Новости за 22.03.2018

An old wooden fishing boat displayed in an odd-looking building at Tokyo’s Yumenoshima Park survived a nuclear explosion and helped inspire the Godzilla film series.

Outside the rear gate of the Grafenwoehr army post is what appears to be a Korean hole-in-the-wall eatery tucked between several dive bars. But like the Mines of Moria, this hole is full of treasure.

Marine Private First Class Raymond W. Begay appeared before a preliminary hearing officer Thursday, March 22, who will recommend the level of court martial he may face in the stabbing death of Pfc. Ethan Andrew Barclay-Weberpal at the base’s School of Infantry.

In June 2012, 10 train cars brought out 1,000 tons of coal from the last active mine in Saarland. It was not only the mine’s last run, but also the end of a 250-year tradition of coal mining in the western German state.

The winners of an online contest to name three of Russia's recently announced advanced weapons honor a renowned medieval warrior, a seabird and the mythical Greek god of the sea.

Officials say a tugboat and barge hit a smaller vessel on the Columbia River, tossing the smaller boat's occupants into the water.

Everything in the still-in-early-access “Amid Evil” heralds its creators’ love for the early-’90s FPS. The low-poly graphics, the visual aesthetic ripped from a death metal cover, the sound design that includes bloodcurdling screams and maniacal laughter. Every aspect of “Amid Evil” is a love letter to a bygone era — an homage to a more uncivilized time, if you will.

The omnibus spending bill pending approval in Congress includes language that would explicitly ban U.S. troops and civilians working for the Defense Department from using government funding on expenses incurred in casinos or strip clubs.

The military portion of the spending bill includes a significant hike in the Pentagon budget that would include a 2.4 percent pay raise for servicemembers, fund new ships and aircrafts and direct new spending on missile defense.

The complex investigation that led to Walter Leroy Moody Jr.'s prosecution is a reflection of how difficult it can be to get to the bottom of sporadic bombings like the ones in Texas. And it is also a testament to the lingering effects that such a crime can have.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s office identified on Wednesday the 21-year-old Kaneohe man who died after crashing his motorcycle on the H-3 Freeway over the weekend as Lance Cpl. Austin Cahill.

A list of U.S. Army specialists who have been selected for promotion to the rank of sergeant on April 1, 2018, as announced on March 22, 2018.

Congress for the first time in years is poised to vote on gun legislation that represents incremental but symbolically significant steps on an issue that long has divided the nation.

About one in 10 Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan are foreign fighters, the top U.S. general in the country said Thursday, in a statement touting recent U.S. and Afghan operations targeting the group.

The last thing Jim Cundari had on his mind while fighting Japanese in the Philippine mountains during World War II was gathering a few battlefield souvenirs.

Duke and Syracuse will match up for the second time this season in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Friday in Omaha, Neb. Only this time, the game will mean much more.

Federal prosecutors say a husband and wife have been indicted on charges that they did business with a Syrian company that developed bombs used against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prosecutors say the couple has fled the country.

As Rev. Martin Luther King pointed out four years after Loyola's black squad beat Mississippi State's all-white team 61-51, nothing changed on the civil rights front in Mississippi, or elsewhere, in the immediate wake of the game.

A measure to increase mental and behavioral health care for veterans with other-than-honorable discharges – services now denied to many of them through the Department of Veterans Affairs – is included in a massive spending bill that Congress unveiled Wednesday night.

T.J. Oshie left the University of North Dakota after three years to pursue his professional hockey career, so he once tried to take an online class and inch closer toward finishing his degree. He was promptly booted from the course because of his checkered past on campus.

His faith has served Billy Kennedy well when it comes to his illness, and it also helped him keep things steady during what only can be described as a tumultuous season in College Station.

South Korean ex-President Lee Myung-bak was arrested and jailed early Friday over a range of corruption allegations, becoming the latest in a series of disgraced leaders embroiled in scandals and other problems after leaving office.

A buzzer-beater is a marriage of mechanics and mind-set, both of which can be taught, and even imported by us commoners. Young ballplayers seem to be realizing this, and increasingly practicing their minds as much as their bodies.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday said Saudi Arabia was "part of the solution" in Yemen, where the Saudis are leading a U.S.-supported military campaign against Houthi rebels that is heavily criticized for inflicting civilian casualties.

The final edition of the Morning Calm, the last surviving Army newspaper in South Korea, ran off the press Wednesday evening.