Новости за 25.08.2016

Two persons, including a five-year-old girl, died in elephant attacks in the wee hours of Wednesday.

CINCINNATI, United States - Texas Rangers Yu Darvish starts the game against Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 24, 2016, in Cincinnati. (K...

CINCINNATI (AP) — One trip around the bases has Yu Darvish thinking more like a hitter.

CINCINNATI (AP) — One trip around the bases has Yu Darvish thinking more like a hitter.

CINCINNATI (AP) — One trip around the bases has Yu Darvish thinking more like a hitter.

A new law that does away with the English proficiency test for hack licenses will translate into safety concerns and frustrating trips.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):

Michael Phelps takes a seat next to judges Mel B and Heidi Klum while co-hosting the America’s Got Talent results show on Wednesday evening (August 24) in Hollywood. The 31-year-old Olympic gold medalist helped usual host Nick Cannon throughout the evening. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Michael Phelps He got a standing ovation [...]

CINCINNATI, United States - Texas Rangers Yu Darvish starts the game against Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 24, 2016, in Cincinnati. (K...

Minneapolis advertising agency Colle+McVoy has spun out a new stand-alone design firm called 10 Thousand Design. Ed Bennett, founder and executive design director of 10 Thousand Design, said it wants to pursue national clients and work on larger-scale assignments that had been difficult to attract as part of an ad agency.

A United Nations investigation says that Syrian military helicopters had used the chemical on at least two occasions, and that ISIS had deployed sulfur mustard, which is poisonous.

Massachusetts prosecutors will not charge the Boston police detective and FBI agent who shot and killed a suspected ISIS-affiliated extremist in June 2015. Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley on Wednesday released a report spelling out the investigation into the death of Usaamah Rahim, who was fatally shot by law officers. Officials said he waved […]

Police searched the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul early Thursday and killed two attackers who stormed the campus with guns and explosives, Fraidoon Obaidi, chief of Kabul police’s criminal investigation department, told AFP early Thursday. “We have ended our clean-up operation. Two attackers were gunned down,” Obaidi said about 10 hours after the assault […]

Prosecutors in the case against former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca have asked a federal judge to determine whether Baca is fit to stand trial.

Colombia’s government and largest rebel group announced Wednesday that they have reached a comprehensive agreement for ending the hemisphere’s longest-running conflict.

CHICAGO/MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott said on Wednesday the federal government had so far not delivered all the Zika antibody tests and laboratory support he had requested as the state battles the spread of the virus. On Wednesday, the Florida Department of Health reported a second non-travel related case of Zika in Palm Beach County, bringing the state's total to 43. Health officials warned pregnant women last week not to travel to Miami Beach after Florida confirmed the mosquito-borne Zika virus was active there... Читать дальше...

A Seattle Children's hospital worker accused of picking up a girl on a city street corner and paying her $40 for sex now faces felony charges.

Shares in Asia were mostly lower Thursday, with markets cautious ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium — which starts later in the trading day — sidelining investors.

Shares in Asia were mostly lower Thursday, with markets cautious ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium — which starts later in the trading day — sidelining investors.

KABUL — The American University of Afghanistan in Kabul came under attack by bomb and gunfire on Wednesday night, in a siege that stretched for hours as pockets of people trapped on campus tried to escape. The Afghan Health Ministry said that a security guard was killed in the attack and that at least 26 people had been wounded. Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said early Thursday that police operations at the university were completed about 10 hours after the attack had begun, though officers remained on campus. Читать дальше...

The numbers of women in Parliament are increasing - albeit at a glacial pace.