Новости за 18.12.2016

Opposition lawmakers object to plans by the ruling Law and Justice party to curb media access to parliament.

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is in the process of developing a long-endurance aerial drone, the government said Sunday. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is undergoing flight testing is larger than those currently in service in the N

Wild orangutans know how to build sleeping nests using tree branches and leaves, so no wonder Nemo gets the job done in no time.

Assembly elections are still many months away but nonetheless, incumbent Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani has the arduous task of getting the BJP back on track

Kinder Surprise Eggs are extremely popular around the world, but illegal to sell in the US due to small toy parts which the FDA says could be a choking hazard.

She has been sleeping for 2 months already and nothing, including loud music and medications, can wake her up.

Mortgage rates were up this week, averaging 4.16 percent for a 30-year, fixed-rate loan, up from 4.13 percent last week. Last year at this time, the rate was 3.97 percent, according to Freddie Mac.

The higher echelons of power in some Middle Eastern countries, including Turkey, managed to capitalize on Daesh manufacturing weapons in Iraq's Mosul, Major Chris Hunter, a former British Army's senior counter-terrorism expert, told Sputnik.

’Tis the season to be mandatorily happy. Hence the ubiquity of all the “Happy holidays” exhortations. Honestly (why would I lie to you?), it’s enough to get on my dyspeptic, curmudgeonly nerves. Christmas cheer? Not a fan, except when it comes wrapped in Christmas funny, in New Yorker cartoons, in this episode of The Cartoon Lounge.

Saturday Night Live unsurprisingly concluded the year with a Christmas special featuring Alec Baldwin as his favourite blonde in office, only this time Vladimir Putin was included in the act.

U.S. hospitals, reeling from rapidly rising drug prices, are taking aggressive steps to cut pharmaceutical spending. They include minimizing inventories and repackaging costly intravenous medicines into individual doses.

The Avalon needed to function as far more than an elaborate backdrop.

2016 has been a notable one for many reasons, but this year in particular has had its fair share of headlines that made our jaws drop to the ground. Some of our favorite celebrities were not...

The first annual ESC Beauty Awards 2016 are here!  It's not every day you get product recommendations from top celebrity hair and makeup artists—that's why this is a...

The weather outside wasn’t frightful at Christmas when I was 8. The days leading up to Dec. 25 in 1956 had been in the mid-80s in my neighborhood. The day itself sweltered at 86. Outside, as my mother addressed the cards she dutifully sent to relatives in the East, winter meant only that our lawn...

Along with the comedian Norm Macdonald and the singer Kiiara, Donald J. Trump appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Sept. 15, a lifetime ago. That was the night that, in a gesture that for some viewers said more about the host than the guest, Fallon rumpled Trump's hair.

The slaughter of civilians in Aleppo last week may have shocked the conscience of the world, but no one should have been surprised. Syria’s Assad regime has always treated opponents savagely, and its assault on Aleppo, once the country’s largest city, has been coming for a long time.

Baltimore Ravens: Kicker Justin Tucker has nine field goals of at least 50 yards, one short of the NFL record. He’s made 31 or 32 field goals after having one blocked last week.

We’re living in a post-fact age. President-elect Donald Trump’s superb indifference to verifiable claims — or, indeed, to what he has publicly claimed on earlier occasions — reflects and exacerbates the situation. No less important is the vast and complex web of aggregators and “news” sites issuing...

It speaks volumes about the plight of rabble-rousers in China today that Ai Weiwei, the country’s most famous dissident artist, has decided that working there is too dangerous — so he wants to go to Syria.

Arizona Cardinals: Last week, Chandler Catanzaro missed a 41-yard field-goal try and a point-after try, and had a point-after try blocked and returned by Miami.

Vatican’s Ambassador to Ukraine said that Pope Francis may visit Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas after peace is restored between the authorities in Kiev and local militias.

Amanda Tinklin knew all too well that Waverly could benefit from another child care center. The town's population increase -- about a thousand-person rise in the past decade of available U.S. Census stats -- certainly suggested it. A private Facebook…

He had a beer at the bar with his dad that Saturday, then headed home to watch his Huskers play a night game.

Neil Bollinger credits college with saving his life.