Новости за 02.08.2016

Oil prices edged up on Tuesday after U.S. crude broke below $40 per barrel the previous session, but traders said fuel markets continued to be dogged by excess production.

The Catholic university's longest-serving president says now is the right time for this transition. James Delaney, the chair of the university's board of trustees, says Mirenda is a tireless advocate and a visionary for the school.

Less than four years ago, the Republican Party tapped a few respected party officials to help the GOP find its way forward. This week, one of them says she's leaving the party — driven out by Donald Trump.

The experiences of university life have prompted a Wits student to write and publish a book on surviving life after high school.

Bayern Munich assistant manager and former Derby boss Paul Clement confirms he turned down a role with England.

Will Smith is outraged at the way Donald Trump talks about women. 

The “Suicide Squad” star vented his anger over the GOP presidential candidate’s discourse on women during a wide-ranging interview with Australian news website news.com.au.

On the campaign stump, Donald Trump has opened August by moving from "Crooked Hillary" to "the devil."

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say that one of the last surviving populations of woolly mammoths was likely driven to extinction by lack of drinking water.

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — In the wake of the Caster Semenya sex-test scandal at the 2009 world championships, track and field’s international governing body introduced contentious rules making women with a condition that caused them to produce high levels of natural testosterone ineligible to compete until they artificially lowered those levels. The IAAF’s hyperandrogenism regulations,

In a highly unusual travel warning, health officials advised pregnant women to avoid a part of Miami where mosquitoes are apparently transmitting Zika directly to humans ...

DJ Mbuso "DJ Sox" Sokhela and mayoral candidate Mduduzi Mhlongo face hefty fines after posting their ballot papers on social media.

If Alfred "Skip" Nichols had been a commercial airplane pilot, he probably would have been grounded long ago ...

The longtime aide to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was one of the five senior Republican strategists tasked with identifying the party's shortcomings and recommending ways it could win the White House after its losing 2012 presidential campaign. "Sally is representative of an important segment of our party, and that is college-educated women, where Donald Trump is losing by disastrous margins," said Ari Fleischer, who worked with Bradshaw on the GOP project and was a senior adviser to President George W. Читать дальше...

This weekend is the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it's a good time to give a few thoughts to nuclear weapons. Most people don't think about them much, and the majority of countries have fully rejected them. In fact, there are only a small handful of countries that like nuclear weapons- the 9 that have them (China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and the United States) and another couple dozen that either have bilateral agreements with the US (Australia... Читать дальше...

The current results indicate that there has been no significant star formation in this large region over hundreds of millions years.

More than 100 million acres of America's most rugged landscapes designated as wilderness are off-limits to mountain bikers, but two Utah senators have introduced legislation that would allow ...

It was a distraught and broken man who laid his eldest son to rest on Monday afternoon.Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, who led the family in the last rites of his political heir Rakesh Siddaramaiah, 39, at the family's farmhouse in Tore Katur, on the outskirts of Mysuru city, maintained a stoic silence and kept to himself for the better part of the day.

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has handed a customized airborne command system Il-96-400, also known as the 'doomsday plane', over to the national Defense Ministry, Ilyushin aircraft manufacturer announced.