Новости за 23.10.2015

Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins - more than 1.5 million items in all - fill the shelves of a warehouse on a wildlife refuge near Denver.

Investigators are blaming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an agency cleanup crew rushed its work, failed to consider the complex...

Thousands of South African university students protesting planned tuition hikes flocked to the country's main government complex on Friday, with some setting fires and throwing stones as police responded with stun...

A Pakistani police official says a suicide bomber has targeted a Shiite procession in the southern Pakistan city of Jacobabad, killing 14 and wounding 30.

It was a racially motivated, carefully planned rampage, police say. The 21-year-old masked man marched through a Swedish school with a sword and a knife, methodically selecting his victims. Within minutes, two people had...

Eight years ago Turuk Gatluak settled on Kok Island, a remote marshland in the vast swamps of South Sudan's Unity state. He planted palm trees to hold the soil together and grew enough maize, pumpkins, and sweet...

Silicon Valley may think it can build a better car. But should it?

Phone and Internet service provider Talk Talk said Friday that it has received a ransom demand after a "significant and sustained" cyberattack that may have compromised customers' credit card and banking details.

Wireless equipment maker Ericsson says its third-quarter earnings increased but slowing demand in China and uncertain outlooks for Europe and the United States worried investors, causing the shares to slide.

Israel's ambassador has joined Spanish officials in celebrating the name change of the ancient Spanish town of Castrillo Matajudios ("Camp Kill Jews") to Castrillo Mota de Judios ("Jews' Hill Camp").

The U.N. refugee agency sounded the alarm Friday about vulnerable women and children who are among hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants pouring into southeast Europe, saying it has received reports that some are...

The Islamic State rakes in up to $50 million a month from selling crude from oilfields under its control in Iraq and Syria, part of a well-run industry that U.S. diplomacy and airstrikes have so far failed to shut down,...

Muslim prayers at a major Jerusalem shrine, the epicenter of weeks of unrest, ended peacefully Friday after Israel lifted restrictions on worshippers in an apparent bid to ease tensions.

Hurricane Patricia barreled toward southwestern Mexico Friday as a monster Category 5 storm, the strongest ever in the Western Hemisphere. Locals and tourists were either hunkering down or trying to make last-minute...

Shocked into action, Serbia and Croatia agreed Friday to increase the flow of asylum-seekers over their border after thousands were forced to spend a muddy night out in the open in near-freezing temperatures.

A truck and a bus carrying retirees collided Friday in southwest France's wine region, igniting an inferno that authorities said killed 43 people and badly injuring four others. It was France's deadliest road...

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Strong quarterly earnings from several big-name technology companies helped push U.S. stocks higher in midday trading Friday. The market pulled back somewhat from a sharp...

The Chinese central bank's move Friday to cut interest rates for a sixth time in a year reflects enduring concern about the world's second-largest economy.

A Kentucky man captured this year along the Appalachian Trail has pleaded guilty in Ohio to a wire fraud count in an embezzlement case authorities say began 17 years ago.

States and industry groups dependent on fossil fuels are lining up to file court challenges to President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A big merger and cheaper jet fuel are doing wonders for American Airlines.

Free rent and groceries were selling points, but college freshman Aishwarya Mandyam was more excited about the chance to connect with like-minded women when she moved into the eight-bedroom house offered up by a Seattle...

Procter & Gamble, which is attempting to refocus on core brands and regain its standing as a top competitor, struggled to boost sales in its first quarter.

Thirty miles away from the Circuit of the Americas, with its iconic red, white and blue racing stripes and grandstands that will be filled with more than 100,000 fans for the United States Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was...

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer It is weeks such as these that often produce the craziest results in college football.