Новости за 12.04.2016

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While landing a superhero role has made Chris Evans very famous, the actor said he turned down the role "a few times" on Monday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

"I was scared," he told host Jimmy Kimmel about initially turning down the nine-picture contract.

"In doing movies one at a time, if all of a sudden you decide you don't want to do it anymore, you're afforded the opportunity to take a step back and recalibrate," Evans said. "When you have a giant contract... Читать дальше...

Shima Baradaran Baughman, University of Utah
Why is it that high net worth individuals from around the world went to Panama to hide their money and none of them are Americans?

EU also responding to failure of U.S., Brunei to extend visa rights to citizens of all member states

Dear Friend,

Tomorrow will be one of the hardest days for you. The last three months have completely changed your life. In that time you have brought life into the world and navigated the rocky terrain of caring for a tiny person who is completely dependent on you.

If I had to guess, I would say that you've experienced a few new things while on your maternity leave. The first moment you laid eyes on your newborn, and it felt like you couldn't possibly contain your heart from bursting out of its chest. Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A university study sees a steep rise in Southern California apartment rents as population and job growth outpaces construction. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1Vly2O4 ) says the USC Casden Multifamily Forecast found the average rent in Los Angeles County is expected to reach $1,416 a month in 2018, an 8.3 percent increase from last year.

Large multinationals operating in the EU will have to publish profits and tax bills generated in countries considered to be “tax havens,” the bloc’s executive arm said.

​​"Everyone is paying attention to the wrong thing."

Police in Kenya have warned rich Kenyan women on the need to be weary of falling in love with Nigerian men. This warning is coming due to the increasing illegal influx of Nigerian immigrants into the country. According to the Star, government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said most of the Nigerian men enter Kenya as tourists […]

Russian-made S-300 air defense systems would play an important role in maintaining Iran’s national security. At the same time, Moscow is interested in supporting Tehran on a number of issues, including the fight against Daesh in Syria, the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh, and deterring Turkey.

India on Tuesday expressed its displeasure to the US over the sale of F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan even as Washington said the aircraft were meant for anti-terror operations.

We buy health insurance for the promise that the insurance companies will protect us from enormous medical bills. But what happens when they don't keep that promise? We all know that medical costs are a nightmare for the uninsured. Hospitals and other health care providers mark up medical bills to many times what they expect to get paid, then give insurance companies enormous "discounts" on those bills.

Of course if you're uninsured, you don't get the insurance "discount." But what many... Читать дальше...

Seattle police say a 37-year-old man has been taken into custody on suspicion of killing a mother of three and leaving some of her body parts in a recycling container.

A new report from environmentalist organisation looks at strategies to avoid rehabilitation costs.

Yahoo extended its deadline for bids until April 18.

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Peter Thiel is today known as one of the most successful and colorful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

He came to fame and fortune by co-founding PayPal and then as an early investor in Facebook and is now is trying to stop aging and death, find technologies that would let people live forever, and encouraging smart young people to skip college and start companies instead. (He's a famously outspoken libertarian.)

If you take every classic tale... Читать дальше...

Roads agency SANRAL has slammed as a deliberate attempt to denigrate the agency’s reputation a report by Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) stating that the agency overpaid by more than R11bn for the R17.9bn Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP).

Jack Haye‚ step-father of Lee-Ann Palmarozza‚ whose body was found floating in a swimming pool at a luxury Mauritian resort in December 2014‚ said he was sure as the trial had progressed that the man accused of her death would “walk” but it was still difficult for his family.

Chances of the Saudis even showing up at a global oil summit bent of freezing production would have been unthinkable a year ago

The recent Panama Papers revelations, as well as the 2014 LuxLeaks scandal, have exposed the EU's hypocrisy when it comes to tackling tax evasion, with an "abysmal gap" between the rhetoric and actions of governments, economist Thomas Piketty has said.

The problem with women's outdoor gear.​