Новости за 16.05.2016

Shami Chakrabarti - head of Labour's inquiry into anti-Semitism - says she has joined the party in order to gain members' "trust and confidence".

Would you rather spend a day in the library, lab, or in the field?

Royal Challengers Bangalore's De Villiers has been in outstanding form with the willow this season.

Today (May 16), Janet Jackson turns 50, and to celebrate we rounded up 50 accomplishments the superstar has achieved, in chronological order. 1....

Alexey Timofeychev, Russia Beyond the Headlines
Moscow believes that the anti-missile defense system in Redzikowo, Poland, which should start functioning in 2018, bears a potential threat to Russian ICBMs.

It seems like former child star Mzambiya’s heart has been stolen by young woman known as Nomfundo.

SPOILERS - What you need to know.

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Pfizer is planning to buy biopharmaceutical company Anacor for $5.2 billion.

Anacor already has one approved drug (a topical anti-fungal treatment), but the big draw for Pfizer is a drug called crisaborole to treat eczema, an inflammatory skin condition.

The gel treatment is in the FDA filing process and should be decided on by January 2017, and Pfizer said in a release that it expects peak yearly sales for the drug to hit $2 billion.

In April, the drugmaker's... Читать дальше...

Too many active money managers are managing too much money, and investors are paying the price, Peter Kraus says.

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OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — Police say two students have been arrested after two bomb threats were found last week at a middle school in southwest Ohio. Authorities say each student was arrested on a felony charge of inducing panic.

Omaha World-Herald. May 13, 2016

"Do you wanna be great or do you wanna be good?," says Alicia Keys in a new short titled "Passion" for the UEFA Champions League...

On this week's "Game of Thrones", Sansa Stark and Jon Snow finally share the screen, Tyrion's actions are inspired by a US President, and Daenerys surprises us yet again. 

via Jetsetter

Layovers and flight delays are good for one thing: airport drinking.

And these are the bars to do it in. Bottoms up.

Airbrau Beer Garden, Munich Airport

An alfresco beer garden – complete with an on-site brewery, master brewer, and local musicians taking the stage – sounds like something you'd find in Munich proper, not the flughafen (that's German for airport). But you're in "Beer Me" heaven at Airbrau. Sip their blonde Jetstream... Читать дальше...

Who knew?

Facebook is now selling video ads on behalf of other companies, a move that could prove lucrative for the tech giant and intensify its competition with Google and other online ad specialists.

In most tellings, the current age of superhero movies began in earnest in 2000, with Bryan Singer’s X-Men. That relatively modest film, built around a pair of classically trained Brits and an Australian actor with a background in musical theater, proved that audiences would turn out for reasonably faithful adaptations of classic comic book stories. And it set in motion a new wave of superhero films — from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man series to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy to Marvel's ever-expanding... Читать дальше...

President Obama's commencement address to Rutgers University Sunday was masterfully crafted not just as a graduation speech, but also a preview of how you can expect him to campaign in the months to come.

How would you like to design your own video game then pitch your idea to executives from Google? Well that's exactly what a group of teenagers from all over Australia got to do recently with some help from the tech wizards at Good Game. We joined them as judging got underway.

The town of Broome in Western Australia is pushing to become the first bilingual town in Australia by teaching all kids Yawuru, the local indigenous language. Even the town's street signs are now in both Yawuru and English. We checked in with one school there to find out more. But first a warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers, this story contains images of people who've died.

Not all music clips are what they seem. We saw evidence of that this week when Meghan Trainor withdrew one of hers after she found out it had been photoshopped. Take a look.

Imagine if just eating a tasty snack could kill you. That's exactly what can happen if you have a food allergy. This week is National Food Allergy Awareness Week so we thought we'd take a closer look at what it's like to live with one.

Australia's most populated state New South Wales has just announced it will introduce a container deposit scheme. South Australia and Northern Territory already have one but supporters hope this will mean the rest of Australia will now consider one too. We found out how they work.