Новости за 08.02.2016

Russian doctors have informed the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) that they would be ready to protect Russian athletes from the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil during the 2016 Olympics, head of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov said Monday.

Large doses of the anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen is behind the positive swabs that have shocked the racing industry, well-placed sources say.

After a tough end to 2015, big companies are starting the new year with a tight rein on capital spending, and in some cases layoffs, seeking to cope with sluggish industrial demand and uncertainties about the American consumer.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has made an emotional plea for a group of asylum seekers to be allowed to stay in Australia as demonstrations in support of those facing deportation erupted across the country.

Daniel J. Graeber
QOM, Iran, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Iranian exports of around $50 billion worth of non-petroleum products are not enough to diversify the nation's economy, the speaker of parliament said.

Australia's women's cricket team have lost momentum in the 50-over format ahead of their New Zealand tour, skipper Meg Lanning has admitted.

Super Bowl ads have their biggest moment on Monday, following the game.

FSB says group planned "high-profile" attacks in major Russian cities.

App uses a universal metric that keeps track whether you are cycling, swimming or running

A bomber who blew a hole in the fuselage of a Daallo Airlines plane was meant to be on a Turkish Airlines flight, officials said.

While the intelligentsia complain about the decline in reading habit, hundreds of state-sponsored libraries in West Bengal have shut down.

South Korea has said it will consider allowing the U.S. to station a ballistic missile defense system on its territory after North Korea announced that it had launched a long-range rocket over the weekend. The move could transform geopolitics in the wider region, as South Korea has in the past been wary to allow the U.S. defense system out of concern that it could annoy China, Bloomberg reported.

– Fuji music maestro holds birthday party for his 3 daughters from different mothers in one day – One his daughters clocked 3 on February 3 – The birthday bash has many celebrities in attendance Fuji music maestro K1 De Ultimate known simply as K1 on Sunday, February 7, threw a lavish birthday party for […]

ATHENE (ANP) - De impasse die vorige week ontstond tussen de Griekse overheid en zijn schuldeisers resulteerde maandag in een forse daling van de toonaangevende beursindex in Athene. Vooral bankaandelen werden gedumpt, uit vrees voor verdere negatieve gevolgen van het uitblijven van een akkoord over hervormingen.

The New York City FC midfielder has praised the Arsenal star for the number of chances he creates for his team-mates, hailing his vision as unique

Over 58 000 children will starve to death in Somalia without urgent support, the United Nations warned.

In an ugly soap opera still unfolding, Suffolk University's efforts to govern itself responsibly imploded over the past couple of weeks in an acid cloud of public "he said/she said." As the Suffolk debacle deepened, the finger pointing became a matter of public record.

Margaret McKenna, a seasoned, well respected, and often opinionated higher education leader, is at the center of the maelstrom. Ms. McKenna, a civil rights lawyer, successful former long-term president of Lesley University, and foundation executive... Читать дальше...

Andrew V. Pestano
JERUSALEM, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A dramatic rescue took place in Israel where a 14-year-old boy dangled from a bridge after a truck overturned and fell on narrow supporting beams.

Communities expecting to be hit by the worst of the storm closed schools Monday and issued on-street parking bans. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which was crippled by a series of historic storms during Boston's record-breaking winter last year, was operating on a normal weekday schedule with winter routes in effect for buses.

De meest verrassende prestatie werd afgelopen weekend neergezet door FC Twente, dat aan de hand van uitblinkers Jerson Cabral en Hakim Ziyech zegevierde bij sc Heerenveen: 1-3.

A special court on Monday remanded arrested ex-MP Sameer Bhujbal nephew of NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal to judicial custody till February 22 in a money laundering case.

MADRID - Spain's Sports Council has stripped runner Marta Dominguez of her status as a Spanish athlete after the Court of Arbitration for Sport banned her for three years for blood doping and removed her 2009 world steeplechase title.

A man’s body found in Bujumbura takes to 11 the number of people killed since the weekend.