Новости за 22.04.2016

Accident on Smiler rollercoaster last summer left five people seriously injured

There is a lot built on the edifice of a cheap oil price. Just ask bond and equity investors, writes John Authers

A Mexican special forces operator came up with a rather unorthodox but apparently efficient method of ruining the fearsome reputations of drug cartel members he apprehended.

Het bedrijf achter het Britse attractiepark Alton Towers heeft toegegeven dat het meer had kunnen doen om een horrorongeluk in juni 2015 te voorkomen. Twee slachtoffers moesten na het ongeluk hun benen laten amputeren. Het bedrijf, Merlin Attractions, wacht nu een 'zeer hoge boete'.

Polderdiva Gerard Joling (55) wilde met zijn tweet naar aanleiding van het overlijden van popicoon Prince niet de aandacht op zichzelf vestigen. Volgens de zanger was dat helemaal niet de bedoeling. Hij reageert daarmee op alle kritiek die ontstond na zijn tweet van donderdagavond.

Cable providers are moving to apps, but the box still needs work. The post Cable Boxes Suck. One Day They’ll Die. Until Then We Have to Fix Them. appeared first on WIRED.

The U.K. government has updated foreign travel advice, warning British citizens about risks visiting America's southern states.

Daniel J. Graeber
MELBOURNE, April 22 (UPI) -- A competition watchdog in Australia said it was growing concerned by the tight market control from a few gas players and an uncertain supply outlook.

Nigerian afro-pop singer Alariwo of Africa has being away from the music scene for a long while. Fans have wondered where he has been and what he is up to. NAIJ.com caught up with him at the Nigerian Entertainment Conference where he talked about making a comeback while maintaining that he hadn’t left the music business […]

Het leven van popicoon Prince is op zijn minst opmerkelijk te noemen. Van zijn muzikale hoogte- en dieptepunten tot de hak die hij platenmaatschappijen wilde zetten en zijn jeugd. We zetten het voor je op een rij.

BEIJING - Work is proceeding quickly on China's planned mission to land a rover on Mars by 2020, the chief administrator of the country's ambitious space program said Friday.

What better way to honor Prince than through song? Just hours after the 57-year-old singer was found dead in his Minnesota home, Paisley Park, Jennifer Hudson paid her respects to him in...

Pro-Trump political messages — and the campus’ official response to them — have upset a number of students at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Incident forced the Abbotsford crossing to close for about 40 minutes

Best says the big Jamaican is a good man and does not indulge in too much 'bad stuff.

Researchers say some parts of the brain don't go into 'sleep mode' in the first night of a new location.

De iconische Amerikaanse zanger Prince, die donderdag op 57-jarige leeftijd overleed, was de koning van de eigenzinnigheid en het mysterie. Hoeveel weet jij van zijn talloze wereldhits, opmerkelijke acties en gewoontes?

All companies, including Apple Inc., should pay more taxes, the tech giant's co-founder Steve Wozniak said Friday. Apple has come under the scrutiny of U.S. and European regulators over its alleged use of tax shelters in Luxembourg and Ireland to protect its revenues. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Wozniak, who left the company in 1985, said he doesn't like the idea that Apple does not pay taxes at the same rate he does personally.

Doug G. Ware and Amy R. Connolly
NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- Secretary of State John Kerry called the Paris climate agreement "powerful" but said it may not be enough to keep the Earth from warming too much in the future.

Doug G. Ware and Amy R. Connolly
NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the Paris climate agreement "powerful" but warned it may not be enough to keep the Earth from warming.

Doug G. Ware
NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- It's a first, but is it enough? That's the question hanging in the air as world leaders from more than 160 nations sign the Paris climate change accord Friday.