Новости за 11.12.2017

New York pimps and prostitutes, KGB agents and robotic animals populate some of this year’s best shows.

Apple has acquired Shazam Entertainment, giving it one of the popular song-recognition apps at a time the iPhone maker is looking to boost its music-subscription service.

Mattel warned of another gloomy holiday season as key brands continue to struggle and toy retailers tighten the amount of inventory they are willing to buy upfront.

California wildfire rages toward scenic coastal communities, how toll roads can charge you $40 for driving 10 miles, and the bullied boy whose video went viral.

A bomber partially detonated a home-made explosive at a Manhattan subway terminal Monday in an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect suffered severe burns and was taken into custody by the police. Photo: Twitter/@Breaking911

A bomber partially detonated a home-made explosive at a Manhattan subway terminal Monday in an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect suffered severe burns and was taken into custody by the police. Photo: Twitter/@Breaking911

President Donald Trump’s chief trade adviser blasted the World Trade Organization Monday for “losing its essential focus” and becoming “a litigation-centered organization” that has failed to enforcing existing rules.

European Union officials warned the Trump administration not to go it alone in its Middle East peace efforts as the bloc’s foreign ministers said they wouldn’t follow the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.

Enthusiasts say bitcoin is taking over the world. But comparisons to real companies, currencies and countries are flawed measures for the cryptocurrency.

American hospitals have a target on their backs. The latest merger talk is an attempt to rally their strength, but industry payers’ battle against high health-care costs shows no sign of letting up.

Financial-technology startup Affirm Inc. said Monday that it raised $200 million in new equity as it battles larger players getting into its core business of lending to consumers for retail purchases.

An injury to star quarterback Carson Wentz throws the Eagles’ dream season into a panic.

Once pegged as eggheady and associated with Mr. Rogers, the fine-gauge cardigan has evolved into an indisputably cool dude. Here’s how to wear it.

Brexit & Beyond: Europe in Flux is The Wall Street Journal’s round-up of news and analysis of how Brexit will affect global business, economies and finance. You can sign up here. MUST READS Theresa May, U.K. prime minister, left, and Donald Tusk, president of the European Union. The U.K. and the European Union struck a deal […]

As fashion designers tranform the egalitarian club-scarf into a logofied luxury, true-blue soccer fans are left scratching their heads.

Chinese officials are putting in place a contingency plan to combat consequences for China of U.S. tax changes as well as expected interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve.

The pace of North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests has slowed considerably in recent weeks and history suggests it will remain low in the coming weeks, providing a narrow diplomatic opportunity for a negotiated resolution to the crisis, writes Gerald F. Seib.

Greece, the place where Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis first emerged, finally looks like it could escape its bailout years. Yield-hungry bond investors are smartly going along for the ride.

Apple is close to acquiring music-identification company Shazam Entertainment in a deal that would give it ownership of a popular app with insight into people’s musical interests.

Corning agreed to buy almost all of 3M’s optical fiber and copper cable business for $900 million.

Fed up with Folgers, outdoor adventurers have forged a better class of instant brews you can make anywhere—just add water

The Tasmanian tiger frightened European settlers, who put a bounty on its head. A new study mapping the tiger’s genetic code found it was anything but fearsome—the wolflike marsupial, that some Australians believe still exists in its last island stronghold, was in poor genetic health before it was hunted to extinction.

After a strong increase in October, an index that measures U.S. employment fell in November.

Verizon Communications will no longer have the exclusive mobile rights to distribute the games to its wireless customers, but the $2 billion deal will expand the partnership to Verizon-owned platforms like Yahoo Sports.

Ex-employees of Gawker.com’s defunct publisher are raising money through a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to purchase the blog out of bankruptcy and relaunch the website.