Новости за 03.08.2015

Asian stocks fell for the first time in four days amid signs of a deepening slowdown in China's economy. Crude declined with copper, while the won strengthened.

Afghanistan's government has addressed the growing leadership crisis in the Taliban for the first time, saying it won't deal with the militant group separately from other "armed opposition" in the country.

Two former aviation rivals have buried the hatchet and launched a new tourism venture which they say will redefine Australia as an adventure holiday destination.

Dozens of people have been killed and wounded after a warplane crashed in northwesterly part of Syria. The plane crashed over a popular marketplace in the town of Ariha in Idlib province on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that those killed include at least 12 civilians as the warplane landed on residential Read the full article...

An investigation into allegations of physical abuse of vulnerable boys at a residential school centres on restraint used by staff, the BBC learns.

In pics: Robot vandalised after hitchiking across North America

Monday may have been a bitter pill to swallow for Bronwyn Bishop but for lovers of biscuity ice cream the start of the working week was a sweet one – or was it? Has Australia been played by a junk food mastermind?

A man from northern Africa who hid inside a suitcase on a ferry bound for mainland Spain died on Sunday while making the five hour crossing.

ISPs told to block access to more than 850 sites, including Playboy and Pornhub

Everyone should consider taking vitamin D supplements to counter the lack of sunshine in England, government experts are proposing.

Bennelong Funds Management is backing a new high-profile boutique led by Jack Chemello, Suellen Morgan and Mary Feros, that does not construct its portfolio on traditional benchmarks.

Experts are trying to determine whether the part comes from the plane, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board

It was disappointing to see Jack Waterford ("Clearly the ACT needs its own ICAC", Forum, August 1, p1) repeat the tired Tory tropes about the CFMEU's "manipulation' of safety issues as a justification for an ICAC in the ACT

Amber Rose was spotted flirting with Kim Kardashian’s former husband, Kris Humphries, at the Playboy Mansion over the weekend, giving rise to speculation that this was part of the model’s ongoing feud with the Kardashian-Jenner clan, Hollywood Life reported. Kanye West’s former girlfriend on Thursday took to Twitter to clear doubts over her feud with Khloe Kardashian that began after Rose referred to Kylie Jenner as a "baby" while talking about the 17-year-old's relationship with Tyga.

The crackdown on attempts to illegally import food products from countries that have imposed economic sanctions against Russia will continue throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, not just on the border.

Gupta occasionally runs into his one time friend-turned foe Rajaratnam, also serving an 11-year prison term on insider trading charges.

Japanese police on Saturday arrested Mark Karpelès, the head of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, alleging that he manipulated the company’s computer system to increase the balance in an account. Tokyo-based Mt. Gox was once the world’s largest exchange platform for the virtual currency by trading volume, before it filed for bankruptcy in February 2014. Here are five things to know about Mt. Gox and Mr. Karpelès.

What to give the man described as the driving force behind the creation of a $22 billion company? He got a redundancy slip.

Activists staged a “breast walk” protest in Hong Kong after a woman was jailed for assaulting a police officer with her breast.

How much super you need has suddenly become the $1 million question – but that overlooks the role of the pension.

A 55-year-old man dies from a suspected heart attack while taking part in a "mass participation" cycle challenge.

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MOSCOW, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. sanctions extending deeper into the Russian energy sector prompted legal threats from Kremlin-backed entities but come as no surprise, an official said.

Actor George Clooney’s wife Amal Clooney is one of the lawyers set to seek pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for three Al Jazeera journalists if they are found guilty of aiding a terrorist group. The journalists, Baher Mohamed, Mohamed Fahmy and Peter Greste, were given a retrial after being convicted in June 2014 of supporting banned Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news.

An IOOF senior executive received two final warnings for misconduct rather than being dismissed because the first warning had "gone stale".

Chinese iOS developer team TaiG released the Mac version of its popular jailbreak tool on Sunday to allow users of iOS 8.4 to jailbreak the firmware, which was released by Apple in June. The latest version of the untethered jailbreak tool was rolled out more than a month after the team released the software for Windows.