Новости за 21.01.2016

A YouTube video shows Syrian refugees celebrating their first snowy winter in Canada. Goats and Soda readers, tell us, when was your first snow — and how did you react?

Congress voted last month to alter the program allowing some people to travel to the U.S. without a visa. The changes are being implemented — but with the option for the U.S. to make exceptions.

Restaurant critic Pete Wells tries to keep the customer in mind with all of his reviews. "We show awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers," he says.

Watch the worldly, danceable band perform a new song, "The Critic," from its first album since 2008.

He's a world-class Afro-Cuban percussionist, the first call of jazz and pop stars. He's also a Santería priest. As he tells us after a traditional ceremony, the two aspects of his life are connected.

The Argentine singer makes her own music when she's not working with the band Thievery Corporation.

The American Psychological Association corrected a study that found no health problems from teen boys' pot smoking. It had contradicted other studies that found increased risk of psychotic disorders.

From grit to great teachers, brain science to science projects, get our take on what's happening in education. Insights delivered weekly.

Frankixalus jerdonii has been rediscovered in northeastern India — and scientists say it represents an entirely new genus. Strangely, the tadpoles feed on their mothers' unfertilized eggs.

In the movie "Warriors," they use their status from playing cricket to speak out against FGM. And the game's fun, too.

All across the country, people are recreating, reinterpreting, acting out history in some way. These living historians remember the past – and they don't mind repeating it.

A naval supply facility in the Horn of Africa will help sustain the fight against piracy on open waters, China says. It's believed to be the country's first military outpost.

Most Syrian refugees are children, and many have lost parents. One result is a huge demand for the few places available in orphanages that have been set up in neighboring Turkey.

Talk of peace between the parties, as Hillary Clinton described in an NPR interview, will not appeal to everyone in this year of the angry activist. But Clinton hopes to survive the primaries.

State health officials suspect California's big measles outbreak last year helped persuade parents to get their kids immunized against other illnesses, too.

The singer-songwriter who helped forge the spirit of the '60s treads towards the future, speaks about his first solo album of new music since 2002.

The astronomer whose work helped kick Pluto out of the pantheon of planets says he has good reason to believe there's an undiscovered planet bigger than Earth in the far reaches of our solar system.

Smith's NFL career began in 2003 with the New York Jets. She is now the quality control-special teams coach for the Buffalo Bills.

Widow Marina Litvinenko says, "The words my husband spoke on his deathbed, when he accused Mr. Putin of his murder, have been proved true in an English court."

Serge Brussolo's hallucinatory 1992 novel The Deep Sea Diver's Synrome follows a group of lucid dreamers whose slumbers produce a strange ectoplasm that can soothe and even heal people who see it.

Pope Francis is ditching the car he rode around in on his trip to the U.S. last fall. The modest vehicle is up for auction at the Philadelphia Auto Show Black Tie Tailgate next weekend.

North Africans are blamed for recent attacks on German women. Police are raiding their communities — including the largest one in Duesseldorf. Some longtime Moroccan residents are fighting back.

The water contamination crisis in Flint became more political Wednesday when President Obama met with Mayor Karen Weaver. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has apologized to the people of the city.

An oil and gas company has spoken publicly for the first time on a decade-long oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Damage from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 toppled a production platform off the Louisiana coast.

Fashion icon Grace Coddington is leaving her post as creative director of American Vogue. We learn more about her legacy, and what the change could mean for one of the most famous fashion magazines.