Новости за 21.12.2017

Christopher Plummer stars as oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in 'All the Money in the World,' director Ridley Scott's thriller based on the 1973 kidnapping of Getty's grandson.

Keep track of the hot stove season in Major League Baseball, with all the free agent rumors and done deals in one spot.

Asian markets fell on Thursday as investors took a step back following recent gains after Donald Trump's tax reform bill finally passed through Congress, giving him a much-needed legislative victory.

What is that face, Kuz?

First of all, let’s start off by saying that the Baby Lakers have great sportsmanship. Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram sprinted full court to help up Kyle Kuzma after he was fouled in transition.

But we also must acknowledge that when they reached their final destination, it all literally went downhill from there. Here’s Ball busting his butt trying to get down to help up Kuzma.

Everyone was fine, so it’s OK for us to laugh now. Somebody needs to mop up that floor, though. Читать дальше...

Dragging a three-game losing skid into Wednesday’s game against sorry Sacramento, Nets coach Kenny Atkinson challenged his starters to give him a better first quarter and his team to give him a better defensive performance. He didn’t get either. Brooklyn couldn’t buy a defensive stop in the first quarter, fell behind by more than 20...

München (dpa) - Die Integrationsangebote von Bund und Ländern in Deutschland sollten nach Ansicht von Bayerns Sozialministerin Emilia Müller nur Zuwanderern mit Bleibeperspektive angeboten werden. «Integriert wird, wer bleiben darf», sagte die CSU-Politikerin, die im Oktober turnusmäßig den Vorsitz der Integrationsministerkonferenz übernommen hat, der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in München. «Hier wollen wir gemeinsam mit den anderen Ländern weiter darauf hinwirken, dass wir unsere Ressourcen zielgenau einsetzen. Читать дальше...

For the third year in a row, Foodland in Lakefield was giving out free turkeys on Wednesday to those in need.

The comedian digs into the 2016 election in his third Netflix special of the year, 'Equanimity.'

The Jim Henson Company is going all-in on female superheroes. The Muppets creator is planning an animated TV series and related action-figure line built around seven female superheroes with names like Courage, Mastery, Honesty and Wisdom. “Every day in the news, women are coming out with their stories of feeling harassed or persecuted,” said Halle...

The kicks - and awards - keep coming for Robbie Gould. On Wednesday, the 49ers placekicker was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for the second time in three weeks. Gould is the only member of the 49ers to receive a player-of-the week award in the past three seasons. He’s also the only player to be honored multiple times in the same season since kicker Phil Dawson in 2013. Gould was recognized after he made 6-of-6 field goals, including the 45-yard game-winner as time expired... Читать дальше...

Ali Abdelaziz sees children as a "gift from God", so much so that he has 10 of his own, even as Egypt's government struggles to stem a "catastrophic" population boom.

Three baseball diamonds and one soccer field were vandalized late Monday night or early Tuesday morning.

Six of K-pop's biggest stars carried the coffin of fellow singer Kim Jong-Hyun to a hearse Thursday, after he died leaving behind a suicide note that spoke of his battle with loneliness and depression.

At least 405,610 New Yorkers will be cheering President Trump’s new tax plan because they paid heavy penalties under ObamaCare — penalties that will be gone in 2019. They are taxpayers who chose to forgo health-care coverage in 2015, resulting in $186 million in penalties. That year, the minimum fine was $325 per adult. This...

From restaurants with singing waitresses, to secluded traders in back alleys, North Korean businesses in Beijing face a precarious start to the New Year with a looming, sanctions-linked January deadline to shut up shop. Accounting for 90 percent of North Korea's trade, China is a major outpost for what little financial and economic interests its secretive ally has abroad. In visits to a dozen North Korean companies in the Chinese capital, AFP found that many owners and staff were unsure whether they would have to leave. Читать дальше...

Erlangen/Berlin (dpa) - Die geplanten finanziellen Hilfen des Bundes zur Bekämpfung der Diesel-Abgase dürfen nach Einschätzung des Sonderkoordinators für das «Sonderprogramm Saubere Luft» des Bundes, Siegfried Balleis, keine «Einmalaktion» bleiben. «Das muss mit dem künftigen Bundeshaushalt fortgeführt und auch höher dotiert werden. Da werden wir mit der zunächst veranschlagten eine Milliarde Euro nicht hinkommen, sagte der frühere Erlanger Oberbürgermeister der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in Nürnberg. Читать дальше...

Known for its ultra-competitive, pressure-cooker society, South Korea has one of the world's highest suicide rates. And this week the even higher stresses in the country's lucrative showbiz industry took their toll on a K-pop superstar.

I am your father.” The iconic line from Star Wars, in which Luke Skywalker discovers the real identity of Darth Vader, marks the point in the series when two polar opposites that had been cleanly divided—the Jedi and the Dark Side—are suddenly mixed together in the most personal of ways.

Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends. By finding ways to extend that circle of trust exponentially, technology is expanding markets and possibilities. Consider the darknet. It is creating trust between the unlikeliest of characters, despite a heavy cloak of anonymity.

We don’t know what our customers look like,” said Craig Berman, vice president of global communications at Amazon, to Bloomberg News in June 2015. Berman was responding to allegations that the company’s same-day delivery service discriminated against people of color. In the most literal sense, Berman’s defense was truthful: Amazon selects same-day delivery areas on the basis of cost and benefit factors, such as household income and delivery accessibility. But those factors are aggregated by ZIP code... Читать дальше...