Новости за 26.12.2016

Liverpool footballer Roberto Firmino has been charged with drink-driving after being arrested on Christmas Eve, police say.

John Hunter Nemechek scored two wins in his first full Camping World Truck Series season.

SHIRAZ, Iran - A tourist poses for a photo in front of a stone pillar at Persepolis in Iran, a World Heritage site,...

A strengthening dollar is re-emerging as a threat to U.S. manufacturers, endangering the profits of some companies and complicating Donald Trump’s drive to boost factory employment.

The past 12 months have certainly been an interesting time for professional wrestling, especially in WWE. It seemed like there were more matches than ever because of the brand split, leaving several “match of the year” candidates for 2016.

To understand this year’s Top 40, you need to understand ambiguous key centers.

RNC communications are a bit of a mess right now, what with Jason Miller's rapid departure and AJ Delgado's Twitter going dark, so apparently Reince Preibus was around to pick up the slack.

Most of Fields' songs have been about love won, fought over and lost; it's a testament to his talent that each new one can feel like he's singing his heart out for the first time.

Since our Smart Shopping Team began hunting for great deals earlier this year, they've hit on quite a few that readers have loved. To give the team a break today, we're sharing their most popular bargains, deals, and can't-miss items of 2016 that you can grab great Black Friday week deals on.

The Ockel Sirius B Windows 10 pocket PC is small in size but big on power.

It takes at least 11 hours of flying for an American tourist to reach the National Park of American Samoa, which is enough to scare away most travelers.

In this 'weird, lost corner of America,' the beach of your dreams awaits in the remotest national park By Christopher Reynolds Dec. 26, 2016 Reporting from National Park of American Samoa Ofu Lagoon, on Ofu Island, is perhaps the most scenic spot in the National Park of American Samoa. (Christopher...

“Law at Little Big Horn: Due Process Denied” by Charles E. Wright, Texas Tech University Press, 315 pages, $33.86

We know it's the thought that counts at Christmas. But the lines forming today at customer service counters tell us that sometimes the gift is a dud.

Many county snowmobile trails opened several weeks ago after two rounds of heavy snow blanketed the area, but warmer temperatures on Christmas Eve and rain on Christmas day impacted the conditions of the trails making it imperative for riders to…

Some people love warm weather getaways, but outdoor enthusiasts know the best winter vacations embrace the snow. If you’re looking for scenic runs, family-friendly slopes, and cozy lodges, these five ski lodge vacations are for you.

Many county snowmobile trails opened several weeks ago after two rounds of heavy snow blanketed the area, but warmer temperatures on Christmas Eve and rain on Christmas day impacted the conditions of the trails making it imperative for riders to…

Dec. 27 1904 -- Korea's royal court under the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) appoints U.S. diplomat D.W. Stevens as its foreign affairs adviser. 1945 -- Top diplomats from the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union hold a meeting in Mosc

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Apple, unlike any other company in the world, is directly tied to one individual: Steve Jobs.

Without question, Jobs was the driving force that turned Apple into the world's most valuable tech company.

But Jobs didn't do it alone.

He always had a team of talented people helping him build Apple. Sadly, many of them have been forgotten — which is why we've gathered information on the first 10 employees at the company.

Apple's first CEO, Michael Scott, gave us a bunch of color on the early days... Читать дальше...

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Just before Thanksgiving this year, a coalition of meteorologists, climatologists, biologists, ecologists, and other researchers took up a new ritual of thankfulness: tweeting the small and large ways NASA data has helped them understand planet Earth, and attaching the hashtag #ThanksNASA.

For the most part, the scientists avoided mentioning politics or political figures. But context is everything. Bob Walker, a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, had just told The... Читать дальше...

SHIRAZ, Iran - Photo taken in November 2016 shows cracked ground about 500 meters in length in front of Persepolis ...

An Ohio man is becoming a social media hero – for doing what many people would say is a CRUEL thing to do. You see Troy Brown saw a stranded motorist stuck in snow – and he refused to help a stuck driver due to a sticker on her car. Troy took to Facebook and […]

The actress Marlene Dietrich spent the last ten years of her life bedridden, in her apartment on Avenue Montaigne, in Paris, refusing to see old acquaintances and avoiding photographers. In her biography of Dietrich, her only daughter, Maria Riva, wrote that her mother’s legs “withered. Her hair, chopped short haphazardly in drunken frenzies with cuticle scissors, was painted with dyes.” She surrounded herself with a hot plate, telephone, scotch—and books.

ALTOMUENSTER, Germany — It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German monastery’s nuns for more than five centuries, she immediately knew she was looking at a major treasure.

Odisha Congress vice-president Pradeep Majhi and other party leaders today ended their six-day hunger strike after submitting a memorandum to Governor S C Jamir and announced to intensify its stir against the government's "anti-tribal" atittude.