Новости за 19.02.2016

Police have questioned a Delhi-based journalist, a friend of Umar Khalid, to ascertain the whereabouts of the JNU sedition case accused.

Students from the poorest households are shouldering more of the pain from rising college costs, borrowing at far higher levels as a share of family income than ever.

When Yahoo TV visited Cesar Millan at his dog psychology center in Santa Clarita, California, he told us that the 43-acre site is “The most amazing dog park in the world.” We’d have to agree, it really is just that.

SKETCH: As talks in Brussels drag on longer than expected, the Prime Minister desperately tries to keep his hopes of a deal alive

I recently took my daughter to Blue Spring State Park in Florida. There, we had a chance encounter with a group of eight West Indian manatees. For more than an hour, we watched this group of 'sea cows' lazily swim about, slowly fall to the sandy bottom, and then return to the surface with a burst of spray as they took a breath. My daughter was especially enamored with a young calf, only two feet long, who would periodically nuzzle up to its mother and nurse. Manatees are truly unique and charismatic animals. Читать дальше...

In recent years there has been a drive to create a marriage between the world of international development (typically value driven, grassroots, non governmental, justice and equality focused) and the world of business (often seen as corporate, profit making, unjust, squeezing the ethics and the values to the minimum). Caricatures and bad history have made it an uneasy courtship. But the reality of the world, its challenges and its urgencies make it an important marriage to broker.

In 2012... Читать дальше...

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Perhaps proving Egypt is “ruled by lunatics,” as the child’s defense lawyer put it, a four-year-old boy has been sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts of murder for crimes allegedly committed when he was just two years old.

Pakistan marines had captured two Indian fishing boats and 12 fishermen on January 7.

The government in Warsaw has spent its less than four months in power on a collision course with adversaries in the European Union, the nation's banks and even credit rating agencies. As it tries to remold Poland's relationship with the world, it's also setting out to rewrite the history of its fight with communism.

Read this before you plunk down your contribution.

Read this before you plunk down your contribution.

COMANCHE, Texas - A prison bus carrying more than two dozen inmates has collided with a pickup truck in Texas, killing the truck's driver and injuring most of the inmates.

An exciting new offering from LEGO marks a step toward inclusivity for different kinds of families. 

Dear Citizens of Facebook:

Facebook is much more than Mark Zuckerberg's server farms and his army of coders. Facebook is the most effective means today for people to communicate with each other and to form networks for collaboration beyond national borders. Facebook is an unprecedented international network of people who could make a tremendous contribution to solving the challenges of our age, if permitted. The time has come for us to declare our independence from the empire that controls us. Читать дальше...

SALT LAKE CITY - An Oregon food distribution company has halted shipments of canned green beans after a Utah woman said she found a snake head in a can.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Oregon food distribution company has halted shipments of canned green beans after a Utah woman said she found a snake head in a can. Walker said she was taking beans out of a slow cooker when she spotted something odd, KSL-TV in Salt Lake City reports (http://bit.ly/213ei4Q ). Western Family chief financial officer Pete Craven said the company takes reports of foreign matter in cans seriously and is researching what happened. Sharon McFadden, Western Family vice president of quality control... Читать дальше...

‘The license permits us to engage approved airlines to determine their actual fleet requirements,’ Boeing said in a statement

My trip to Cuba was a fascinating and memorable way to kick off 2016. And sharing it with you (and reading so many insightful comments) has been a joy. I hope you enjoyed traveling with me during the last 30 or so posts. If you missed any posts along the way, you can find them you can find them all at ricksteves.com/blog.

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My trip to Cuba was a fascinating and memorable way to kick off 2016. And sharing it with you (and reading so many insightful comments) has been a joy. I hope you enjoyed traveling with me during the last 30 or so posts. If you missed any posts along the way, you can find them you can find them all at ricksteves.com/blog.

To put the many questions to rest: While I enjoyed the experience and highly recommend travel there, I have no plans to lead tours, write a guidebook, or film a TV show on the island. Читать дальше...

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While navigating an extensive beer and wine list can be a breeze, the ins and outs of sake still remain a mystery. To help you get savvy, DuJour sat down with three sake sommeliers—Cherry Izakaya’s Chris Johnson, Tocqueville’s Roger Dagorn (a.k.a. the “sake samurai”) and The House of Gekkeikan’s Vice President and National Sales Manager Yoshi Yumoto. Below, discover why rice wine is more akin to beer than vino, the best way to pair it with food and more. As Dagorn says... Читать дальше...

A Columbian businessman, who is visiting South Africa, has been diagnosed with the Zika virus, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.

Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall played an important role for the team on their way to a Super Bowl 50 title and he did it with a pair of screws in his right foot. Marshall had the screws surgically inserted last year after injuring his foot late in the 2014 season, but never missed any time in…