Новости за 12.12.2016

Full coverage of of 5th Day, 4th Test between India and England from Wankhade stadium.

A newly married couple from British Columbia is making beautiful music together in the form a surname mashup.

Kristine Wick and Jason Wagner will soon be the Wickners. A newly married couple from British Columbia is making beautiful music together in the form a surname mashup. Kristine Gick and her husband, Jason Wagner, are bucking all matrimonial traditions when it comes to their monikers.

Tidal waves hit seaside villages in the Erasama block of Jagatsinghpur district, causing extensive damage to ripe paddy fields.

"I thought I was protecting my family and I have taken somebody away from theirs."

Just when we thought the 22nd Critics' Choice Awards was sailing along smoothly... Leslie Mann and Christian Slater presented the award for Best Comedy Series to...

Lachie Keeffe hasn't played a game of football for more than two years, but resumed training on Monday and looks set to play a pivotal role in the Magpies' plans for 2017.

Shares in Australian travel insurance provider Cover-More have surged more than 40 per cent on the back of a $741 million takeover offer by global insurance giant Zurich Insurance Group.

Golden State flexed its muscle in final quarter after trailing Wolves by 10.

New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English was confirmed as the country`s new prime minister on Monday, as expected, a week after John Key announced his surprise resignation after eight years in the role.

The Tax Office ruled out a census-style "denial of service" attack as the reason for the loss of its entire website, saying the massive failure was due to hardware problems "not being caused by any external factors".

Heavy rain and winds have begun to pound the Indian city of Chennai, with a severe tropical cyclone expected to make landfall Monday. Tropical cyclone Vardah is packing winds of 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) and is the first cyclone on the Bay of Bengal to reach hurricane force in 2016, said […]

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The Rams trailed the Atlanta Falcons by 14 points early in the second quarter — a sizable but hardly insurmountable deficit against one of the NFL’s worst defenses — when receiver Tavon Austin lined up in the backfield, bolted around the right side and found himself wide open on a curl pattern.

A group of teens and twenty-somethings gathered in a nondescript meeting room at the Long Beach Convention Center, hoping for a chance to say a few words and take a selfie with one of the most fervent opponents of Donald Trump to emerge from the 2016 election.

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit not far from Argentina’s western city of San Juan, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center said Monday.

In one of the most odd moments of the night at the 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards, actor Keith Stanfield crashed the stage to accept an award that was presented to the television show Silicon Valley. While the executive producer of the HBO show was walking on stage to accept the award for Best Comedy Series, [...]

MINNEAPOLIS — With all the Golden State Warriors have accomplished in the last three years, they take special pride in an NBA-record streak of 111 regular-season games without back-to-back losses.

The strike comes after rising tension on the Rourkela campus since Thursday evening, when it emerged that the Supreme Court had rejected the review petition of students who had been admitted for the 2015-16 academic year.

“The Vampire Diaries” Season 8 aired its midseason finale on Friday, but there is still no sign of Nina Dobrev’s return to the show. The 27-year-old actress, who played lead role Elena Gilbert for six seasons, is playing coy about her rumored comeback. Instead of addressing the speculations, Dobrev has been focusing on other projects and having cordial get-togethers with her friends.

SYDNEY — Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios says he regards his 2016 season as a successful one, though he ended the year under a ban from the ATP Tour for on-court misbehavior.

Police have identified the bones found in a septic tank at the back of a property in Brisbane's north last month as the remains of Wayne James Youngkin who went missing in 1986.

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The long national nightmare that was the 2016 presidential election is finally over. Now, we’re facing a worse terror: the reality of a Trump presidency. Donald Trump has already promised to nominate a segregationist attorney general, a national security adviser who is a raging Islamophobe, a secretary of education who doesn’t believe in public schools, and a secretary of defense whose sobriquet is “Mad Dog.” How worried should we be that General... Читать дальше...

President-elect Donald Trump said the Central Intelligence Agency’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the U.S. election to increase his chances of winning was ridiculous. Photo: Getty