Новости за 04.09.2015

NEW YORK - An upcoming exhibit highlights the critical role of New York City transit workers during natural and man-made disasters, including 9/11 and Superstorm Sandy.

As Australia prepares to enter the bombing campaign in Syria to combat Islamic State, the moderate Sunni fighters essential for success are being routed or won't support the US-led coalition.

Google is planning to launch a version of its Google Play app store and Android Wear software for wearables in mainland China, reports Amir Efrati at The Information.

Ed Adamczyk
JAIPUR, India, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Three men in Jaipur, India, received sentences of 20 years Friday in the February rape of a Japanese tourist.

NEW YORK - A Transportation Security Administration screener has been charged with stealing a passenger's $7,000 diamond watch from a plastic bin at a Kennedy Airport security checkpoint.

Aside from the Gayby Baby furore, Adrian Piccoli has proved himself the most likely of all the NSW government ministers to stand up to vested interests – often at personal cost.

Unlike Soviet-era housewives, modern cooks don't have to deal with a whole chicken to make this tasty poultry dish

Deal aims to tap into ‘digital revolution in asset management’

Days before rounding up fans and media for one of its regular product showcases, Apple Inc. created a Twitter account devoted to games.

That's all, folks! ABC's sisterhood-centric drama Mistresses has finally transformed into a full-blo[...]

Duncan Gay, the Roads Minister, has enjoyed a long parliamentary career, but in the sunset of his days he is carving out a latter-day career as the scourge of inner city Sydney.

Court hears the designer brand should have prevented a mirror falling on Austen Harrison's head in a shop changing room at Bicester Village

The tank was found by a search expedition on the island of Shumshu, the most northern of the Kuril Islands, where Soviet paratroopers carried out a successful military operation to liberate the territory from the Imperial Japanese Army in 1945.

All information carried by the Yonhap News Agency, including articles, photographs, graphics, audio and video images, and illustrations (collectively, the content) is owned by the Yonhap News Agency. The use of the content for any other purposes o

The Australian dollar fell to its lowest level against the dollar in six-and-a-half years Friday after the Labor Department's August jobs report. The aussie weakened to 69.20 cents in recent trade, a session low, from 69.80 cents before the report, according to FactSet data. The report's headline number missed expectations, but upward revisions to the June and July numbers helped push the unemployment rate down to 5.1%, bringing it within the target range of Federal Reserve policy makers. Falling... Читать дальше...

The most important drivers of stock prices are earnings and expectations for earnings growth. Earnings, or net income, is literally the bottom line.

BMW’s all-new sixth-generation 7-Series flagship sedan arrives in the midst of a rapidly escalating war for the luxury car buyer worldwide. No longer content with a quiet black car that conveys authority when the driver opens the passenger door, the 7-Series and its competitors must offer something closer to a spa — albeit a 445-hp spa, in the case of the 4.4-liter V-8 version. Starting at $82,295 and rising close to $130,000, the new 7-Series will have a quiet fight on its velvet-gloved hands.

The piece of wing found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean has been formally identified as part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.

Reddit made around three-quarters of a million dollars from the sale of "gold" in 2014, one software developer has calculated.

BOSTON - Horse track operators and breeders are concerned the good times might be trotting to a close as some states move to rein in a lucrative subsidy that's helped prop up their long suffering-industry.

BOSTON (AP) — Horse track operators and breeders are concerned the good times might be trotting to a close as some states move to rein in a lucrative subsidy that's helped prop up their long s…

The jet involved in the Shoreham air crash in which 11 people died showed "no abnormal indications", an initial report finds.

FootballSportPremier LeagueManchester UnitedSAM LONG

The crossbar challenge; it seems relatively straightforward and looks surprisingly easy. Only it isn't.

A multinational human smuggling sweep sees the arrest of 36 suspects and seizure of millions in assets as part of an international crackdown on trafficking cells

Otto Pérez Molina, who resigned as the President of Guatemala on Wednesday, spent Thursday morning in a Guatemala City courtroom, where the Public Ministry formally charged him with “being part of a criminal organization, with the purpose of defrauding the state.” From the courtroom, he was escorted to a military prison. Prosecutors claim that, along with former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti, Pérez Molina received fifty per cent of the profits of a customs-fraud operation, known as La Linea, that was run by government officials. Читать дальше...