Новости за 14.09.2022

The PGA's final wrap-around season before returning to a calendar-year format in 2024 opens with American Max Homa defending his crown at the Fortinet Championship at Napa, California. The upstart LIV Series has caused turmoil in the golf world since its June debut, with record purses and financial guarantees luring several top PGA players. The PGA responded last month by announcing top players would play against each other more often and in more events each season starting in 2022-23. "We've... Читать дальше...

Hundreds of rescuers have been scouring the site of the four-storey residential building in Jabal al-Weibdeh, one of Amman's oldest neighbourhoods, since it toppled over on Tuesday. Rescue teams pulled three bodies from under the rubble on Wednesday evening, a police statement said, raising the overall death toll to nine. They were still working "in full force to reach the remaining trapped people", it added. Among the 16 people injured in the tragedy were a four-month-old baby and a 45-year-old man extracted by the rescuers... Читать дальше...

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday announced that she would resign after an unprecedented right-wing and far-right bloc narrowly won Sunday's election.

The Paris court order did not specify a trial date for Polanski, 89, who was charged in October last year. He has faced a series of sex assault claims during his career, though never previously has he stood trial in France over them. The defamation case was filed by Charlotte Lewis, born in 1967, who starred in Polanski's 1986 film "Pirates". In 2010, she had accused him in Los Angeles of sexual abuse at his Paris apartment in the 1980s, when she was 16. Polanski dismissed Lewis as a "liar"... Читать дальше...

The charges come after Marseille's police prefecture said it had informed UEFA that some visiting fans "performed Nazi salutes in the away section" during the game. Frankfurt were also charged for the "throwing of objects" by their supporters, who were accused of setting off fireworks as well as other "acts of damage" around the game at Marseille's Velodrome stadium. The home side were charged with a series of similar offences including crowd disturbances as the French club lost the Group D encounter 1-0. Читать дальше...

Polanski fled the US in 1978 before being sentenced for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. He settled in his native France, which has refused to extradite him back to the US. Attempts to get Switzerland and Poland to hand him over also failed. In recent years the 89-year-old has been targeted by several other allegations of sexual abuse of minors, one as young as 10. Here is a summary of the cases taken, and claims made against the Oscar-winning director of "Chinatown", "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Pianist". Читать дальше...

The 18-year-old's existing deal was set to expire at the end of the 2022-23 season. Gavi has become a key player for the club after breaking through in August 2021, shortly before being given his Spain debut by Luis Enrique in October 2021, becoming his country's youngest ever player at senior level. Gavi scored against the Czech Republic in June 2022 to become Spain's youngest ever goalscorer, taking the record from his club team-mate Ansu Fati. Both players, along with Pedri, Ronald Araujo and... Читать дальше...

Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski has been ordered to stand trial in France over his alleged defamation of a British actress who accused him of sexual abuse, a source close to the case said Wednesday.

A number of chefs in Colombia are experimenting with using flour made from coca leafs – the principal ingredient of cocaine – in their dishes, in the hope that it will one day become a common condiment or seasoning in Colombian cuisine.

A petition calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to resign has been circulating in Russia since Monday, with dozens of local politicians risking prison sentences to sign it. FRANCE 24 spoke to Ksenia Torstrem, a municipal deputy for the St. Petersburg district and one of the leading petitioners demanding Putin’s resignation.

France will cap power and gas price increases for households at 15% next year, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Wednesday, to ease the pain of Europe's worst energy crisis in decades on consumers.

A series of videos posted on Twitter on August 30shocked the Saudi public by showing men dressed in uniforms and plainclothes pushing and beating young women with sticks, belts and taser guns. The images, which were filmed in a home for young orphaned girls, led to an internal police investigation that is still ongoing. But beyond police violence, the case reveals the girls' ongoing struggle, as they are considered wards of the Saudi state.

Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, her coffin borne by a horse-drawn gun carriage and trailed by grieving family members during a 38-minute journey to the Houses of Parliament, where it will lie in state until the funeral early next week.

Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for the final time as her coffin began its journey to Westminster Hall, where the late monarch will lie in state. The queen's coffin, draped in the royal standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, was borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage out of the front gates of her London residence at 2.22 pm.

The European Union will propose measures to cap revenues from low-cost electricity generators and force fossil fuel firms to share the profits they make from soaring energy prices, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave, died "peacefully at home" on Tuesday aged 91, his family said. His legal counsel later confirmed he died by assisted suicide.

A wildfire raging since Monday in southwestern France prompted authorities to evacuate an extra 500 people on Wednesday, bringing the total to over 1,000 in an area already hit this summer by huge blazes.

New wildfires raging in southwestern France have torn through over 1,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of residents amid record temperatures for September.

Fresh clashes erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia on Wednesday, a day after nearly 100 soldiers were killed in the deadliest fighting between the ex-Soviet republics since 2020.

Organisers said it was part of a drive to make the race the "most diverse, equitable and inclusive marathon in the world". Three gender options -- male, female and non-binary -- will be offered to all participants registering for the mass participation element of the event. "The elite athlete races, plus the Championship and Good For Age categories, which all operate under World Athletics rules, will not offer a non-binary gender option," organisers added in a statement. Event director Hugh Brasher... Читать дальше...

After news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, social media users in some corners of the internet started sharing a video showing two women, one of them said to be the queen, throwing coins to children. Some people claimed that the video was filmed during the queen’s visit to an “African” colony of the former British Empire. However, it turns out this video doesn’t have any connection to Elizabeth II. It was filmed in Vietnam in 1899— twenty-seven years before she was born.

Salman lives in the Arab neighbourhood of Beit Safafa where Israeli authorities recently granted pre-approval for 700 settler homes in the proposed Givat Shaked development, including four 24-storey buildings. Standing on a grassy, litter-strewn hill beside his home, the 66-year-old gardener told AFP that he is, "like any Palestinian, afraid of what will happen here when there's a settlement". More than a dozen construction cranes are already scattered across his sweeping view of west Jerusalem... Читать дальше...

Up to 100 employees who work at Clarence House, including some there for decades, reportedly received the notifications on Monday during a prayer service in Edinburgh for the late Queen Elizabeth II. It follows Charles's accession to the throne last Thursday upon the death of his mother, which in turn meant he relinquished the prince of Wales title and duchy of Cornwall estate he had held. Those operations, formally run from the Clarence House residence, will now cease, his office confirmed, after... Читать дальше...

'Richness and minimalism' American designer Burch offered New York a vintage-inspired collection that veered away from her well-known prints and bright colors. "The collections have been for me much more personal now that I'm not running the business," she told AFP after the show. #photo1 Since 2019, Burch has entrusted her husband, Pierre-Yves Roussel, with managing the company, while moving into the roles of chief creative officer and executive chair. For the Spring/Summer 2023 edit, Burch... Читать дальше...

Fitzpatrick -- capped over 90 times and a member of the team that won the inaugural World Cup in 1987 -- told the BBC that Britain's longest serving monarch, who died last Thursday aged 96, was "very knowledgeable about rugby". She presented the Webb Ellis Trophy to Nick Farr-Jones, the captain of 1991 World Cup winners Australia, at Twickenham after they beat England. However, while Fitzpatrick could tell her little that she did not already know about rugby, Queen Elizabeth was able to put him... Читать дальше...