Новости за 21.02.2016

Railways minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday promised to take all steps to improve Metro services in Kolkata.To begin with, he announced more rakes to increase frequency of Metro services during peak hours.

Amid Venezuela’s acute economic crisis, President Nicolás Maduro decided there was one Very Important Thing he needed to do before dealing with diving oil prices, the subsequent possible 6000 percent rise in gas prices, or the $2.3 billion the country is expected to pay to investors by a February 26 deadline. And what was that Very Important Thing? Beating any given relative of yours over 90 years old at discovering what Facebook is.

Amid Venezuela’s acute economic crisis, President Nicolás Maduro decided there was one Very Important Thing he needed to do before dealing with diving oil prices, the subsequent possible 6000 percent rise in gas prices, or the $2.3 billion the country is expected to pay to investors by a February 26 deadline. And what was that Very Important Thing? Beating any given relative of yours over 90 years old at discovering what Facebook is.

LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino will round off his election campaign with a visit to Robben Island, the former apartheid-era prison in South Africa, a source close to the Swiss's campaign told Reuters on Sunday.

Los ocho candidatos presidenciales de los dos partidos del país competían por los corazones, mentes y votos en Carolina del Sur y Nevada. Y si han servido de algo los resultados de la noche del sábado, es para que los estadounidenses empiecen a ver la campaña presidencial de 2016 como una oportunidad revolucionaria.

Kimbo Slice y Dada 5000 se vieron las caras en el Bellator MMA en una batalla que pintaba para sacar chispas, sin lugar a dudas una de las más esperadas de la noche y que terminó pasando a la historia de las artes marciales mixtas. No fue espectacular, tampoco violenta, mucho menos digna de volverse […]

With the high definition remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess less than two weeks away, Nintendo UK releases a final comparison between Gamecube and Wii U before the jaggy lines go all blurry in our heads.

Ha ragione il direttore di questo giornale: sono stati sprecati due anni. La rottamazione, voluta e promossa da Matteo Renzi, è solo servita allo stesso Renzi per diventare presidente del Consiglio, presiedere un governo che ripropone la stessa politica dei governi che lo avevano preceduto: spese e tasse e nessun beneficio per i cittadini. Da capo del governo ha parlato tanto e non ha detto e, tanto meno, fatto niente.Ora, da Palazzo Chigi, trapela la notizia degna della Prima Repubblica - che il governo aumenterà le tasse di successione. Читать дальше...

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A town in Central California is mostly without water, but many of its residents remain there.

Pallets of bottled water arrive by the truck load. Showers have become a luxury. People flush the toilet as little as possible. This is life in East Porterville, California.

Thousands of residents in this town live with little to no water.

Because much of the town traditionally relied on private wells for water, once they started drying up, water became a scarce resource. Читать дальше...

Россия создала карбоновые крылья, превосходящие крылья Boeing 787, может вызвать противоречивые чувства у тех людей, которые разбираются в ситуации, однако это действительно так. Boeing 787 — новейший авиалайнер компании Boeing. Его главная особенность состоит в том, что фюзеляж, который раньше был из алюминиевого сплава, теперь изготавливается из карбона.

Aufregung ohne Ende im Spitzenspiel der Bundesliga. Letztlich ist Leverkusen mächtig sauer auf Schiedsrichter Zwayer und der BVB hat die Punkte.

IMMEDIATELY.

Good morning/afternoon/night/Shabbos to all of you. I brought you here to talk about global treasure, Alicia Vikander.

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I say global because she is from Sweden, and currently I'm in America, so at this point in time she is literally being treasured on a multi-national level. But honestly she's a treasure to this whole world, so global it is.

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As the sun sets on the small Indonesian island of Sumba, Danga Beru Haba begins weaving under the glow of a single incandescent lightbulb, the only one in her home. Although she is tired from working dawn to dusk in the fields surrounding her village of Kampung Kalihi, the sarong she is weaving to sell locally will provide extra income for her family.

Being able to weave at night is still a novelty for Haba. Her village has had electricity for two years... Читать дальше...

Сегодня компания Samsung Electronics представила новинки серии смартфонов Samsung Galaxy S –  Samsung Galaxy S7 и Galaxy S7 edge, которые она позиционирует для современных пользователей, ведущих активный образ жизни. Представленные новинки обладают элегантным дизайном, выполненным из металла и стекла, усовершенствованной камерой, защитой от воды и пыли (по стандарту IP68), а также становятся во главе экосистемы Galaxy, состоящей из комплекса устройств и сервисов от Samsung.

• Jean-Marc Ayrault francia külügyminiszter egy vasárnapi interjúban úgy vélte, hogy a brüsszeli EU-csúcson a Nagy-Britanniával elért reformegyezség után "mindenkinek el kell fogadnia egy differenciált (azaz a többsebességes) Európát".
• "Az a fontos, hogy azok, akik tovább akarnak lépni az integrációban, ne legyenek akadályoztatva".
• A francia külügyminiszter szerint a pénteki megállapodás nem jelenti azt, hogy szétesik az, ami eddig volt, vagy hogy azok, akik tovább akarnak lépni... Читать дальше...

Schalke 04 n'a pas profité du faux-pas de Leverkusen face à Dortmund (0-1) pour s'emparer de la quatrième place de la Bundesliga.Lors de la 22e journé...

Primero fue la vuelta a los títulos de capítulos formados por solo una palabra, después el anuncio de que Robert y Michelle King preparaban una nueva serie para CBS y que no serían los showrunners si The Good Wife en una hipotética octava temporada y Julianna Margulies anunciando que buscaba nuevo trabajo a partir de abril. Los rumores sobre el final de The Good Wife se convirtieron en realidad en la pasada SuperBowl cuando su cadena estadounidense lanzo un avance de lo que llamó los últimos capítulos de la serie. Читать дальше...

Источник в полиции сообщил, что стражам порядка в квартале Сеида Зейнаб удалось задержать двух предполагаемых координаторов терактов, передает РИА Новости.

Clean all your woollens and jackets or have them all dry-cleaned.