Новости за 24.03.2016

From the track to the pool — the latest doping allegations thrown at Russia concern its swimmers. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has vowed to examine claims made by a British newspaper that it has uncovered systemic doping in the sport. The Times alleges that positive tests have been covered up and that Dr. Sergei […]

Ben Carson delivered a sobering assessment Thursday of the state of politics: nice guys don’t win. Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and other co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” grilled Carson repeatedly for the retired neurosurgeon’s decision to support Donald Trump’s presidential bid, asking how an inspirational figure like him — “You’re Ben Carson. You’re so much […]

Fort Gordon, a U.S. military base in eastern Georgia, was put on lockdown briefly after someone called 911 — not knowing that an active shooter drill was taking plac there. The Army installation noted around noon, in a post on its Facebook page, that its gates were being closed “pending an investigation of an alleged […]

Time Warner, 21st Century Fox and the Weinstein Co. joined the campaign Thursday to pressure Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to veto what critics are calling an “anti-LGBT” bill. The Weinstein company said it would end its plans to film a biopic of Richard Pryor in the state later this year. The movie is to be […]

The greatest political sleight of hand in the 2016 campaign has been Sen. Ted Cruz’s remaking himself into the reasonable, establishment candidate in the GOP race. The strategy seems to be working. Now that Marco Rubio is out of the race and John Kasich struggles to win any state other than Ohio, where he is […]

ExxonMobil and Chevron are resisting federal demands that shareholders vote on policies that could affect climate change, arguing that the issue is too complicated for shareholders to understand. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is backing demands by some shareholders that they get to vote on whether to analyze the financial impact of new climate […]

U.S. authorities issued “wanted” notices for a group of Iranian hackers the U.S. believes are behind a 2013 computer intrusion of a small New York dam and a series of cyberattacks on dozens of U.S. banks, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey announced Thursday. The Justice Department made the announcement of a […]

Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia to Finland, killing all nine on board. One passenger was Henry W. Antheil Jr., an American diplomat who was carrying diplomatic pouches from […]

Time Warner, the corporate parent of CNN, is the latest company to publicly oppose a pending bill in Georgia that has been called discriminatory and “anti-LGBT.” “We urge Governor Deal to exercise his veto,” the company said in a statement Thursday. The three divisions of Time Warner — HBO, Turner and Warner Bros. — all […]

One of Ashley Brinkman’s all-time favorite emails arrived in January: it said she was getting an $11,000 raise. For Brinkman, it was a miracle. A timely one, at that. The 28-year-old recently bought a home with her husband in Anchorage, Alaska. The purchase was a “real stretch” financially. The substantial jump in pay this year […]

Johan Cruyff, the man credited with reinventing modern soccer, has died aged 68. The former player and manager of Spanish giants Barcelona and the Netherlands’ most successful club Ajax, had been battling lung cancer. Cruyff is considered one of the most influential individuals in the last century, his Dutch team that finished runners up in […]

Imagine doing laundry in a flash — just by hanging your clothes outside. Or what if you could get rid of that coffee stain just by standing under a bright light? Researchers in Australia say they have found a way to alter fabric so that stains disappear after a few minutes of sun exposure. They […]

Yahoo’s biggest adversary just showed Marissa Mayer its nuclear option. Making good on its threats, hedge fund Starboard Value called for the removal of Yahoo’s entire nine-member board on Thursday. The move is a significant escalation in an 18-month-long battle that could lead to Mayer’s ouster as CEO or the eventual sale of Yahoo. Starboard […]

Donald Trump scored a 22-point victory in the Arizona Republican primary on Tuesday, but even as the billionaire’s campaign turns its attention to upcoming contests, a political proxy battle has erupted here, about 90 minutes north of the border with Mexico. The unlikely arena is a small restaurant a few miles outside Tucson, in the […]

Mohammed Dewji has ambitious plans to take on big brands in Africa. Top of his list of targets: Coca-Cola, Red Bull and Fanta. “We’re taking on Coca Cola with our own brand called Mo Cola. We’re fighting Red Bull with Mo Energy Drink, and like they have Fanta – we have our own brands,” the […]

It’s a bonanza like no other — the Dubai World Cup. This year marks the 21st running of the world’s richest equestrian event, which links together nine races for a collective purse of $30 million. The winner of the main race — also called the Dubai World Cup — collects $6 million of the staggering […]

Syrian troops have entered the ancient city of Palmyra and are poised to retake it from ISIS militants, Syrian state media reported Thursday. State TV broadcast images that purportedly show government forces entering the southwestern part of the city, while a TV anchor said the army is “close to announcing that Tadmur” — another name […]

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Hillary Clinton “could be considered a founding member of ISIS” because she was secretary of state during the Obama administration’s withdrawal from Iraq. Giuliani, a Republican, delivered the sharp criticism in an interview on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” during a segment on the Brussels […]

Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam is no longer cooperating with Belgian police and wants to be extradited to France as soon as possible, his lawyer, Sven Mary, said Thursday. Investigators say they regard Abdeslam not only as a key figure in the November bombings and shootings that killed 130 people in Paris, but also as […]

All fine things must come to an end. After 11 seasons, Shemar Moore has bid farewell to his role on the CBS drama “Criminal Minds.” The actor told TV Guide he was inspired to make the move after his mother gave him a card that said, “Leap and the net will appear.” “I’ve treated my […]

One terrorist blew up himself up at an airport. His brother did the same thing at a busy subway station. And perhaps most puzzling, a man suspected of being a skilled ISIS bomb maker sacrificed his life while a fourth terrorist simply planted a bomb and left. That’s what authorities believe happened Tuesday morning when […]

China’s biggest ever foreign takeover is taking some heat in the U.S. State-owned ChemChina last month announced a $43 billion deal to buy Switzerland’s Syngenta, a giant seed and pesticide company. But the planned acquisition has set off alarm bells in the U.S., where Syngenta supplies farmers and runs research and production facilities. Sen. Chuck […]

Whether it’s blowing up a building façade in Berlin to reveal a carving of a man’s face or drilling portraits into favela walls in Rio de Janeiro, raucous street artist Alexandre Farto, who goes by the tag “Vhils,” has left an imprint on urban landscapes across the globe. Hong Kong’s tunnels and trams have been […]

The investigation into the Brussels attack has an anachronistic quality to it. Authorities must look back and piece together clues to unravel the network that helped terrorists plan an attack that killed 31 people and injured 270. But every move they make is also an effort to stop the next attack on European soil, which […]

A Chinese student may face the death penalty after pleading guilty to killing his girlfriend while they were both studying in Iowa. Shao Tong, 20, who had gone to the U.S. to study engineering, was strangled to death in Iowa in September 2014, her body stuffed in the trunk of her own car. Her boyfriend, […]