Новости за 08.08.2016

A father’s heart races for his daughter, especially on her wedding day. But Michael Stepien didn’t live to see his daughter get married. The father, and organ donor, was murdered 10 years ago. But his heart was there. It was beating in the chest of Arthur Thomas as he walked the bride, Jeni Stepien, down […]

Hulu is moving to a subscription-only model. The streaming service, which launched in 2007 with ad-supported content, will be transitioning to having all users pay to play, it announced Monday. It’s a move that’s not entirely shocking given the company’s recent investments in original content and in expanding its film and TV library. “For the […]

The week got off to a nightmarish start for Delta and its passengers. Delta Air Lines flights were grounded for at least six hours early Monday by a global computer system outage, causing large-scale cancellations and stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. At 8:40 a.m. ET, Delta said the ground stop had been lifted but […]

Gymnast Aly Raisman was a picture of composure during Team USA’s qualifying round in Rio de Janeiro. Her parents on the other hand … Lynn and Rick Raisman looked like they were on an invisible roller coaster as they leaned, cowered, and squirmed in their seats during their 22-year-old daughter’s routine on the uneven bars […]

A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teen who was detained and hauled off in handcuffs last year because authorities thought a handmade clock he brought to his Texas high school to show his teachers was a bomb. The lawsuit, filed Monday by Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassen Mohamed, maintains […]

While the world’s brightest and strongest toil away in Rio, you’re probably toiling away under the fluorescent lights of your office. There’s no shame in that. Just because you don’t have lats of steel or half a mine’s worth of precious metal around your neck doesn’t mean you aren’t an athlete in your own right. […]

Sports photographer Al Bello has shot 11 Olympics Games, but this summer is his first capturing live-action pictures with the help of underwater robots. The 23-year Getty Images veteran is using underwater robotic cameras at the Rio Olympic Games during a series of aquatic events, including swimming, diving and synchronized diving. The robots help Bello […]

A young Google account manager was killed on Sunday. Vanessa Marcotte, 27, was found dead near her mother’s home in Princeton, Massachusetts, a small town of fewer than 3,500 people. Marcotte, who lives in New York City, was visiting her mother for the weekend. She’d gone out for a walk or a run in the […]

A young Google account executive was killed on Sunday. Vanessa Marcotte, 27, was found dead near her mother’s home in Princeton, Massachusetts, a small town of fewer than 3,500 people. Marcotte, who lives in New York City, was visiting her mother for the weekend. She’d gone out for a walk or a run in the […]

PENNSYLVANIA – Average retail gasoline prices in Pennsylvania have fallen 2.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.20 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 5,269 gas outlets in Pennsylvania. This compares with the national average that has fallen 0.5 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.12 per gallon, […]

State lawmaker’s son killed in Kansas while riding world’s tallest water slide.

Thousands of bees swarm an area Walmart, three recover in hospital.

Ever wrote a letter to the editor? (Yes, people still do that.) Well, if you haven’t, you shouldn’t even start, because there’s a guy down in Florida who writes letters that will blow your little literary contributions out of the water. Don’t believe it? Check out the beginning of this letter, published Sunday in the […]

At least 70 people — many of them believed to be lawyers and journalists — were killed in a blast at a hospital in northwestern Pakistan, a regional official said. The explosion also injured at least 112 others, said Rehmat Baloch, the health minister of Balochistan province. The blast took place at 9:30 a.m. local […]

Wake up and smell the money! Steinhoff International is buying Mattress Firm for $2.4 billion in the biggest ever African buyout of an American company. The cash offer will see investors double their money overnight. South Africa-based Steinhoff is paying $64 per share for Mattress Firm. Stock in the big-box retailer, which owns Sleepy’s and […]

Only a trickle of relief has reached opposition-held eastern neighborhoods of the Syrian city of Aleppo, after a major rebel offensive broke a suffocating government siege of the city, sources say. While Syrian Civil Defense volunteers and a freelance journalist on the ground, Karam al Masri, say that a small number of trucks carrying relief […]

Investigators in Afghanistan are searching for an American and an Australian who were kidnapped in western Kabul, the city’s police chief told CNN. The two men, lecturers at the American University of Afghanistan, were kidnapped Sunday evening when two gunmen stopped the car they were riding in, an Afghan security official told CNN. One assailant […]

It’s an abandoned eyesore that cuts through the heart of Seoul. But under the guidance of Dutch architect Winy Maas, an aging 1970s bypass is set to become a stunning urban garden. Touted to rival New York’s hugely popular High Line park, the Seoul Skygarden will stretch for nearly a kilometer and feature 254 types […]

It was a tale of contrasting fortunes for two Dutch cyclists. While Anna van der Breggen celebrated clinching gold in the women’s road race, the mood at the finish line was subdued after Annemiek van Vleuten crashed while leading the race with just 11 kilometers to go. On the same descent that left Italy’s Vincenzo […]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are laying out their proposals for the economy this week — and wasting no time exchanging fire over whose plan is best for America. In Detroit on Monday, Trump is set to outline an economic plan that calls for a ban on new financial regulations, a repeal of the estate […]

Almost 50 Filipino officials, including mayors and police officers, have surrendered in response to being called out by the country’s president as being connected to illegal drug trade Sunday. Following the name-and-shame speech by President Rodrigo Duterte, in which over 150 officials were called out by name for alleged links, 18 mayors and 31 police […]

Those dark red, spots dotting Olympians’ shoulders and backs are not cigar burns. They’re not perfectly circular hickeys either. Viewers watching the Olympics this weekend may have spotted the pepperoni-like bruises on athletes and wondered: What is that? Olympians at Rio have taken to cupping — an ancient therapy that have mostly been used in […]

In a rare televised speech, Japan’s Emperor Akihito has addressed his people directly about his declining health. “I am already 80 years old, and fortunately I am now in good health,” said the monarch, who turns 83 in December. “However, when I consider that my fitness level is gradually declining, I am worried that it […]

Two foreigners were abducted in the western part of Kabul on Sunday evening local time, the city’s police chief told CNN. The Australian Foreign Affairs and Trade Department confirmed in an email to CNN that one of those taken was Australian. The US State Department said it’s aware of reports that an American citizen was […]

European plane maker Airbus is under criminal investigation in Britain over allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption. The manufacturer of the A320 and A380 said the probe by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office is connected to the use of third-party consultants by its passenger aircraft business. Airbus said it discovered “misstatements and omissions” in information […]