Новости за 11.08.2016

Beijing is home to 21.7 million people, growing by an average of 600,000 people annually over the past decade. However, the government wants to reduce the Chinese capital's population. Here are the key numbers. Photo: Getty Images

Marriage prospects scant at home, Nordic LDS youth flock to Festinord

Simone Biles enters the women’s gymnastics all-around final as the heaviest favorite in the Olympic Games thanks to a body that is nearly ideal for the sport.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. is paying nearly $340 million to exit the Barnett Shale in Texas as the Oklahoma City-based energy producer tries to clean up its finances.

How to have an all-veggie barbecue.

Activist investor Marcato Capital Management LP is pushing Goodyear Tire to return $4.5 billion to investors over the next three years in a bid to boost its flagging stock price.

Delta’s chief executive took full responsibility for the computer failure that forced the airline to cancel more than 2,100 flights over three days but said it was a one-time event.

Twitter isn't legally liable for pro-ISIS propanda tweets that a lawsuit claimed contributed to the death of two Americans, a federal judge ruled.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton went after rival Donald Trump on Wednesday for his suggestion that gun-rights supporters could do something to stop Clinton from putting anti-gun justices on the Supreme Court. Photo: AP

Nearly everyone can hum at least a few lines of the famous Bossa nova classic, “The Girl From Ipanema.” But who was the girl who inspired the song? Photo: Heloísa Pinheiro

Olympic organizers are racing to pacify a potentially explosive rivalry between host nation Brazil and its southern neighbor Argentina.

After an Olympic talent drain, Belarus, a former gymnastics power, attracts a U.S.-born gymnast and basketball player. Belarus officials say they are merely reversing an exodus of athletes.

A fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad killed 12 infants and wounded 18 mothers and children. Photo: AP

Long before Lilly King's finger-wag or Chad le Clos' shadowboxing at the Rio 2016 games, Olympic swimmers' poolside taunting have made headlines. But as Michael Phelps has proved, it comes down to who can back it up with gold. Photo: NBC Olympics