Новости за 15.09.2016

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On Sept. 15, 1963, four black girls were killed in the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Ala. Two black teenage boys were shot to death later that day as citywide rioting broke out.

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France's PSA Group, the second-largest auto manufacturer in Europe, has partnered with Bollore Group to launch a car-sharing service, Fortune reports.

The service will first launch in Los Angeles but the companies are currently working with other cities to expand the service.

This is part of a turnaround plan for PSA Group, which was nearly forced to declare bankruptcy two years ago. Читать дальше...

A study found that larger-bodied animals are more likely to die out first than smaller ones. According to the study, led by researchers at Stanford University, this is the first time such a trend has been observed. There have been five mass extinctions in the history of the world, the largest of which occurred nearly 250 million years ago and wiped out at least 90 percent of sea creatures. Scientists believe that we are now entering the sixth mass extinction largely due to “human-induced species... Читать дальше...

On the eve of a high-level visit from the Asian Football Confederation, Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold wants the A-League to introduce a quota for Asian players, while Football Federation Australia has thrown tentative support behind what could be the most significant rule change in the competition's history.

More than seven years after an airline captain saved 155 lives by ditching his crippled airliner in the Hudson River, now the basis of a new movie, most of the safety recommendations stemming from the accident haven't been carried out.

A well-known doctor has claimed that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may be responsible for poisoning Hillary Clinton, causing her recent bout of ill-health.  Dr Benne Omalu, famous for exposing the NFL concussion crisis, says that Hillary’s recent collapse due to pneumonia may be as a result of her being poisoned by her political rivals. Dailymail.co.uk reports: Dr Bennet Omalu, the doctor who exposed the NFL concussion crisis, tweeted: ‘I must advice (sic) the Clinton campaign to perform toxicologic analysis of Ms Clinton’s blood. Читать дальше...

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 18, 2016 in Tokyo shows Pip robot Technology Co. employees testing a board game for ...

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Stakeholders in Zambia have urged President Edgar Lungu to ensure that former ministers pay back money they accrued when they illegally occupied their offices.

The West has made so many mistakes and failures in Syria that it lost the country already ten years ago; however, as the current Russia-US brokered ceasefire appears to hold, there is a "spark of hope" for the settlement of the conflict, according to German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

In July, a video of Gowtham Sudarshan and Ashish Paul -- one throwing the dog down from the rooftop of a building and the other filming the gruesome act -- went viral.

London has been named as the most expensive city in the world for technology start-ups to open offices, trumping San Francisco.

Zimbabwe's government has dropped plans to cut public-sector jobs and bonuses a week after they were announced as activists call for more protests against economic mismanagement.

Voor de derde dag op een rij is vandaag het warmtedagrecord verbroken. ,,Het moet een keer stoppen met de hitterecords, zou je denken. Maar vandaag nog niet; we gaan gewoon verder waar we gebleven waren", zegt Marco Verhoef van weerbureau Weerplaza. Na vandaag houdt het echt op.

Ajax are stuck in a revolving loop of Groundhog Day, that insane situation where undesirable things keep happening in exactly the same way.

Backers of Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila and part of the opposition have agreed on the sequence of a series of upcoming elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than seven years after an airline captain saved 155 lives by ditching his crippled airliner in the Hudson River, now the basis of a new movie, most of the safety recommendations stemming from the accident haven't been carried out. The movie "Sully," which opened in theaters last week, celebrates how veteran pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, played by Tom Hanks, along with his co-pilot, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, ferry boat operators and first responders... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than seven years after an airline captain saved 155 lives by ditching his crippled airliner in the Hudson River, now the basis of a new movie, most of the safety recommendations stemming from the accident haven't been carried out. The movie "Sully," which opened in theaters last week, celebrates how veteran pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, played by Tom Hanks, along with his co-pilot, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, ferry boat operators and first responders... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — In the seven years since an airline captain saved 155 lives by ditching his crippled airliner in the Hudson River, there’s been enough time to write a book and make a movie, but apparently not enough to carry out most of the safety recommendations stemming from the accident. Of the 35 recommendations made

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