Новости за 19.04.2016

A 21-year-old world champion snowboarder died in an avalanche in Switzerland on Tuesday, sports officials said.

De Amerikaan Mitch Hunter (35) is een van de eerste personen met een volledige gezichtstransplantatie. Hij laat zich na vijf jaar uit over de ingreep: ,,Ik voel me fantastisch en net zo gezond als toen ik 21 was."

Credit Suisse says serving on just one board is the magic number for stock-market performance, but are its findings just a coincidence rather than cause and effect?

(AP) — A homeowners association for an upscale, gated community in the San Francisco Bay Area has threatened to fine homeowners for brown or dead lawns and landscaping despite a continuing state drought emergency. Effective June 1, the association will begin "aggressive enforcement" of landscaping standards that could include issuing fines, filing lawsuits, doing landscaping improvements or billing homeowners, the newspaper reported.

Blood-testing firm Theranos Inc. has confirmed it is under investigation by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "The company continues to work closely with regulators and is cooperating fully with all investigations," a company spokeswoman said Monday. Other agencies that have opened probes against the company include the State Departments of Health in Pennsylvania and Arizona, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Jeff Smith, Starboard Value CEO, discusses the real estate strategy at Macy's.

The biggest question for the New York primary is how big the blowouts will be. Politico's Ben White does some math.

A common problem among do-it-yourself investors is a portfolio that feels unwieldy.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton shared with US Weekly a list of 25 things people may not know about her.

Unlike the Patriots a year ago after being stripped of draft picks in the #DeflateGate case, the Chiefs filed an appeal in an effort to get back the draft picks they lost for communicating directly with receiver Jeremy Maclin during the pre-free agency negotiating period. Like the Patriots, the Chiefs are still losing their picks.…

The billionaire businessman voted in his home state primary Tuesday at a voting station at a synagogue near Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, surrounding by a crush of reporters. Two of Trump's children are unable to vote for their father because they failed to register with the Republican Party in time to cast their ballots for their father under the state's arcane voting rules. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he is endorsing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for president, but he's not playing a role in the campaign. Читать дальше...

The money list is getting plenty of attention at PGA Tour headquarters this year.

The money list is getting plenty of attention at PGA Tour headquarters this year.

The money list is getting plenty of attention at PGA Tour headquarters this year.

The money list is getting plenty of attention at PGA Tour headquarters this year.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria as escalating violence in the north has prompted opposition representatives to suspend participation in U.N.-sponsored peace talks (all times local):

BEIRUT - The Latest on the conflict in Syria as escalating violence in the north has prompted opposition representatives to suspend participation in U.N.-sponsored peace talks (all times local):

Turkey's state run news agency has raised the toll of wounded from a round of rockets that hit southern Turkey, saying three people were hurt. Turkey's state run news agency says three rockets fired from Syria hit a town in southern Turkey, wounding two people. Russia's ambassador to the international organizations in Geneva says extremists took control of the Syrian opposition group, effectively hijacking the Syrian peace talks. Alexei Borodavkin told the Russian Tass news agency on Tuesday that... Читать дальше...

With their Premier League title hopes all but extinguished, the Gunners could face West Brom on Thursday in front of thousands of empty seats due to disillusioned fans

Today are the New York primaries in the ongoing, grueling race toward the 2016 U.S. election. While the Republicans are headed toward what promises to be a contentious convention to pick their nominee, the Democrats find Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders locked in a heated battle. And both have turned to celebrities for an extra push. Clinton recently had an expensive, fancy pants fundraiser thrown by George Clooney, while Sanders hit the stage at Coachella over the weekend to introduce rappers Run The Jewels, and that's not all. Читать дальше...

We compared the cost of grocery staples at Whole Foods vs. Target, Safeway and Trader Joe’s.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court says Maryland officials overstepped their authority when they offered financial subsidies to encourage construction of a new power plant in the state. Lower courts sided with rival power suppliers who said the incentive interfered with pricing in wholesale markets, which are subject to federal regulation.

Finalising a hate crimes bill and tackling transformation in the legal profession are some of the tasks that justice minister Michael Masutha plans to tackle this year.