Новости за 05.09.2016

Brussels finds that Volkswagen broke consumer laws in 20 countries by cheating on emissions tests, Die Welt reported.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day isn't what it used to be. The presidential winner may be all but known by then, thanks to early voting.

Beginning Friday, residents in North Carolina can submit absentee mail-in ballots — the first of 37 states and the District Columbia to vote by mail or at polling sites before Nov. 8. [...] many states report the party affiliation of people who have cast ballots, offering solid clues. In 2008, Barack Obama made early voting a priority, amassing such big leads with blacks, Hispanics and first-time voters that he pulled out wins in Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Colorado despite losing the Election Day vote there... Читать дальше...

Naomi Campbell bids farewell to fashion guru Donatella Versace on Saturday (September 3) in Venice, Italy. The 46-year-old supermodel attended the premiere of the documentary Franca: Chaos and Creation the day before with Donatella and Riccardo Tisci at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Naomi Campbell The Venice Film [...]

The federal government will hire a new team of specialist anti-corruption investigators in Perth after a series of revelations in Fairfax Media about high-level foreign bribery, including at WA mining company Sundance Resources.

Back in 1996, the RNC shifted its messaging and resources away from presidential nominee Bob Dole in October after it was determined that the Kansas senator was too far behind in the polls to defeat Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton. [...] it, not Trump, is running a comprehensive early voting program in key states to prevent Hillary Clinton's campaign from getting a big head start once the first votes are cast in less than a month. Without the RNC, Trump would be left with a bare bones operation... Читать дальше...

The child was 'kicking up' so they wanted police to look after him.

ZOETERMEER (ANP) - Europese transportbedrijven en logistieke organisaties luiden de noodklok over de situatie in het Franse Calais. Volgens de Nederlandse branchevereniging TLN zorgen migranten die naar Engeland willen dagelijks voor levensgevaarlijke situaties. Daarbij staat volgens de organisatie de veiligheid van chauffeurs op het spel.

The G20 leaders have promised to roll back protectionist trade measures by the end of 2018.

It's time for government to acknowledge the obvious: electricity prices will have to rise if we're meaningfully to reduce carbon emissions.

Labour MP Keith Vaz has stood down as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee following allegations he met male escorts at his London flat.

BEFORE my mother died, I remember telling her that I was considering having IVF and raising a child on my own. I was at that stage where I knew my fertility was rapidly dwindling and I had a very small slit of a window to become a mother.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for some must-see TV.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for some must-see TV.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for some must-see TV.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for some must-see TV.

Richard Neville, a co-founder and editor of the controversial counterculture magazine Oz, has died aged 74.

CANBERRA, Australia — Relatives of some of the 239 passengers and crew lost in the missing Malaysia airliner will fly to Australia on Tuesday in a quest to better understand developments in the search for wreckage and to find some closure more than two years after the tragedy, the daughter of a missing passenger said

President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting informally on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit in China. White House spokesman Ned Price says more details about the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to decide whether to run for the upcoming presidential elections in 2018.

News organisations should fix online comments rather than ditch them.

That's the tricky thing about equality – unless we all started out in the same place, some sort of rebalancing, some redress, is usually required.

Nathan said two Chinese, an Indonesian, several Australians and American wreckage hunter Blaine Gibson would join her group, which will also travel to the search headquarters in Canberra where a wing flap from the missing Boeing 777 is being examined for clues. Six replicas of the flaperon have been sent to Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's oceanography department in the island state of Tasmania where scientists will determine whether it is the wind or the currents that affect how they drift. Читать дальше...

Economic leaders have warned that the populist mood sweeping many developed nations is a threat to trade and growth.

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral in February was attended by thousands and broadcast live.