Новости за 29.07.2015

Fremantle star and raging Brownlow Medal favourite Nathan Fyfe will miss Sunday's clash with Greater Western Sydney due to an ongoing thigh problem.

Berlin (AFP) - With one eye on Rio de Janeiro, swimming's stars begin the battle on Sunday for world championship medals in Kazan to prove their form heading into the 2016 Olympic Games.

From an online pet store in China to a food delivery site in Germany, Goldman Sachs is, without fanfare, making a play to become one of the most influential investors in technology start-ups.

The Obama administration has decided to give states more time to comply with proposed regulations that will require dramatic cuts in greenhouse-gas pollution from power plants, people familiar with the plans said Tuesday.Read full article >>

China’s official GDP figures for Q2 recently showed growth hit the official target of 7% perfectly. That’s a remarkable performance in light of the various partial indicators and many unofficial statistical releases for the economy.

There is the notion suddenly, six months into a Deflategate controversy that feels as if it has been going on for six years.

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Voted out of office earlier this year amid allegations of corruption, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is now campaigning for prime minister.

Magnitude-6.3 quake hits near Redoubt Volcano, felt by some in Anchorage, Kodiak

England drawing Scotland in 2018 World Cup qualifying this week generated excitement all over the globe, including in the city of Kuala Lumpur, which Scottish football icon Andy Roxburgh now calls home.

Indicted Councilman Ruben Wills and Councilman Andy King each missed about a third of their required meetings, putting them in a tie for dead last in attendance on the 51-member body.

More tigers are kept as pets in the U.S. than roam free in the wild, campaigners say, as they call for tough new laws to ban the practice on International Tiger Day. While just 3,000 tigers inhabit forests across Asia and Russia, it’s estimated that as many as 5,000 are kept captive in small cages […]

Buy property! No, wait — buy stocks! OK, back to property! China has a problem: Its citizens are among the best savers in the world, but they don’t have enough places to stick their money — a reality that’s contributing to the formation of asset bubbles. For years, the investment of choice in China was […]

Prison may or may not work for its inmates, but it seems unreasonable to suppose that it works for their children. Most of the women sent to British prisons – often for relatively minor, non-violent offences – are mothers, and, thus, some 17,000 children a year are victims of a criminal justice system that fails to take into account their needs and likely fates. No Sure Start programme in the world can compensate for the loss of a parent in this way, and the loss of maternal love and care is too... Читать дальше...

Gen. Dempsey is the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs to address a United Nations gathering, a sign of the Obama administration’s heightened focus on peacekeeping.

The Washington Nationals have a new closer, landing All-Star Jonathan Papelbon from the Philadelphia Phillies. And their newly demoted closer isn’t happy. On the night the Nationals got Jayson Werth and Ryan Zimmerman back from stints on the disabled list, they also landed Papelbon from the Phillies and said he will take over closer duties from Drew Storen. “All-Star closer, been in pressure situations his whole career, so we’re happy to have him,” manager Matt Williams said of Papelbon.

She was found wandering the streets of Melbourne's west this morning. But she can't tell police her name.

Haddin, the vice-captain, has been overlooked in favour of the younger Peter Nevill after the 37-year-old pulled out to be with his sick daughter Mia.

Work is set to begin this weekend on the second phase of Airport Connector upgrades, which will cause lane closures and traffic delays for motorists around McCarran International Airport. As part of the two-year project ...

Flanked by saffron-robed Buddhist monks, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa exhorted a crowd of more than a thousand supporters at a weekend election rally, saying: “We saved this country. Don’t let it be divided again.”