Новости за 21.01.2017

It was, Serena Williams was told during the on-court interview that followed her routine 6-1, 6-3 defeat of fellow American Nicole Gibbs, exactly 19 years ago to the day that she played her first match on Rod Laver Arena. Except that, actually, it wasn't. Ah, details, details.

The Belgium international is currently on loan at Sunderland, but is under contract at Old Trafford until 2018 and says it is his goal to return

President Erdogan says the reform will provide stability and prevent a return to the fragile coalitions of the past.

Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson says Kieran Foran is well on the way to returning to his best, but is not across the line just yet.

Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba — the Chinese company that surpassed Wal-Mart as the world’s largest retailer in 2016 — said the United States wasted $14 trillion dollars wasted on warfare in the last 30 years, money that should have been spent on domestic infrastructure and programs for the people instead. During an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Ma about his thoughts on the American economy and how it relates to China. Читать дальше...

A bomb exploded Saturday in a market in a northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, killing at least 18 people and wounding at least 51. 

Fans are going to meet another White Martian in Season 2, episode 11 of “Supergirl.”

Donald Trump's inauguration cake might have been a plagiarized work of art.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce representing Bayelsa Central has condemned the killing of IPOB members celebrating the inauguration of 45th US president Donal Trump.

Two women arms smugglers and an illegal manufacturer of weapons were arrested and a six 9-mm pistols, five magazines and a live round seized by a combined team of Assam Rifles and Manipur police.

PHILOMATH — High energy on defense got Philomath out of an early offensive funk.

High-speed internet was just a fledgling technology when Brian Magnuson started Cascade Networks 17 years ago. The Cowlitz County native never envisioned his company’s network would one day crisscross the region.

A bus carrying school children has crashed in Italy...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned of a risk of a lost generation of Syrian children: a total of 2.7 million Syrian children are missing out on an education due to the conflict. Radio Sputnik spoke with UNICEF's Najwa Mekki, who confirmed that the country's would-be students have found themselves in dire conditions.

A school shooting that left one student hospitalized and others scrambling out classroom windows could have been far worse if not for the heroics of staff members who stopped the shooter and had him pinned down when police arrived, authorities said.

At least two people were killed and 10 are still missing after a landslide hit a hotel in central China causing partial collapse of the building.

The NRL future of Wests Tigers forward Kyle Lovett is in limbo after being charged with drug offences.

Scientists are hoping to create a smart patch which could detect the early onset of osteoarthritis in patients' knees.

By Kieran Guilbert MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid worker Alfred Davies and his colleagues were providing vaccinations and giving out food in a refugee camp in northeast Nigeria when he noticed the buzzing of a plane passing overhead. "Glass shattered, roofs collapsed and people were screaming and crying," Davies, a project co-ordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. "I saw people with their bellies open, and intestines on the ground," the Liberian aid worker said. Читать дальше...

There will be those who will say Melbourne will never be the same after a man wanted for a near fatal stabbing drove his stolen sedan through the heart of the city to kill and injure as many people as possible. And those who say we will change have short memories.

Canberra cyclist grabs second on stage five to move onto the Tour Down Under podium.

The three-match rubber has already been pocketed by Virat Kohli`s men in blue who have won the first two matches at Pune and Cuttack.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Meer vrouwen zijn economisch zelfstandig geworden en hoewel mannen gemiddeld nog steeds meer verdienen dan vrouwen, worden de verschillen in salaris kleiner, schrijft minister Jet Bussemaker (Emancipatie) zaterdag in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer.