Новости за 14.09.2016

Typhoon Meranti aimed for China’s mainland after pounding Taiwan, making landfall near Xiamen in Fujian Province, according to CNN meteorologists. The powerful storm slammed southern Taiwan early Thursday local time, bringing winds of up to 230 mph (370 kilometers per hour) — faster than a Formula One race car — at one point and torrential […]

How do you like them Apples? Even though many hardcore tech fans were unimpressed with Apple’s iPhone 7 reveal last week, investors and consumers are both extremely iXcited. Apple stock surged more than 4% Wednesday afternoon while the broader market was mostly flat. Apple’s stock is now up nearly 10% so far this week — […]

Soon, headscarf-wearing Muslim women may find an emoji to represent them — thanks to a 15-year-old Saudi girl. “The fact that there wasn’t an emoji to represent me and the millions of other hijabi women across the world was baffling to me,” the teen, Rayouf Alhumedhi, told CNN. So, Rayouf, who lives in Berlin, proposed […]

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday he was prepared to lift sanctions on Myanmar after the country’s Democratic transformation and re-entry into the United States’ good graces. He made the announcement after meeting with Myanmar de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the Oval Office, a symbolic image of his moves toward repairing broken US […]

Hillary Clinton will look to highlight her foreign policy credentials next week by meeting with foreign leaders during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to an aide. The former secretary of state, who has taken three days off the campaign trail to recover from pneumonia, will meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah […]

Dogs and baseball are two of the greatest things in the world, and the Chicago White Sox combined them both to record-breaking effect. Lots of baseball teams host “Bark in the Park” nights, where fans can bring their favorite dog friends to the stadium for a night (or day) of inter-species sports fun. The White […]

While a super typhoon was wreaking havoc in East Asia, a little tropical storm named Julia formed in Florida on Tuesday night. Yes, “in” Florida. As in, it formed over land — a very rare occurrence, meteorologically speaking. The center of the storm was over the city of Jacksonville when it was given tropical storm […]

Donald Trump is leading his rivals in Nevada, a state where Hillary Clinton was leading the pack in July, in a four-way Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. The Republican presidential nominee has 44% support of voters while his Democratic rival is at 42%, within the poll’s margin of sampling error. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson stands […]

On the very first episode of the MTV reality series “Teen Mom,” back in 2009, the cameras were rolling as Catelynn, one of the girls on the show, talked to her doctor about birth control. She made the decision to get a Mirena intrauterine device, known as an IUD; it’s more than 99% effective in […]

I started working to help refugees in 1975 after watching TV images of Vietnamese refugees hanging from the landing skids of helicopters that took off from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. As an American, I was acutely aware these refugees were fleeing an abusive conflict in which my country was heavily engaged. […]

Donald Trump has opened up a five-point lead over Hillary Clinton in Ohio, according to a new Bloomberg poll released Wednesday. In a four-way race with third party candidates, the survey found Trump topping Clinton, 44%-39%, among the state’s likely voters. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein picked up the […]

Off the coast of Georgia lies a quiet island, accessible only by boat and home to about 50 year-round residents — all descendants of slaves. Sapelo Island is a tangle of marsh and farmland, and its residents are known as Saltwater Geechees. This remote culture has survived years of displacement and migration from their island. […]

A little boy and a little girl who grew up together in a Chinese orphanage shared a tear-jerking reunion an ocean away from where their friendship began. Four-year-old Hannah was adopted from China by the Sykes family in North Texas. As the Sykes’ were going over Hannah’s adoption materials, they noticed, in nearly every picture, […]

Two-time NBA MVP Steph Curry said he backs Hillary Clinton for president and that he’ll “most likely” stand for the national anthem during the NBA season, though he supports Colin Kaepernick’s ongoing protest. The basketball star traveled into political territory during a question-and-answer session Tuesday night at TechCrunch in San Francisco, according to the Mercury […]

The U.K. phone hacking scandal is back in the spotlight. Two former executives of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire have been found guilty of misleading British lawmakers when giving evidence about phone hacking at the now defunct News of the World tabloid. In a rare but largely symbolic move, former News of the World editor Colin […]

Wearing a comically puffy blue dress, twisted pigtails, a big red schnozz and a mischievous grin bracketed with crimson greasepaint, Blondi the Clown bounds into the room clanging pots and pans, a monsoon of nervous energy in the guise of a little girl. She greets the audience with a piercing, helium-voiced “Hello,” getting up close […]

Now it’s official: Monsanto is going to be swallowed up by a rival in the biggest takeover announced so far this year. To clinch a deal, Germany’s Bayer pumped even more money into its bid for the U.S. seed giant, valuing it at $66 billion, including debt. It’s the third time Bayer has cranked up […]

A man in Arizona plowed his vehicle into three Phoenix police officers.

The author of a new report that alleges Donald Trump’s businesses overseas have conflicts with America’s interests said Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee “makes money by aiding the people whose interests don’t coincide with America’s.” “The interests of these businesses, the interests of these politicians, often go directly against the interests of American national […]

The European Union is facing “an existential crisis” as it confronts the twin challenges of rising nationalism and Islamist terrorism, the head of the European Commission warned Wednesday. Delivering his annual State of the Union address before Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that the bloc faced a […]

It might be possible in the future to make babies without female eggs, new research claims. Scientists at Bath University in the United Kingdom say they have successfully used sperm to create healthy baby mice by injecting the sperm cells directly into embryos. “This is the first time that full term development has been achieved […]

A ceasefire between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents appeared to be holding as the focus turned to delivering aid to besieged areas. Aid convoys moved into the Turkish border town of Cilvegozu, waiting authorization from the Syrian government to enter the country and deliver supplies to eastern Aleppo. The Syrian Foreign Ministry denied […]

Hundreds of people have been evacuated in southern Taiwan and China has issued a red alert as the region braces for the impact of the strongest storm of the year. Super Typhoon Meranti is barreling down on Taiwan, bringing wind speeds of up to 230 miles per hour (370 kph), faster than a Formula One […]

As it races to replace millions of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones around the world, Samsung has come up with a way to stop the devices from catching fire: update the software. Samsung said it’s planning to roll out a fix next week for Note 7 phones in its home market of South Korea that […]

A 14-year-old freshman intended to shoot her stepbrother and herself when she brought a handgun to a Texas high school last week, police say. The September 8 incident resulted in the death of the teenager and left another student injured at Alpine High School in west Texas. The unidentified teenager had not been bullied, and […]