Новости за 06.09.2015

Damn, Bey, slay, slay! Beyoncé, who recently celebrated her 34th birthday, showcased several super sexy looks as she performed onstage at the 2015 Budweiser Made in...

Andrew V. Pestano
FOX LAKE, Ill., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Fox Lake, Ill., appointed an interim chief and deputy chief of police as the manhunt for the suspects in the killing of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz continues.

In a recent article for independent Czech online news and opinion journal Svobodne Noviny, columnist Jaromir Petrik explained why he is fed up with the media's presentation of Russia as the world's greatest threat to peace, while the US, which has launched a series of aggressive wars across the globe over the last decade, seems to get a pass.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Back-to-school costs are mounting, but librarians are reminding people that one must-have item — the library card — is free. The American Library Association's annual "September is Library Card Sign-up Month" campaign works to make sure that all students have a library card. In New Hampshire, students have access to the more than 2 million items in the state's libraries' collections, including magazines, movies and music, as well as books. If a student's library does not own a particular item... Читать дальше...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday threw his support behind President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran, calling it "a good deal" that will move Iran off its current "superhighway" toward acquiring a nuclear weapon. 

Tragic Aylan Kurdi's father Abdullah has returned to the family home in the war-torn Syrian city of Kobane after burying his family.

Maandag begint het grote 'Haagse' jihadproces. De bekendste verdachten zijn Azzedine C. (33) alias Abou Moussa, Rudolph H. (25) en Oussama C. (19), maar in totaal staan tien mensen terecht voor terreurbeschuldigingen.

Germany's Olympic champion Michael Jung wins the Burghley Horse Trials, finishing just ahead of New Zealand's Tim Price.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shawnee County officials have been working to make sure that state and federal officials are aware of efforts to replace a decaying bridge. The latest effort was from Shawnee County Commissioner Bob Archer, who spoke with U.S. House Speaker John Boehner about Willard Bridge while Boehner was attending a recent fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1ECJm0M). Archer told commissioners Thursday he attended a fundraiser for Jenkins in a southwest Topeka neighborhood... Читать дальше...

Profit rules for contracts worth £8bn under scrutiny

Rachel Atherton wins her third downhill title at the UCI mountain bike World Championships, with Manon Carpenter second.

A prolonged state budget crisis that has led to public employee layoffs and the planned closing of government offices statewide hasn't kept Illinois from extending a package of corporate tax breaks to the nation's most valuable retailer. First-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner put a hold on the corporate recruitment tool in early June amid a budget impasse that has stretched more than two months into the fiscal year. But the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity says that online retail giant Amazon ... Читать дальше...

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Brightly painted ceiling fans and rocking horses, a kid-sized jet and helicopter, plastic Santas and the rest of a whimsical array attached to two small backyard garage…

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Brightly painted ceiling fans and rocking horses, a kid-sized jet and helicopter, plastic Santas and the rest of a whimsical array attached to two small backyard garage…

WASHINGTON (AP) — No more sleeping in. With new backpacks, pens and pencils and clothes, millions of children are back in school or heading there after summer vacation. Many are excited, some are anxious — and still waiting for the results of the new tests they took last spring aligned to the Common Core academic standards. Congress returns from its summer vacation after Labor Day and on its agenda is a rewrite to the No Child Left Behind education law that requires the annual academic testing. The House and Senate passed competing versions... Читать дальше...

Nicola Sturgeon, of the Scottish National Party (SNP), said that she "would be absolutely happy" to open her home to a Syrian refugee as part of a wider and more organized approach.

Tom Cruise suits up in blue while posing at the premiere of his new movie Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation held at the Shanghai Film Center on Sunday (September 6) in Shanghai, China. The 53-year-old actor was joined by his co-star Rebecca Ferguson and the film’s director Christopher McQuarrie. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics [...]

Turns out it’s hard to know when Michael Shannon is joking.

Earlier this month the actor told a reporter for Vulture that he is starring in the upcoming movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” reprising his role as General Zod from the 2013 film “Man of Steel.”

He then went on to tell a funny story about an incident that happened on set. 

“I was in my costume, and I couldn’t use my fingers because in the sequel I have flippers instead of hands,” he told the reporter. “So I had these wax flippers on my fingers... Читать дальше...

Ken Kwapis, the director of "A Walk in the Woods," featuring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, talks about using the Appalachian Trail as a co-star.

Een standbeeld in de tuinen van paleis Versailles bij Parijs is zondag beklad met antisemitische teksten. De Franse cultuurminister Fleur Pellerin zegt dat het vandalisme een 'fascistische kijk op cultuur' laat zien.

Terreurbeweging al-Shabaab heeft de dichtbevolkte stad Buqda in Somalië heroverd op troepen van de Afrikaanse Unie. Volgens de militanten zelf en lokale autoriteiten is het de derde stad die sinds vrijdag is ingenomen door strijders van al-Shabaab.

There’s gold in urine, it turns out. A Freedom of Information request into the revenue raised from pay-to-pee train station toilets revealed London Victoria station topped £2.3m last year, while Euston and King’s Cross netted £1.8m and £1.4m respectively. In the case of Liverpool Lime Street, more than half of the £400,000 raised by ransoming the public’s bladders was kept as profit.

BUDAPEST/MUNICH (Reuters) Thousands of migrants streamed into Germany on Sunday, many traveling through Austria from Hungary where they had been stranded against their will for days, while European Union governments argue over how to respond. A convoy of around 140 cars and vans filled with food and water left Vienna to collect exhausted migrants, many from Syria, who had set out to walk the 170 km (110-mile) stretch through the rain from Hungary's capital Budapest to the Austrian border, from where many would continue onto Germany.