Новости за 18.12.2016

Neil Bollinger credits college with saving his life.

Overseas sales of Japanese animation rose 79% last year to $288 million, with about half of that increase coming from Chinese buyers. From Naruto to Detective Conan, the WSJ's Eva Tam gives us a look at what anime China likes to watch. Photo: Getty Images

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will maintain its current policy stance toward North Korea and make efforts to prod the country into giving up its nuclear weapons, Seoul's point man on unification said Sunday. Unification Minister Hong Yong-

If you've grown weary of the flat black frame design that has permeated the design of television screens over the past decade, Samsung has the answer for you. The new Serif TV models its design off the letter 'I' and the profile shows it. Designed by French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, it means to "break the expected lines of the recent evolution in the world of TVs." It is available only in UK, France, Denmark, and Sweden so far.

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It's only the second time in a decade. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percent to the range of 0.5% to 0.75%. That number doesn't affect most Americans directly. It's a target for the rate charged when banks lend money to each other overnight.

But it eventually filters through the economy, so when the Fed increases rates, it means mortgages will be more expensive, savings accounts will be more lucrative... Читать дальше...

Women's contributions to scientific progress are often ignored — but two new books, Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe and Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures are out to remedy that oversight.

A few vacationers staying at a resort in Krasnaya Polyana, located near the Russian city of Sochi, had a surprise encounter with a couple of bear cubs led by their mother.

BEIRUT — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):

6:40 p.m.

Russia says it will veto a French-drafted U.N. resolution demanding immediate access to besieged areas of Aleppo and “neutral monitoring” of the evacuation of civilians.

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters before Security Council consultations on the draft resolution Sunday that Moscow has no problem with any kind of monitoring.

But he said the idea that monitors “should be... Читать дальше...

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Yonhap) -- Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Sunday it has bagged a combined 700 billion won (US$590 million) in potential orders from a Greek shipping company. Under the agreement with Maran Tankers Management -- a

International trade minister says there may not be a ‘binary’ decision and continuity is ‘important’

Police: Gunman got out of his car at stop sign and opened fire.

University students and members of the famous money-doubling scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM) Nigeria, have continued to let out their anger on the scheme

Temperatures in the nation's midsection and on the East Coast warmed up on Sunday after a bitterly cold few days.

After an initial appraisal stage, the $77 million well will be used to produce gas – which is slated to serve both the Israeli local market and potential export outlets.

Resistance came in the form of some doughty, even brazen Pakistani batting - and the muggy, mercurial Brisbane weather.

Akçakale ilçesinde Suriye sınırındaki arazide gömülü vaziyette terör örgütü PKK/PYD'den temin edildiği belirlenen 5 bin 600 kalaşnikof piyade tüfeği fişeği bulundu. Ele geçirilen mühimmatın satılarak terör...Devamı için tıklayınız

India's KL Rahul makes a brilliant 199 to make England toil on day three of the fifth and final Test in Chennai.

Cricket Australia last year drafted a set of over-arching "pregnancy guidelines" that encourage a pregnant player "to make her own decision" about whether to play on but the document was never enacted.

Have we seen enough of embattled rookie to rule that he is not yet ready for the level?

On Sunday, buses again began entering eastern Aleppo, Syria, under the supervision of the Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to "to bring the remaining terrorists and their families out," state media reported, referring to the rebels, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

A crash has blocked a busy route this morning, with traffic being diverted by police.

Rahul and Patel combined to forge India`s first century-plus opening stand in 32 innings to help the hosts reach 173 for one at lunch.