Новости за 13.12.2017

Muslim nations must press the world to recognise East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, Turkey said on Wednesday as it opened an Islamic summit called in response to a U.S. decision to recognise the city as Israel’s capital, reported Reuters.

Captain Joe Root has challenged his England team to stand up and keep the Ashes series alive in Thursday's crucial third Test against Australia in Perth.

Aus bislang ungeklärter Ursache geriet am Dienstagabend ein Einfamilienhaus im bayerischen Laufen in Brand. Die Feuerwehr Oberndorf rückte zur Unterstützung aus.

Aus bislang ungeklärter Ursache geriet am Dienstagabend ein Einfamilienhaus im bayerischen Laufen in Brand. Die Feuerwehr Oberndorf rückte zur Unterstützung aus.

A 14-year-old boy was among nine people shot, one fatally, in separate shootings Tuesday on the city's South and West sides.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won martial law powers across the southern third of the country for one more year on Wednesday to combat Islamic militants and leftist rebels, as Congress brushed aside fears of a looming dictatorship.

Two brilliant Nigerian men have done the unthinkable task of constructing a generator that runs without petrol and gas. They asked the government for help.

China will likely set its 2018 economic growth target at around 6.5 per cent, unchanged from the previous year, leaving more room for quality growth as a government deleveraging campaign is set to intensify, a policy adviser was quoted as saying yesterday. Lou Feng, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a state think tank, expects China to rely more on “innate drivers” for economic growth such as technology innovation in 2018, stressing the country is now minimising the importance of quantitative targets... Читать дальше...

The EU must make Britain's air industry sign up to the bloc's environment rules if it wants to keep access to European skies after Brexit, a campaign group warned in a report Wednesday.

Alexis Sanchez’s name tends to be mentioned on a weekly basis due to the uncertainty over his Arsenal future. The Chile international is widely regarded as one of the Gunners’ best players, but the club have been unable to tie him down to a new contract. Manchester City were heavily linked with a late swoop for the attacker in the summer, but a transfer never materialised. With the January window just around the corner, Sanchez’s future is expected to be a major talking point. Читать дальше...

Synaptics, the company responsible for handling the touch input on millions of laptop trackpads and smartphone screens, has announced this week that it’s entered mass production with its first optical in-display fingerprint sensors. Titled Clear ID, these are expected to work exactly like the home button fingerprint sensors you might have known on Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S phones before this year’s Galaxy S8 and on Apple’s iPhones before the latest iPhone X. Only they’ll be more magical because... Читать дальше...

From being the top prospect in high school to being a national champion in college to being one of the top rookies in the NBA, Jahlil Okafor had been the golden boy, never really facing doubt or adversity. We’re about to find out how he handles it, joining the Nets as a reclamation project and...

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Chorley boss Matt Jansen says keeping hold of on-loan hot-shot Nick Haughton could be key to their fortunes this term.

Ray Wilkins has accused Manchester United of not being in the “same league” as Manchester City after their derby defeat on Sunday. The Red Devils were thoroughly out-played by their bitter local rivals as Pep Guardiola’s men secured an impressive 2-1 victory against Jose Mourinho’s men at Old Trafford. The victory boosted Manchester City’s already […]

LAWRENCE, Mass. — Three Massachusetts police officers were taken to a hospital after being exposed to a substance believed to be the powerful opioid fentanyl. The Lawrence officers were searching a home Monday night for drugs when they came into contact with the substance. They began to feel ill and went to a hospital as...

Oelsnitz (dpa) - Die Volksmusiksängerin Stefanie Hertel (38) trauert um ihre Mutter. Elisabeth Hertel starb am Sonntag in ihrem Haus im sächsischen Oelsnitz im Alter von 67 Jahren, wie eine Sprecherin von Stefanie Hertel am Mittwoch der Deutschen Presse-Agentur mitteilte.Am Freitagabend hatte die Mutter der Sängerin noch die Premierenvorstellung des Musicals «Vom Geist der Weihnacht» in Nordhausen besucht. Stefanie Hertel trat dort gemeinsam mit ihrem Vater, Volksmusikstar Eberhard Hertel, und ihrer Tochter Johanna auf. Читать дальше...

Durban - Four men and a woman have been sentenced to a total of 225 years imprisonment in the Pongola Regional Court. The gang was wanted for a spate of robberies and rapes in Pongola and Magudu in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

Alfred Delp was a courageous young Jesuit priest, imprisoned in Nazi Germany for knowing too much. He was held in solitary confinement, hands in chains, until his execution. His advent sermons, smuggled out of the prison in his washing, constitute the most remarkable statement of advent theology I have ever encountered. Last year, I suggested the idea of a collaborative advent calendar, celebrating the defiance of advent hope against the darkness. This year, in my own particular darkness - it seems more appropriate than ever. Читать дальше...

A North Carolina woman, who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 3-year-old son, was not awarded jail time Monday. Jamie Lyn Basinger, 24, from Morganton, North Carolina, reportedly passed out on drugs as her son, Landyn Melton, died of hypothermia after freezing on the front porch of her house in March. Basinger accepted a plea deal Monday, the day her trial was supposed to begin, following which she was given a split sentence that included 36 months of supervised probation and between 19 and 32 months of prison time.