Новости за 17.07.2015

ADEN (Reuters) - Saudi-backed Yemeni fighters completed their offensive to retake the southern city of Aden from the Houthi militia on Friday, residents said, as fighting in one main district subsided.

LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - As Australia resumed play on Friday morning at 337 for one having had very little trouble from England's bowlers on the opening day the dead pitch was a hot topic of conversation among punters settling down around Lord's.

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he raised the topic of detained Americans at every meeting he held with Iranians during the final weeks of nuclear negotiations and said he is hopeful Tehran would release them.

LONDON (Reuters) - Online casino and poker firm 888 won the battle for larger rival Bwin.party Digital Entertainment on Friday, clinching a cash and stock deal worth almost 900 million pounds ($1.4 billion).

Capital controls in Greece are causing widespread pain throughout the country, including at a zoo in Athens, which is struggling to provide for its animals. Grace Pascoe reports.

Capital controls in Greece are causing widespread pain throughout the country, including at a zoo in Athens, which is struggling to provide for its animals. Grace Pascoe reports.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Taurean Russell was preparing to coach high school football in St. Louis last Aug. 9 when his Twitter feed began flashing images of a black teenager lying facedown on the street of a nearby suburb, shot dead by police.

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Espanyol have agreed a deal for goalkeeper Kiko Casilla to join Real Madrid, the Catalan club said on Friday.

* Firms say will add scale, deliver cost and revenue benefits (Adds comment from Bwin shareholder in paragraphs 8-9)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After going intergalactic with "Guardians of the Galaxy," and hanging an entire city from the sky in "Avengers: Age of Ultron," Marvel is reversing its scale but still packing the punches with an insect-sized superhero.

(Reuters) - Xerox Corp said it would revamp its healthcare IT business and record a related impairment charge of about $145 mln in the second quarter.

July 17 (Reuters) - Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie is moving to take control of an unfinished $3.5 billion mega resort that is weighing down his country's fragile economy.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 17 (Reuters) - A new hydrocarbons law awaiting presidential approval in Democratic Republic of Congo imposes a much-needed structure on a haphazardly regulated oil sector but critics say its vague provisions open the door to corruption and secrecy.

SAN ANTONIO DE LOS BANOS, Cuba (Reuters) - Acclaimed film director Francis Ford Coppola paid a visit to Cuba's International School of Film and Television and made a hearty pasta dish as he sought to inspire the country's next generation of filmmakers.

July 17 (Reuters) - General Electric Co raised its 2015 outlook for its industrial manufacturing businesses on Friday as it reported a 5 percent increase in its quarterly industrial profits, helped by stronger performance in its power division offsetting weak oil segment results.

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. housing starts rebounded strongly in June and building permits surged to a near eight-year high, pointing to a rapidly strengthening housing market.

LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - In the wake of the Germanwings disaster, all airline pilots should undergo psychological screening and allow details of medical visits to be shared in a proposed European database, according to new recommendations delivered to EU officials.

BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - China's gold reserves stood at 1,658 tonnes at the end of June, the central bank said on Friday, up 57 percent from the last time it adjusted its reserve figures more than six years ago.

Investigators "continue to cover every possible lead" in their effort to determine what led a 24-year-old gunman to open fire at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

Investigators "continue to cover every possible lead" in their effort to determine what led a 24-year-old gunman to open fire at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

Investigators "continue to cover every possible lead" in their effort to determine what led a 24-year-old gunman to open fire at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney says the decision to raise interest rates from record lows will become clearer by the end of the year. Hayley Platt reports.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney says the decision to raise interest rates from record lows will become clearer by the end of the year. Hayley Platt reports.

* Russian hydro, nuclear deals remain undecided (Adds CEO comments on Russian deals)

July 17 (Reuters) - Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has called for liquidators to take control of an unfinished $3.5 billion resort largely bankrolled and built by the Chinese, after talks broke down in Beijing about how to complete the rest of the project.