Новости за 17.05.2016

Police have been on the site of a travellers' camp for nearly 12 hours investigating an alleged crash.

Companies offer harsher terms as they battle outflows

Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, 58, an English professor at Rajshahi University, was hacked to death on his way to work last month.

ICBC Standard Bank expands its push into London’s precious metals market by agreeing to buy one of Europe’s largest vaults from Barclays.

Hudson's Bay Company heeft grote plannen in Nederland. Het Canadese warenhuis belooft 5.000 nieuwe banen te creeren, waarvan 2500 in de winkels en eenzelfde aantal door bouwactiviteiten.

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — The rise of Huawei Technologies Ltd.'s 6-year-old smartphone brand by-the-numbers:

The number of mobile phones Huawei shipped in 2015, the first Chinese brand to pass 100 million in a year and No. 4 worldwide after Nokia, Samsung and Apple, with a 8.7 percent market share. —129 billion yuan ($19.9 billion): Huawei's sales of smartphones and other consumer devices last year, up 73 percent over 2014 and one-third of the company's total revenue of 395 billion yuan ($60.8 billion). Huawei's global workforce, about 40 percent non-Chinese and about half working in R&D, the company says.

Ri Yong-Ho has been a career diplomat managing relations with the United States and South Korea for more than 20 years.

A group of former senior Google employees has launched a start-up aimed at making existing trucks on the road driverless.

Brazilian Environment Minister Jose Sarney Filho seeks assurances from Samarco before allowing the re-opening of its iron-ore mine.

Know the new rates of petrol in major Indian cities.

The African National Congress (ANC) in Parliament on Tuesday appeared pleased that the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) failed “to cajole the judiciary into being party to its unconstitutional and silly decision not to recognise the office of the president”.

The team has designed a computer programme that lets humans teach a virtual robot that looks like a computerised pooch.

Sumner Redstone has the power to remove Viacom CEO Dauman, but not his daughter Shari, from the trust that will control his $40 billion media empire.

All that glitters is not exorbitant.

Nederlandse consumenten hebben in 2015 voor het eerst meer aankopen afgerekend met de pinpas dan met contant geld. Een mijlpaal, aldus De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), die samen met Betaalvereniging Nederland het betaalgedrag in ons land in kaart heeft gebracht.

If they continue to twist the rules in favor of Hillary Clinton, Democrats are risking combining the chaos of their 1968 convention in Chicago with the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon, writes Darrell Delamaide.

African-Americans are doing about the same as they have in previous years as the nation rises out of the Great Recession, and much better than they did when its first "State of Black America" report came out 40 years ago, the National Urban League said Tuesday.

JORDAN Lewis says the return of melanoma has hit Jarryd Roughead hard with the Hawthorn star set to miss the rest of the 2016 season.

Stepping out of a dingy motel office shielded by security bars, Lily Ho held up a faded and torn photograph. It showed the building shortly after it opened south of downtown Los Angeles in 1947.

It's true that AAP bagged maximum seats i.e. 5 wards in MCD bypolls results but it's the BJP which has received the highest vote share of the people.

A WA supercomputer is set to provide new insights into the sinking of HMAS Sydney and German raider Kormoran off the WA coast during World War II.