Новости за 07.05.2016

Kilmarnock face a play-off to retain their place in the Premiership as Partick Thistle secure their top-flight status.

TOPEKA, Kansas - A new museum honoring daredevil Evel Knievel will allow visitors to take virtual reality jumps and to understand the physics behind some of his stunts.

(AP) — A new museum honoring daredevil Evel Knievel will allow visitors to take virtual reality jumps and to understand the physics behind some of his stunts. Mike Patterson owns a Topeka Harley-Davidson dealership that is being expanded to include a 16,000-square-foot area to house the Evel Knievel Museum, which he expects to open this year. Knievel became famous for defying death with several jumps and stunts on his motorcycle, including jumping over 10 trucks at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson in 1971. Читать дальше...

 Winking Marybuds begin To open their golden eyes.

Kenneth Branagh's Swedish detective faces his most daunting opponent yet.

(ATTN: ADDS photo) By Kim Deok-hyun BEIJING, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Wrapping up an eight-day visit to North Korea, three Nobel laureates and a European prince voiced hope on Saturday that their "silent diplomacy" could bring positive changes to the isola

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Jermain Defoe's 18th goal of the season blasted Sunderland out of the Barclays Premier League relegation zone as 10-man Chelsea twice squandered the lead on Wearside.

It's not a good time to be a koala.

Who’s a good boy?

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - To say that Ishaq Williams is a long shot to make the New York Giants might be an understatement.

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Jessica and Darren McIntosh were too busy to see me when I arrived at their house one Sunday morning.

When I returned later, I learned what they’d been busy with: arguing with a family member, also an addict, about a single pill of prescription painkiller she’d lost, and injecting meth to get by in its absence.

Jessica, 30, and Darren, 24, were children when they started using drugs. Darren smoked his first joint when he was 12 and quickly moved on to snorting pills. Читать дальше...

– Northern Senators warned governors and village heads in South-East to desist from making statements that can create tense atmosphere in the country – The senators warned people that there would be no country called Nigeria, if Fulani herdsmen were asked to leave their communities and states – They commended the federal government for the steps had […]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, Saturday appointed Khalid Al-Falih, chairman of the state oil giant Saudi Aramco, as its new energy minister, replacing Ali Al-Naimi, who had held the post since 1995. A royal decree quoted on state television said the petroleum ministry had been renamed to become the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources and that Al-Falih would give up his other post, that of health minister.

Middlesbrough are back in the Premier League after a 1-1 draw with 10-man Brighton & Hove Albion in their lucrative, winner-takes-all promotion clash on Saturday while Burnley sealed the Championship title with a 3-0 victory at Charlton Athletic.

As the number of online hotel bookings continues to increase, so does the rate of booking scams. 

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Even as Donald Trump became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party this week, a new poll showed the Manhattan billionaire down by double digits in a potential general-election matchup with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

The CNN/ORC poll, completed before Trump's massive win Tuesday in Indiana that knocked both Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich out of the GOP race, showed Clinton to hold a 13-point lead over Trump.

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WARSAW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Poles waving national flags staged a huge protest march through Warsaw on Saturday, accusing the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party that took power last year of undermining democracy and putting Poland's European future at risk.

The throng stretched at least 3 km (2 miles) along a ceremonial boulevard leading past the presidential palace, and Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, a member of the opposition centrist Civic Platform (PO)... Читать дальше...

Andy Laungani, a tailor based in Lexington, Ky., showing suit samples to the jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. on Wednesday.

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Crystal Palace are mathematically safe from relegation after Dwight Gayle scored twice to give the Eagles victory against Stoke. 

It's a big message from a small town: The government is spraying the skies with chemicals to control our lives – and maybe kill us. A billboard in this picturesque Salem County community has been delivering the jolting news, listing a website of a large and vocal environmental group known as Bye Bye Blue Sky that alleges a global conspiracy.

Nearly a year after the Supreme Court struck down all states' same-sex marriage bans, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore kept trying to disobey the ruling and block marriage equality in his state anyway. So on Friday night, an oversight committee filed six charges for judicial misconduct and suspended Moore with pay.

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Walmart's business is built on the idea that it is cheaper than competitors — something that was proven false in 2013, when Target beat out the retail chain in a head-to-head price competition.

However, you can still find some serious deals at Walmart. You just have to know where to look.

If you're stopping by the retail chain, make sure to add these items to your shopping cart instead of visiting Costco or Target.

Here are 12 purchases that make shopping at Walmart worth it. Читать дальше...

PARIS - France's foreign affairs ministry says that a woman working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who was abducted last December in Yemen is a French-Tunisian.

PARIS (AP) — France's foreign affairs ministry says that a woman working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who was abducted last December in Yemen is a French-Tunisian.