The Obama administration is announcing $48 million in grants to help farmers and ranchers in the West conserve water and energy amid drought and climate change. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is scheduled to discuss the plan Thursday in Colorado. The Agriculture Department says the effort will include 76 projects in at least...
There have been chaotic scenes in the lower house of the US Congress as Democrats staged a sit-in to demand a vote on gun control legislation. The protest comes in the wake of the recent shootings in Orlando, the deadliest in modern US history. Republican Speaker Paul Ryan tried to regain control but was met with chants of...
A brain-eating amoeba took the life a teenager who went on a church trip in Charlotte, North Carolina, health officials said Wednesday. The 18-year-old Ohio woman died of primary amebic mengioencephalitis on Sunday, a rare but fatal brain infection caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, said Mitzi Kline, director of...
SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has announced it is slashing opening hours in dozens of stores up and down the country with more than 1,000 people facing redundancy. The chain is scrapping 24-hour opening times in 20 stores in a bid to stem the haemorrhaging of profits. Some 1,750 staff could lose their jobs as a result of the...
Politicians are making their final pitch for votes on the last day of campaigning before the EU referendum. David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron are addressing rallies arguing the UK will be better off and safer with a Remain vote in Thursday's poll. Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are appealing to their own Leave...
The final live debate of the UK's EU referendum campaign took place at Wembley Arena on Tuesday night. Here are five of the key moments from the BBC showdown. Representing Leave, Boris Johnson, Labour MP Gisela Stuart and energy minister Andrea Leadsom went head-to-head with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Scottish Conservative...
At least 79 people have been killed and more than 20 injured by lightning strikes in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. Fifty-three people died in Bihar, 10 people were killed in neighbouring Jharkhand and at least 16 died in Madhya Pradesh, officials say. Most of the people who died were working on farms...
Юная звезда «Папиных дочек» продолжает эксперименты со стилем. Недавно актриса показала поклонникам свою фотографию в неформальном образе — в черном парике-каре и...
THE trigger-happy president elect of the Philippines who vowed to “kill” drug dealers looks to have made good on his promise as scores of criminals have allegedly died at the hands of police in recent weeks. Rodrigo Duterte called drug dealers “sons of bitches” and referred to himself as a one man...
The French authorities have expelled controversial Russia fan leader Alexander Shprygin for a second time. He was put on a flight from Paris to Moscow on Tuesday evening, the French interior ministry said. Mr Shprygin had previously been expelled on Saturday, a week after fan violence marred Russia's Euro 2016 match with...
Впереди еще два месяца лета, но известные марки уже предлагают нам подумать о том, что мы будем носить осенью и зимой. Так, на днях компания Rendez-Vous провела презентацию осенне-зимних...
Взрывы в аэропорту Стамбула, в результате которых погибли 42 человека, совершили трое смертников с гражданством России, Узбекистана и Кыргызстана. Об этом сообщает Reuters, ссылаясь...