Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennadi Gatilov said that the composition of Syria's transitional will not be discussed during a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Vienna as it is a subject of intra-Syrian talks.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee this week will try to strip language from legislation he oversees that would require women to register for the draft, blaming himself for not stopping the proposal from getting in the bill in the first place.
Hawaiian, Delta top on-time rankings, Spirit Airlines last Here are the government's rankings of the leading airlines and their on-time performance for March. The federal government counts a flight as on time if it arrives within 14 minutes of schedule. Delta Air Lines, 87.9 percent The report does not cover smaller airlines including Allegiant Air and some regional carriers.
The decision impact the city of Cleveland, Mississippi.
VROOMSHOOP - De uit Twenterand afkomstige merrie No-Shpa draafde zaterdagmiddag niet naar de prijzen, maar dat deed volgens burgemeester Cornelis Visser van Twenterand geen afbreuk aan het hippische evenement aan de Hammerweg in Vroomshoop.
Researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology teamed up to create an ingestible robot that expands itself inside a patient's body. Their "Ingestible Origami Robot" prototype is surrounded in an ice capsule. Once ingested, the ice melts and the bot expands. It is controlled by an external magnetic field. Recently, it was able to remove a battery from a synthetic stomach. Researches hope to use the robot to remove foreign objects, patch wounds, and deliver medicine as an alternative to surgery. Читать дальше...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's government says that six people have been killed and two others are reported missing as flash floods and landslides struck several parts of the island nation over the past two days.
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MERRIMACK, N.H., May 16 (UPI) -- BAE Systems is developing a new undersea navigation system for U.S. Navy submarines and unmanned underwater vessels.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in the late afternoon Monday, led by gains in energy companies as the price of crude oil jumped to a six-month high. Marathon Oil climbed 5 percent and offshore driller Transocean rose 3.6 percent.…
A 20-year-old man shot Wednesday while walking near Washington Avenue and Decatur Boulevard has died, according to Metro Police. He died Saturday at ...
A federal agency on Monday released final rules explaining how employers can offer workers financial incentives to participate in wellness programs without violating federal laws protecting the confidentiality of medical information. The move from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was meant to clear up confusion over the way two federal laws protecting employees' medical privacy apply to the popular programs, which are designed to control medical spending by reducing obesity, smoking and other risk factors.
Donald Trump has countered allegations of sexism by touting his support for female employees, saying he loves hiring women because they work harder and because it seemed to him that “that there was something that they want to really prove.” Numerous studies and women leaders' own experiences show that Trump may be right — but if women do work harder, it may well be to combat sexism from men.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans were "giddy" about a voter identification requirement enacted in 2011 that they saw as an opportunity to drive down Democratic turnout at the polls, a former chief of staff to a GOP state senator…
Hood has joined St. Helens in a reminder that the Cascades are full of potentially active volcanoes. The post A New Earthquake Swarm Is Rocking Oregon's Mt. Hood appeared first on WIRED.
