Новости за 30.08.2015

After a week of market upheaval and speculation about whether the Federal Reserve will raise rates , WSJ chief economics correspondent Jon Hilsenrath discusses three takeaways from the Fed's annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Photo:AP

Female wrestler Gheeda "Joelle" Chamasaddine is shaking things up in the United Arab Emirates, where women are expected to follow strict dress codes in public. Photo: Rory Jones/The Wall Street Journal

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author known for books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” and "Awakenings," died at age 82 Sunday. Dr. Sacks announced in February that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that spread to his liver. Photo: Getty Images

U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice on Sunday told top civilian and military leaders in Islamabad that attacks in neighboring Afghanistan by Pakistan-based militants were “absolutely unacceptable,” according to a senior American official.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called Hillary Clinton “a disgrace” for comments about Republicans’ views on women as he and three other presidential candidates did interviews on the Sunday talk shows. Here’s a round-up of what you may have missed if you didn’t turn on the tube:

Fresh off a $300 million round of funding, fantasy-sports company DraftKings is launching a new ad campaign to gin up fan interest as the National Football League season gets underway.

"If it wasn't for your city, I wouldn't be here right now," he said.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn’t back off his plan Sunday to use FedEx package-tracking technology to better monitor immigrants who overstay their U.S. visas.

It was a rarity that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump didn’t appear on Sunday’s morning talk shows, but his presence was felt nonetheless, prompting the other GOP candidates to make the case they remain relevant despite sagging support.

The Reserve Bank of India is in an accommodative phase of monetary policy, meaning it is looking to reduce interest rates, RBI Gov. Raghuram Rajan said Saturday.

Here's what to look out for in the week of Aug. 31: China holds a World War II victory parade, President Obama visits the Arctic, and the Labor Department releases the August jobs report.

One of the weirdest shows on TV came to its likely end Saturday night.

In search of a stately SUV with safety features galore and a palatial seven-seat interior? Behold the Volvo XC90 T6.

If Triple Crown winner American Pharoah had to lose a race this year, it’s fitting that it would happen at Saratoga, a track nicknamed the “Graveyard of Champions.”

A new poll in Iowa shows Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton losing considerable ground to her chief rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, despite having built a formidable network of organizers and volunteers in the state that holds the first presidential contest.

The Reserve Bank of India is in an accommodative phase of monetary policy, meaning it is looking to reduce interest rates, RBI Gov. Raghuram Rajan said.

The Fed‘s Stanley Fischer said there is “good reason” to think sluggish U.S. inflation will firm and move back toward the U.S. central bank’s 2% annual target, touching on a significant assessment facing the Fed ahead of its September policy meeting.

The stock market fall pierced the party’s mystique of omnipotence. In an interwoven world, the crisis should spur Beijing to prefer compromise to bullying.

The Canadian unit of Chinese state-controlled energy giant Cnooc Ltd. said it would comply with an order from regulatory authorities forcing it to shut down pipelines at a troubled oil-sands plant in northern Alberta.

A demonstration in Beirut against poor waste management blossomed into full-throated demands that Lebanon’s long-standing political class step down from power.