Новости за 10.07.2016

TOKYO, Japan - Toshimitsu Motegi (R), election strategy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands ...

I'm assuming the events in Dallas this week will overtake presidential politics for at least one weekend on the Sunday talking head shows, but don't expect any announcements from Republicans that we'll be holding hearings on police shootings any time in the near future, or for any of them to veer from their NRA approved talking points and admit that heaven forbid maybe the fact that this country is flooded with guns might be part of the problem with these mass killings.

Rapper AKA became only the second South African rapper to appear on popular US hip-hop radio show Sway In The Morning this week, where he bowled over American audiences with his charm and charisma.

The combination of cool climate and anoxic water in these northern bogs makes conditions right for long-term preservation.

There’s road rage and bike rage, and there’s even computer rage. (Did you hear about the Colorado man cited by police after he shot his recalcitrant computer eight times?) And there’s also air rage.

To the editor: The development of drugs such as Sovaldi is one of the crowning achievements of modern medicine, with its promise of eliminating the suffering and costs associated with advanced liver disease. (“We're all paying a high price for drug company profiteering,” Opinion, July 6)

To the editor: While I agree that free speech should include the right to criticize and even boycott Israel, I dispute that the anti-BDS bill by state Assemblyman Richard Boom (D-Santa Monica) is an infringement on that right. (“Boycotts of Israel are a protected form of free speech,” editorial,...

More than 30 million people gambled at Las Vegas casinos last year, trying their luck at cards, dice, slots and wheels on average for three hours a day. That’s a staggering number. Why travel to a casino with so many forms of betting easily found online? Why gamble at all when there are so many...

There’s a spectacular summer getaway in rural Maryland that, by federal decree, doesn’t show up on maps. Appointed with a gleaming fitness center and a chapel, and manned by a congenial if armed security force, this woodsy hideout has historically offered bowling, skeet-shooting, sledding, horseshoes...

To the editor: The Dallas police shooting is a national tragedy, and the nation has to take action without taking sides. We shouldn’t be either “for” the police or “for” the victims of police shootings. (“Police officers resentful, afraid and less motivated after Dallas massacre, Gardena chief...

To the editor: Every day, thousands of perfectly rational consumers make their purchase decisions based on the amount of sugar or sodium that a product contains, decisions enabled by national food labeling standards. (“Vermont's newest export is bad GMO policy,” editorial, July 7)

A man has been taken to hospital after the motorbike he was riding crashed into a roundabout.

DALLAS (AP) — The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march had practiced military-style drills in his yard and trained at a private self-defense school that teaches special tactics, including "shooting on the move," a maneuver in…

DALLAS (AP) — The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march had practiced military-style drills in his yard and trained at a private self-defense school that teaches special tactics, including "shooting on the move," a maneuver in…

DALLAS (AP) — The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march had practiced military-style drills in his yard and trained at a private self-defense school that teaches special tactics, including "shooting on the move," a maneuver in…

DALLAS (AP) — The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march had practiced military-style drills in his yard and trained at a private self-defense school that teaches special tactics, including "shooting on the move," a maneuver in which an attacker fires and changes position before firing again. Authorities have said the 25-year-old gunman kept a journal of combat tactics and had amassed a personal arsenal at his home, including bomb-making materials, rifles and ammunition. "Reality is highly dynamic... Читать дальше...

Andre De Grasse ran his fastest 100m of the year to book his place at the Rio Games on Saturday.

Joylene Cunningham's boyfriend kissed the woman to try and wind her up.

At Domain Stadium on Sunday Adam Simpson, as West Coast coach, he may have masterminded the end of his former club's chances of adding the 2016 premiership cup to their trophy cabinet.

With an excavation in southern Israel unearthing a Philistine cemetery for the first time, bones of the biblical giant 's people can finally shed new light on mysteries of their culture. Some of the site's finds were going on display Sunday at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem. Almost three millennia since the Philistines were wiped off the face of the earth by Babylonian armies, a US archaeologist was hard at work crouched in one of their funerary chambers at the excavation in the Mediterranean city of Ashkelon. Читать дальше...

The reaction to whatever the Bank does with interest rates will be more interesting than the decision itself

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N's World Food Program says it has made its first airlift of humanitarian aid to families cut off from supplies in northeastern Syria.