Новости за 18.05.2016

Richard Tomkins
CANBERRA, Australia, May 18 (UPI) -- The experimental HIFiRE rocket has achieved a speed of Mach 7.5 in a launch by Australia and the United States.

Hundreds of Naval Academy plebes endured 14 hours of the annual Sea Trials, a rigorous series of physical and mental challenges that are the culmination of their freshman year.

Engineers from Rosatom and their Iranian colleagues are planning to start the construction of a further two nuclear reactors at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant by the end of the year, a source told RIA Novosti.

A billion birds have disappeared from North America since 1970, and a third of bird species across the continent are threatened with extinction, a new report says.

Two more bankers joined a list of currency traders suing their employers in London in the wake of the foreign-exchange scandal.

A song by a final-year student of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Gill Road, has become a hit on the video-sharing website YouTube. "Kajla", a song penned and sung by BTech (civil engineering) student Sahil, 22, has garnered 2.

The Save Sidhwan canal campaign, started by TOI last year, continues to get more support. A prominent city-based DJ and a councillor have got a mesh installed on a bridge in South City to stop people from throwing garbage into the water body.

The fact the Chargers claimed quarterback Zach Mettenberger off waivers indicates that there was some interest in the former Titans quarterback, and the fact two other teams tried to almost makes it sound like a market. But the Titans found no takers after offering up for trade during the draft, according to General Manager Jon…

Thousands of people lined up for today’s grand opening of the Las Vegas Valley’s first Ikea store, but none earlier than Junie Zhu. Wearing an Ikea T-shirt, Zhu, 23, of Las Vegas proudly displayed a wristband with the number 001 — first in line for the much-anticipated opening of the Sweedish furniture giant’s store at Durango Drive and Sunset Road. Some 3,000 people ...

Leading multinationals want access to single market for British arms

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LINCOLN — A new federal report says Nebraska's uninsured rate for adults younger than 65 declined over a two-year period.

Located on Adelaide’s most imposing boulevard, this long-established hotel offers modest facilities, a cheerful ambience and well-priced rooms. It's an ideal base for exploring the city. Most of the major attractions, parks and restaurants are within easy walking distance of the front door.

A dramatic new police video captured the harrowing rescue of an Alaska man who was pinned under his flame engulfed car.

A pending investigation might see the number of accused in the Radovan Krejcir murder trial increase‚ as his son has been fingered as one of the other co-conspirators.

Industry executives say worst effects of China’s economic slowdown are behind them

Real Estate Developer Donald J. Trump posing for a portrait at the Kate Wollman Memorial Rink in 1986, which he oversaw renovations on. This is a story about how Donald Trump made a pass at me. In the early months of 1987, I was a 26-year-old reporter at the New York Times and I went to a party at the newly opened Wollman Rink in Central Park.

A federal judge in Minnesota has denied the NHL's latest attempt to throw out a class-action lawsuit by former players filed over head injuries.

Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson has reportedly been hospitalized with a high fever following a regular checkup.

Say “queen uh-mahn” and stand back for the stampede for a pastry that's both gooey and crackling with crisp edges.

He ran against Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership job.

The Deash terrorist group has murdered at least 49 prisoners since February 2015, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Wednesday.