Новости за 04.05.2016

WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer.

To celebrate Star Wars Day, we brought members of the Empire to FABberz NYC to see how they would fare against a real working laser. May the 4th be with you!

Prime Minister Haider al Abadi’s grasp on the country is tenuous

Navy SEAL killed in combat was among 5,000 U.S. forces back in Iraq

U.S. goal is to keep country together until Obama is out of office, analysts say

INTRIGUE surrounds Collingwood’s recruiting of Greater Western Sydney battler Tim Golds a month after the contentious Adam Treloar trade was sealed.

Sports journalist and former baseball player Josh Chetwynd has compiled what appears to be an exhaustive collection in his new book The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms. Here are the sports-related origins of just six of the over 300 terms included in the book.

To Russian President Vladimir Putin, the mammoth Vostochny cosmodrome in the far eastern Siberian taiga illustrates the nation's ongoing role as a space pioneer.

Since she got in on the adult coloring book craze two years ago, Cheri Brown has spent more than $400 on 50 books holding intricate sketches that she embellishes with Sharpies, colored pencils and gel pens. But in November, Brown shifted spending to digital products. She paid $100 for mobile apps...

Surfers had never seen a spot like it: head-high waves unfurling like wrapping paper in pristine, tapering cylinders for more than a quarter-mile, with not a soul out to catch them.

I’m Christina Bellantoni, and it was going to be great. But it wasn’t meant to be.

U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-Los Angeles) has poured more than $300,000 from his reelection campaign fund into legal services with five Los Angeles law firms in the last year, but his attorney says there is no indication the congressman is the subject of a rumored federal investigation.

Thousands of SunEdison Inc. employees and customers packed the House of Blues at Disneyland on a Wednesday night last September.

Given what a multibillion-dollar behemoth the "Star Wars" universe has become, it's fascinating to discover that a long time ago in a studio sound stage far, far away,  no one took it very seriously at all.

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

A boy who disappeared in his school uniform after leaving home this morning, sparking a frantic search, has been found safe.

Thieves stole a bike and apparently left a green fancy dress hat in its place.

Today’s topics include what doctors earn, paying ransoms, breaking 132-year losing streak ... and more

The proposed legislation for medically assisted dying must treat it as a rare, exceptional way to end life

The PQ leader’s abrupt departure is a sharp reminder that what plays out in public is often only part of the story

Canada is waiting on international agreements with the EU and Pacific Rim countries, both moving slowly for very different reasons

The role of Israel in Western political debate shows how prejudices can shift from one group to another

Traveller, career woman, researcher, mother. Born on Jan. 27, 1926, in Montreal; died on Nov. 13, 2015, in Ottawa, of natural causes, aged 89.

Oil prices dropped for the third straight day on Tuesday, is this the end of the energy sector's climb?

Champions elect Mamelodi Sundowns are not yet home and dry.

Champions elect Mamelodi Sundowns are not yet home and dry.

With three matches to go, this season’s trophy looks destined to head to the capital city but Sundowns defender Thabo Nthethe, who is nicknamed Mr Cool, has called for calm.

“We have to do what we have been doing until we have the trophy in our hands.

“For now it’s not yet ours,” said Nthethe, whose side is at the top of the Absa Premiership table with 62 points. Читать дальше...