Новости за 04.05.2016

On the morning after Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, with the backing of the Republican National Committee, some are declaring the death of the party — but New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argued that it proves that the party's conservative establishment was hollow at the core.

Here's how to choose whether to take your company pension as a series of monthly payments or as a nice fat lump sum.

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In American culture, we tend to associate being the loudest voice in the room with power, control, and confidence.

We see it everywhere, from bosses shouting in boardrooms to politicians interrupting and talking over their rivals.

However, the most confident people are not only skilled at articulating their own thoughts, they're also excellent listeners.

"The bottom line is be interested, not interesting," says Lillian Glass, a body-language expert... Читать дальше...

FIFA ethics prosecutors want a life ban imposed on former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, who has pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in the United States.

– The slain suicide bomber was with a 14-year-old girl whom she had crossed over with – Reports say she was on her way to Cameroon from Nigeria A woman with explosives strapped around her body has been killed with a poisoned arrow in Cameroon. Daily News reports that a self-defense group killed the woman […]

LISBON, Portugal - Portuguese and European police say they have broken up a cell of an important Russian mafia group that allegedly laundered money through European football clubs.

Tech executives in Silicon Valley have vowed for years to address the industry’s lack of diversity. Yet the employees of most technology firms, including Google Inc. and Apple Inc., remain predominantly white and male.

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LOS ANGELES, May 4 (UPI) -- Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani will perform "Go Ahead and Break My Heart" for the first time on NBC reality competition "The Voice."

Put down Candy Crush for a sec.

ATLANTA - Intercontinental Exchange has jettisoned plans to acquire the London Stock Exchange.

ATLANTA (AP) — Intercontinental Exchange has jettisoned plans to acquire the London Stock Exchange. Since the owner of the New York Stock Exchange first revealed two months ago that it was pursuing a buyout, German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse and the London Stock Exchange announced a $30 billion merger. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $3.68 per share, surpassing Wall Street expectations by a penny, according to a poll of analysts by Zacks Investment Research.

Tess Asplund has become an online hero after raising her fist in front of neo-Nazis in Sweden.

There are quite a number of people who could fit the bill.

Bikers are conducting the Moscow-Berlin rally in honor of the Victory Day

A Minneapolis attorney said Wednesday that Prince had arranged to meet with a California doctor who specializes in addiction treatment the day before he died. Attorney William Mauzy said the doctor, Howard Kornfeld, had never met or spoken to Prince before ...

Zero K, out this week, is beautiful—but it sees in the advent of cryonic technology a chilling effect that dooms art, happiness, and humanity itself. The post In Don DeLillo's New Novel Zero K, Cryonics Doesn't Just Preserve—It Destroys appeared first on WIRED.

Gigi Hadid is collaborating with contemporary-art publisher Visionaire World, which is repurposing one her Instagram photos and distributing prints ... free.

The late-night show's Mother's Day commercial spoofs "Game of Thrones."

Her character’s Twitter-dependent fate won’t be revealed until the July 31 premiere of Sharknado: The Fourth Awakens, but for now, Tara Reid is sitting pretty on the Syfy thriller’s just-released poster.

It’s impossible to serve up Beyoncé's Lemonade without talking about Hot Sauce.

Oink.

Take a tour around the most popular city in Russian literature

The price of oil is up 70 per cent in three months. But gun-shy oil executives are not willing to buy into this rally quite yet.

Under executive producer and showrunner Warren Leight, a lot has changed for Law & Order: SVU. Characters have personal lives and the stories have moved from black and white/open and shut to a...