Новости за 18.04.2018

“I Feel Pretty” makes a lot of sense on paper. After becoming America’s foremost chronicler of female self-esteem issues through her Emmy- and Peabody-winning Comedy Central sketch series, Amy Schumer finally has the chance to give her tortured public persona a happy ending. An average-looking woman (by Hollywood standards) consumed by the desire to be “undeniably pretty” bonks her head, wakes up believing she’s beautiful and learns that her anxieties about her looks kept her from fully embracing life. Читать дальше...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines may lodge a protest with China against the reported presence of two military aircraft on a Chinese-built island in the South China Sea, the top Philippine diplomat said, amid concern that China is militarising the waterway. The Philippine Daily Inquirer published pictures on Wednesday that it said showed two military transport aircraft on the tarmac of Mischief Reef, which the Philippines claims.

Four video assistant referees will be present at every game at the World Cup in Russia with replays to be shown on giant screens inside the stadiums, FIFA said on Wednesday.

A go-nowhere amnesia plot obscures a good message about self-acceptance and a hilarious supporting cast.

The Toledo Opera Association announced the lineup for its 60th anniversary season in 2018-19. On the schedule are three powerhouse operas and perennial crowd-pleasing favorites with love as the theme.

The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife reportedly suspended Professor Richard Akindele indefinitely for allegedly demanding for sex from a student. his decision was taken by the committee set up by the institution.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A national company says drivers can fill up their tank and help local schools in the process. Several Circle K convenience stores will be participating in the ‘Fuel Up Night’ on Thursday, April 19 to kick off the company’s annual ‘Fueling Our Schools’ fundraising campaign. The campaign invites customers to purchase fuel at a specially marked fuel pump, and Circle K will donate one cent of every gallon purchased to a local school. However, customers can make […]

The tollway will be reduced to a single westbound lane by midnight Friday on Interstate 90 between Lee Street and Interstate 294.

Darieth Chisolm was the keynote speaker at the 11th annual WILD Conference. She's an Emmy Award-winning television personality, and a victim of cyber harassment.

SportsPulse: The Vegas Golden Knights are rewriting the history books on what it means to be an expansion team and in the process captivating a city. Our NHL insider Kevin Allen believes their magical run could end with a Stanley Cup.

Academy award winning actor Robert De Niro join the Today Show with Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal, and discussed his “Saturday Night Live” cameo from over the weekend where he portrayed Robert Mueller giving a lie detector test to Michael Cohen.

Ambassador Nikolay Rishatovich Kudashev recently visited Himachal Pradesh where the legendary Russian painter Nicholas Roerich had settled down in 1927. Speaking to Sputnik, the ambassador shared his views on further promoting the India-Russia relationship through cultural and artistic exchanges.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new report says Mississippi's state-funded preschool program, though small, continues to score well on quality measures. The report, released Wednesday by the National Institute for Early Education Research, says Mississippi's program meets nine of 10 standards set by the institute. Mississippi is spending $4 million this year to finance groups of public and private agencies in 14 communities that provide preschool classes to 4-year-old children. That will increase by $2.5 million in the budget year beginning July 1. Читать дальше...

GRIFFIN, Ga. — A Georgia boy who was 15 when he walked out of his high school and disappeared two years ago has been found, and a sheriff says “all indications” are that he’s been “happy and thriving.” The sheriff says Aubrey Jayce Carroll, now 17, has been living under an alias as a barterer,...

Josh Brolin plays two iconic characters — Thanos and Cable — in two separate superhero films this summer, but which one does he prefer to play? “Look, I really like doing Cable, and it’s practical,” Brolin told Total Film. “But I think if I was to have a preference, it’d be Thanos, just because my expectation was pretty low, given that I just thought I was a prop. And it was quite the opposite, having seen enough of the movie and realized how cutting edge this technical process is, y’know? I was watching me. Читать дальше...

The next great peripherals war is being waged over your ears. After every company on the planet put out a gaming mouse and then a mechanical keyboard, they turned their attention to headsets. So many headsets.

• A woman working as a lawyer in Chicago tells us what she spends in a week. 
• This week, while keeping track of her spending for Money Diaries, her boyfriend of three years dumped her.

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennials how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we're tracking every last dollar.

• A woman working as a lawyer in Chicago tells us what she spends in a week. 
• This week, while keeping track of her spending for Money Diaries, her boyfriend of 3 years dumped her.

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennials how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we're tracking every last dollar.

Authorities in San Francisco are searching for a man who killed a puppy on Saturday in a violent attack that was captured on surveillance camera. The San Francisco Police Department said in a news release the incident happened around 11:42 a.m., and started as an argument between a couple inside a convenience store in the...

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• Many people love horror films, despite the fact that they bring our heart rates up and even make us scream.
• Part of the reason people like being scared by movies is because our brains know we're safe.
• The body also releases dopamine when we're scared, creating a state of arousal similar to when we're excited.
• People who enjoy challenges and thrills are more likely to enjoy getting scared.

People love going to the movies to be scared. Читать дальше...

Fox News employees are divided over the news that Sean Hannity had been named as a client of Donald Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen even as the primetime star downplayed the nature of their professional connection — with one staffer calling the story “a nothing burger” and another suggesting the host may have violated company guidelines. “I’m f—ing livid,” one senior channel staffer told TheWrap Wednesday over Hannity’s failure to disclose the relationship in his on-air discussions about Cohen... Читать дальше...

Gennady Golovkin will be fighting on May 5th, but it won’t be in Las Vegas and it won’t be against an actual middleweight.