Новости за 16.12.2016

Lockheed Martin is being awarded $181.2 million to provide logistics services for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft, the Pentagon said in a press release.

Five men between 25 to 30 years were found carrying a sum of Rs 5 lakh at Mandar on Wednesday evening. The money was in two parts, Rs 1 lakh in 100 rupee notes and the remaining Rs 4 lakh in the new currency of 2000 rupee notes.

After being thrown out with other “Star Wars” props when the studio’s storage unit lease ran out, the model was picked up by an employee at the storage facility and passed from owner to owner until it was bought by a Seattle-based “Star Wars” collector. According to Wookiepedia, it measures it approximately 74 miles in diameter. In 1980, around the time “Empire Strikes Back” was released, the twin Voyager space probes revealed that one of Saturn’s moons, Mimas, had a massive crater similar in appearance to the Death Star’s superlaser. Читать дальше...

MIAMI — Tookie Brown scored 20 points, Ike Smith added 19 and Georgia Southern held off Florida International 75-68 on Thursday night.

Don't be surprised if Rangers - Stars gets ugly.

The European Union is not excluding any scenarios when it comes to holding those responsible for war crimes in Syria accountable, according to EU leaders.

The tourism, art, culture and sports department will organize a Yuva Jagran Rath Yatra on December 21, commemorating Swami Vivekananda's 154th birth anniversary on January 12 which is also celebrated as the National Youth Day. The yatra will begin from the birth place of Birsa Munda, Ulihatu and conclude at the Birsa Munda memorial in Kokar.

Achieving this milestone before a purported Snapchat IPO is good news for Facebook investors.

Republican electors are being swamped with pleas to buck tradition and cast ballots for someone else at meetings across the country Monday that are on course to ratify Trump as the winner. Whether they like Trump or not, and some plainly don't, scores of the Republicans chosen to cast votes in the state-capital meetings told AP they feel bound by history, duty, party loyalty or the law to rubber-stamp their state's results and make him president. Appeals numbering in the tens of thousands — drowning inboxes... Читать дальше...

MPs warn that children are being left at risk of harm by the government's failure to reform child protection.

Capitol Records is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a case that could send shockwaves through the music and digital industries. It all...

Blac Chyna fully enjoyed her pregnancy with baby Dream — something she didn’t get to do the first time around.

The US Navy is paying Bell and Boeing $410 million for repairs on the still-troubled V-22 Osprey vertical take-off aircraft, the Department of Defense said in a press release.

It’s the most stressful time of the year.

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Knowing what to do can be hard, but doing nothing isn’t the answer.

Whether you’re currently in a crisis or dealing with an escalating mental health issue, seeking out help can be anxiety-inducing — especially if you've heard some horror stories.

For example, in a recently published piece, BuzzFeed News investigated America’s largest psychiatric chain, Universal Health Services (UHS), and how some current and former employees at 10 UHS facilities said they... Читать дальше...

It’s a war where nothing is unthinkable for long — but the rebel loss of eastern Aleppo felt unthinkable. It will likely come with the massacre of many surrendering fighters and innocent civilians, and take weeks to put into effect. But now as the Syrian regime claims to have control of all of the largest […]

A “Jeopardy!” contestant who passed away a week before her string of taped appearances on the show aired this week won her third consecutive game in an episode that aired Thursday night. Cindy Stowell buzzed in swiftly, blurted out answers in the form of questions, and soundly vanquished her opponents. Her latest victory was a […]

HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump's barnstorming tour across the states that won him the White House continues to feature far more taunts of triumph than notes of healing after a bruising election.

Christine Sinclair, the Canadian star who scored the winning goal in the bronze medal match at the Olympics this summer, has been named the Canadian women’s Player of the Year for the 13th time.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Possibly the unlikeliest customer of all became the first person to legally buy marijuana in Alaska's largest city.

Social media sensation Cameron Dallas makes the leap to Netflix with a new unscripted series documenting his first world tour to meet his adoring fans. Norman Lear’s reboot of “One Day at a Time” for Netflix stars Justina Machado as a Cuban-American army veteran who relies on the help of her building manager and mother, played by EGOT-winner Rita Moreno, to raise her two kids. Maika Monroe stars in David Robert Mitchell’s critically acclaimed 2014 horror film “It Follows,” about a girl who’s pursued by a monster after a sexual encounter. Читать дальше...

'It’s hard to come up with a single act that would make the Middle East burn more than it is burning right now,' a former peace negotiator says.

We know football can be a terribly brutal sport. We all see what transpires on the field.

A look at Thursday's action on the prep hardwood.

The low-growth, low-yield global environment of the past few years made it increasingly difficult for investors to find attractive income opportunities. As a result, U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs) attracted significant attention, outperforming the S&P 500 Index so far this year (13.7% vs. 3.8%) while offering a 3.6% yield (source: Bloomberg data, as of 12/2/2016). As the chart below indicates, REITs offered one of the highest dividend yields and more dividend growth than any other sector in the S&P 500. Читать дальше...