Новости за 04.11.2015

Charleston police have made an arrest in the death of George Whetsell, who was found dead near a James Island grocery store last month.

Failed North Charleston mayoral candidate John Singletary made good on at least one campaign promise -- to sue a long list of people for defamation. And he's asking for $110 million in actual and punitive damages.

Likely Democratic voters in South Carolina overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic presidential nominee, according to the latest Winthrop Poll.

Police were on the scene at President and Line Streets for reports of bones found.

A fatal crash that happened Monday evening was the result of two people running from the police, a report revealed Wednesday.

Thirty refugees left Greece for Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first from Greece under a new EU relocation plan but only a minuscule fraction of the hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers who have entered Greece this year.

It has no membership in the United Nations. In the Olympics, it competes as "Chinese Taipei." Most nations don't recognize it as a country.

A thick sandstorm cloaked parts of the Middle East on Wednesday, clouding skies and disrupting travel for the U.S. first lady, while flooding in Egypt killed 10 people.

Hundreds of riders are saddling up their horses in Myrtle Beach for the annual beach ride.

By The Associated Press Honda is recalling over 145,000 motorcycles in the U.S. to fix dragging rear brakes that can cause a fire or crash.

A commission of historians examining the Nazi links of West Germany's Interior Ministry says more than half of the staffers from 1949 to 1970 had belonged to the Nazi party.

Volkswagen is recalling nearly 92,000 cars in the U.S. to fix mechanical problems that can knock out the power-assisted brakes.

Germany and French authorities raided two unconnected human smuggling operations, saying Wednesday that they were bringing refugees into Germany by plane and sneaking others across the English Channel by boat.

Stock indexes are modestly higher in early trading as several companies turned in results that were better than investors were expecting.

Rating agency Moody's warned Wednesday that a slowdown in global growth linked to China and a rise in U.S. interest rates are two key reasons why it could lower its credit grades for countries next year.

Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. named a new CEO as it continues to struggle with sales in the wake of allegations that imported Chinese-made laminate flooring contained high levels of the carcinogen formaldehyde.

The 19-country eurozone economy is growing steadily but there's no sign of any marked lift-off, a key survey showed Wednesday in another development that's likely to pile pressure on the European Central Bank to...

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate must spend another month in a Moroccan jail after a judge postponed a hearing Wednesday in his case, which has angered human rights activists and his family.

Greece's economy could start growing again in the second half of 2016, but much work remains to be done on reforms required for bailout loans, the European Union's top economic and financial official said Wednesday.

Suspected Taliban fighters stoned a 22-year-old Afghan woman to death after she was accused of adultery, an Afghan official said Wednesday.

Denmark's intelligence agency says the gunman who fatally shot a filmmaker and a Jewish guard in February before being killed by police likely planned to leave the country after the attacks.

Maersk Line, the shipping branch of Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk, says it will reduce its network capacity, postpone investments and reduce its global headcount by at least 4,000 jobs by the end of 2017.

Shares of Japan Post surged nearly 26 percent in their trading debut Wednesday after the company and its banking and insurance units raised a combined 1.44 trillion yen ($11.9 billion) in the world's biggest initial...

South Africa has celebrated Nelson Mandela by crafting numerous statues and portraits of the country's first black president. Now there's a sculpture of the late leader's signature shirt.

Divisions within Asia over China's claims in the disputed South China Sea spilled over Wednesday to a meeting of U.S. and Asian defense ministers, where China insisted the group make no public mention of the strategic...