Новости за 19.05.2016

Shawn Price
CHICAGO, May 19 (UPI) -- A mother who admitted to killing her severely disabled adopted daughter in a failed murder-suicide attempt was sentenced to four years in prison.

According to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, it is wrong to connect anti-Russian sanctions and the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements on Ukrainian reconciliation.

Vishal Sikka, company's chief executive officer, has a take home salary package of $7.45 million per year for financial year 2015-16.

Canberra's Georgia Yeoman-Dale credits her move to Newcastle as the spark behind her Matildas rise.

The latest developments on missing plane

An astounding 97 percent of Spanish respondents said that yes, they would "personally accept people fleeing war or persecution" into their country, according to a survey by Amnesty International.

AALSMEER (ANP) - Royal FloraHolland heeft vorig jaar voor het tweede jaar op rij winst behaald. Het resultaat na belastingen kwam zelfs iets hoger uit dan een jaar eerder. 's Werelds grootste internationale handelsplatform voor bloemen en planten profiteerde van lagere personeelskosten en de verkoop van vastgoed. Ook werd er minder geïnvesteerd.

The recipient of America's first penis transplant says he is looking forward to walking out of the hospital a “complete” man.

Loyalists’ transcription campaign comes amid clampdown on discipline

A double bill from Sydney Dance Company combines the comic and the dramatic.

Bill Honig, vice chairman of the Instruction Quality Commission, says the new framework will include more on economics and civics, with an emphasis on asking students lots of questions about why something happened. Updates include adding climate change to the list of reasons that people might voluntarily leave their homeland, and adding respect for the rights of others as a way for kindergarten students to learn about good citizenship. For higher grades, it calls for more details about Filipino... Читать дальше...

'This is a warning. Next time it’ll be your head in the f****** box.'

Everyone has a digital assistant these days. Microsoft has baked Cortana into the heart of all its software and Google has just announced a major revamp to what it now calls Google assistant. Apple, on the other hand, has seen its digital assistant Siri fall behind the competition in recent years, but the company is now set to make the biggest overhaul to the feature yet by bringing it to the desktop.

Supporters van ADO Den Haag hebben via Facebook de fans van FC Twente een hart onder de riem gestoken. De degradatie van FC Twente naar de Jupiler League als gevolg van de straf van de KNVB schiet bij de groen-gele aanhang in het verkeerde keelgat.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — How do you teach the history of the world in California schools, where nearly two-thirds of students are Latino or Asian, many from newly immigrated families? Debate about the plan over the past decade has been painstaking and emotional, peppered with testimony from ethnic groups that want something different in the way their people are presented in textbooks and discussed in classrooms. Other groups simply want more about what their people endured such as the killing of an... Читать дальше...

The GWS Giants have an alliance in Australia's new netball league and the ACT wants a piece.

Now could be the best time to rent a home in Canberra's sought-after inner south.