Новости за 31.05.2016

Last year, the advertising technology company PageFair put the fear of God into publishers and advertisers across the world with some startling research: Ad blocking, the Irish startup found, had become mainstream on computer desktops. Now it looks like things have gone from bad to worse for those businesspeople. PageFair on Monday released a new report, this one suggesting that ad blocking on mobile devices is trending in the same direction.

The Football Association will lead a study into possible links between football and brain diseases, it confirms.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Europese aandelenmarkten hebben de meimaand dinsdag afgesloten met een verliesbeurt. Beleggers verwerkten cijfers over onder meer de winkelverkopen en werkloosheid in Duitsland en de inflatie en werkloosheid in de eurozone.

*Furiously texts every friend who will listen.*

SEJONG, May 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has contributed more than US$100 million to trust funds operated by the Inter-America Development Bank (IDB) for the past 10 years to help the region develop further, the finance minister said Tuesday. Asia's

Zee Media Bureau New Delhi: Cars, cigarettes, branded garments, air travel will become more expensive with some of the service tax proposals announced in the Budget coming into effect from Wednesday (June 1).

The Browns announced a bunch of changes and promotions within their personnel department on Tuesday. Kevin Kovash, who’s been with the team since 2013 and has an extensive analytics background, was promoted to vice president of player personnel. Kovash spent the last three seasons as director of football research. The Browns promoted Sashi Brown to…

DEN HAM - Een werkgroep van Hammenaren gaat aan de slag met het bedenken van ideeën om de leefbaarheid in het dorp en in het bijzonder de Brink te vergroten. Dat is de uitkomst van een bijeenkomst in café De Brink, maandagavond 30 mei. De Dorpsraad Den Ham, gemeente Twenterand en de begeleiders van Het Oversticht ontvingen daar bijna 50 betrokken Hammenaren die soms in fel debat raakten. 

Recent developments have raised hopes that warmer ties are on the way

France's government moved on Tuesday to calm protests against labor law reform ahead of the monthlong European soccer championship, announcing a pay rise for schoolteachers and pledging to speed up reorganization talks at the SNCF railways. The Socialist government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls is urging the hard-line CGT union that is leading a rail strike as of Tuesday evening to propose ways out of the confrontation over a labor reform bill that will make hiring and firing easier.

Spent all of last season in Toronto, which was no small feat for him.

By Jason Lloyd, The Sports Xchange
CLEVELAND -- By the time the Cleveland Cavaliers reached the NBA Finals last year, Kevin Love's left arm was in a sling and Kyrie Irving was wearing a knee brace. The roster was so shredded by injuries that LeBron James now concedes he didn't even appreciate what was his fifth consecutive shot at a championship.

Lieutenant General Abdelwahab al-Saadi, the overall commander of the Fallujah operation, said IS fighters mounted a fierce counter-attack on the area on Tuesday.

Think journalist and the first image that comes to mind is a curious, ballsy creature who won’t rest till there is a fact. Well, we are curious creatures who just can’t rest till we know every side of the story. Journalism is a profession that stands out among others because of the eclectic variety of […]

In Game 7, Golden State unleashed one last outburst of their unadulterated basketball bliss, enough to beat Oklahoma City and set up a rematch of last year’s NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Andy Ozment of the Department of Homeland Security discusses whether or not a new law passed by Congress will better protect companies from cyber attacks with WSJ’s Naftali Bendavid.

Chicago rung in the unofficial start to summer with dozens of shootings that killed six people and wounded 56 others over Memorial Day weekend

The treacherous Mediterranean Sea crossing from Libya to Italy has claimed the lives of over 1,030 migrants in the last week, mostly as barely seaworthy smuggling boats foundered and sank despite calm seas and sunny skies, a migration agency said Tuesday, citing new accounts from survivors.

Wal-Mart's Sam's Club took a gamble in China almost two years ago. It changed the way it sells meat and fish, putting them in packages instead of letting Chinese shoppers physically inspect cuts of meat or ...

NBC News' Carrie Dann explains how we get our polling numbers together and breaks down the margin of error.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago rung in the unofficial start to summer with dozens of shootings that killed six people and wounded 56 others over Memorial Day weekend.

– Diego Simeone might have suggested he would quit Aletico Madrid but this writer thinks he would stay  – Simeone can leave a lasting legacy like Sir Alex Ferguson did with Manchester United before retiring in 2013  – The 46-year-old has made the Spanish league a three-horse-race for the title since his arrival in 2011 Atletico Madrid coach […]

Nederlandse F-16's helpen het Iraakse leger bij de aanval op Fallujah. Die stad ligt ongeveer 50 kilometer ten westen van de hoofdstad Bagdad en is al twee jaar in handen van terreurgroep Islamitische Staat. Iraakse militairen openden vorige week het offensief.

Allen Cone
WASHINGTON, May 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request by a Louisiana murderer to decide whether the death penalty is unconstitutional.