Новости за 05.02.2018

ESPN FC's Craig Burley breaks down this week's player power rankings, as four players across Europe recorded hat tricks in standout performances for their clubs. Domestic TV rights for Serie A have been awarded to Spanish intermediary Mediapro for €1.05 billion per season. Mediapro will likely sell the rights for the 2019-21 seasons to Sky Italia and Mediaset, and could also provide the league with its own TV channel. However, Sky urged the league to declare Mediapro's offer "inadmissible"... Читать дальше...

Amid speculation Antonio Conte could return to Italy, former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley questions whether he will survive the season at Chelsea. Ahead of Chelsea's clash with Watford, Stewart Robson and Alison Bender discuss the future of under fire boss Antonio Conte. Chelsea manager Antonio Conte dispels rumours about his future at the club following his side's recent defeat to Bournemouth. After Chelsea's 3-0 defeat at home against Bournemouth, the ESPN FC panel... Читать дальше...

Super Bowl LII may not have broken any viewership records, but Animal Planet’s cuddly counter-programming “Puppy Bowl XIV” sure did. With a 1.46 rating among adults 25-54, Sunday’s 3-5 p.m. ET premiere telecast marked the highest-rated “Puppy Bowl” ever, TheWrap has learned. That Nielsen number is a massive (err, a Great Dane-sized?) 32 percent better than last year’s version. “XIV” rolled over the Discovery cable channel’s previous franchise record-holder, “Puppy Bowl X,” by 17 percent. We’ll save you the finger-counting ... Читать дальше...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average wiped out all of its year-to-date gains for 2018 as the stock market unraveled on fears of rising bond yields. The Dow shed 1,500 points at its low and was recently off 1,055 points, or more than 4%. That intraday move erased all of its gains, pushing it negative, down 1% for 2018 after boasting a return of nearly 6% at the end of January.

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About 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, four, tiny spider-like creatures became trapped in amber. Today, scientists announced they belong to an entirely new species. But experts disagree about how these fossils relate to modern-day spiders, because there’s something strange about their crumpled corpses: all four of them have tails.

Wall Street losses continued to pile up on Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average cratering more than 1,100 points — a 4.5 percent drop — as markets closed.

Tuesday is the day when the whimsy of Elon Musk finally takes off. 

The billionaire's SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida and within the powerful rocket is a cherry red Tesla Roadster that will, if the launch is successful, head straight toward Mars. Not a miniature model of the battery-powered vehicle, but a full-size sports car. For real.

SEE ALSO: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch will make you excited about spaceflight again

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Tuesday is the day when the whimsy of Elon Musk finally takes off. 

The billionaire's SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida and within the powerful rocket is a cherry red Tesla Roadster that will, if the launch is successful, head straight toward Mars. Not a miniature model of the battery-powered vehicle, but a full-size sports car. For real.

SEE ALSO: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch will make you excited about spaceflight again

Musk posted an animated... Читать дальше...

The Liverpool forward is now the top-scoring Egyptian in English top-flight history, and the man he has passed to reach the top is expecting many more

Of all the things Super Mario Odyssey will be remembered for, its most outlandish legacy is undoubtedly the debut of Mario’s nipples. After the initial screenshots of the bare-chested, mustachioed hero sparked a meme frenzy and a speed-running competition, more questions soon emerged: why does Mario have nipples, but no belly button?

Delta Air Lines is growing again in Cincinnati, announcing new routes and an overall increase in capacity at its one-time hub.

Chloe Grace Moretz celebrated her 21st birthday with cake, selfies and famous friends — including her boyfriend, Brooklyn Beckham.

U.S. stocks plunged in highly volatile trading on Monday, with both the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials indices slumping more than 4.0 percent, as the Dow notched its biggest intraday decline in history with a nearly 1,600-point drop and Wall Street erased its gains for the year. The declines for the benchmark S&P500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were the biggest single-day percentage drops since August 2011, a period of stock-market volatility marked by the downgrade of the United... Читать дальше...

Anthony Joshua will return to Showtime on March 31.

Showtime Sports has officially announced that they’ve acquired the U.S. rights to the March 31 heavyweight unification bout between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker, meaning the network once again has one of the sport’s top and still rising stars on its airwaves.

Joshua (20-0, 20 KO) will defend his WBA and IBF belts against the WBO title held by Parker (24-0, 18 KO), in a highly-anticipated fight in front of what will be a massive crowd at Principality Stadium in Cardiff... Читать дальше...

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• Treasurys are surging as stocks come under pressure.
• Yields in the belly of the curve are down about 10 basis points.
• Treasury yields were recently rising amid Fed concerns of a pickup in inflation and the jobs report showing wages were rising faster than expected. 

US Treasurys are surging as heavy selling briefly pushed the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 1,500 points. Traders are rushing into the safety of bonds amid the selling... Читать дальше...

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2018-02-24

On Saturday, February 24, at 2:00 p.m., the Baseball Reliquary will turn its gaze to the Negro Leagues with a program entitled “From Monarchs to Barons: The Legacy of the Negro Leagues” at the La Pintoresca Branch Library, 1355 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Once again, we turn to author, filmmaker, and photographer Byron Motley, who will discuss the great teams and players of the Negro Leagues, which rose to prominence in the decades before MLB’s integration. Los Angeles... Читать дальше...

Nepal must punish recruitment agencies that charge migrant workers illegally high fees to find jobs abroad, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation, the United Nations said on Monday. Remittances sent home by about 4 million Nepalis, mainly working in construction or as domestic servants in the Middle East, Malaysia and South Korea, make up nearly 30 percent of the Himalayan nation's gross domestic product, state officials say. Rights groups such as Amnesty International say poor migrants become... Читать дальше...

"The use of MLK to promote Ram trucks strikes many people as crass and inappropriate," said Tim Calkins, a professor at Northwestern University.

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• A man discovered a United Airlines ticket voucher under his bed from December 1998.
• The conditions of the plane ticket stated that it would never expire.
• United chose to honor the ticket, despite "forever tickets" being eliminated eight years ago.

United Airlines came through on a promise it made almost 20 years ago.

Last month, John Walker discovered a United ticket in a box underneath his bed, WFMY2 reported. The ticket... Читать дальше...

Throughout the offseason, general manager Brian Cashman has said Gleyber Torres would come into spring training with a chance of winning an everyday job. Now, the 21-year-old is about to get his tryout. “I’m super excited,’’ Torres told MLB.com in Tampa on Monday, where he spent much of the winter, rehabbing from the injury to...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 3:08 p.m. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged as much as 1,500 points, erasing its gain for the year, as the market extends a slump that began Friday. The Dow's point loss would be its biggest of all time, though in percentage terms, its 5.6 percent decline wasn't as big as its worst drop during the financial crisis. The slide Monday brought the Dow back below 24,000 points. The market's slump began on Friday... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 3:08 p.m. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged as much as 1,500 points, erasing its gain for the year, as the market extends a slump that began Friday. The Dow's point loss would be its biggest of all time, though in percentage terms, its 5.6 percent decline wasn't as big as its worst drop during the financial crisis. The slide Monday brought the Dow back below 24,000 points. The market's slump began on Friday... Читать дальше...