Новости за 22.05.2016

The ruling Chinese party reprimanded about 4,300 officials in April citing disciplinary violations, the Communist Party of China’s official graft watchdog said Sunday. This comes as President Xi Jinping continues his campaign to crack down on corruption in the country.

Novelist Joe Hill's latest, The Fireman, is an apocalyptic plague tale about a pathogen that makes sufferers explode. He says his father Stephen King has had a great influence on his storytelling.

Acclaimed authors — including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon — have begun penning comic books, to great acclaim. Coates' first issue of Black Panther is the year's top-selling comic so far.

Violin, mandolin, piano, drums and gorgeous vocal harmonies define the sound of SHEL, a band of four sisters raised in a music-minded household. They speak with NPR's Rachel Martin.

The Raptors surprised basketball fans Saturday night when they beat the Cavaliers. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Mike Pesca of Slate's "The Gist" podcast about what the finals may look like.

He was a beast on the boards

Max Kordek

Max Kordek is a 24-year-old Bitcoin wiz from Germany. Next week he and his co-founder, 37-year-old Oliver Beddows, will launch their company, Lisk.

And Lisk is such an exciting idea that during their 30-day crowdfunding campaign, nearly 4,000 people chipped in a total of $6 million in bitcoin to fund their seed round, Kordek tells Business Insider.

Lisk is two things: a new kind of app store, and a a new form of internet money, similar to Bitcoin. 

An app that never goes down

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A public hearing by the state's anti-corruption watchdog is expected to reveal that a vulnerable woman allegedly assaulted by two Ballarat police officers was also a serving member of Victoria Police who was on sick leave when arrested for public drunkenness in January last year.

Fedusa will meet Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to discuss SAA's future within the context that business and labour should work together with government to accelerate investment and foster inclusive economic growth.

The Trump Show dominating US politics at the moment is too big, brash, and overwhelming to properly follow. Every day brings multiple tragicomedies, any one of which is worthy of several days of coverage, but doesn't get it, because the next day brings new ones.

Hell must have frozen over. The Sunday talking heads have all decided to give their audiences a break from the giant talking yam (h/t Charlie Pierce) a.k.a. the Republican presumptive presidential nominee.

She has become a household name with her hilarious videos showing us ordinary folk how to do the simplest thing.

President expects to take multiple trips to Asia, Europe, Latin America

COUNCILS crying poor over impending caps on rate rises are axing hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to the State Emergency Service.

A recent report found health or safety violations in 80 percent of inspected facilities in five states.

The 29-year-old “Blow” singer filed a civil suit in October 2014 against Kemosabe Records founder Dr. Luke, born Lukasz Gottwald, for allegedly drugging, raping and emotionally abusing her over the course of a decade.

When President Obama declared in 2011 that he wanted U.S. foreign policy to pivot to Asia, some derided the move as a clumsy attempt to flee the messy conflicts of the Middle East.

Between 1846 and 1870, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Diseases, dislocation and starvation caused many of these deaths, but the near-annihilation of the California Indians was not the unavoidable result of two civilizations coming into contact for the first...

"This … is the end … of my life.”

These would be my patient’s only words — an economy of phrasing made necessary by an all-consuming air hunger. She had just arrived in the emergency room, Code 3 critical, after a lights-and-sirens ambulance transport from her nursing home. Awake, alert and intensely...

Police stopped and arrested a man who was believed to be driving while drunk.

Acclaimed authors — including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon — have begun penning comic books, to great acclaim. Coates' first issue of Black Panther is the year's top-selling comic so far.

The Afghan government says that a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan has killed the leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour.

A program in Afghanistan that was meant to promote peace is under review. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Douglas Keh of the UN Development Program about the success the program.

Gun control will likely be an important topic in the general election. On Saturday, Hillary Clinton spoke to mothers who have lost children to gun violence at an event in Florida.

The Labor Department announced new rules to make millions more Americans eligible for overtime pay. Annie Lowrey of New York magazine talks about what this could mean for businesses and workers.