Новости за 03.08.2016

In a yet another reported copying of mobile messaging app Snapchat which it once tried to buy for $3 billion, Facebook has announced a "Stories" format for Instagram that clones Snapchat`s popular feature.

Alabama's parole board is deciding whether to free a one-time Ku Klux Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four black girls more than 50 years ago.

The stock-buyback party might be over for Wall Street’s firms that spent a record amount of cash in the first quarter to keep their prices afloat by purchasing their own shares.

SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Wednesday denied what it called a "preposterous" allegation that it has hacked into emails of South Korean diplomats and other government officials. The North's propaganda website Uriminjokkiri lashed out at

On the face of it, and in theory, 62 might be a touch too old to give birth to a child; for that reason the questions being raised by the case of a Tasmanian woman and her 78-year-old partner is understandable.

While Russia, unfazed by the economic sanctions and the military-political tensions with the West, is actively pushing ahead with the Nord Stream 2 project of building a gas pipeline to Europe, many EU countries are trying to thwart it, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote.

Prices hit two-month low after one of digital currency’s largest exchanges reveals breach and theft

Retired economics professor of Berhampur University Prahallad Panda passed away on Tuesday at his Hillpatna residence in Berhampur.He was 79 and leaves behind two sons and a daughter.Panda was ill for the last few months.

Barring native-speaking Chinese students from enrolling in easier Chinese VCE subjects is unlikely to amount to discrimination, Victoria's human rights watchdog has declared..

Al-Maleh (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - "Forty donkeys for sale," reads a notice in Palestinian newspapers. Nothing out of the ordinary about that, except for the fact that the advertiser is the Israeli army. Palestinians say the army is trying to sell back the very animals it seized from them in the occupied West Bank's Jordan Valley.

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A doctor backed by agriculture and business groups ousted U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp Tuesday in a Kansas Republican primary race that focused on the tea party-backed incumbent's battles with GOP leaders and criticism that he was too cantankerous to be effective.

Great Bend obstetrician Roger Marshall won the tough contest against Huelskamp in the 1st District, which spans western and much of central Kansas.

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Western Cape premier Helen Zille was definitely not saying the Western Cape was “in the bag”, although she said she was always optimistic.

China lashed out at Japan on Wednesday for groundless criticism of its activities in the South China Sea, which Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said were Beijing’s "domestic" affairs.

Two lovebirds who met at NYSC orientation camp are getting married! As shared by Kmeks Otuya, “when we arrived NYSC Orientation Camp at Old MacGregor College, Afikpo Ebonyi State, Nigeria on 28th October 2015…we all came with the intention of serving our Great Nation Nigeria. Hence we went about the rigorous activities of the camp, that lasted […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Health officials say a South Carolina resident has contracted a rare, potentially deadly brain-eating amoeba that is naturally present in warm fresh water. State Department of Health and Environmental Control epidemiologist Linda Bell tells news outlets the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Tuesday that the patient was exposed to Naegleria

After years of delays, the F-35A is finally ready for combat. It is the most expensive weapons system ever built at a cost of $400 billion.

State Department of Health and Environmental Control epidemiologist Linda Bell tells news outlets the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Tuesday that the patient was exposed to Naegleria fowleri (nuh-GLEER'-ee-uh FOW'-lur-ee), a one-celled organism that can cause primary amebic meningoencephalitis.

– Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have gotten a new girlfriend for himself  – The notorious serial dater was recently seen with Miami model  – The Real Madrid star is set to miss the UEFA Super Cup with his club  Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have found himself a new flame while on holiday […]

'This is definitely not "Olympic air".'

A 21-year-old man Charles Ashitey, popularly called Zaga by his friends is currently in the police station in Tema, Ghana for attempting to behead his friend, Daniel Norteye for money ritual. According to the police, Daniel was tired after a dance rehearsal and decided to spend the night at Charles’s house but got the shock […]