Новости за 12.12.2016

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines are looking for whoever briefly stole a car from a driveway with two young kids inside.

Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil chief executive who is expected to be nominated as Donald Trump’s secretary of state, is professional and known personally to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Kremlin spokesman said Monday.

His attitude smacks more of chaotic improvisation than strategic thinking

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Transport Secretary Chris Grayling offered to sit down with union chiefs to try to avert chaos on the Southern Rail network this week but they failed to respond, it was claimed today.

Canberra students have topped the nation in NAPLAN once again and will lead the way for the transition to online testing.

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ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Turkish fighter planes attacked 12 Kurdish targets in Iraq as the death count in weekend bombings in Istanbul rose to 44, government officials said.

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(Reuters) - Italy is ready to pump capital into Monte dei Paschi di Siena if the ailing bank fails to get the money it needs to remain in business from investors, a Treasury source said on Monday.

Italy's third-biggest bank is pressing ahead with a plan to raise 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) on the market this year, despite political uncertainty in the country after a constitutional referendum triggered a government crisis.

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There's a political lesson behind Vice President Joe Biden's recent statements about possibly running again for president in election 2020.

CPI(M) state secretary G V Sriram Reddy alleged that Sangh Parivar that is involved in anti-national politics has no moral right to speak on patriotism.

They have all been taken to hospital.

The battle against climate change is being waged, whether the incoming U.S. administration supports it or not. Large private players from the tech and finance industries are working on handling the climate change situation on their own. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba owner Jack Ma have teamed up with 15 other high-profile investors for a new venture, Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), which will invest $1 billion per year in cleantech companies for the next 20 years.

Latest proposed deal would give Fox control of a pay-TV network spanning 22 million households in Britain, Ireland, Austria, Germany and Italy

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) — Public officials, military leaders and others gathered in Devils Lake to send off a North Dakota National Guard unit that will spend about a year serving overseas.

Atlanta star Lakeith Stanfield crashed the Critics' Choice Awards stage on Sunday night. After HBO's Silicon Valley was...

Loss for Assad’s forces will raise questions about limitations of air strikes

BEIJING (AP) — Stocks fell on Monday ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting that is expected to raise U.S. interest rates, while oil prices jumped after several non-OPEC countries agreed to join the cartel in cutting output.

BEIJING (AP) — Stocks fell on Monday ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting that is expected to raise U.S. interest rates, while oil prices jumped after several non-OPEC countries agreed to join the cartel in cutting output.

K-pop bands BTS, or the Bangtan Boys, and GOT7 have been featured on Billboard’s year-end World Album Chart, the only South Korean artists to be featured on the prestigious list. The World Albums Chart is the year’s top-selling world music albums, ranked by sales data compiled by Nielsen Music.

Shares of Ophthotech Corp. plunged 79% toward a record low in active premarket trade Monday, after the biopharmaceutical company said two phase 3 trials of its age-related vision loss treatment failed to meet their primary endpoints. "We are very disappointed in the results from these trials, particularly for patients afflicted with wet [age-related macular degeneration]," said Chief Executivew David R. Guyer. "We will continue to analyze the data from these two studies to better understand the... Читать дальше...

A warm welcome awaits Mangaluru girl Srinidhi Ramesh Shetty, who was crowned Miss Supranational 2016 in Krynica Zdroj, Poland, in her home town on December 14.

If you're searching for the ultimate holiday gift, this 1962 Ferrari may be just the ticket — provided you have a spare $55 million.