Новости за 21.08.2015

(Reuters) - Defending champion Serena Williams cruised into the quarter-finals of the Western & Southern Open with a 6-0 6-2 win over Italy's Karin Knapp on Thursday while Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic's remarkable run came to an end.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - InterDigital Inc has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license its technology considered essential to mobile phone communications, Microsoft Corp said in a lawsuit on Thursday.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Tiger Woods fed off an "electric" atmosphere to card his lowest score in two years on the PGA Tour, a six-under 64 that left him two shots behind the first round leaders at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday.

Every year, middle and high schools across South Carolina send students home with a letter to their parents, outlining their sexual education curriculum as required by state law.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Nashville hotel has canceled reservations for a white supremacist organization this weekend.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former reality TV star Josh Duggar on Thursday admitted cheating on his wife after reports that he had subscribed to the Ashley Madison affair website, apologizing for being "the biggest hypocrite ever."

The two Americans who were jammed into the cramped cell of Havana's military jail had been adversaries for years – but only now, in the spring of 1873, had they finally caught up with each other. And the circumstances were extraordinary.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rockets hit an Israeli village near the Lebanese border on Thursday and Israel struck back in the Syrian Golan Heights, saying the rare salvo had been launched there by an Iranian-backed Palestinian militant group.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The director of the agency that invests South Carolina’s pension portfolio says its worth slid backward because investments didn’t earn enough to cover benefit payments to retirees.

William Haggas, working out of Newmarket, but Yorkshire born and bred and proud of it, could not have dreamt of a better start to his beloved Ebor meeting as Tasleet and Besharah added to the opening day successes of Recorder and Storm The Stars to make it a perfect four wins from his first four runners.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month.

David Glen will captain the Penn State men’s hockey team this season.

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A video has emerged of Jeremy Corbyn equating the actions of Isis with those of the US military, and saying that "some of what they have done is quite appalling."

Gay and bisexual users of the Ashley Madison infidelity website have been left in fear for their lives after it emerged that the identities of users living in countries where homosexuality is illegal and even punishable by death have been posted online.

If the Northampton midfielder Luther Burrell is to seal the deal on a World Cup place in Paris on Saturday night – and there is every reason to think he is a good step ahead of the Exeter youngster Henry Slade and the Gloucester captain Billy Twelvetrees in the race for the most hotly contested centre berth – he will have to do it the hard way. It is one thing impressing the right people at Test level. It is quite another doing it against the likes of Wesley Fofana and Mathieu Bastareaud.

If the Northampton midfielder Luther Burrell is to seal the deal on a World Cup place in Paris on Saturday night – and there is every reason to think he is a good step ahead of the Exeter youngster Henry Slade and the Gloucester captain Billy Twelvetrees in the race for the most hotly contested centre berth – he will have to do it the hard way. It is one thing impressing the right people at Test level. It is quite another doing it against the likes of Wesley Fofana and Mathieu Bastareaud.

LONDON (Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning writer Doris Lessing was under surveillance for more than 20 years during her youth by British spies who took a dim view of her Communist beliefs and anti-racist activism, declassified intelligence files have revealed.

LONDON (Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning writer Doris Lessing was under surveillance for more than 20 years during her youth by British spies who took a dim view of her Communist beliefs and anti-racist activism, declassified intelligence files have revealed.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain plans to tell firms that win large public contracts to commit to taking on more young workers to boost the country's skill levels, stepping up the pressure on private companies to increase youth training schemes.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain plans to tell firms that win large public contracts to commit to taking on more young workers to boost the country's skill levels, stepping up the pressure on private companies to increase youth training schemes.

Gov. Nikki Haley says she will fight the possibility that detainees will be brought from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Naval Brig in Hanahan.

Macedonia announces a state of emergency, as it moves to cut the flow of migrants pouring over its southern border with Greece, leaving thousands stranded. Display (no reporter narration).

MI5 sought to trick a British Communist into exposing Kim Philby as a Soviet agent in an extraordinary interview conducted while she lay in bed, according to top secret documents.

A British journalist who worked for the Daily Express was considered by the Soviet Union to be one of its most valuable agents during the Second World War, according to secret documents.