Новости за 15.10.2015

Palmetto Goodwill donated more than $36,000 to the Mother Emanuel Hope Fund on Thursday to benefit the victims of the June 17 Emanuel AME Church shooting and their families.

Family members of a beloved hot dog vendor in downtown Charleston say they are working on a fundraiser to make sure that his legacy lives on.

Four centuries after William Shakespeare wrote "something's rotten in the state of Denmark" in his play "Hamlet," the small Scandinavian country clearly has gotten its act together.

CAIRO (AP) - In a story Oct. 14 about Egypt's parliamentary elections, The Associated Press reported erroneously that TV anchorman Ahmed Moussa is running for a seat. Moussa is an avid supporter of President...

The past two Family Circle Cup champions in Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic have committed to play in the rebranded Volvo Cars Open in 2016.

Kia will recall more than 419,000 SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because the transmission can be shifted out of park when the driver's foot isn't on the brake, a violation of safety laws.

South Africa's National Treasury says it will consider the economic impact of a proposal by the world's biggest beer maker to buy SABMiller - a company with South African roots.

Relatives say a rubber boat carrying a Lebanese family of 12 to European shores has sunk. Five family members died, three survived and four are missing.

Syrian troops and their allies launched an offensive in the central province of Homs on Thursday and Russia's government said its warplanes carried out a rare airstrike near Damascus targeting an Islamic State group...

The Palestinian president ignited an uproar in Israel on Thursday after falsely claiming that Israel had "executed" a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who is recovering in an Israeli hospital, drawing new accusations that he is...

Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, a Mozambican friend said, lived with "one foot in the snow and one foot in the sand," splitting his time between Sweden and Mozambique.

Peru's defense minister has announced an investigation into possible drug-related military corruption following an Associated Press report that Peru's armed forces were turning a blind eye daily drug flights to...

The latest developments in ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis (all times local):

Like hundreds of elderly men and women from the Iraqi city of Mosul, Hajji Ahmed left in August to participate in the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Scottish prosecutors said Thursday they have identified two Libyans as suspects in the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet over the town of Lockerbie, and want to interview them in Tripoli.

President Barack Obama announced plans Thursday to keep nearly 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through most of next year and 5,500 when he leaves office in 2017, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch and...

U.S. regulators say they have a lot more questions for Volkswagen, triggered by the company's recent disclosure of additional suspect software in 2016 diesel models that potentially would help exhaust systems run...

Lamar Odom didn't last long at the glittering intersection of championship success and Hollywood celebrity.

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who shot his girlfriend to death on Valentine's Day 2013, can leave prison and move to house arrest next week, South Africa's Department of Corrections said Thursday.

A woman who appeared on an educational children's TV show as a teenager with Bill Cosby has sued him, saying he defamed her after she gave an interview claiming he sexually abused her in the 1980s.

With flood waters largely receding around South Carolina, the reopening of state bridges is picking up speed.

An attorney for Dennis Hastert told a federal judge Thursday that the former House speaker intends to plead guilty in a federal hush-money case linked to allegations of sexual misconduct from decades ago.

The fatal beating of a young man and the savage attack on his younger brother by relatives and fellow members of an upstate New York church was intended to get them to confess their sins, investigators said, but they still...

The latest on protests by the Baltimore Uprising coalition, which occupied City Council chambers at Baltimore City Hall to protest a council subcommittee's vote in favor of making the interim police commissioner...

Forecasters say this winter El Nino will leave a big wet but not necessarily snowy footprint on much of the United States, including parched California.