Новости за 01.11.2016

The Department of Basic Education is ‘shocked and disappointed’ after a Grade 12 maths examination paper was leaked to students in Giyani,

The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. ---------------- 2 Japanese auto parts makers fined for price collusion SEOUL -- The South Korean anti-trust watchdog slapped multi-million-doll

Online shoppers are expected to spend an average of $710 this holiday season versus $440 for those shopping in stores, about 60% more, according to The NPD Group's 2016 Holiday Purchase Intentions Survey. The survey found that 71% of consumers plan to do some of their holiday shopping online. And 14% of U.S. shoppers said they'll use their mobile phones to buy gifts, up 130% from last year. NPD also forecasts that the U.S. toy industry will grow about 6.5%, with games and puzzles, up 16%, the fastest growing category for 2016 so far. Читать дальше...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A brother of three American citizens slain after fighting in Serbia in 1999 accused the Balkan country's leaders on Tuesday of protecting the killers and refusing to bring them to justice despite repeated pledges to U.S.…

New batch of emails from the hacked account of the US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta was released on WkiLeaks website.

Samantha Bee spent her Halloween terrorizing the president.

When Barack Obama visited Full Frontal on Monday night, the host greeted him by holding a flashlight to her face (the way people do when telling scary stories) and taunting him with scenarios like "Supreme Court Justice Cory Lewandowski" and "Speaker of the House Louie Gohmert," spoken in a vaguely Eastern European accent.

"That was pretty scary. I’m not sure if I’m going to sleep well tonight." Obama replied to Bee’s nightmare hypotheticals. Читать дальше...

Over 11 100 students and supporters have signed an online petition calling on Rhodes University to postpone exams and protect students.

Jeremy Renner is looking as handsome as ever on the cover of #legend magazine’s new issue. Here’s what the 45-year-old Arrival star had to share with the mag: On his love for singer Pink: “I love Pink. She is more pop, and her voice is very rock, soul and R&B. From the looks of her, [...]

Russia 'cannot agree' with claims, says presidential spokesman

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has refuted remarks by MI5 director General Andrew Parker that Russia is aggressively advancing its foreign policy.

Yeovil Town Ladies reflect on the club's journey from "a park" to the top flight, after sealing promotion to WSL 1.

Humanity should keep this awful crime in memory so that nothing like this ever happened in the future, the speaker of the Russian Federation Council said during her visit to Japan.

(AP) — A father who once made a desperate attempt to clone his deceased son is giving West Virginia Democrats their best shot at reclaiming a seat in Congress. Hunt's baby boy still beams a smile down over his dad from a framed picture in his office in the law firm he's run for 22 years. After Andrew died from complications after surgery to correct heart defects in 1999, Hunt and his wife, Tracy, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to quietly set up a laboratory inside a Nitro, West Virginia community center... Читать дальше...

Conservationists released 17,000 Taricaya turtles into the wild as a way of protecting the species in Peru's Amazon region.

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Kim Kardashian shared a photo and a couple Halloween-related posts on Facebook nearly a month after being robbed at gunpoint in Paris.

A Pennsylvania pediatrician awaiting trial on charges he indecently assaulted a woman while examining her infant has been accused of doing the same thing to five more women

A former student leaders who made Durban’s Westville campus ungovernable in the early 2000s is set to spend his sixth Christmas behind bars.

John Oliver is arrested and deported on air.

The Daily Show canceled. CNN shut down. John Oliver arrested and deported.

That was the world that The Daily Show imagined in the event that Donald Trump becomes president.

"Picture the worst thing you can think of," the words flashed on a screen of apocalyptic images. "Not that bad, but it’s close. Now with only a few days left, President Trump is confident he can secure a second term."

The screen switched to a world four years in the future... Читать дальше...

Better China data lift sentiment amid US election nerves

PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania appeals court has overturned the disorderly conduct conviction of a Pittsburgh man who was charged because he flashed his middle finger at his ex-wife. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/2eiyVXn ) says Monday’s Superior Court decision was based on past rulings by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that the gesture is not obscene —

The government rescued Freddie and larger sibling Fannie Mae at the height of the financial crisis in September 2008, after they suffered huge losses from risky mortgages in the housing market bust. Record-low interest rates this year have helped spur home purchases and boost the housing market. A government report on Friday showed that gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, grew at annual rate of 2.9 percent in the third quarter, shaking off a lackluster first half and... Читать дальше...