Новости за 17.04.2018

On Monday, a New York-based animal rights group condemned a Russian soccer club after one team used a bear to pump up the crowd before a match. The stunt occurred Sunday before a match in Pyatigorsk. Footage from the game showed the bear being led to Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk club’s stadium. The animal then sat down,...

Blancos fans have given the France international a hard time for much of the season, but he says that comes with being a player at his level

Maybe it's all a load of hippy guff but there is a school of thought that believes thinking positively can produce more rewarding results in your life, and conversely negative thinking promotes disappointment. It makes sense to me but then I have hippyish, peace and love tendencies.

Regardless, it can't hurt to be positive for three games. We all have our fears and worries over the outcome and we all react differently. Last night I was irked by what were some differing views to my own and let the child in me resort to name calling. Читать дальше...

Law-enforcement officers and fire workers came to the scene after a passer-by spotted a suspicious "body" and alarmed the police.

A US-based dishwasher is determined to live up to her reputation as the "Queen of Everest" by scaling the world's highest mountain for the ninth time. Lhakpa Sherpa, who was born in Nepal, already holds the record for a woman of eight ascents and is determined to be on cloud nine when she tackles the Himalayan giant again. Between raising her children and working as a dishwasher at Whole Foods in the US state of Connecticut, the 44-year-old does not have much time to train for her annual trip to the top of the world. Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Apr. 17 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani forwarded a message of felicitation to the newly-elected President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio, calling for further expansion of ties.

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• Khloe Kardashian's newly born baby girl True Thompson already has an Instagram account.
• Kris Jenner tagged the account in her latest Instagram post.
• She is five days old and already has 148,000 followers at the time of this post.

The birth of Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson's baby girl has been an emotional roller-coaster ride. Not only did it happen amidst a massive alleged cheating scandal, but the revelation... Читать дальше...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's role in the Syrian peace process must be to secure the channels of communication with Russia that are necessary to achieve a political solution to the country's seven-year-old civil war, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday. Maas's remarks came as Western foreign ministers braced for another round of diplomacy on the conflict at a Toronto summit this weekend, from which Russia, the strongest international backer of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, will be... Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Apr. 17 (MNA) – In a phone conversation on Tuesday with his Turkish counterpart, Iranian President Rouhani condemned the trilateral aggression in Syria by US, UK, and France.

As an elected official representing your state, I look for bipartisan solutions and work every day to make your lives and the lives of your families better, easier, and safer. Unless, of course, any of those things might upset my friend, Bob, 54, from Indiana, who is not a real person, but rather a persona created by a focus group I hired to tell me who’s most likely to come out to the polls and vote this coming November.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - In 2017, just 11 percent of the 20,000 refugees who obtained Dutch asylum residence permits in 2014 were employed or self-employed, data by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) showed.

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• Few things carry as much stigma as STDs — but having one is more common than you may think.
• In 2016, more than 2 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Sex therapists and people with STDs assert that life (and sexual fulfillment) can continue after an STD diagnosis, as long as you handle it the right way. 

Finding out you have a sexually transmitted disease can be devastating... Читать дальше...

What does the future of fake news look like? No one really knows, but here’s a little sampler from Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed, who teamed up to make the above PSA. Using some of the latest AI techniques, Peele ventriloquizes Barack Obama, having him voice his opinion on Black Panther (“Killmonger was right”) and call President Donald Trump “a total and complete dipshit.”

Major champions today create memories for tomorrow. Some of them, anyway. Still to be determined is whether the grit Patrick Reed showed at Augusta National — holding off Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler in that order — resonates with a junior who is just getting into golf or motivates one of Reed's peers. "It's such a nostalgic game," McIlroy said last summer. "People remember when they watched Jack (Nicklaus) win a U.S. Open or Tom Watson chip in at Pebble Beach. Whatever generation it is... Читать дальше...

A 26-foot-long Titanic model — built out of Legos by an autistic boy from Iceland — is on exhibit at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge.

The Liverpool midfielder has made just three starts and 10 substitute appearances in an injury-ravaged season which did not start until late November because of a thigh injury.

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A Southwest Airlines 737 jet plane was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday after an engine apparently burst, sending shrapnel flying through a window, depressurizing the cabin and injuring some of the passengers. "One passenger, a woman, was partially … was drawn out towards the out of the plane … was pulled back in by other passengers," one witness told Philadelphia's NBC affiliate.

Opposition MPs walked out of Parliament on Tuesday evening after a request for a statement on allegations that Economy Minister Chris Cardona was seen drinking with one of the men accused of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder was denied. Speaking of a "culture of fear and silence", Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia pledged to ask all the questions that the public was entitled to. The walk-out came a few minutes after stories as part of the 'Daphne Project', an international collaborative journalism project including Times of Malta... Читать дальше...

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You may not interact much with the lifeguard during your pool or beach visits, but their job is integral to your safety.

And we don't always make it easy on them.

We took a look at Reddit and Quora to find some of the most annoying things lifeguards have seen people do at pools, waterparks, and beaches.

From sex under the slide to unattended children, here are 16 things lifeguards claim they've had to deal with on the job.

Keep in mind that because most of these come from Reddit and Quora... Читать дальше...