Новости за 26.04.2021

A Canadian telecommunications company said about 900 customers in a British Columbia town lost Internet service when beavers chewed through a fiber cable.

U.S. officials said Monday millions of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses will be released to other countries.

A pair of students at a Virginia university struck up a conversation on a bus and soon discovered they lived at the same orphanage in China 15 years earlier.

Total worldwide military expenditures rose 2.6% in 2020 to nearly $2 trillion, data released on Monday by a Sweden-based research organization indicates.

The Justice Department on Monday launched a wide-ranging "pattern or practice" investigation of Louisville's police department in the wake of last year's police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

Apple rolled out Monday its new iPhone privacy feature that requires apps to get users' permission before tracking their data for marketing purposes.

A mine countermeasures unit used unmanned undersea vehicles in completing a certification exercise, the U.S. Navy said on Monday.

NFL star Rob Gronkowski returned to his alma mater, the University of Arizona, to break a world record by catching a football dropped from a helicopter 600 feet over the ground.

"Master of None," an Emmy Award-winning series created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, will launch its third season on May 23, Netflix announced Monday, along with a trailer for the season featuring Lena Waithe.

A Florida sheriff's deputy responded to a home where residents looked into their backyard pool and found an alligator taking a swim.

Recent surveys of the Arctic seabed revealed trails of light brown sponge spicules, needle-like support elements in sea sponges. The discovery suggests sponges are surprisingly mobile.

The Environmental Protection Agency will grant California permission to set stricter tailpipe emission standards for cars and SUVs, the agency announced Monday.

Hundreds of people with the first name Josh gathered in Nebraska with pool noodles for a battle royal that began as a joke on social media.

Podcast fans can start streaming Spotify content Monday within Facebook and more in coming months.

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford completed Combat Systems Ship's Qualifications Trials, a milestone in validating its defenses, the U.S. Navy said.

An Idaho man kept a garden hoe balanced on his nose for 1 hour and 41 minutes to reclaim a Guinness World Record he previously set at 40 minutes.

South Korea's financial authorities are coming under criticism after a top official said all cryptocurrency exchanges could be shut.

Mauro Morandi, who became known as "Italy's Robinson Crusoe" while living alone on a Mediterranean island for more than 30 years, says he will end his battle with authorities and move to a small apartment this week.

Taking a specific type of blood pressure medication increases levels of a protein that helps COVID-19 spread throughout the body, a study presented during the ASPET annual meeting found.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced completion of search and rescue exercises with Italy's Coast Guard in the Tyrrhenian Sea near Naples, Italy, on Monday.

Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio on Monday became the first Democrat to jump into the race to claim the U.S. Senate seat that's being vacated by Republican Sen. Rob Portman.

South Korean boy band BTS will be releasing a new English-language track titled "Butter" on May 21.

India on Monday ordered Twitter to remove posts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the country continues to set case records daily.

Police in Connecticut said an escaped cow led its owner and officers on an hours-long chase through several neighborhoods.

A Chinese man charged with leaking the personal information of Xi Jinping's daughter was sentenced to 14 years in prison after a second trial.