Новости за 06.04.2016

Doctors at King George’s Medical University are using a verbal tool to make men step onto the treadmill.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California State University officials and the union that represents campus faculty members are expressing optimism they will be able to reach a salary agreement that would prevent a five-day strike starting next week.

The ANC's suspended secretary in the Western Cape‚ Faiez Jacobs‚ was told on Wednesday he can resume his duties‚ even though he was found guilty of assault by the party’s national disciplinary committee.

– Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri speaks about Jamie Vardy and N’Golo Kante – “This is not a footballer…..” Claudio Ranieri, the head coach of Leicester, describes Jamie Vardy as a fantastic horse who serves as an inspiration to his team-mates.   The coach said:  “Jamie Vardy, for example. This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic […]

New York, the fourth state to offer paid leave, will cover 12 weeks of leave — twice what other states offer. San Francisco, meanwhile, becomes the first city to require fully paid parental leave.

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Virtual reality is incredibly exciting, but it's tough to grasp just how exciting this new medium is unless you've actually tried it — and not many people have.

Thankfully, HTC and Valve, which make the excellent Vive VR headset that finally started shipping on Tuesday, released a video to coincide with the Vive launch that shows exactly what it's like to use VR.

HTC and Valve brought in a group of people to try the Vive headset and filmed their experiences, but they... Читать дальше...

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Towson University and Baltimore County police say they are investigating an alleged hazing incident in which a student was hurt. University spokesman Ray Feldmann said in a statement Wednesday that the incident occurred off campus and privacy issues prevent officials from sharing more details.

The high court has directed the state government to constitute a high-level committee to explore the fire safety measures in the government hospitals across the state.

In states across the country, voting rights are under attack. In 2000, only 14 states had voter ID requirements. Today, 33 states have such laws, which have been shown to disproportionately affect young people and communities of color. States are also making it harder to vote by curtailing early voting or removing polling sites. Since 2010, eight states have scaled back early voting and just last month, voters in Maricopa ...

Even if Trump keeps winning primaries, he isn't likely to lock in the GOP nomination before the convention, says Sara Fagen. Why? In a word: Math.

The 20-year-old girl at Motinagar Bal Griha who is pregnant was on Wednesday barred from interaction with anyone by officials of the shelter home.

For more than two decades, a team of psychiatrists in downtown Cairo have provided a unique service in Egypt: Therapy for people who say they are victims of torture. Now authorities are trying to shut down the Nadeem Center.

There’s plenty to love about George Miller’s masterful “Mad Max: Fury Road,” but the film’s captivating visual presentation often takes precedent. A movie printed on storyboards instead of a fully-formed script, it’s an exhilarating, eye-popping spectacle in every sense of the word — from John Seale’s amazing cinematography, to Jacinta Leong and Shira Hockman’s massively-inspired art direction, to the radiant orange and teal-heavy color palette, to the incredible stunt work and motorcar-fueled mayhem. Читать дальше...

Honouring a promise by KGMU to pay its electricity bill, Lesa on Wednesday restored connection of the institution after snapping it.

– PSG aims at signing an Arsenal’s forward  – Arsene Wenger is sure that Alexis Sanchez will stay with Arsenal According to AS, Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez is one Paris Saint-Germain’s top choices to replace Zlatan Ibrahimovic this summer. Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said he could retire in the summer when his contract with the […]

TUBBERGEN/VASSE - De Mariaschool uit Vasse won woensdagmiddag verrassend het voetbaltoernooi voor de tien basisscholen in de gemeente Tubbergen.

The California city became the first to pass a law mandating six weeks of fully paid parental leave, NBC reports.

From April 15, you could pay traffic challan online in Lucknow.The app designed by the National Informatics Centre for e-challan was incorporated suggestions of the state transport department.

Debate over tax regulation and tax evasion in Britain and its territories has been reignited after the millions of leaked documents known as the Panama Papers identified hundreds of thousands of secret firms registered to Britain and British islands. While known less for tax loopholes than Panama or Switzerland, Britain has long had relatively lax tax laws for foreign corporations and individuals, leading some critics to accuse it of being a tax haven.

President Muhammadu Buhari received the outgoing Kenya high commissioner to Nigeria Mr. Tom Amol on Tuesday, April 5. The outgoing high commissioner was received at the state house in Abuja. Also present was the minister of foreign affairs, Mr Geoffery Onyema. AT the reception, President Buhari spoke about the issue of terrorism and how the […]

(AP) — DNA evidence proves that a man who is serving a life sentence was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder more than three decades ago, Virginia's attorney general said Wednesday. Recent DNA tests failed to identify Harward's genetic profile in sperm left at the crime scene. "If the new scientific testing results had been available at the time of his trial, no rational trier of fact would have found proof of Harward's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt," Attorney General Mark Herring said in a news release.

The co-founder of private-equity firm Apollo Global Management abruptly quit his seat on Caesars Entertainment Operating Co.’s board of directors after an investigation took a hard look at the role that he and his firm played in a series of deals that preceded the company’s bankruptcy.

Predictably, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad and Bangalore hogged top slots among management institutions in India Rankings 2016, but it's IIM-Lucknow that led the league table for management occupying the first place in placements, higher studies and entrepreneurship (PHE). In terms of mean salary for employment (MS), IIM-B stood first.

For the first time in more than two years, President Obama is granting an interview to the Fox News Channel.The president will tape an interview with Chris Wallace, the moderator of “Fox News Sunday,” for broadcast on Sunday morning. It will take place while the president is in Chicago this week.Fox said in a press release Wednesday morning that “the interview will cover an array of topics, including the pending ...