Новости за 17.05.2016

Ni barómetro del CIS ni pollas en vinagre.

Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat could only rue what he believes was a "soft" free kick conceded by Matthieu Delpierre which stood between his side and a win over Jeonbuk Motors in the Asian Champions League first leg tie at AAMI Park on Tuesday night.

When WhatsApp announced last month that it was turning on end-to-end encryption for every one of its 1 billion users, it was hailed as a historic achievement and a major stance in Silicon Valley’s ongoing battle with the U.S. government over access to communications. No longer could intelligence agencies read any message, see any photograph or watch any video sent using WhatsApp — except, of course, they could.

Each has its own purrrsonality. Can you name them all?

Sputnik has been told that a ruling by the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal that 650 people who allege that the state has been illegally spying on them will have to supply more details before their cases can be considered is "unreasonable".

Australia's love affair with booze is waning, with more than half of us now supporting tax rises.

One can only wonder how this cat managed to get there in the first place.

Home Depot reported a strong start to the year with more shoppers visiting stores and spending at levels not seen since before the housing bust.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is gaining on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in a matchup that's increasingly likely in the general election, a recent poll has found.

A beautiful 22-year-old mother of a 3-year-old-daughter died in police custody on Tuesday, May 10, and nobody's talking. Not the police.

He was an astrophysicist at the Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA) and a professor at the University of Paris.

The Alaskan son who killed a pair of state troopers as they tried to arrest his dad was convicted Monday of first-degree murder.

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LONDON, May 17 (UPI) -- The U.K. Ministry of Defense has cut about $1.8 million from a Rolls-Royce contract as part of a defense regulator's ruling on appropriate contract costs.

– A witness in the trial of Olisa Metuh, reveals how the PDP national publicity secretary was invited in a meeting by ex-national security adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki – The witness says that the first defendant made inquiries on how money contributed for the party campaign was sourced – Judge Okon Abang adjourned the matter to Thursday, […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The chief economist at the Itau Unibanco bank was named on Tuesday to head Brazil's central bank amid the country's worst economic crisis in decades. Israeli-born Ilan Goldfajn already worked at the central bank as…

Laverne Cox looks totally fierce while at the Entertainment Weekly and People Upfronts Party on Monday night (May 17) at Cedar Lake in New York City. The 31-year-old was joined at the event by Jaimie Alexander, America Ferrera, Taylor Kinney, Mandy Moore and Sophia Bush. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Laverne Cox Other [...]

At least 31 militants were killed in separate operations of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in northern Baghlan province, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said. The operations were conducted in Surkh Kotal and Baghlan Markazi areas of Baghlan involving air and ground forces of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). According to a statement Read the full article...

Things aren't looking great for the Transportation Security Administration of late, judging from the headlines: "O’Hare Airport becoming oh wait airport." "Long TSA lines snake through Atlanta airport." "Charlotte airport considers dropping TSA at checkpoints."

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When Inez Valk put a clawfoot tub in the upstairs bedroom of her Delaware country house, she didn’t anticipate that guests would get carried away "by the romance of their surroundings," as she delicately puts it, overflowing the tub so bathwater seeped through the floorboards.

"We urgently — but gingerly — knocked on the door and were greeted by flushed, sheepish guests," she recalls. "Then we called a plumber."

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices jumped in April by the largest amount in more than three years, reflecting a surge in the price of gasoline and other energy products. [...] outside of volatile food and energy, core inflation posted another modest gain. Faced with those developments, the Fed decided to keep rates unchanged and in March signaled that it now expected to raise rates only twice this year, not the four increases it had forecast in December. The 2.1 percent increase in core inflation... Читать дальше...

SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea made a concerted effort to build up the personality cult of its leader Kim Jong-un through literary and artistic works ahead of the recently closed congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), an examination of N

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open Tuesday, as oil prices gave back much of their initial gains and after inflation data.

Comair on Tuesday won a court interdict that prevents a government agency from withdrawing its operational licence over a dispute on ownership targets.