Новости за 08.09.2015

Family battle takes place at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday, as Serena looks to keep calendar Grand Slam hopes alive

Special Operation Group (SOG) of Ahmedabad district police on Sunday evening arrested eight persons for dumping suspected industrial waste into open manholes near Moraiya village of Ahmedabad district and Narmada canal near Vishalpur village.

The defeat means that Mr Cameron's attempts to weaken rules forcing ministers and officials to be neutral in the purdah period in the weeks before the historic vote have failed.

Gujarat high court on Monday issued a notice to the HC Bar Association over allegations of irregularities in elections of its executive committee earlier this year.

Joe Biden won't say whether he's running for president, but he's talking a lot about middle class troubles.

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Scotland put up a commendable fight against Germany in their Euro qualifier at Hampden Park but the 3-2 defeat leaves them battling for a play-off spot at best.

Huw Edwards speaks to actor Jason Clarke and climber and filmmaker David Breashears about the new feature film Everest.

Andrew Garfield suits up while making an appearance on Good Morning America on Monday (September 7) in New York City. The 32-year-old actor was promoting his new film 99 Homes, in which he plays a father. Andrew recently opened up to Entertainment Tonight about how he’s always had those fatherly instincts. “I’ve always had them [...]

ROSZKE, Hungary (AP) -- Hundreds of angry and frustrated asylum-seekers broke through police lines Monday near Hungary's southern border with Serbia and began marching north toward Budapest, while Britain and France pledged to take in tens of thousands more refugees to try to ease the crisis.

The Cowboys have one of the league’s best and deepest offensive lines anyway, but added some more depth today. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, the Cowboys claimed former Bears tackle Jordan Mills off waivers. Mills had 29 starts in his first two seasons, but was cut by the Bears yesterday as they tweaked…

A small reminder on the ongoing need for equality outside the Provincetown HRC store.

Managed Care Magazine recently published an article on employer-sponsored health insurance and same-sex couples. The piece noted that in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, insurers must recognize the same-sex spouses of beneficiaries. However, author Joseph Burns contends, this does not mean that employers must offer these benefits to employees in same-sex marriage at all. Читать дальше...

In a bid to stop the discharge of untreated effluents and water from entering into creek fronts, major nullahs across the city are being considered as potential sites for setting up mini sewage treatment plants.

When Texans running back Arian Foster went in for groin surgery, there were reports that he could miss the first half of the regular season while he recovered. The Texans haven’t used their injured reserve-return spot on Foster yet, however, and it doesn’t sound like they think they’ll need to avail themselves of that option.…

Kim Davis' lawyers asked an appeals court to free her while they fight for changes that would accommodate her religious opposition.

Rooney Mara seems to have come out of nowhere. Her first major roles came in 2009, only six short years ago. Since then, the 30-year-old actress has blossomed into one of the most fluid, expressive, and powerful performers working today. She’s gone toe to toe with motor-mouth Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” she’s been the tough as nails outlaw/wife in “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” and taken on the role of the decade as Lisbeth Salander in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Читать дальше...

David Coulthard on how Lewis Hamilton's dominance over Nico Rosberg is similar to how he was out-performed by Mika Hakkinen.

NPR offers a selective preview of what Hollywood has in store at theaters between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.

The Seattle Seahawks added three players to their practice squad on Monday, signing cornerbacks Justin Coleman and Kevin Short and defensive end Robert Thomas. Coleman and Short both had been rumored to be joining the team on Sunday. Coleman went undrafted out of Tennessee in 2015 before signing with the Minnesota Vikings in May. He was cut by Minnesota on Aug. 30 and signed with the New England Patriots on Friday before being released a day later. According to the Boston Herald’s Jeff Howe, the 5-foot-11... Читать дальше...

As American children head back to school, their senators and representatives return to Congress with just a few weeks left to renew the school lunch reforms that Michelle Obama championed five years ago. School lunch programs will keep serving meals even if the law expires, but Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is determined to see new legislation passed before the September 31st expiration of the current Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010.

"It will be helpful to have this work done... Читать дальше...

Sacramento State University said Monday a student who firmly disputed a history professor’s interpretation of genocide was not expelled from the course for her conduct as initially reported. History professor Maury Wiseman ended class early Friday after Native-American student Chiitaanibah Johnson allegedly hijacked the class by presenting her argument for why genocide is an apt description of what happened to native people at the hands of European colonizers and their descendants.

A bloody altercation took place between an armed security guard and a man who was trying to buy groceries with his EBT card at the Whole Foods Market near Lake Merritt in Oakland, according to a witness who took to social media to share her account of the incident.

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Last Labor Day I synthesized the Future of Work.

This year I thought I would share some remarkable people who inform and inspire me as well as a couple of collaborations I have been involved with modeling curation & talent clusters.

At one point people we considered experts by being the source of information. Being the point person to disseminate knowledge meant that you were capable and credible. That was when... Читать дальше...

The US Congress will return to business in Washington on Tuesday with major legislative deadlines looming after their month-long August recess.