Новости за 26.12.2018

Donald Trump has visited Iraq for an unannounced first meeting with US troops serving in the region.

The US coastguard is searching for a British crew member who went overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship about 300 miles off Puerto Rico on Christmas Day.

Vladimir Putin has overseen the launch of Russia's new nuclear-capable missile system, comparing it to "a fireball".

A drug-driver who was jailed earlier this year for killing two young boys died in prison on Christmas Day.

Journalist, writer and art critic Sister Wendy Beckett, who became a TV star in the 1990s, has died at the age of 88.

Three suspected drug smugglers have been arrested after failing to escape the police in a high-speed water chase on the Costa del Sol.

After two children died in a month while in the care of the US border protection, medical checks will be carried out on every child in its custody.

Prices have been slashed by as much as 70% in the Boxing Day sales, but footfall across the UK is down on last year.

British officials have said three more migrants have been intercepted after attempting to take a small boat from France to Britain.

There is a grim order and rhythm at Pandeglang hospital, up in the hills, away from the ruined coast.

Ten people have been injured in Italy after an earthquake triggered by Mount Etna rocked the region.

The trial of a prominent human rights lawyer has begun in northern China, with around two dozen plainclothes police stationed outside the courthouse.

Food served in restaurants and sold in supermarkets could have a calorie limit applied by the government in a bid to tackle obesity.

People are being urged to stay away from the coast in Indonesia in areas where a tsunami killed more than 420 people when it struck.

Japan has announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), a move that will allow it to resume commercial whale hunts.

A seven-year-old asked by Trump if she still believed in Santa has said that the conversation did not shake her belief in the bearded deliverer of Christmas gifts.

The foreign secretary has said the UK "can and must do more" to help some of the 215 million Christians worldwide who faced discrimination and violence last year.

Local councils are being invited to bid for a share in a government fund set up to help reinvigorate the country's struggling high streets.

A pedestrian has died after being hit by a police car in Liverpool on Christmas Day.

It has been a big week for Harold McDowell, of Lakewood, New Jersey, and not because of Christmas.

Hundreds of people have been arrested on planes or at airports for being drunk in the last two years, many after threatening staff or other passengers.