Новости за 25.01.2016

The Lakers lost all three of their contests through Week 13, and six in a row dating back to Jan. 14.

"Harry Potter" meets "Gossip Girl" in "The Magicians," Syfy's new adaptation of a Lev Grossman trilogy, and it's a good match. Following a New York college senior transported to a grad school for magic, "The Magicians" doesn't just tell another story of a fantastic dimension existing outside the...

In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the permafrost below thaws and the Ninglick River chips away at the community. Soon even the boards...

In her first days on the job, L.A. Unified's new superintendent, Michelle King, suggested that single-sex education might attract more families to the district and improve student achievement. She wouldn't be the first district leader to vest hope — not to mention public funds — in all-boys and...

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

When household budgets are tight, people tend to put off expensive maintenance projects. So a leaky roof gets patched instead of replaced, or paint is left to peel for a season or two or three longer than a homeowner (not to mention the neighbors) would like.

Halliburton, the world's No.2 oilfield services provider, reported a better-than-expected quarterly adjusted profit as deep cost cuts helped offset the impact of a drop in drilling activity.

"The Road to Character" by David Brooks, Random House, 270 pages

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AOL is continuing its drive to simplify its business. The company's CMO recently announced that she is considering ditching the "AOL" brand name and it just joined forces with Taboola to take on Facebook's walled garden.

Now the tech giant is merging its "billion dollars" worth of publishing products into one platform, it announced on Monday at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s annual leadership summit.

This is important because it offers an alternative to the walled garden approach of Google and Facebook. Читать дальше...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Andy Murray of Britain hits a backhand en route to a straight-sets win over Bernard Tomic of Austral...

The aim of the move is to "encourage their integration" into society in the Spanish capital.

The third edition of the Chennai International Short Film Festival will be held at the Russian Centre for Science and Culture from February 15 to 21.

Kimberly-Clark Corp. shares were down 4% in premarket trading after the company missed on fourth-quarter earnings. The consumer goods company said it had net income of $344 million, or 91 cents per share, for the quarter, after a loss of $63 million, or 22 cents, in 2014. Adjusted earnings per share were $1.42 for the quarter versus the FactSet consensus of $1.43. Sales totaled $4.5 billion for the quarter, down 6% from $4.8 billion the year before. The FactSet consensus was $4.6 billion. The... Читать дальше...

Kimberly-Clark Corp. shares were down 4% in premarket trading after the company missed on fourth-quarter earnings.

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LYNCHBURG, Virginia - A Virginia couple refused to allow the recent snowstorm to ruin their plans to get married.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia couple refused to allow the recent snowstorm to ruin their plans to get married.

Het lijkt maandag eerder lente dan winter. Met een zuidelijke wind en volop zon werd aan het begin van de middag het warmterecord van De Bilt verbroken. Daardoor mogen we spreken van de landelijk warmste 25 januari sinds 1901, aldus Weerplaza.nl.

St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright refuses to field questions on the possible transfer of Michael O'Halloran to Rangers.

The energy export-reliant Russian economy has been hit hard by the global slump in oil prices, official data released Monday showed. Russia’s economy contracted by 3.7 percent in 2015, after expanding 0.6 percent in 2014, according to preliminary figures published by the country’s official statistics service Rosstat.

TOKYO - Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari leaves a room after a press conference in T...

Shares in Hong Kong-listed state-owned enterprises are cheap for a reason

Professor Warwick McKibbin has had an impact on the lives of ordinary Australians.

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BISMARCK, N.D., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in North Dakota is down roughly 20 percent from the start of the year, state data show.