for former rebels in the oil-rich Niger […]

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - Citizens Financial Group Inc. (CFG) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $223 million.

As previously reported, Rihanna's "Work," featuring Drake, spends a ninth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated April 30),...

*dusts off zoology degree*

Choosing what to study in college can be a pain — but sometimes you find the perfect, unique major and it's the BEST.

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Because suddenly, you belong to a group of BFFs who know a lot about the same strange topic you're interested in.

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Your study sessions are actually pretty damn fun, because you're not reading up on "typical" subjects. Читать дальше...

The 16-room co-op apartment, on and off the market since its 2013 listing at $125 million, has been given a fresh contemporary look.

GOOR - Bij werkzaamheden voor het nieuwe uitvaartcentrum aan de Diepenheimseweg in Goor heeft amateur-archeologie Trudie Broekman een deel van een ruim 500 jaar oude maalsteen, een zogeheten ligger, gevonden.

HENGELO - Op de snelweg A1, ter hoogte van de Ikea in Hengelo, zijn donderdagmiddag twee personenauto's zwaar beschadigd geraakt na een ongeval. Eén persoon is per ambulance naar het ziekenhuis vervoerd. 

A Chinese-led consortium has agreed to buy Australia’s most iconic cattle company S. Kidman and Co. worth $289 million and covering for one percent of Australia’s landmass, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation wrote citing a source in the company.

United Continental's new board of directors will allow the company to fix its ongoing issues, CEO Oscar Munoz says.

De moeder van de drie baby's die eind 2015 dood werden gevonden op verschillende plekken in Alkmaar en Heerhugowaard, verschijnt volgende week voor de rechter. Yasmine M. wordt verdacht van het doden van haar kinderen, om zich vervolgens van de lijkjes te ontdoen.

With their eight arms and giant egg-shaped head, octopuses are one of the most alien-looking creatures on the planet. We read Katherine Courage's book "Octopus!" and discovered that the octopus is even weirder than it looks.

"The mother only contributes the egg and the incubator."

Sepp Blatter said Thursday that he offered Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza a role with FIFA to persuade him to leave office amid a brewing political crisis, following a request from the Swiss government.