Новости за 29.06.2015

Amateur videos, posted on social media websites, purport to show fighting between the Syrian army and Islamic State forces in the city of Hasaka. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Amateur videos, posted on social media websites, purport to show fighting between the Syrian army and Islamic State forces in the city of Hasaka. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Amateur videos, posted on social media websites, purport to show fighting between the Syrian army and Islamic State forces in the city of Hasaka. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

LONDON (Reuters) - Serena Williams moved past the halfway mark in her quest for a rare calendar year grand slam and Novak Djokovic clicked smoothly back into gear as the 129th Wimbledon Championships opened for business on Monday.

In a rare bipartisan scene at the White House, President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law two hard-fought bills giving him greater authority to negotiate international trade deals and providing aid to workers whose...

Turkmenistan has marked its leader's 58th birthday by opening a park named after him, a move reflecting his blossoming personality cult.

The Iranian nuclear talks are playing out in classic fashion: A self-imposed deadline appears to have been extended due to stubborn disputes, with the sides publicly sticking to positions and facing internal pressure from...

International economists released a critical report on Puerto Rico's economy Monday on the heels of the governor's warning that the island can't pay its $72 billion public debt.

June 29 (Reuters) - South African Branden Grace, Cameron Smith of Australia and Ireland's Shane Lowry have accepted special temporary membership for the remainder of the 2014-15 PGA Tour season, the tour said on Monday.

COLUMBIA — At South Carolina, no team in recent years has been more directly impacted by the Confederate flag’s presence on the statehouse grounds than Dawn Staley’s women’s basketball squad.

* President Buhari elected on anti-graft ticket (Adds quotes, detail, background)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Monday extended for another year a peacekeeping mission to protect civilians and ensure aid delivery in Sudan's remote western region of Darfur despite calls by Khartoum to withdraw the $1.1 billion operation.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Monday extended for another year a peacekeeping mission to protect civilians and ensure aid delivery in Sudan's remote western region of Darfur despite calls by Khartoum to withdraw the $1.1 billion operation.

No one needs reminding that they will be dictating the sporting narrative deep into this summer, long after the Wimbledon festival has packed up and gone, though it is the rediscovery of a different type of turf – the grass courts - which absorbs and fascinates Australians the most.

Armed policeman were “paralysed by fear” and allowed the Tunisian gunman Seifeddine Rezgui to freely massacre British tourists for more than half hour before shooting him dead, witnesses claim.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) - (This June 25, 2015 story was changed to show attribution in the last sentence to the companies, instead of the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the companies)

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the 30-year-old film franchise. Alicia Powell reports.

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the 30-year-old film franchise. Alicia Powell reports.

Injury is the spectre that stalks every professional athlete. It is not the playing, though that is demanding enough, but the training: the hours of kicking balls, or hitting them, or bowling them, and the running, twisting and stretching. The human body was not designed for professional sports, even those, like Usain Bolt’s, that appear to be.

How many shots would it take Rory McIlroy to hit a golf ball the 187-mile length of South Carolina’s coast?

(Reuters) - Boxing Hall of Famer and former Olympic champion Oscar De La Hoya, after pondering a return to the ring, said on Monday that he would remain retired.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of Greeks rallied on Monday behind a 'No' vote in a referendum called for July 5 on the terms of an aid deal offered by Greece's international creditors, a result that risks pushing Athens out of Europe's currency union.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of Greeks rallied on Monday behind a 'No' vote in a referendum called for July 5 on the terms of an aid deal offered by Greece's international creditors, a result that risks pushing Athens out of Europe's currency union.

Apart from the solemn one minute’s silence before David Cameron’s statement, what struck home in the Commons was the number of MPs from all parts of the country and across the party divide naming their constituents who died or were injured on the beach at Sousse on 26 June.

WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - MetLife asked a federal judge on Monday to force the U.S. government to hand over 500 pages of confidential records that relate to financial regulators' decision to designate the insurance giant as systemically important.