Новости за 05.08.2016

USA Olympic runner Morolake Akinosun might want to take up a side job as a psychic, because she apparently can predict the future. Or at least, her own. 

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) vowed Friday to learn from bruising local election results that showed South African voters turning away from the party that led the anti-apartheid struggle. With the nationwide vote count almost complete, the ANC was ahead overall but recorded its worst electoral performance since white-minority rule fell 22 years ago. The party once headed by Nelson Mandela was on 54 percent of the vote -- sharply down from 62 percent in the last municipal elections in 2011. Читать дальше...

A 1950s musical by the “My Fair Lady” team of Lerner and Loewe gets a 21st-century remake.

A British Muslim woman who read a book on Syrian culture aboard her honeymoon flight to Turkey was reported for suspicious behavior.

Julius Malema has mocked President Jacob Zuma's failure to take over the Inkatha Freedom Party-run municipality in his homestead Nkandla after expressing confidence that the African National Congress would clinch it.

Clinton spoke at a journalism conference in Washington Friday.

Thousands of Brazilians angry at corruption and the cost of the Olympics blocked traffic in protests hours before the opening ceremony.

Offensive lineman Michael Bowie joined the Browns as a waiver claim two years ago, but Bowie hasn’t seen any regular season action with the team in the last two seasons. That won’t change this year and it doesn’t look like it will change in any future years either. The Browns announced on Friday that they…

Not everyone can be over the moon at 'winning silver' at an Olympic Games, which is why our athletes deserve some slack at their most emotionally vulnerable moment.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that the Kazakh-Turkish industrial zones would play an import role in increasing the trade turnover when constructed.

The main criminal courts building in Manhattan was partially evacuated when a transformer exploded, causing a small fire in the basement.

ST. LOUIS — Data from Missouri’s medical examiner’s office shows that 47 people have been killed in St. Louis County this year, up 11 from the same time period last year. The office’s report Tuesday also showed that a total number of 66 people were killed in 2015, which was an increase of 78 percent

Oil futures ended slightly lower Friday, paring losses but remaining in negative territory after data showed the number of U.S. oil rigs rose for a sixth straight week. September West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 13 cents, or 0.3%, to end at $41.80 a barrel. For the week, the U.S. crude benchmark rose 0.5%.

Oil futures ended slightly lower Friday, paring losses but remaining in negative territory after data showed the number of U.S. oil rigs rose for a sixth straight week.

A ranar Alhamis, 4 ga watan agusta yan fashi sun kai hari ga wani mai babur mai kafa uku wanda aka fi sani da keke nspeo a Jihar Kano. An bada rahoton cewa sun yi kokarin kwace masa babur din sa shi kuma ya kiya sai suka daba mai sara a bayan wuyan suka kaishi […]

One mom is determined to create a “memory bank” of images for her daughter who is losing her vision.

It sounds way too good to be true. "One Weird Trick Can Get You Into Any Airline Lounge You Want!" But as Wired reports, one ethical hacker did actually find a simple way to trick the computer systems used by airline lounges across the world.

The Spanish striker, who has won the World Cup and European Championship with his country, has signed a two-year deal at the Liberty Stadium after a single season at Sevilla

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The ongoing effects of climate change mean that the amount of ice covering Earth is shrinking, and a team of scientists has taken it upon themselves to store and catalogue as many types of as possible before it's gone.

You might not think that ice blocks from different parts of the world are all that different, but they contain invaluable data about long-term changes in the surrounding temperature and air quality - information that's essential to understanding our planet. Читать дальше...

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Fish.

They seem so innocent and harmless. But secretly, they're subverting scientific law and order.

That's according to a group of scientists nicknamed cladists for their support of a scientific classification system of species based on clades.

A clade is a fancy term for all of and only the modern species descended via evolution from a specific common ancestor.

To make that a little easier to understand, picture your own family tree: Your maternal grandmother... Читать дальше...

–An yi garkuwa da hon. Sani Bello , wani dan majalisan wakilai ta kasa tare da ma’aikacin sa a gonarsa da ke Birnin Gwari a jihar Kaduna. –Duk da cewan yan sanda sun ce basuda masaniya akan fansan, shugaban jam’iyyar APC ta jihar katsina yace Bello ya samu yanci bayan an biya kudi N10 million. […]

Seniors who don't text or have cell phones won't be able to log in to their online account after the Social Security Administration added a new layer of security this week.