Новости за 31.01.2018

Newly-crowned Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki said on Wednesday that her first Grand Slam triumph has motivated her to win more titles.

Marchesa, the fashion label co-owned by Harvey Weinstein's estranged wife Georgina Chapman and famous for clothing Hollywood starlets, has cancelled its runway show at New York Fashion Week, just months after his downfall for alleged rape and sexual assault.

Brazil's defense minister said Wednesday that the country's public security system is "broken" as gunmen fought with officers in a huge Rio de Janeiro slum, shutting down a major highway.

"Today it fell here but it could also have fallen on my house," said Ahmet Olgun, staring at a gaping hole in the roof of a two-storey house, ripped open by a deadly rocket attack launched from Syria on Wednesday.

French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko defeated Russian veteran Vera Zvonareva 7-6 (8/6), 6-3 to reach the St Petersburg Ladies Trophy quarter-finals on Wednesday.

Christian Eriksen took just 11 seconds to fire Tottenham into the lead against Manchester United with the second fastest goal in Premier League history on Wednesday.

President Emmanuel Macron said France would step up its support for Tunisia's fledgling democracy as he began a state visit to the North African country on Wednesday, two weeks after it was rocked by protests.

President Emmanuel Macron said France would step up its support for Tunisia's fledgling democracy on the first day of his maiden state visit to the troubled North African country.

Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde insists the Copa del Rey holders won't overlook a Valencia side weakened by injuries ahead of Thursday's semi-final first leg at the Camp Nou.

Two US food distributors have filed suit against major chicken producers for alleged manipulation and artificially inflating prices in a market worth almost $30 billion a year.

Three Israeli fans of Lorde filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two activists who had urged the New Zealand singer to boycott the Jewish state and cancel a planned performance there.

An aspiring rapper was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after posing in a music video with guns despite a previous conviction, US prosecutors announced Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve left the benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday after its first policy meeting of 2018, but said it expects inflation to move up this year, a possible signal of faster rate increases ahead.

President Donald Trump's decision to keep Guantanamo Bay open marks the start of a new chapter for the prison, and highlights the administration's intentions for captured Islamic State jihadists.

Mexico on Wednesday auctioned off six deep-water oil blocks located in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest such auction since the country's government opened the sector to private industry.

Apple on Wednesday confirmed it is fielding questions from US agencies about its move to slow down older iPhones as batteries weaken.

Former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto'o on Wednesday signed a contract with Turkish top-flight club Konyaspor after parting ways with Antalyaspor, who also saw Samir Nasri leave by mutual consent.

Wine production in the French region of Bordeaux shrank by 40 percent in 2017, the Bordeaux wine council said Wednesday, with severe frost sapping yields in a year that nonetheless produced a good vintage.

Stargazers across large swaths of the globe – from the streets of Los Angeles to the slopes of a smoldering Philippine volcano – had the chance to witness a rare "super blue blood Moon" Wednesday, when Earth's shadow bathed the moon in a coppery hue.

Qatar's BeIN Sports said Wednesday it was "shocked and appalled" by the decision of an Egyptian court to fine the broadcaster $22 million for violating anti-trust regulations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to organise an alternative competition for Russian athletes banned from the Winter Olympics over a doping scandal, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

Veteran German coach Bernd Stange took charge of the Syrian national team on Wednesday, his sixth international appointment in a career which has also included a stint with Iraq.

The embattled US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, long a target of Republican lawmakers and industry, on Wednesday survived the latest round of legal efforts to curtail its powers.

Austria's government said Wednesday that it plans to dissolve one of the country's controversial nationalist fraternities after it emerged that it had printed song texts celebrating the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joined Arsenal from Borussia Dortmund for a club-record fee of around £56 million on Wednesday, with Olivier Giroud moving to Chelsea as part of a complicated transfer jigsaw.