Новости за 07.12.2016

While America has shifted from idealism to cynicism, many Africans are still idealists

Online gambling is posing a major challenge to the casino industry.

Every time you overcome your laziness you get stronger. Every time you choose to act, you increase your ability to win, achieve goals and improve your life.

Suits-babe Meghan Markle (35) en de drie jaar jongere Britse prins Harry zijn tot over hun oren verliefd op elkaar. Om die liefde te bezegelen, heeft de brunette een gouden kettinkje gekocht waaraan de letters M en H hangen.

PRAGUE — Jan Hudec, an Olympic skiing bronze medalist for Canada, can compete for the Czech Republic at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang if he qualifies.

Elections and referendums are turning to a factor of instability in the developed world. Many experts warn that a rise of nationalist and populist parties and movements in the key European nations as well as the possible collapse of the eurozone may result in a new global recession.

MPs applaud 90-year-old Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart Moxon for her educational campaigning.

"When have we ever seen a single individual who has so defied expectations, broken the rules, violated norms, beaten not one but two political parties on the way to winning an election that he entered with 100-to-1 odds against him?" Gibbs said. President of the Divided States of America and the cover image features a photograph of the president-elect sitting in his private residence at Trump Tower. Trump went from fiery underdog in the race for the GOP presidential nomination to defeating Clinton in the Nov. Читать дальше...

Reuters is reporting a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane has crashed after it lost contact with ground control on Wednesday, police said. The missing aircraft, flight PK661, was reportedly heading from Chitral in northern Pakistan to the country’s capital Islamabad, the report said. It is believed the flight had 47 people on board at the time of the crash, local media said. News agency Agence-FrancePresse said a spokesman for PIA confirmed the plane had “disappeared,” while a regional police... Читать дальше...

SunPower Corp. said Wednesday it is planning to cut 2,500 jobs, or 25% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting costs and positioning the solar company for growth. The company will close its 700-megawatt Fab 2 facility, reduce 2017 annual operating costs to less than $350 million, decrease 2016 inventory to delever its balance sheet, cut 2017 capex by more than 50% to about $100 million and continue to invest in next generation cell and module technology. The company... Читать дальше...

President-elect Donald Trump took a victory lap on Wednesday after receiving an award that he has coveted for at least a year: Time magazine’s Person of the Year. “To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor,” he said Wednesday morning during an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, which revealed the winner. Trump had a much different reaction in 2015, when he was a finalist for Person of the Year but didn’t make the cut.

For all the attention historians have devoted to Civil War soldiers, they have paid relatively short shrift to the more than 100,000 sailors who fought on ships at sea, on the Mississippi River, or on the innumerable inland waterways that crisscrossed the South's battlefields.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Een overname van PostNL door Bpost brengt te veel risico's met zich mee. Bestuur en commissarissen van het Nederlandse postbedrijf hebben daarom besloten een finaal overnamevoorstel van de Belgische branchegenoot af te wijzen. Een fusie lijkt daarmee van de baan.

De aanklagers van het Joegoslavië-tribunaal hebben levenslang geëist tegen voormalig generaal Ratko Mladic, commandant van de Bosnisch-Servische strijdkrachten ten tijde van de oorlog in Bosnië-Herzegovina (1992-1995). Dat maakten zij vandaag bekend tijdens een zitting in Den Haag.

A former Celtic youth coach is arrested by police over allegations of sexual offences against children.

Dempo SC confirmed that they will not be the part of the next edition of I-League, India's premier soccer competition.

All three extremists of 16 years-old at the time, allegedly set off a home-made bomb in April outside a prayer hall where a Sikh wedding was taking place, also leaving two others with lesser injuries.

The electronic music giant SFX Entertainment has come out of bankruptcy -- under a new name, LiveStyle. SFX, which owns the digital music...

Vera Bradley Inc. reported Wednesday fiscal third-quarter results that missed expectations, and provided a downbeat outlook for the current quarter. The women's handbag and accessories maker's stock was halted for news until 8:30 a.m. ET. Earnings for the quarter ended Oct. 29 fell to $8.8 million, or 24 cents a share, from $10.3 million, of 27 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. Excluding non-recurring items, adjusted earnings per share came to 20 cents, below the FactSet consensus of 22 cent. Читать дальше...

Masayoshi Son is not a household name in America. Yet. But the billionaire founder and CEO of Japan’s SoftBank loves to make a splash and is rapidly gaining a global profile thanks to a series of big deals. He met with Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, after which the president-elect tweeted that “Masa” […]

DAKOTA CITY -- Two men accused of killing and dismembering an Emerson man were bound over to district court Tuesday to face murder charges.

SunPower shares gain as cost-cutting plan includes eliminating 25% of workforce