Новости за 31.08.2016

by Virginia C. McGuire

Let's say you're Sleeping Beauty, and you've just woken up after 100 years. (This is the fairy-tale version, not Disney.) You'll need to buy grown-up things such as groceries and a cell phone, which means you need a way to pay for them. But if you haven't used a credit card in a long time, it might be harder than expected to get approved for a new one.

Police are hunting a knife-wielding bandit believed to have escaped with only a few hundred dollars from two linked armed robberies south-west of Brisbane.

Pauline Hanson blames Tony Abbott for her imprisonment over now quashed electoral fraud charges but the pair have made up in a bizarre staged video posted to the Senator's Facebook page, in a move that will spark further speculation the former prime minister is attempting a political comeback

A delegation comprising representatives of three associations of the bicycle industry met Union minister for transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday to seek his intervention for extending the deadline for the use of a new variety of reflectors on bicycles.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — An elderly Pennsylvania woman convicted of poisoning her son’s girlfriend with antifreeze, leaving her near death, has been granted bail following a judge’s decision to throw out the convictions. A Luzerne County judge on Wednesday set bail at $25,000 for 84-year-old Helen Galli, who has said she plans to return home to

The Republican presidential nominee has landed in Mexico, ABC News has learned.

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Donald Trump said that he didn't discuss having Mexico pay for his proposed wall along the US's southern border in a lengthy meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Wednesday.

During a joint statement and press conference held by Peña Nieto and Trump in Mexico City, the Republican presidential nominee was asked about whether the two discussed his most central campaign promise: to build a massive border wall along the US-Mexico border and have the Mexican government pay for it. Читать дальше...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Winnipeg Jets named forward Blake Wheeler as their captain Wednesday. Wheeler fills the void left when former captain Andrew Ladd who was dealt to Chicago in February. The 6-foot-5 Wheeler has been with the Jets since the team relocated from Atlanta before the 2011-12 season. The former University of Minnesota player

Former Yazidi captive says American hostage Kayla Mueller saved others.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A Penn State professor who police say was pushed off an 80-foot rock quarry ledge died slowly and possibly was alive and immobile for up to two days, an investigator testified Wednesday. State Trooper Brian Wakefield revealed new details in the case during a preliminary hearing for 39-year-old George Ishler Jr., one

Essential Politics: A flurry of final votes in the California Legislature on everything from drones to smoking ban on state beaches Aug. 31, 2016, 2:13 p.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. Between now and Wednesday night, the big focus will...

Donald Trump says his meeting with Mexican President Nieto was productive and that he's confident the two nations will work together to solve immigration issues, drug trafficking and other crime at the border.

Colin Kaepernick’s sitting protest of the national anthem has ignited a firestorm of controversy in a way that reflects the age of internet. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf lodged his own protest in the 1996 season, a time when it didn’t gather quite so much attention.

The United States and Cuba took their efforts to build better ties into the skies on Wednesday, with the first regular commercial flight between the two countries in more than 50 years. JetBlue Flight 387 landed in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara a little before 11:00 am (1500 GMT), about an hour after leaving Fort Lauderdale in southeastern Florida with 150 passengers on board. Its departure from Florida was celebrated the same way.

Theranos woes; a ‘Silicon Valley’ ride; Climb Real Estate sold In a promotion with HBO, peer-to-peer car rental company Turo is offering customers a chance to rent a “Silicon Valley” favorite: the 2006 Ford Escape driven by Erlich Bachman, a character in the hit HBO sitcom. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Palo Alto company didn’t have the right patient safeguards in a study of the new test, quoting people familiar with the matter. San Francisco’s Climb Real Estate, which focuses on urban Millennials... Читать дальше...

BOSTON — Another tough game for the Red Sox bullpen. This time followed by a save from the Boston bats. Aaron Hill sliced an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth after Tampa Bay tied it in the top half of the inning, and the Red Sox held on for an 8-6 victory over

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks took small losses Wednesday as energy companies fell with the price of oil and chemical and materials companies traded lower. That pulled the market lower for August, ending a five-month winning streak. The losses were small, and this proved to be one of the quietest months in recent history for

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Wednesday: H&R Block Inc., down $2.54 to $21.66 The tax preparer reported a bigger first-quarter loss and less revenue than analysts expected. Brown-Forman Corp., down $1.78 to $48.55 The maker of Jack Daniel’s whiskey said its results were hurt by weak sales in emerging

In May 2015, a team of international researchers detected a strong signal on a star in the Hercules constellation—called HD 164595—located 94 light years away from Earth. After recently alerting the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) team, there is reportedly an ongoing investigation looking into the signal picked up by Russia’s RATAN-600 radio telescope located in Zelenchukskaya.

A day after the arrest of R&B singer Chris Brown on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, new details are emerging about the former pageant winner who says Brown pointed a gun at her head and caused her to flee the performer’s hilltop mansion in Tarzana. 

The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has visited Nigeria, and today, August 31, he met some Nigerian Entertainment entrepreneurs. Below are photos from the meeting. READ ALSO: 5 places Facebook founder Zuckerberg must visit before he leaves Lagos READ ALSO: Top 8 quotes of Zuckerberg about Nigeria today READ ALSO: Read what Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks took small losses Wednesday as energy companies fell with the price of oil and chemical and materials companies traded lower. That pulled the market lower for August, ending a five-month winning streak. The losses were small, and this proved to be one of the quietest months in recent history for stocks.