Новости за 13.08.2016

NAPOLEON, Ohio — A van carrying members of a girls’ high school water polo team was struck by a semitrailer on Friday, killing the van driver’s teenage daughter and critically injuring the van driver and four teenage players. Two of the injured players also are the van driver’s daughters. The semitrailer hit the van in

Amini Fonua, an openly gay athlete from Tonga, has spoken out against The Daily Beast’s article that outed gay Olympians using Grindr in Rio. The 26-year-old swimmer said that he is strong enough to be out about his sexuality, despite his country making it illegal to be gay. “It is still illegal to be gay [...]

Hafiz Saeed Khan was killed more than two weeks ago.

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The average human brain is about three pounds. This makes it a much bigger proportion of our bodies than what is seen in other animals. Especially notable is our large cerebral cortex, which is responsible for memory, communication, and thinking.

So how did we get these big brains?

A team of researchers in the UK have proposed one possible answer: Over the past 2 million years, we worked our brains extra-hard in evaluating complex social situations and deciding who to cooperate with... Читать дальше...

Matt Swenson, press secretary to Gov. Mark Dayton, is leaving for a job in the Obama administration.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has granted the NCAA’s motion to dismiss the governing body from a lawsuit filed by two former North Carolina athletes seeking to hold it at least partly responsible for the school’s long-running academic fraud scandal. In a ruling signed Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Loretta C. Biggs stated attorneys

The Islamic State group's leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed, was killed last month in an airstrike in Nangarhar province, the Pentagon said Friday. Saeed was named head of IS's "Khorasan province," which includes Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of neighboring countries, early last year when a group of Pakistani Taliban switched allegiance to the jihadist group.

Jencarlos is back with a new music video, and it's far from being holy! The 28-year-old hunk recently played Jesus in Fox's The Passion, but the Miami native just switched...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican court has let two leaders of a radical teachers' union leave prison on a form of bail following weeks of protests by supporters over their arrests and recent education reforms that include mandatory teacher…

Queensland taxi drivers will keep fighting against the legalisation of ride-sharing services including Uber.

This year’s Perseid meteor shower offered a beautiful show to skywatchers when it peaked Thursday overnight. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls

The Jaguars had a vague sense of excitement about landing a player of Myles Jack’s caliber in the second round of this year’s draft. Seeing him on the field for the first time made that excitement tangible. “He really flashed,” Jaguars coach Gus Bradley said, via Hays Carlyon of the Florida Times-Union. “He played extremely…

The speaker of The House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has sent a heartfelt message to the national U23 team known as Dream Team VI, not to boycott its quarter final match against Denmark on Saturday, August 13 at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympics game. The Speaker who was spoke against the issue of complaints of […]

Stephen Weiss reviews the main factors driving stocks and how investors should be positioned for next week.

The Dolphins released a list of players who won’t play in their preseason opener vs. the Giants Friday, and that list included a bunch of starters. As expected, those who either didn’t make the trip or won’t suit up include defensive linemen Ndamukong Suh, Mario Williams, Cameron Wake, Jason Jones and Earl Mitchell; running backs…