Новости за 17.04.2018

A former senior Russian intelligence official has created an American tech firm that pays people to go places and film things.

Since FenwayNation migrated over to the BLOGGER platform (May 2010), we are proud to announce that we have logged just over 3,000,000 page-views (click on photo for exact numbers). Of course, in our earlier iteration—from January of 2000-April of 2010—we logged millions more. But, since our new look, we are very happy to have been able serve so many readers around the globe with information and commentary about the greatest baseball franchise ever. We look forward to many more years of service to our readers. Читать дальше...

The Nigerian Naira on Tuesday, April 17, maintains it's rate against the American Dollar which it traded at as at yesterday evening, April 16.The currency trades at N363, N514 and N445 against the Dollar, Pound Sterling and Euro.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): 6:20 p.m. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Syrian government to ensure international chemical weapons inspectors are able to work without restrictions. Earlier Tuesday, Syria's state news agency said inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had reached the town of Douma to investigate a suspected April 7 gas attack. Guterres said "it's the obligation of the Syrian government... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors must now decide whether a Manhattan nanny who slaughtered two children in her care was too mentally ill to be held responsible for the crime. Yoselyn Ortega attacked 6-year-old Lucia Krim and her 2-year-old brother Leo, on Oct. 25, 2012, placing their bloodied bodies in a bathtub before their mother, Marina Krim, came home to discover the horrifying scene. Ortega also plunged a knife into her own neck in a failed suicide attempt. Her murder trial began March 1. Jurors heard heart-wrenching testimony from Marina Krim... Читать дальше...

Russia's drive to build a large power-generating turbine to lessen its dependence on Western technology has suffered a major set-back after a prototype broke beyond repair, two sources familiar with the project told Reuters. In the past few years Russia has imported the large-capacity gas turbines required to run modern power stations from firms such as Siemens, GE and Alstom. After Western sanctions were imposed on Russia over the conflict with Ukraine four years ago, Russian President Vladimir... Читать дальше...

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• Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are getting married at St. George's Chapel, in Windsor, on May 19.
• Kensington Palace will cover the cost of the royal wedding, an expense traditionally taken on by the bride's family.
• The royal wedding is expected to cost in excess of $45 million (£32 million), most of which is allotted for security.

The average cost of a wedding for couples in the US and the UK is around $34,000 (£23,700).

an interesting case came before the beis din in Tel Aviv of a Yemenite woman who could not get a divorce from her husband.

The story goes that this woman was forcibly married off to her husband as a child in 1993 in Yemen. The husband was a violent man and would beat her along with other violent acts against her. At some point in a complicated mission, the Jewish Agency and the security forces pulled off the complicated task of sneaking her out of Yemen with her 6 children. Initially they... Читать дальше...

PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) — A man who admitted strangling a woman in her New Jersey apartment more than a decade ago has been sentenced to 18 years in state prison. Dorian Gillon initially was charged with murder in the December 2005 killing of 39-year-old Williametta Moore, who was found beaten and strangled in her Plainfield apartment. The 52-year-old Newark man eventually pleaded guilty last December to aggravated manslaughter. Police found Moore's body after a friend reported she hadn't been seen in several days. Читать дальше...

For any aspiring Paul Revere sounding the alarm on nuclear nonproliferation, after more than a year of setbacks, the most promising news this month is four words: “The allies are coming.”

Bold move, Cotton.

Getting your first Victory Royale in Fortnite is exciting — but maybe it was a little too exciting for Lonzo Ball.

A post shared by Sports Blog Nation (@sbnation) on Apr 17, 2018 at 8:05am PDT

Look, I’m not going to give Lonzo shit for playing video games at 3 a.m. When I was his age I was doing it too, heck at THIS age I’ll still occasionally stay up until all hours (what up Monster Hunter World). That said, I’ve never intentionally woken up my significant other ... Читать дальше...

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• "Sooner or later, our entire industry will be operated by AI (artificial intelligence) and robots, not humans," JD.com CEO Richard Liu said at the annual World Retail Congress in madrid. 
• JD.com is China's second-largest e-commerce company. 
• Liu said he thinks another decade could pass before fully automated stores become a reality.

Robots will eventually replace human workers in the retail industry, the chief executive of Chinese... Читать дальше...

Robert De Niro may be one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, but that doesn’t mean he knows everything.

Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future help in the fight against pollution. The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or PET — a form of plastic patented in the 1940s and now used in millions of tonnes of plastic bottles. PET plastics...

A production company is suing LeBron James, claiming the NBA superstar clipped its idea for a barbershop-themed television series and cut it entirely out of the picture. In a lawsuit obtained by TMZ Sports, Adventure Enterprises claims it pitched a show to James, 33, called “Shop Talk” that would feature celebrities getting a haircut while...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S health secretary Alex Azar is recovering from a painful intestinal condition and will be reducing some work activities for the time being, a Health and Human Services official said Tuesday. Azar, who was hospitalized briefly over the weekend, has been diagnosed with diverticulitis, the official said. That's an inflammation or infection of small pouches that bulge outward through the colon. Such pouches — called diverticula — are common among older adults. They often don't produce... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S health secretary Alex Azar is recovering from a painful intestinal condition and will be reducing some work activities for the time being, a Health and Human Services official said Tuesday. Azar, who was hospitalized briefly over the weekend, has been diagnosed with diverticulitis, the official said. That's an inflammation or infection of small pouches that bulge outward through the colon. Such pouches — called diverticula — are common among older adults. They often don't produce... Читать дальше...

CAPE TOWN - One of the less obvious effects of the drought which has gripped Cape Town in recent years has been huge surge in bottle water sales and the associated plastic waste this has generated.

British athletics great Mo Farah admitted Tuesday he faces an uphill task to win Sunday's London marathon with the likes of two-time winner Eliud Kipchoge in the field but says he will fight for a podium place.

The number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States after fleeing their war-torn homeland has plummeted to just 44 since the first of October — down from around 6,000 in the same period a year ago, according to the Refugee Processing Center, run by the U.S. State Department. The release of new data on the dramatic decrease in refugees comes at a time when world attention is again focused on the war in Syria, following a suspected chemical attack April 7 on the town of Douma which activists said killed more than 40. Читать дальше...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation into cryptocurrency exchanges in the hopes of providing transparency and accountability to a marketplace that frequently operates in a black box. The AG has sent letters to 13 major virtual currency trading platforms, asking for information about their operations, internal controls, and consumer protections. Platforms …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft will have to wait another couple of days before lifting off. Two hours before Monday evening’s scheduled launch, SpaceX announced it needed more time to check its rocket, which will carry the satellite to orbit. The next attempt will be Wednesday night. The satellite known as Tess...

Negotiations centered around better pay and more job stability. Union members are scheduled to vote on the deal Thursday and Friday.