Новости за 22.04.2016

A father-of-two and talented musician has died at the age of 31 after falling from a balcony while away with friends in Hungary.

Appalachia, which stretches across 13 states, is rarely center stage during presidential campaigns. It is one of the most economically deprived regions of the country and deeply conservative.

Perhaps you’ve noticed it’s an election year.

The La Crosse Board of Park Commissioners approved a plan Thursday to pay a consultant to evaluate Memorial Pool, which was also added to the La Crosse landmark registry at Thursday’s Heritage Preservation Commission meeting.

Thomas Middleditch, one of the stars of HBO's "Silicon Valley," stops by the WSJ Cafe to talk about the show's third season, men's ties and Canadian comedy. Photo: John P. Fleenor/HBO

Pop music superstar Prince died Thursday at age 57. WSJ's Lee Hawkins looks back on Prince's legacy and some of his accomplishments as a music business entrepreneur.

Francois Davids will spearhead SA Rugby’s attempt to find solutions to the problems which has beset the Eastern Province rugby.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - China's top diplomat praised Cambodia for its support of Beijing's positions on world affairs as he ended a visit to one of the country's closest allies in Southeast Asia on Friday.

HOLTEN – Op en rond circuit de Beusebergring wordt op Koningsdag weer de jaarlijkse Klassieker Motorrace gehouden. De historische motoren worden woensdag om 13.00 uur naar de startstreep geduwd voor een regelmatigheidwedstrijd. De Nortons, BSA’s, Eijsinks, MV Augusta’s, Aermacchi’s, Van Veen Kreidlers en NSU’s zijn echter al vanaf 10.30 uur te bewonderen. Dan lopen ze warm tijdens de training.

SEOUL, April 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean footballer Ji So-yun was named to the Team of the Year in the top English women's football league for the second time in a row Thursday (local time). The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) announced

The 14th Eurasian Media Forum (EAMF) will be held in June 2017 in Astana on the sidelines of the upcoming EXPO-2017, Chair of EAMF Organizing Committee Dariga Nazarbayeva said Friday.

South Korea on Friday rejected the North's highly unusual overture to send North Korean relatives to Seoul to reunite with the 13 restaurant workers it says were abducted in China by spies from the South.

A survey carried out just weeks before Denmark' government finally reveals which new fighter jet will replace the ageing stock of F-16s in the Danish Air Force has revealed that the majority of Danes are against buying a replacement altogether.

#Wood4Wood

All Harry Potter fans are familiar with Oliver Wood, Keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, pioneer of turtlenecks, and the real hero of all of our hearts.

[Insert "wood" joke here.]

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Sean Biggerstaff captured all our hearts as Wood in the movies. Sadly he was only in the first two, because Wood moved on to bigger and better things, like playing for Puddlemere United and (probably) starting his own line of Quidditch-friendly turtlenecks. Читать дальше...

MOSCOW - The Russian parliament on Friday elected a retired senior police officer to serve as presidential human rights ombudsman amid an outcry about her lack of democratic credentials.

The private companies that ship grey market cars out of Japan and New Zealand have a nickname for Australia. It's Treasure Island.

Mobile gaming revenues are expected to outstrip the money generated by console and PC games in 2016 for the first time.

The newspapers for today, April 22 mainly focus on the controversies surrounding the 2016 budget. The controversy surrounding the 2016 budget is far from over as President Muhammadu Buhari returned the document to the National Assembly, pointing out areas of concern in the budget and demanding adjustment. The Sun reports that chairman of the House […]

The pranksters are seeking new targets after Elton John and Erdogan

The Kremlin on Friday denied media reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had discussed alleged incidents involving Russian forces in Syria and Israeli military aircraft.

Canberrans headed to the Tuggeranong Arts Centre to see Mr Tim perform his children's rock music.

Channel Nine "has some explaining to do" over its role in a botched child recovery operation that saw a Brisbane woman and 60 Minutes crew thrown in jail for two weeks, a journalist who spent 400 days in an Egyptian jail says.

Is there a better metaphor for athletic achievement than tower running? It’s a vertical sprint of power and endurance to greater and greater heights. And you always come out on top.Yet, as sports go, stair climbing is relatively new and has only a small pool of professional competitors. Those who are ranked for speed are in the hundreds, not thousands. The winners earn modest prizes, usually swag from sponsors, not ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday refused to comment on the possible exchange of sentenced Ukrainian national Nadezhda Savchenko.