Новости за 29.02.2016

Bernie Sanders’ campaign announced Monday it had raised $36 million so far in February and was hoping to close out the month having raised $40 million. The announcement comes as Sanders looks for a boost before the Super Tuesday contests, following his drubbing in South Carolina Saturday. The $36 million raised in February would bring […]

Deflation has returned to Europe and that can only mean one thing: More official action to boost the economy. Consumer prices fell by 0.2% in February, pulled down by the plunging cost of energy. That’s the first time inflation has turned negative since September last year. Equally troubling the European Central Bank and its president […]

Security officials at Kenya’s major airports are on high alert this week after Kenya’s Airports Authority issued a warning to all airport managers about possible terror threats against the facilities. The internal memo, marked as “secret,” was sent to CNN and has been verified by a high-level source in the Kenyan aviation industry who received […]

Big-hearted radio listeners are in a flap over the suspected shooting of a goose, offering a £275,000 ($380,000) reward to help find its killers. The beloved local bird — called Grumpy Gertie — was recently found dead in the British village of Sandon, in Hertfordshire, north of London. Police have now exhumed Gertie’s body and […]

Hungarian film director Laszlo Nemes clutched his Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film Sunday and addressed the theater full of famous faces. “You know, even in the darkest hours of mankind, there might be a voice within us that allows us to remain human. That’s the hope of this film.” His World War II drama “Son […]

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday he won’t vote for Donald Trump if the billionaire and GOP presidential front-runner becomes his party’s nominee. “If Trump becomes the Republican nominee my expectation is that I’ll look for some 3rd candidate — a conservative option, a Constitutionalist,” Sasse, a first-term senator from Nebraska, tweeted Sunday night. Sasse […]

The U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force operations to target, capture or kill top ISIS operatives are on the verge of beginning in Iraq, after several weeks of covert preparation, an administration official with direct knowledge of the force’s activities told CNN. The official said the group has spent the last several weeks preparing, including setting […]

By most accounts, Oscars host Chris Rock was off to a good start Sunday as he took on Hollywood’s race issue in his monologue, declaring “you’re damn right Hollywood is racist” and appealing to the industry to give black actors the same opportunities as their white counterparts. And then, he introduced actor and controversial Fox […]

U.S. banks are now being questioned in the FIFA corruption scandal that has rocked the sports world. Citigroup said in a recent securities filing that it has been slapped with a subpoena from U.S. officials investigating alleged “bribery, corruption and money laundering” at FIFA. Anti-money laundering laws require banks to alert authorities about shady transactions […]

Google’s parent company Alphabet says it stands to gain billions of dollars if Intel prevails in a long-running court battle with the IRS. In its annual report filed earlier this month, Alphabet disclosed that it could be in line for a $3.5 billion tax windfall if the courts side with Intel in a dispute over […]

For most of us, February 29 is just an extra day on the calendar. But in the British Isles, it’s traditionally been the one day that, instead of waiting patiently for Prince Charming to pop the question, a damsel is allowed to ask a man for his hand in marriage. Well, one day may have […]

A 4-year old boy has been freed after his arm was stuck for hours in the first vending machine he’d ever seen. The nearly six-hour ordeal began Sunday when the child tried to reach into the machine, located in a Melbourne hotel lobby, and became trapped by its anti-theft mechanism. “We live up in Arnhem […]

Early election results in Iran indicate major support for reformists and supporters of President Hassan Rouhani, who signed last year’s landmark nuclear deal that limited the country’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Results for Tehran province, which is the country’s most populous, showed a sweep by reformists and moderates of all its 30 […]

Turmoil broke out in Salt Lake City after police shot a 17-year-old, with many questioning whether the shooting was necessary. The ordeal started Saturday night when officers saw two males with metal objects attacking another male outside a homeless shelter, Salt Lake City police said. Officers told the attackers to drop their weapons. One of […]

With controversy surrounding this year’s Oscars, and take-no-prisoners comic Chris Rock as host, most expected it to be a memorable show, and it certainly delivered on those terms. Starting with Rock’s monologue that gave a new meaning to the term “he went there,” there were many moments that got a lot of attention on social […]

A truce negotiated between Syrian rebels and the government has caused a dramatic decrease in airstrikes around rebel-held territory, but there were few celebrations, with many residents suspecting a trick. The United States and Russia helped lead the negotiation of a “cessation of hostilities” between a handful of rebel groups and the regime of Syrian […]

Two blasts that rocked a busy outdoor market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 66 people, Iraq’s Health Ministry said Monday. Police officials said a motorcycle rigged with explosives and a suicide bomber caused the explosions, which injured at least 161 people in the predominantly Shiite district of Sadr City. In a statement […]

Well, all that beard growing and bison liver-eating paid off. Nineteen years after “Titanic” made him a global star, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar Sunday night for his uncompromising role as a vengeful frontiersman in “The Revenant,” his first win after coming away empty-handed at four previous Academy Awards shows. The actor, 41, was […]

A deluge of snow slid off a cabin’s roof in eastern Idaho and buried three children underneath, resulting in the death of a 2-year-old child. The accident occurred on Friday night around 5:21 p.m. in the Mack’s Inn area, according to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office. Emergency responders took more than 30 minutes to dig […]

The former CEO of TEPCO, along with two other executives, have been indicted by a Japanese court facing charges relating to the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Former Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, along with two former executive vice presidents, Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto, were indicted for professional negligence to the Tokyo district […]

Host Chris Rock wasted no time in taking on #OscarsSoWhite at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday night. After the obligatory montage of the year’s movies, Rock came out and said he’d counted at least 15 black people in the video — and, just like that, he was off. “If they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t […]

Everyone knew it was coming. And sure enough, Academy Awards host Chris Rock didn’t waste any time. “This is the wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host because there are no black nominees,” he said at the start of his monologue Sunday night, in reference to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. “People are like, ‘Chris, you should boycott. […]

Here’s the list of nominees for the 88th Academy Awards. Winners are noted in bold and with an asterisk. Best picture “The Big Short” “Bridge of Spies” “Brooklyn” “Mad Max: Fury Road” “The Martian” “The Revenant” “Room” “Spotlight” Best actor Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo” Matt Damon, “The Martian” Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant” Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs” […]

SpaceX scrubbed its third launch attempt for a mission to deliver an SES satellite into distant orbit. The mission is to put a new satellite into space that can provide remote areas of the Asia-Pacific with broadband internet access. The private space exploration company, headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, was scheduled to launch at […]

Donald Trump claimed he is not familiar with David Duke. It is hard to believe, but we will choose to take him at his word and use this opportunity to explain in detail to him — and indeed all candidates — who David Duke really is. It seems that Trump did have a change of […]