Новости за 19.10.2015

Army, police and civilian volunteers rushed Monday to rescue hundreds of villagers trapped in their flooded homes and on rooftops in a northern Philippine province battered by slow-moving Typhoon Koppu, officials said.

Turbulence in global markets hit Morgan Stanley's business particularly hard in the third quarter, sending the bank's earnings down 42 percent, well short of analysts' estimates.

Johnson & Johnson's immune disorder drug Stelara significantly reduced symptoms of the inflammatory bowel condition Crohn's disease with just one infusion in about half the patients tested, according to the...

The Iraq director of an organization promoting journalism in conflict zones has been found dead in unexplained circumstances at Istanbul's main airport, colleagues and British officials said Monday.

The man accused of taping a North Charleston dog's muzzle closed and leaving her that way for more than a day waived his preliminary hearing Monday morning.

Energy stocks are leading an early decline on Wall Street as the price of oil turns lower.

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. says it foiled a fraud attempt involving scammers pretending to work for India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. after a newspaper report claimed the kingdom's oil firm was the victim of...

The clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land are not just physical; the two sides cannot agree on what they see, how they got here, who is to blame or where they should go.

A new fall promotion by South Carolina's parks agency urges folks to visit all 47 of the state's parks and become what the campaign calls an "Ultimate Outsider."

The Czech government has approved a plan to expand the mining of lignite, a fossil fuel known as brown coal.

The new $142 million Gaillard Center in Charleston is officially open.

Denny Colwell fires up a weed whacker and makes quick work of his prized American ginseng patch, a fall ritual that helps hide the slow-growing, long-lived perennials from poachers keen on digging them up.

Turkey's prime minister says authorities have confirmed the identity of one of the two suicide bombers they say targeted a peace rally in the capital Ankara, killing 102 people.

Nigerian intelligence agents have arrested a broadcaster calling for the peaceful secession of the southeast from Nigeria, according to two Biafra separatist groups whose cause prompted a civil war in the 1960s that killed...

The Russian intelligence agency FSB says it has detained a man who was planning to blow up a train in southern Russia and go to fight in Syria.

In a story Oct. 18 about the war in Syria, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of Pawel Krzysiek, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Oprah Winfrey is taking a 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers for about $43.2 million and is joining the weight management company's board.

Sherwin-Williams named longtime insider John Morikis, as its ninth CEO Monday.

Cyprus expects its economy to gather pace in coming years as the country looks to emerge from its international bailout program in 2016.

A law firm representing former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says he is suing Ukraine for violating his human rights.

The Swiss federal government has confirmed a dominant performance in legislative elections by a nationalist party that seized on widespread concerns about mass migration in Europe, marking a shift to the political right.

With their milestone nuclear deal now in effect, Iran and six world powers are focusing on coordinating who needs to do what first for the agreement to be fully implemented.

Spain and the United States signed an agreement Monday to further discuss the cleanup and removal of land contaminated with radioactivity after a mid-air collision in 1966 dumped four U.S. hydrogen bombs near the southern...

Police say a 24-year-old Brazilian man has collapsed and died on board an Irish aircraft after becoming frenetic and attacking a fellow passenger.

By The Associated Press Images from around Asia last week captured a supporter of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's Rakhine state, which has been a hotbed of sectarian violence, and a...