Новости за 21.09.2015

Hugh Jackman and his 'Pan' co-stars talk about the film's new take on the classic children's story. Sara Hemrajani reports.

KABUL (Reuters) - Zakia Mohammadi, a woman in Afghanistan's first national paragliding team, waited on a hilltop on the outskirts of Kabul for a wind to lift her craft into the sky, as dozens of watching teenagers clapped and cheered.

Soft-spoken and handcuffed, a 21-year-old landscaper insists that he is not responsible for a string of Phoenix freeway shootings and that his gun has been sitting in a pawn shop for months.

The mother of a young girl dubbed Baby Doe and identified almost three months after her remains washed up inside a trash bag on a Boston Harbor beach was ordered held on $1 million cash bond Monday, and the mother's...

A quarter of undergraduate women surveyed at more than two dozen universities say they experienced unwanted sexual contact sometime during college, according to a report released Monday.

HBO was on fire at the Emmys with a record 14 wins Sunday night, and the network's stars appropriately celebrated at a flame-filled after-party following the ceremony.

Crews made gains overnight on one of the worst wildfires in California history, mopping up hot spots and strengthening control lines after it and two other blazes in the northern part of the state have combined to kill...

The latest developments in the sentencing of a former peanut company executive convicted in a deadly salmonella outbreak from 2008 and 2009.

German prosecutors say they've charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS who served in the Auschwitz death camp complex.

The two American hostages, freed after months of being held hostage in Yemen's raging civil war, took their first steps to freedom down a staircase pushed against a gleaming Oman royal air force jet.

The chlorine was expired. The protective gear was missing. And the red tape was so thick that responders fighting last year's Ebola outbreak in West Africa had trouble getting approval for boots and buckets.

A Russian radio engineer who once worked for military intelligence was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday for seeking work with a Swedish company.

The pastor and members of the congregation that wrestled a gun away from a man police say opened fired in an Alabama church are being praised as heroes.

Can mass killings be predicted and prevented?

Seattle teachers have approved a labor contract between the union and its school district, officially ending a weeklong strike that had delayed the start of school for 53,000 students.

House Speaker John Boehner has been trying for 20 years to get a pope to come talk to Congress. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says it's "thrilling beyond words."

For the first time, the United States may be willing to accept a United Nations condemnation of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba without a fight, The Associated Press has learned.

By STEVEN R. HURST Associated Press A season of goal-setting begins this month as the United Nations launches a new 15-year plan to fight grinding world poverty, improve health and education and quell...

Pressure piled on the head of Volkswagen on Monday in the wake of an emissions-testing scandal that's seen around 15 billion euros ($16.9 billion) wiped off the company's market value.

U2 canceled a concert in Sweden's capital after a security breach and police were investigating on Monday whether one of their own was to blame.

LONDON (Reuters) - Just over a week ago Arsenal's season was gaining momentum while their arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur were still looking for their first win but they meet in the League Cup on Wednesday with that scenario completely turned on its head.

Apple's new operating system allows apps to stop advertising and has Silicon Valley up in arms. Breakingviews columnists discuss the fallout.

Apple's new operating system allows apps to stop advertising and has Silicon Valley up in arms. Breakingviews columnists discuss the fallout.

Apple's new operating system allows apps to stop advertising and has Silicon Valley up in arms. Breakingviews columnists discuss the fallout.

Apple's new operating system allows apps to stop advertising and has Silicon Valley up in arms. Breakingviews columnists discuss the fallout.