Новости за 17.05.2016

A 17-year-old girl has managed to escape after she was snatched from the street by an unknown captor in regional NSW, police say.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is raising the price cap on medicines that cost up to 30 Egyptian pounds ($3.38) by 20 percent in an effort to address drug shortages, the health minister said on Monday.

Pharmaceutical companies will now be obliged to offer those medicines or risk having their licenses revoked, and the ministry is coordinating with the supplies and military production ministries to ensure the drugs are on the shelves, the minister told a news conference.

Beacons send signals to passing users’ smartphones, helping them find their way around transport

The University of Johannesburg has obtained an urgent court interdict following an arson attack that caused an estimated R100 million damage to its Sanlam Auditorium on Monday.

Sam Smith's former school announces it plans to drop music at GCSE level, due to a lack of interest.

Team USA finished the group stage of the 2016 World Hockey Championship with an underwhelming 3-3-1 record, but it was enough to push them through to the quarter-finals. On Tuesday, the Americans suffered a 3-2 OT loss to Team Slovakia after Jets forward Marko Dano scored the game-winner. It’s important to note that Team USA […]

Daniel J. Graeber
MOSCOW, May 17 (UPI) -- The privatization of Russian oil company Bashneft may be developing as early as the first part of this year, a development minister said.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder's administration projects tax revenues are coming in lower than expected but not as low as what is estimated by legislative economists.

BJP chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal said that exit polls prediction reflected the Mission 84 strategy the saffron party had set two years ahead of the assembly polls for Assam. After Lok Sabha polls, which gave the BJP all time high seven out of 14 parliamentary seats, the saffron party devised the Mission 84 to garner absolute majority in the 126 seat assembly polls this year.

– Ahmed Musa scores in CSKA Moscow 2-0 win over Krasnodar – CSKA Moscow, after 29 games sit atop the Russian topflight log with 62 points, and they face 10th placed Rubin Kazan at the Kazan Arena in their last game – A point against Rubin Kazan will guarantee a 13th Russian Premier League title for CSKA […]

U.S. industrial output jumps in April

According to a source familiar with the situation, the Syrian Army has seized the strategic height of Sawwan, cutting off the supply route used by Daesh terrorists to access the Shaer gas reservoir.

New York City-based Harry's has acquired 1 million customers and a valuation of $750 million by offering high-quality razor subscriptions at an affordable price. 

UK’s largest pub operator says new business model is working

A new Gallup Poll shows most Americans want the government to take on a bigger role in health care. More than 1,500 people from across the country were surveyed, and 58 percent favor replacing the provisions set up by the Affordable Care Act with a federally...

In just three weeks, the summer arrivals from Nebraska's most recent recruiting class will be getting into town.

A butchered mastodon carcass found in a boggy Florida river is changing our views on which humans first got to the Americas.

Apparently it's really good for you.

Andrew V. Pestano
PORTLAND, Maine, May 17 (UPI) -- An officer in Portland, Maine, captured video of a fireball lighting up the early morning sky over New England.

Andrew V. Pestano
PORTLAND, Maine, May 17 (UPI) -- An officer in Portland, Maine, captured video of a fireball lighting up the early morning sky over New England.

Eco-friendly lawns are sprouting up across America as property owners realize they can get better results for less work and money. Some are getting improved drought resistance, too.

Eco-friendly lawns are sprouting up across America as property owners realize they can get better results for less work and money. Some are getting improved drought resistance, too.

Eco-friendly lawns are sprouting up across America as property owners realize they can get better results for less work and money. Some are getting improved drought resistance, too.

Eco-friendly lawns are sprouting up across America as property owners realize they can get better results for less work and money. Some are getting improved drought resistance, too.