Новости за 26.08.2018

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iranian woman karate practitioner Taravat Khaksar claimed a silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games on Sunday.

Primera División 2018/2019 - Matchday 3 - Played 25-Aug-18 - Posted by FL

William Michael Bolton, a 28-year-old Vicksburg man, has been identified by police as the victim of a shooting that occurred near Vicksburg early Saturday morning.

The Rocky Mountain Cup will stay in Utah as RSL blast the Colorado Rapids, keeping them in the playoff race with seven games left.

By Dimis Michealides “I PREFER to lead a lot not read a lot” said an arrogant CEO. I disagree. Creativity is a significant leadership competency which can be learned through both reading and action. Without creativity, innovation is impossible. Below is my list of favorite creativity books, fiction and non-fiction in historical order. The Odyssey […]

St Kilda will launch their most aggressive-ever assault on the trade and free agent market in a bid to boost the maturity of their list.

The car fell into the canal after hitting the wall of a bridge

At UFC Fight Night 135, James Vick found out, in brutal fashion, that you don't want to make things personal with Justin Gaethje.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — There was no dividing them. The folk song Arirang played and the "unification" flag was raised to celebrate the first gold medal by a combined Koreas team at a major multi-sport event. The crew comprising South Koreans and North Koreans won the 500-meter dragon boat final on Sunday at the Asian Games co-host city of Palembang, a day after the paddlers delivered the historic first medal for a combined Koreas team by taking bronze in the women's 200-meter dragon boat competition. Читать дальше...

MASSENA, N.Y. (AP) — A massive hydro-power project on the St. Lawrence River is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Gov. Andrew Cuomo marked the milestone by announcing a renewal of the partnership between the New York Power Authority and Ontario Power Generation for 15 more years. The United States and Canada each operate half of the power plant's 32 turbines. New York's St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project in Massena produces more than 820,000 kilowatts of electricity, enough to light a city the size of Washington, DC. Читать дальше...

Recently, the human rights organization Action Group for Palestinians in Syria (AGPS) published a report documenting 3,840 cases of Palestinians...

Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo Sunday arrived to Lebanon on an official visit, where she is expected to meet with the country's leaders, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Here's a question for those of you who have ridden a variety of different road bikes: Given two bikes of the same weight, would a bike with a "race geometry" (low headtube, longer top-tube, short chain-stays) feel and handle very differently to a similar quality bike with an endurance geometry?...

Cyprus hopes that developments expected in the Autumn will pave the way for a resumption of talks from where they left off at Crans-Montana last year. Deputy Government Spokesperson Klelia Vassiliou said on Sunday the Greek Cypriot side hoped that the developments would shift Ankara`s stance especially as regards the security aspect of the solution […]

A preprint recently posted on bioRxiv has garnered a lot of attention - mainly because of its title. The article, from Jan Willem Koten Jr et al., is called Occurrence of non-western magic in the European brain, an intriguing although not very informative title for a scientific paper. The intrigue deepens once we read the paper and find references to the famous 'voodoo correlations' and also a new species of neuro-monster: 'zombie oscillations', which the authors claim to have discovered and

Aberfan, Wales 1966. The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip at 9.15 am on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil and overlaid a natural spring. A period of heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed the local junior school and other buildings. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board (NCB)... Читать дальше...

This team has been completely let down by having one of the worst goalies to wear a blues shirt, and monk must take the blame for playing him

BreitbartAugust 26, 2018 Many stars apparently couldn’t help but use McCain’s passing to whip up more anti-Trump hatred. “John McCain: American patriot, war hero. Donald Trump: Draft-dodging weasel,” wrote author Stephen King. “Take his name out of your mouth you piece of shit. You maligned his military service while you did everything to avoid serving. […]

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September Loyalist SWAG Order at Loyalist Rugby Club

Pope Francis in Ireland on Sunday “begged for God’s forgiveness” for the child sexual abuse scandal rocking the church, but faced accusations by a former Vatican official that he had personally ignored allegations against senior clergy. Francis is due to speak in front of some 500,000 faithful in Dublin’s Phoenix Park as part of his […]