“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone,” she told cheering crowds at a rally in New York, BBC reports. Hillary Clinton hailed “the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee”. Hours later, ...
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Brightening up gray Ukrainian hospital walls
Bring a little cheer to the hospitals and clinics for sick children in Ukraine. That’s exactly what a couple of young artists decided to do to help kids get well sooner, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UA Today. These two ...
Read More »Azerbaijan to buy 10 Ukrainian An-178 aircraft
The price of the contract has not been disclosed, but it has become known that the first advance payment has already been made by Azerbaijan’s company. The amount of prepayment has not been disclosed either, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to ...
Read More »Astronauts entered the inflated BEAM habitat for the first time today
Astronauts aboard the ISS entered the station’s first inflatable habitat today. At 4:47AM ET this morning, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka opened the hatch to the expanded habitat and ventured inside to collect air samples and ...
Read More »Police mobile office appears in Ukraine’s capital
The new police mobile office appeared in Kyiv, – reported the press service of Ukrainian National Police, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to 112 Ukraine TV channel. The Head of the National Police Khatia Dekanoidze assured that in the future mobile ...
Read More »Ukrainian makeup artist wins prestigious Hollywood scholarship
Julia Melnyk, a Ukrainian makeup artist, has won 2016 The Next Level of Cosplay Scholarship at Hollywood’s Cinema Makeup School, UA Today reports. The organisers said, her Game of Thrones-inspired work ‘White Walker’ impressed the voters and the judges, “winning both ...
Read More »Re-engined Antares with Ukrainian-made core stage completes ground test firing
“Early indications show the upgraded propulsion system, core stage and launch complex all worked together as planned,” said Mike Pinkston, Orbital ATK’s general manager and vice president for the Antares program, UNIAN reports. The hotfire test is a key step ...
Read More »Ukrainian school students create unusual graduation photo album
The students from school in Ternopil, western Ukraine, created an unusual graduation photo album and published it on Youtube. The video has already been viewed over 121,000 times.
Read More »U.S. and Ukraine sign third $1 billion loan guarantee agreement
The United States and Ukraine signed a $1 billion loan guarantee agreement on Friday, the third such agreement provided by Washington to Kyiv since May 2014, Reuters reports. Washington had promised the aid last November but made it contingent on ...
Read More »The dark side of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took the image at a high phase angle – that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto, as viewed by New Horizons. Seen here, sunlight filters through and illuminates Pluto’s complex atmospheric haze ...
Read More »Europe floods: Louvre to close as Seine rises further
The Louvre is to close on Friday to allow staff to move works at risk of damage to higher parts of the gallery, a statement said, according to BBC. The Seine, which runs through Paris past the Louvre, has risen ...
Read More »EgyptAir crash: French vessel detects signals likely from jet’s black box
A French naval search vessel has picked up signals believed to originate from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804 which crashed into the Mediterranean last month, the Egyptian investigation committee said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. It said ...
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