Новости за 08.08.2015

Carphone Warehouse said Saturday that hackers had gained access to 2.4 million of its online customers, in the latest high-profile breach of online privacy.

The shocking death toll caused by high-speed chases, how a debate can derail a campaign and going worst to first in Major League Baseball.

Former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili is now the governor of Ukraine's Odessa region. He traveled by bus for a meeting with residents of a small town in southern Odessa last Tuesday to make the case that he is committed to rooting out corruption. Photo: AP

Donald Trump says he does not have time for "total political correctness" when Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly asked him about his previous characterizations of women during the Republican presidential debate. Photo: Getty

More than 50 people were killed in three separate bombings in Kabul, including a late-night attack on a U.S. forces base that left one service member dead.

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, maker of products including Apple iPhones, Xiaomi smartphones and Samsung tablets, says it will spend billions of dollars building factories in India, employing 50,000 people.

Mali’s special forces rescued four people who hid in a hotel for nearly 24 hours after Islamic extremists stormed the building and launched a rare attack far from their northern strongholds that killed nine people.

Alibaba’s coming earnings release could give investors a glimpse of whether China’s slowing economic growth is hitting the country’s vibrant e-commerce sector.

Robert Litan: Most economic research on education has focused on quantity or how many years of schooling the average person has completed. Yet it’s what people learn, not now long they take to get there, that really matters.

Several owners of residential property across Australia have been ordered to sell as the government intensifies its crackdown on the abuse of homeownership laws by buyers from China and elsewhere.

Hertz Looks Ready for the Fast Lane; The Media Mess; Poor Grades For Back-to-School Sales; Taking the Work Outside.

The closure of a plant that supplies Mattel sparked protests this past week, the latest in a spate of labor unrest sparked by such shutdowns across the country.

Typhoon Soudelor brought torrential rain and sustained winds of up to 100 miles per hour, causing widespread damage and flooding in several cities across Taiwan. Photo: AP

A Colorado jury decided that James Holmes shouldn’t receive the death penalty and will serve life in prison without parole for killing 12 people and injuring 70 during a mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater in 2012. Photo: AP

Michael Fredericks, a BlackRock portfolio manager, says he's having trouble finding bargains among MLPs, but likes some overseas real estate investments as well as institutional preferred stock, which can yield more than 5%.

Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia, vows to root out graft in his new post as governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine.

Merger and acquisition activity is booming, and some executives may soon find themselves unemployed. Here are ways for high earners to maximize certain work-related benefits and avoid costly errors.

William Ackman’s foray into Mondelez is just one step in what has been years of interest in food companies by some of the world’s best-known investors.

Unlike Chesapeake Energy, Carl Icahn’s stake in Cheniere Energy doesn’t look like a bet on gas prices recovering.

The July jobs report took another hurdle away from a Federal Reserve rate increase in September. But the path after that is strewn with obstacles.

U.S. employers are adding jobs at a steady clip, likely to reassure Federal Reserve officials as they weigh their first interest-rate increase since 2006.

Large biotech companies posted strong second-quarter results. Now, the game gets harder.

As Congress was heading for recess late last month, lawmakers passed several important tax changes. But they failed to act on others that are even more important.

China’s exports fell 8.3% in July from a year earlier in dollar terms, reversing an increase of 2.8% in June. The country’s trade surplus narrowed to $43.03 billion.

A French investigating judge plans to travel to Malaysia as part of his probe into the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, as questions persist over a section of an airplane wing on Réunion Island.