Новости за 31.08.2015

Russian Parliament speaker to address conference by video because of US ban

Latest on US Open: Pegula, daughter of owners of Bills and Sabres, wins in Grand Slam debut

First-degree murder charge filed against son in deadly stabbing of Oklahoma labor commissioner

'A missing chapter': Rare portraits of 19th-century blacks going on display for 1st time in US

Will it be Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, John Oliver, or Jon Stewart?

Attorneys for the six men and women convicted and cleared years later of a woman’s 1985 rape and murder fought Wednesday for the chance to retry a civil rights case against Gage County, the fo…

Robert Griffin III remains on the Redskins roster for now, but 13 other players won’t get to stick around to see how Kirk Cousins does as the team’s new starting quarterback. The team is down to 75 players on Monday, leaving them with no other moves to make before Tuesday’s deadline to trim the roster…

Critics say Beijing using Thursday’s spectacle as way to show military might

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Some faces are pensive; others are proud. Some are known; others are obscure. All are black.

The United States has sent two MQ-1 Predator drones supported by 70 US airmen on a temporary deployment to an air base in Latvia, US European Command said in a press release on Monday.

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JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A naturalist shooting video of a grizzly bear in Alaska captured footage of the perturbed bruin taking out a GoPro camera with an annoyed swipe of his paw.

Senegalese born hip-hop musician Akon is hoping to bring electricity to 600 million people across Africa through his Lighting Africa project.

The parent company of Ashley Madison says that, despite the recent hack and data dump, its business is growing.

Candidates in 2016 will still give the lion's share of their campaign ad dollars to TV, but WSJ's Patrick O'Connor explains how digital outlets like Facebook and YouTube are giving TV stations and networks strong competition. Photo: Getty

The merger of President Poroshenko's party with the UDAR party of Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko is another step in the consolidation of power by the Ukrainian leader. Arseniy Yatsenyuk's People's Front may be the next in line for absorption. But recent Ukrainian history shows that these big united parties have all ended in failure. | Русский

The author and neurologist was so much more than a bearded and bespectacled New York intellectual.

Ahmedabad, Aug 31 (PTI) A court here today granted permission to former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to travel to the United Kingdom for 30 days.

BBC Sport assesses the hard choices facing Scotland coach Vern Cotter as he prepares to announce his World Cup party.

A former Sea Point police official who induced people to overpay for a courier service for police clearances has been handed a suspended sentence.

If you know your space animals, then you're probably already familiar with Ham, the first chimp America ever launched into space. You also probably know Laika, the late, great Russian space dog and the first animal to orbit Earth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, were set to discuss solutions for stabilizing the price of oil in meetings to take place in China Wednesday and Thursday, a Kremlin aide told Reuters Monday. Both nations are significant producers of oil, and Yury Ushakov said the discussions of "possible mutual steps" were part of Russia's continuing cooperation with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

United Technologies Corp.'s stock slid 1% in midday trade Monday, after Barclays downgraded the industrial conglomerate to equal weight from overweight, citing mounting pressures in its aerospace and Otis China businesses. Analyst Carter Copeland slashed his stock price target to $100 from $120. That's the lowest target he's had on the stock since March 2013. Copeland said the fact that the company's Otis China business faces growing volume pressures has already been known, but now currency headwinds... Читать дальше...

Travel Channel’s 'Hotel Impossible' host Anthony Melchiorri provides tips on how to find a good place to stay, how to weed through all of the travel websites/apps and more. Photo: Getty

Earlier Monday, clashes took place outside the Ukraine's parliament building shortly after the Verkovna Rada had approved proposed constitutional amendments on decentralization in the first reading.

A group of intrepid Syrian migrants have found a new, albeit long, way into Europe -- through Russia and into Norway`s Arctic, some of them cycling across the border.