Новости за 21.03.2016

By the time they’d been in Canada nine years, about 5.3 per cent of immigrants owned a private company, according to a Statistics Canada study, meaning they formed new businesses more quickly than the Canadian-born population.

Als Burt Reynolds het jaar 1972 nog eens over zou kunnen doen, zou hij één ding zeker anders doen. Tijdens het South by Southwest Festival in Texas heeft de inmiddels tachtigjarige Hollywood-acteur gezegd dat hij spijt heeft van zijn naaktshoot in Cosmopolitan in de seventies.

U.S. home resales fell sharply in February in a potentially troubling sign for America's economy which has otherwise looked resilient to the global economic slowdown. The National Association of Realtors said Monday existing home sales dropped 7.1 percent to an annual rate of 5.08 million units, the lowest level since November.

Global warming has made conditions historically associated with great wines more frequent in Bordeaux and Burgundy, a study finds. But things look less bright for California vineyards.

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An Afro-Cuban dissident who spent time in Fidel Castro's gulags, Oscar Biscet is one of many people that represent the real Cuba, the people who will be hidden from sight as President Obama visits this week.

While the president basks in the Cuban sun and in photo-ops with its heavy-handed dictator, the fate and freedom of political resisters like Biscet remains grim.

Biscet is free now in technical terms, but in reality, he remains among a cohort of dissenters who still live in an invisible prison... Читать дальше...

Mumbai, Mar 21 () Enforcement Directorate (ED) has questioned IDBI bank officials, including its former CMD, in connection with its money laundering probe in the over Rs 900 crore alleged loan fraud involving the bank and Kingfisher Airlines.

Amy Schumer was feeling very generous while attending a production of Broadway’s hit musical Hamilton on Saturday (March 19) in New York City. The 34-year-old actress and comedian left a $1,000 tip on a $77 bill at the bar. “And then @amyschumer comes into your work and does something amazing #hamilton #amyschumer,” bartender Madeleine DeJohn [...]

The restaurant that comic Celeste Barber once virtually lived in.

As US President Obama met his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution on Monday, American-style democracy, entertainment and free enterprise is knocking at the doors of a nation long denied the bread and circus that is all too plentiful in the sole superpower to its north.

As US President Obama met his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution on Monday, American-style democracy, entertainment and free enterprise is knocking at the doors of a nation long denied the bread and circus that is all too plentiful in the sole superpower to its north.

As US President Obama met his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution on Monday, American-style democracy, entertainment and free enterprise is knocking at the doors of a nation long denied the bread and circus that is all too plentiful in the sole superpower to its north.

As US President Obama met his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution on Monday, American-style democracy, entertainment and free enterprise is knocking at the doors of a nation long denied the bread and circus that is all too plentiful in the sole superpower to its north.

As US President Obama met his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution on Monday, American-style democracy, entertainment and free enterprise is knocking at the doors of a nation long denied the bread and circus that is all too plentiful in the sole superpower to its north.

Can't get enough March Madness? Time for a little Messenger Madness. Facebook Messenger has a hidden basketball game within the messaging app, and it's totally...

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The MiG-35 might be the RSK-MiG’s last hope of regaining some of its lost market share on the international fighter market.

Russia’s RSK-MiG has completed an initial batch of pre-production versions of the Mikoyan MiG-35 Fulcrum-F multirole fighter. The company is set to deliver the jets to the Russian defense ministry for flight-testing this summer.

“We have completed the first phase of this work—the Ministry of Defense has examined and... Читать дальше...

An 86-year-old inmate died Sunday afternoon at the Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. James Burks ...

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The night before my co-op board interview this winter, I had nightmares.

I don't remember them anymore, just that there was fire and a co-op board and a general feeling of hatred — theirs, not mine.

I was trying to buy a one-bedroom co-op apartment in a New York City suburb, about 30 minutes away from Penn Station by train.

(Spoiler alert: I got it.)

The board had been a looming presence since the first time I looked at the place. Unlike a condo or a house... Читать дальше...

Primary season for the 2016 election is in full swing, and the field has already narrowed considerably.

Rihanna gave one of her superfans the best four or five seconds of his life.

April Fools! The date falls on a Friday this year, so keep an eye out for office pranksters

Partisanship is up. Voting by independents, less so. Those and other insights come from a look at the primary-election voter pools of the two parties in the states that have held contests through March 15.

De iPhone wordt toch weer kleiner. Nadat Apple de afgelopen twee jaar zijn smartphones juist een flink groter scherm meegaf, komt het technologiebedrijf nu met een kleiner, goedkoper model

"Ted Cruz is a consistent conservative who understands the importance of federalism."

Judge shuts down Madonna custody case in LondonMadonna performs her ‘Rebel Heart’ Tour at Allphones Arena on March 19, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Zak Kaczmarek/Getty) A judge has ruled in Madonna’s favor to terminate her custody case in London. Madonna launched legal action against her ex-husband Guy Ritchie in both the U.K. and New York after their son Rocco, 15, refused to return to her U.S. home following a trip to London to stay with his father in December. The case has been heard in courts on both sides of the Atlantic... Читать дальше...