Новости за 02.01.2018

Conservatives have long worried that people ignore history, but nowadays there’s such a glut of new information daily, I can’t imagine anyone of any political stripe has brain space left over for keeping track of the past. It’s unsettling. Ten signs of this trend, while I can remember them:

Macedonian town of Strumica and Blagoevgrad will work together on joint tourist offers, writes the Skopje newspaper Vecer.

Bidvest Wits have confirmed they have signed former Orlando Pirates defender Edwin Gyimah and recalled Sifiso Myeni from his loan spell at SuperSport United.

A little less than a year ago, I wanted to do a piece on prison abolitionism for Splice Today. A college friend of mine is a journalist and activist in that area, and my idea was to interview him and his colleague about the goals, justifications, and contemporary activities of prison abolitionism today.

My husband and I don't have children, but our friends increasingly do, and sometimes, they bring their kids to our house. This is how we learned our dog, Abby, loves babies. She is fascinated by them. When a baby carrier appears in our living room, Abby is inexorably drawn to it. She stares at the baby's face, gently sniffing and happily submitting to ear tugs and nose boops and whatever else tiny, curious fingers can mete upon her eminently grabbable fur.

It was when Ricky announced to a cringing Lucy that he'd keep their new couch in his office until she paid him for it with "her allowance" that I wondered whether I Love Lucy had somehow, in the decades since TV's defining sitcom first aired, switched genres from comedy to horror. How was this anxiety-laced scenario — which ends with a humiliated, badly-permed Lucy wearing an ugly dress she tried to make for herself to save money and adoring her husband for "forgiving" her — funny?

Americans would do well to revisit The Great Transformation, by the political economist Karl Polanyi. It might hold the key to all of our futures.

Southern and Thameslink train passengers buying tickets this morning were hit by the biggest price increases in five years.

Leipzig (dpa) - RB Leipzig ist ohne Timo Werner, Marcel Halstenberg und Emil Forsberg in die Vorbereitung auf die Rückrunde der Fußball-Bundesliga gestartet. Das deutsch-schwedische Nationalspieler-Trio fehlte am Dienstag beim ersten Training des Tabellenfünften im neuen Jahr. Werner setzte wegen eines Infekts aus.Forsberg hatte wegen einer Bauchmuskelzerrung in den letzten drei Pflichtpartien 2017 bereits nicht mitspielen können und sollte noch einmal durchgecheckt werden. Halstenberg hatte sich... Читать дальше...

The past 2017 was the safest year in the history of commercial civil aviation. This is clear from parallel surveys on the online aviation security network portal and the Dutch consulting firm To70, quoted by the BBC.

Andy Murray has released a heartfelt statement to his social media followers after withdrawing from the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp on Tuesday.

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Enemies of Iran in recent days have utilized various means, including money, weapons, politics and intelligence apparatuses, to create problems for the Islamic system, a Tuesday report on the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei quoted him as saying

Berlin (dpa) - Der AfD-Vorsitzende Alexander Gauland sieht nach dem gelöschten Tweet seiner Parteikollegin Beatrix von Storch die Meinungsfreiheit in Gefahr. «Das Zensurgesetz von Heiko Maas zeigt schon am ersten Tag des neuen Jahres seine freiheitsbeschneidende Wirkung. Diese Stasi-Methoden erinnern mich an die DDR», empörte sich Gauland am Dienstag. Der Parteichef ist selbst nicht auf Facebook und Twitter aktiv. Er rief dennoch alle Nutzer sozialer Medien auf, den gelöschten Kommentar der Bundestagsabgeordneten... Читать дальше...

Fun runners will make their way through giant inflatable obstacles at a 5k event in Sussex this summer.

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Sanam Puri, Samar Puri, Keshav Dhanraj and Venky S are the four main members of the band SANAM. The band has been driving their listeners crazy with their super sensational original songs and the old songs remake versions are just heaven-like to hear. Huntsends has compiled a few of their amazing songs.

Sanam | Itni Door #SANAMoriginal

Dil Kya Kare | Sanam

Neele Neele Ambar Par | Sanam

Ae Kash Ke Hum | Sanam #SANAMrendition

Yeh Raat Bheegi Bheegi | Sanam ft. Читать дальше...

Another New Year’s Eve—that holiday rivaled only by Valentine’s Day with respect to the consistently cavernous gap between giddy expectations and disappointing results—has, mercifully, come and gone at last. If your evening began with watery prefab cocktails at an overcrowded open bar and ended, as they so often do, with a drunk idiot in novelty […]

Dear Person With Kids on Instagram,

You probably think you know what I'm about to say. You may be holding your breath, waiting for the inevitable criticisms of your online behavior — in this case, your tendency to share numerous photos of your child or children for the whole world (or your exclusive followers, of which I am somehow one) to see. How dare you be so bold? How dare you throw your kids in my face!? Instagram is for adults, after all! You're not even giving your kids a choice in the matter! Читать дальше...

The news that the actress who played Jill in the first two episodes of the 2008 incarnation of 90210 is affianced to a 33-year-old reformed pot smoker and ex-soldier would be of almost zero significance to those of us who do not care about the personal lives of H-list celebrities if it were not for the fact that the latter's grandmother is one Mrs. Elizabeth Mountbatten, better known as Queen Elizabeth II.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools teachers and students will research cancer next summer in a University of Chicago program. The Chicago Tribune reports that the program is expanding to include teachers so they can share what they've learned with more students in their classrooms. It's called Chicago EYES on Cancer — for Educators and Youth Enjoy Science. It's intended to encourage students who are underrepresented in science courses to study the subject. Minority, low-income and disabled students... Читать дальше...

⮕ How to fill JAMB form ⮕ Are you a Nigerian student? Do you want to find out how to fill the necessary registration forms for your exams? Read this article to learn everything you need about JAMB form and how to fill it correctly

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The latest on protests in Iran (all times local): 14:00 p.m. Iran's Supreme Leader is saying the country's enemies have meddled in recent protest rallies resorting to various means. A Tuesday report on the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei quoted him as saying "in recent days" enemies of Iran have utilized various means including money, weapons, politics and intelligence apparatuses "to create problems for the Islamic system." Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters,... Читать дальше...