Новости за 25.08.2016

Residents and cleanup crews are surveying the damage after a tornado touched down in LaSalle, Ont. A second, stronger tornado later hit Windsor.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke in Reno, Nevada, on Thursday, addressing the “alt-right” and the racist, xenophobic policies of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Delaware State Police investigators are investigating how Tina Werner tumbled off the platform at the Go Ape Tree Top Adventure attraction in Lums Pond State Park on Wednesday. Participants at Go Ape courses are equipped with climbing harnesses and two sets of ropes with carabiners that they unclip and clip to safety wires in sequence as they move through the trees. According to the website of Go Ape, which is based in Frederick, Maryland, and operates attractions in 15 states, patrons receive... Читать дальше...

This giant pearl definitely can't be made into a necklace. The largest pearl found up to this date is on display at the city hall of Puerto Princesa, Philippines.

Mylan still has a lot of questions to answer, Sen. Charles Grassley said Thursday.

The Saudi economy grew at just a 1.5% clip in the first quarter, its slowest rate in 13 years. The non-oil private sector was up 0.2% year-over-year — its smallest increase in about 25 years.

– The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ali Modu-Sheriff has said he is set to institute a libel suit against the attorney general of Borno state Kaka Lawan over allegations made against him – Sheriff also asked an immediate apology and retraction of the statement made against him by Lawan The embattled national chairman of […]

Doug G. Ware
MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Amid political tension between Russia and Ukraine, Moscow is making certain its armed forces are ready to fight, if necessary.

Justin Bieber's Instagram exodus on Aug. 16, following a wave of negative comments directed toward his purported new love interest, model Sofia...

After releasing a hard-hitting ad that tethered Trump to the Ku Klux Klan, Clinton will use a speech in Reno, Nevada to argue he has brought racism to the political mainstream.

Daniel Uria
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A stowaway cat was found hiding underneath a seat on a flight between Ottawa and Vancouver.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been getting some good public polling results lately and they may be getting even better. In the most recent poll of the 2016 election, Clinton now passes the 50 percent threshold, leaving Republican challenger Donald Trump 10 points behind with 41 percent of the vote.

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Italy climbed to at least 250 and could rise further.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his caucus a pep talk in the Saguenay region of Quebec Thursday, at the start of what will be two days of meetings. He told them to take the long view and be ready for what could be a bumpy fall in Parliament.

The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice, an umbrella body of students' groups at University of Hyderabad, has condemned the report by a one-man judicial commission that research scholar Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide early this year, was not a Dalit.

The film pits three out-of-their-depth robbers against a blind veteran with money (and skeletons) in his closet; this being a horror movie, suffice to say that the would-be thieves somehow get more than they bargained for — just not in the form of cash. The money and skeletons are linked, of course, as the unnamed Iraq War survivor (Stephen Lang) received a large settlement after his teenage daughter was killed in a car accident some years earlier. Cinematographer Pedro Luque’s camera glides through... Читать дальше...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's president is moving quickly to hold a national referendum on a peace deal meant to end a half-century of bloody conflict with leftist rebels, delivering the final text of the deal to congress on Thursday…

Justin Sullivan/Getty Image

Hillary Clinton warned Thursday that Donald Trump's ascendancy to the Republican presidential nomination represents the victory of a "fringe element" of dangerous nationalists over mainstream Republican leaders. 

In a speech from Nevada that her campaign touted heavily throughout the week, the Democratic presidential nominee singled out the "alt right," a faction of conservative voters vocally in favor of racially tinged nationalist policies.

"Donald... Читать дальше...

New mom and photographer Laura Izumikawa Choi turned naptime into an incredibly creative new ritual, dressing her daughter in costumes and posting the hilarious results.