Новости за 21.01.2017

Donald Trump's ascendancy to the White House has been met with a tidal wave of protest across the country, with hundreds of thousands flooding Washington DC and huge crowds in other cities across the United States and the world.

Amid the glitz of President Donald Trump's inaugural festivities, one item stood out in particular late Friday night: a spectacular nine-tier cake that the new president and Vice President Mike Pence cut into with a sword.

Four more survivors have been rescued from the rubble of a hotel crushed by an avalanche as emergency workers continued their search on Saturday for others who may still be alive.

​Thousands of women took to the streets of European capitals to join "sister marches" in Asia against newly installed US President Trump ahead of a major rally in Washington expected to draw nearly a quarter of a million people.

A car bomb on Saturday killed at least four people and critically injured a number of others at the Rakban refugee camp in Syria near the border with Jordan, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring organisation.

A three-month-old boy has become the fifth person to die after Friday's Bourke Street car rampage.

The Dasha is a doer. Late Saturday night, Daria Gavrilova edged past Switzerland's Timea Bacsinzky in three sets to move into the fourth round of the Australian Open for the second year in a row.

The Sydney Sixers have booked a ticket to Brisbane for the semi-finals after coming back from the brink of elimination to beat an undermanned Melbourne Stars at the MCG on Saturday night.

Traditionalists lose all sense of proportion over cricket's latest adaptation, 20Twenty.

Australian star Daria Gavrilova has claimed a hard-fought win over Swiss 12th seed Timea Bacsinszky to book her spot in the final 16 at the Australian Open.

The weakened Melbourne Stars will head into this week's semi-final against the Perth Scorchers needing a burst of inspiration after dropping their final two regular season Big Bash League matches.

Melbourne Victory have slumped to their second straight defeat, with Perth coming from behind to secure a 2-1 win in Saturday night's A-League clash at nib Stadium.

Never has the US has elected a president so manifestly unfit for the job.

The girlfriend of the accused Bourke Street killer said he vowed to run down people in the Melbourne CBD before she escaped from his car.

A 10-year-old girl killed in Friday's Bourke Street car rampage was a student at a private Jewish school in St Kilda East.

Rafael Nadal says you return to the tennis circuit, but you don't really feel back on it until you begin to string wins together.

Among the history books, biographies and Australian literature at the State Library of Queensland, is a room only a small number of people have access to.

The Canberra Capitals survived a scare at home to beat Bendigo and keep Carly Wilson's hopes of a fairytale career finish alive.

He is always smiling, loves fashion and is adored by his friends.

South Korean prosecutors arrested the culture minister on Saturday, on suspicion of abuse of power for drawing up a blacklist of artists, writers and entertainers critical of the country's impeached president, Park Geun-hye.

​Turkey's parliament approved a proposed constitution that would cede even greater powers to the country's president if endorsed in a national referendum, but the bitterly contested voting process was marred by screaming matches and physical altercations that sent at least three politicians to a hospital.

Milos Raonic and Gael Monfils have made it through to the fourth round of the 2017 Australian Open after accounting for Gilles Simon and Philipp Kohlschreiber respectively in their third-round encounters at Melbourne Park on Saturday.

A man has been attacked by a shark while diving in far north Queensland.

Federal government data showed course completion rates were generally above average in the ACT.

Doctors believe the Turnbull government could be contemplating another increase in the Medicare levy.