Новости за 25.06.2015

Alexis Sanchez has been brandished a “cry baby” following his reaction to Uruguay’s physical approach in the Copa America that has been tarnished by an incident between Edinson Cavani and Gonzalo Jara.

Talks between Athens and EU lenders resume after Greece's ruling Syriza party dismissed reform demands from the country's international creditors as "blackmail." As Sonia Legg reports the crisis has entered a critical phase and that's being reflected in markets.

Talks between Athens and EU lenders resume after Greece's ruling Syriza party dismissed reform demands from the country's international creditors as "blackmail." As Sonia Legg reports the crisis has entered a critical phase and that's being reflected in markets.

Иртәгә, 26 июньдә, ТНВ каналының “Манзара” тапшыруында лениногорскилылар – Таһир абый Шәмсуаров һәм Равил Гыйматдинов чыгыш ясаячак, карарга онытмагыз.

 27 июньдә Казанның теннис үзәгендә  Татарстан Президентын сайлауларда катнашырга дәгъва итүче кандидатларның  сайлаучылар белән очрашуы уза. Бу  дата Татарстан Президенты вазифасына лаеклы кандидатлар тәкъдим итү өчен алдан тавыш бирү үткәрү буенча инициатив төркемнең чираттагы утырышында билгеләнгән иде.

Real Madrid have rejected Manchester United’s opening £32m bid for Sergio Ramos, leaving the defender anxious to get his possible move to Old Trafford resolved within two weeks, to prevent him being dragged into the Spanish club’s long haul pre-season tour with his future still unclear.

A remarkable and important graphic novel, Munnu offers an alternative history of Indian administered Kashmir, specifically Srinagar, drawing on the author's life to tell the story of Munnu as he grows up to become Sajad.

Accepting The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize last month, Jenny Erpenbeck made a thoughtful observation when she said that the English translation of her winning novel, The End of Days, is her book but her translator's words. Like Erpenbeck, who grew up in the German Democratic Republic, Kirill Medvedev is interested in art's role in a society that's emerging from the legacies of communism. Hailed by one of his translators, Keith Gessen, as "Russia's first authentic post-Soviet writer", Medvedev begins this collection of his poems... Читать дальше...

War and romance with an epic sweep is what people expect of Louis de Bernières. It is not, of course, all that he has written but it is what he is most famous for, particularly in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, now marking its 21st birthday, and in his last major novel, Bird Without Wings, of 2004.

War and romance with an epic sweep is what people expect of Louis de Bernières. It is not, of course, all that he has written but it is what he is most famous for, particularly in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, now marking its 21st birthday, and in his last major novel, Bird Without Wings, of 2004.

Accepting The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize last month, Jenny Erpenbeck made a thoughtful observation when she said that the English translation of her winning novel, The End of Days, is her book but her translator's words. Like Erpenbeck, who grew up in the German Democratic Republic, Kirill Medvedev is interested in art's role in a society that's emerging from the legacies of communism. Hailed by one of his translators, Keith Gessen, as "Russia's first authentic post-Soviet writer", Medvedev begins this collection of his poems... Читать дальше...

If the non-fiction bestseller lists are anything to go by, our hunger as readers to hear about the natural world seems to increase in direct relation to our withdrawal from it into built and digital landscapes of our own. The perfect moment, you would think, for a guide to the birds we can encounter without leaving the city.

I read Rabbit out of order. It's four books – four and a half, if you include the late novella, Rabbit Remembered – each one written at the end of a decade, between 1960 and 1990: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest. But I didn't know that when, in WH Smith in Brent Cross circa 1988, I picked up Is Rich, read one sentence and thought "well obviously I'm buying this". When I found out that there were two prequels to that book, I was simultaeneously dismayed – like someone... Читать дальше...

If a writer pumps up the volume of a book's ideas or impending events from the very first sentence there's a risk of a subsequent literary burst tyre. Franz Kafka's Metamorphoses maintained the brutally surreal nature of its opening line: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

There is an old Brussels joke. How do you tell the difference between a British official and a French one? The Briton says: "This idea works fine in theory but will it work in practice?" The Frenchman says: "This idea works fine in practice but will it work in theory?"

Where are you now and what can you see?

The title story of Jonathan Lethem's intriguing new collection of short fiction is the bizarrely touching story of an unlikely friendship. Sigismund Blondy, a director of "minimalist spectacles", and Alan Zwelish, a software engineer, cement a bond over mid-afternoon visits to the "indifferent first-run films", discussions of "great works" by Rothko and Durrell, existential questionnaires by Frisch and mid-afternoon glasses of wine in a vividly-evoked Manhattan cityscape, with flocks of green parrots infesting its trees. Читать дальше...

While it may not chime with current attitudes, the popular perception of the female spy is the sexually enticing agent who sleeps with her besotted admirers to obtain their secrets – as with Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield's A Very Dangerous Woman (Oneworld, £20), which is subtitled The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy.

A remarkable and important graphic novel, Munnu offers an alternative history of Indian administered Kashmir, specifically Srinagar, drawing on the author's life to tell the story of Munnu as he grows up to become Sajad.

These are difficult times for Jews. Not only, or even especially, for them, of course. It's not a good time to be an Iraqi Christian or a Yazidi in Syria either. But, shade in the areas on a map of the world where simply looking like a Jew is a high or growing risk, and the area is expanding. Parts of some European cities have become danger zones in the space of only a few years. As for most of the Middle East, forget it. It seems incredible now that Baghdad was once home to 140,000 Jews.

Hennes & Mauritz, the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, has warned of a "very negative" impact from higher purchasing costs for the rest of the year due to the strong U.S. dollar. As Hayley Platt reports it also dented second-quarter profits.

Ted, the talking teddy bear, returns to the big screen to deliver a mix of laughs and a message of equality. Jane Witherspoon reports.

COLUMBIA —Under a dome where lawmakers often snide and roll their eyes at each other, esteemed reverend and state Sen. Clementa Pinckney laid in state a week after he and eight others were...