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Две американские школы закрылись из-за угрозы нападения

Стоимость нефти сорта WTI с поставкой в октябре на торгах биржи Intercontinental Exchange снизилась на 10,9%.

К вечеру вторника на Нью-Йоркской бирже цена на октябрьские фьючерсы нефть сорта WTI понизилась на 7,7% до $45,41 за баррель, пишет ТАСС.

On one post I wrote, I stated that even though I believe in the #Blacklivesmatter movement, I cannot help but support the people that come when I call 911. I live in a suburb outside of Washington, D.C. Right now, D.C. has surpassed its homicide rate of 105 last year. Moreover, one-third of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department have given their Chief a vote of "No Confidence." This blog is not intended to kick someone when they are down, nor is it intended to debate on whether Black Lives Matter more than any other lives. Читать дальше...

Six months after plans for a major revamp of Sittingbourne were approved work has yet to start. Could that be about to change?

Reviews left on travel company website TripAdvisor reveal the 10 most popular restaurants in the county.

2 сентября в 9:00 на площади им. Ленина начался военный парад войск Читинского гарнизона.

Животное обитало в воде

El Congreso de Guatemala retiró la inmunidad al presidente Otto Pérez Molina para que pueda ser investigado por un caso de corrupción por el que ya fue detenida la exvicepresidenta del país.

Посетители мемориального музея Аушвиц-Биркенау осудили руководство музея за установку распылителей воды, которые должны были облегчить посетителям ожидание в очереди за билетами в жаркую погоду.

Отключают целые районы города

Newspaper publishers have called for the BBC to change its online strategy to avoid future news being dominated by social media and global networks.

Билеты на Международный джазовый фестиваль, который пройдет во Владивостоке в ноябре, будут продавать со скидкой.

Роскосмос отказался от создания межорбитального буксира с ядерной электродвигательной установкой. Упоминание о нем в тексте проекта Федеральной космической программы на 2016–2025 годы осталось только в контексте научно-технического задела по системам перспективных космических аппаратов.

Роскосмос отказался от создания межорбитального буксира с ядерной электродвигательной установкой. Упоминание о нем в тексте проекта Федеральной космической программы на 2016–2025 годы осталось только в контексте научно-технического задела по системам перспективных космических аппаратов.

Photo courtesy Bernard Gagnon

When I heard about ISIS's bombing of the Temples of Baalshamin and Bel in Palmyra, Syria, my first thoughts were that as horrible as such "monument terrorism" is, it is not nearly as horrific as the group's mass rapes and killings. Indeed, one of those killings combined both cultural and human destruction: a week before the papers announced that the 2,000-year-old Temple of Baalshamin had been blown up, ISIS members publicly beheaded Khaled al-Asad, the 82-year-old antiquities expert who was known as "Mr. Читать дальше...

Customers will now earn 1p per £8 in shops as experts say new rules from Brussels intended to 'save consumers money' will kill credit card perks

Customers will now earn 1p per £8 in shops as experts say new rules from Brussels intended to 'save consumers money' will kill credit card perks

A forum for residential school survivors was held at the First Nations University of Canada to determine how much of their stories they want shared.

Canada sank into what’s technically considered a recession in the first half of the year, but some economists are hesitant to throw around the “R” word, worried that doing so could erode consumer confidence and lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Data released Tuesday by Statistics Canada for the second quarter of 2015 (April to June) show […]

When her father was arrested, Tanya Olivares’s world “kind of crashed down” on her and her sister, the beginning of an ordeal that played out for them for nearly three decades. Olivares, 42, the oldest daughter of Ivan Henry, was testifying Tuesday about the impact of her father’s 27 years of wrongful imprisonment on her life.