Новости за 19.05.2016

Oklahoma City coach Billy Donovan doesn’t want his team easing up despite having done what every road team has to do in the NBA playoff if it hopes to advance: win on the other team’s court. Monday’s 108-102 victory was not just the first of the year for the Thunder in four meetings with the Warriors, but marked the first Game 1 playoff loss for the Warriors since the second round in 2013. The game turned in the fourth quarter when the Warriors went cold from the floor and scored only 14 points... Читать дальше...

The secretive Guantanamo Bay torture facility celebrates the humanity of guards who destroy the human spirit of the detained.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas judge dismissed claims that Nevada's sweeping new school choice program violated the state constitution by releasing public funds to religious schools, although the voucher-style program remains on hold over different concerns raised in a separate lawsuit. Judge Eric Johnson ruled Wednesday in a case against the state over Education Savings Accounts, a program that allows parents to claim the majority of their child's per-pupil state education funds and use it toward... Читать дальше...

A contentious trade deal between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim nations would give the U.S. economy a modest boost, an independent federal agency reported Wednesday.

Floods triggered by torrential rain over the past few days have wreaked havoc in Namsai district of Arunachal Pradesh.

The presumptive GOP nominee filed his personal financial disclosure forms to the FEC this week

All the injured persons are undergoing treatment in local hospitals.Locals have jumped into action, initiating rescue operations.Police, district administration and members of SDRF have begun rescue work.

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If there was any doubt before, virtual reality is quickly on its way to becoming mainstream.

Google's answer to this trend is "Daydream," its own virtual reality platform that will be available on certain Android phones later this year. What really stood out about the whole presentation — including the ability to experience Google Street View in virtual reality and watching IMAX movies on your phone — was the slick controller that works with it.

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Simple and clean in its design... Читать дальше...

Chumlee of “Pawn Stars” fame may soon be behind the small screen, instead of behind bars.

For years, CBS provided an easy punch line to its broadcast rivals during the annual upfront week. But a funny thing happened at this year's annual programming showcase for advertisers: Everybody seems to look more like CBS.

Coke’s stellar final half, in which he scored two goals, helps Spanish squad net 3-1 comeback victory over Liverpool, marking its fifth successive cup-final loss

A whole new world of unfair scoring.

A local court on Wednesday remanded Col.Jasjit Singh, suspended commandant of the Aizawl-based 39th battalion of Assam Rifles, in judicial custody on Wednesday.

Tesla Motors Inc. plans to sell $2 billion worth of stock — $1.4 billion held by the company, and the rest by its chief executive, Elon Musk — to fund faster production of its Model 3 sedan.

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Troubled startup Theranos has voided some two years' worth of blood-test results from its flagship Edison machines, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The company has issued "tens of thousands" of corrected blood-test reports as a result.

The Edison machines are Theranos' main claim to fame. CEO Elizabeth Holmes rose to prominence on the huge promise that, with Edison, Theranos can test for blood-borne diseases with only a pinprick of blood from a fingertip.

(AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old exchange student from Turkey was one of two people killed when a small World War II-era plane crashed and exploded into flames near a Phoenix-area airport. Authorities say the 1942 North American Aviation AT-6 single-engine plane went down shortly after takeoff Tuesday evening and burned on a road that runs around the perimeter of Falcon Field Airport.

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GENEVA, Switzerland, May 18 (UPI) -- The stone sold at Christie's auction house in Switzerland for a staggering $57,541,779 -- a new all-time record for money spent for a jewel at auction.

Tensions are at an all-time high in the South China Sea, where a game of geopolitical chess is taking place between China, the U.S. and other nations over territorial claims and military build-ups. Here's a breakdown of the situation. Photo: Getty Images

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Donald Trump was sharply condemned by Democrats and the news media earlier this year for fomenting violence at his campaign events by targeting protesters and critics to be roughed up and ejected.

Yet many of those episodes at Trump-sponsored events were no worse than the melee that broke out in Las Vegas on Saturday, as angry Bernie Sanders supporters protested the delegate selection proceedings after concluding that Hillary Clinton forces including state party officials had rigged the process. Читать дальше...

Sevilla scored three second half goals, two from its captain, in lifting a third-straight UEFA Cup with a 3-1 comeback win over Liverpool

Japan's core machinery orders rose 5.5 percent in March from the previous month, Cabinet Office data showed on Thursday

With the weather slowly getting better in London, Terroll didn't hesitate to take part in the well renowned Bike Storm Event while I took a more chilled approach (excuse for shopping) hehe.

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The Democrat was offering his thoughts to The Washington Post on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's prospects for success in the Philadelphia suburbs when he made the comment. Rendell had said Trump's past comments on women might gain him some working-class Democratic voters, but will cost him Republican women because he said "people take that stuff personally."

You probably can’t afford to live in any of these, but you can dream.