Новости за 08.08.2015

The Edinburgh Fringe is keeping up its reputation for the hard-hitting and the avant-garde with an innovation that will strike fear into the hearts of critics. (And yes, they do have hearts, most of them.) The Ham Fist award aims to embarrass reviewers who spectacularly get the wrong end of the stick. It’s paid for by an anonymous comedian, and run by the website Fringepig, famous (among critics) for its often brutal reviews of reviewers.

Tom Hayes was, no doubt about it, something of an oddball. Every office has one. Usually it’s a bloke: someone good at his job, perhaps, and so grudgingly tolerated, but never quite one of the lads.

How long could you live without your smartphone? A week? No chance. A day? Oh God. An hour? Well OK, if I must. Most of us know that sinking feel of having left our phone at home, specifically the panic that comes with wondering, “What if the childminder calls?” or “How will I Instagram my lunch?”

A sobering contrast lies at the heart of US elections. Their unmatched entertainment value masks the ruthlessness, the dirty tricks, and the downright subversion of democracy sometimes employed to win them. And rarely has the contrast been more vividly on display than last Thursday, 6 August.

I’ve tried as hard as I can but … I really can’t hack festivals. I just don’t think they’re for me. Maybe it’s because I dress like an idiot for work, so the idea of wandering around the gardens of some stately home disguised as a hipster lobster is less appealing to me than the average middle-class dad on a weekend off? Maybe I’m just a killjoy? It’s certainly true that I wander around these things when forced to be there with a rain cloud hanging over my head ... a full-time festival grump.

After stopping by Comedy Central's “The Daily Show” to give Jon Stewart a remarkably nerdy send-off, Stephen Colbert is officially back. Now, as America prepares for his first night as host CBS's “The Late Show," on which he's replacing David Letterman, his first guest has been confirmed.

After laboring on local stages for two decades, actress/singer Kersten Rodau is finally getting her due as a bona fide star.

At least six dead after Typhoon Soudelor drenches Taiwan.

Dressed like an English gentleman, revolutionary Bhagat Singh’s escape (after killing Saunders) from Lahore to Calcutta via Lucknow, with a woman posing as wife and fellow revolutionary Rajguru as servant is well known. But do you know who was the woman posing as Bhagat’s wife? She was none other than Duragavati Devi alias Durga ‘Bhabhi’, the revolutionary. Wife of Bhagwati Charan Vohra, also a revolutionary associated with the Kakori Plan, the indomitable lady who played unforgettable role in freedom struggle, died in oblivion in Lucknow.

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Union water resources minister Uma Bharti have agreed to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV), a legal entity to fulfill specific objectives, for the cleaning up of the Delhi stretch of the Yamuna.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was arraigned on charges of perjury and obstruction on Saturday afternoon at the Montgomery County detective bureau. Kane is is accused of leaking grand jury information to a newspaper to get back at a former state prosecutor whom she thought had made her look bad.

Someone's probably not joining the squad... In an interview with Marie Claire for its September 2015 issue, which features her on the cover, Miley Cyrus busted out some harsh...

Former England captain Michael Vaughan believes "the first day at Edgbaston was the key to the whole series", as England win the Ashes at Trent Bridge.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he still respects Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, despite the four-game suspension Goodell handed down for Deflategate. “Listen, he’s a great player and he’s a great young man,” Goodell told the Canton Repository. “We issued the decision just last week. We’re in the midst of litigation to . . . ensure…

SANTIAGO, Chile — Gen. Manuel Contreras, who headed the feared spy agency that kidnapped, tortured and killed thousands during Chile’s military dictatorship, died late Friday at a military hospital while serving a combined sentence of more than 500 years for crimes against humanity. He was 86. Contreras had been hospitalized since September because of kidney problems and was later moved to the intensive care unit when his condition degenerated. Soon after the death was confirmed by the national prison service... Читать дальше...

Desire to own a smartphone and little extra pocket money tempted the three teenage boys to donate their blood at the Kohli Pathology and Blood Bank for Rs 500 for each unit of blood.

It’s been a rough start for several drivers in Saturday’s Zippo 200 Xfinity Series race at Watkins Glen.

In response to customer feedback that slammed the retailer for distinguishing toys for girls and boys, Target announced it will start phasing out gender-based signage in some of its departments, Fortune reported. The retailer has seen a backlash on social media this summer after a woman posted on Twitter her dissatisfaction with a Target sign that referred “building sets” and “girl building sets.”

Berkshire Hathaway is close to a deal that may be its largest acquisition ever, the WSJ reported on Saturday.

At all-India ulema meet in Lucknow, Indresh Kumar, founder of RSS-backed Muslim Rashtriya Manch ruled out any possibility of threat to his life and said he has met and seen only "farishte” (good humans) in the programme.

Twenty-nine of the nation’s top scientists — including Nobel laureates, veteran makers of nuclear arms and former White House science advisers — wrote to President Obama on Saturday to praise the Iran deal, calling it innovative and stringent. The letter, from some of the world’s most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Obama is lobbying Congress, the U.S. public and the nation’s allies to support the agreement. The... Читать дальше...

Two people have been hospitalized from the parasite but no deaths have been reported