Новости за 21.08.2015

LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish international Pedro's desire to leave one of the biggest clubs in the world in order to further his career was a key factor in persuading Chelsea to sign him from Barcelona, manager Jose Mourinho said on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The contest to decide the new leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party may have been infiltrated by several thousand supporters of Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives, one of the candidates vying for control of the party said on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The contest to decide the new leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party may have been infiltrated by several thousand supporters of Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives, one of the candidates vying for control of the party said on Friday.

KABUL (Reuters) - The new leader of the Taliban has met influential clerics seeking to heal a rift after the death of founder Mullah Omar, in the latest gathering to anger the Afghan government, which accuses Pakistan of allowing militants to meet on its territory.

ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling AK Party will keep their grip on power when an interim government is formed next week to lead Turkey to a snap election, with the cabinet set to be dominated by loyalists.

LONDON (Reuters) - Former England fast bowler Chris Tremlett has retired from all forms of cricket due to injury problems, he said on Friday.

CLEMSON – Thursday night was fun for a couple reasons. It was the rare occasion reporters got to speak with all four coordinators at one time, and they were in a mood to openly take the temperature of team and individual performances.

Authorities say federal officers are regularly finding cocaine and heroin concealed in shipments of flowers moving through Miami International Airport.

Culled from last September’s two recitals at the Wigmore Hall, this double-album explores both American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato’s European artistic homeland and her native land, through separate discs of cantatas and Great American Songbook classics, sensitively accompanied by Antonio Pappano’s thoughtful piano arrangements.

The six string quartets which make up his Op. 18 were composed in Beethoven’s late twenties, and consequently imbued with less of the youthful enthusiasm and optimism one might expect of a composer’s first explorations of a new form.

Poland's prime minister on Friday sharply criticized the country's new president, a political rival, for seeking a referendum on three issues important primarily to the conservative political party that backs him,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person ever to win the Nobel peace prize, has another reason to celebrate after posting a string of top grades in her GCSEs, a set of important exams faced by British teenagers.

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has rejected India's demand that it cancel a meeting with separatist leaders from the disputed Kashmir region, ahead of crucial talks between the arch-rivals' top security officers in New Delhi on Sunday.

Arjen Robben says that Memphis Depay will fire Manchester United to the Premier League title this season, and his Holland team-mate can become one of the "best players in the world" at United.

LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Former England fast bowler Chris Tremlett has retired from all forms of cricket due to injury problems, he said on Friday.

Macedonian police drive back thousands of angry migrants with tear gas as they seal the border with Greece. Sean Carberry reports.

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Pakistan has rejected India's demand that it cancel a meeting with separatist leaders from the disputed Kashmir region, ahead of crucial talks between the arch-rivals' top security officers in New Delhi on Sunday.

NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished.

NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The hangover from the bursting of the housing bubble and competition from electronic trading have helped restrain U.S. dealers from growing their balance sheets and taking more risks, the New York Federal Reserve said in a blog post on Friday.

England fought back minutes before lunch on the second day of the fifth Investec Test. With Australia’s captain elect, Steve Smith having reached his 11 Test hundred two wickets in the final over of the morning left the tourists at 376 for seven.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Retiring home hero Kumar Sangakkara featured in a brief rebuilding act in his final test as Sri Lanka reached 140-3 in reply to India's first innings total of 393 on day two of the second test on Friday.

After exceeding its profit targets, Ethiopian Airlines is hoping to nearly double its fleet and open new routes, looking at new destinations in Asia and Europe. Grace Pascoe reports on the company's expansion plans.

Long unavailable, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s second album finds her exploring a variety of approaches, while developing her songwriting skills through the country anthem “The Piney Wood Hills” and oft-covered love song “Until It’s Time For You to Go”.

GEVGELIJA, Macedonia/IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) - Macedonian police firing tear gas and stun grenades drove back crowds of migrants and refugees trying to enter from Greece on Friday, sealing the frontier to thousands of Syrians, Afghans and others trying to reach western Europe.

Like their fellow Swedes Goat, Hills plumb hitherto unmined depths of heavy psychedelic drone-rock on this third album, setting up monster, lumbering grooves sparsely punctuated by the occasional short snatch of sitar or lead guitar.