Новости за 13.08.2016

CURTEA DE ARGES, Romania (AP) — Romanians and Moldovans observed a national day of mourning Saturday amid funeral rites for Anne of Romania, the wife of Michael, the last king of Romania.

The Tigers are forced down to the barebones as the new boys prepare to take on the reigning Premier League champions

Earlier this year, the cartoonist Edward Steed spent a month travelling in China. Each day this week we will be publishing an extract from his travel diary.

Carolyn Parkhurst's new novel is told entirely from female perspectives; a mother and two troubled daughters. But the book really revolves around what's going on in the head of one man.

US film director Oliver Stone is to appear in Cheltenham in his first ever appearance at a UK literature festival, it is announced.

The Premier League champions get their title defence under way with a trip to the KC Stadium - follow all the action LIVE with Goal!

Police and ambulance crews responded to concerns for a man's welfare in Sittingbourne last night.

Donald Trump plans to return to La Crosse next week for a high-rolling fundraiser, and once again the state’s top Republican leaders won’t be there.

Marissa Mayer took two weeks’ maternity leave and worked 130 hours a week at struggling Yahoo. But was she hired to fail?

Australians who suffer from a rare disease that causes gigantism will benefit from a new Turnbull government subsidy.

Most weightlifters tend to pump their fists after a successful lift, but Spain's Lidia Valentin takes a different approach -- she blows kisses and makes a heart shape with her hands.

This week's presentation of the Airlander 10, a huge plane-airship hybrid, which was towed from Britain's largest airship hangar in Bedfordshire, has prompted experts to speculate that we may see a return of the dirigible, according to the Russian newspaper Vzglyad.

LONDON — The British government promised Saturday to keep paying for European Union-funded agriculture, infrastructure and science projects until 2020, even if Britain leaves the bloc before then. Treasury chief Philip Hammond wants to allay worry among farmers and scientists about what will replace the millions they currently get from the EU. Some scientists in

Longtime Taliban commander Hafiz Saeed Khan pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014

LONDON (AP) — The British government promised Saturday to keep paying for European Union-funded agriculture, infrastructure and science projects until 2020, even if Britain leaves the bloc before then.

Five Pakistanis and a Russian who were captured by the Afghan Taliban after their government helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan have been released and returned to Pakistan, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is to visit Turkey on August 24, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was quoted as saying by Turkish media on Saturday. Yildirim, speaking to a group of Turkish journalists, said that Washington's attitude on an extradition request for Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating an attempted coup last month, had improved. Yildirim said a total of 81,494 people including judges, soldiers and civil servants have either been suspended or sacked since the July 15 abortive putsch. Читать дальше...

M.I.A. has dropped a brand new song titled “Bird Song (Blaqstarr Remix)” and you can stream it right here! The track serves as the latest single off of the 40-year-old singer’s fifth studio album A.I.M., which is set to be released on September 9th. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of M.I.A. M.I.A. recently revealed [...]

Juba to get 4,000 more peacekeepers despite government objections

Early results in Zambia's presidential election Saturday showed opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema ahead of his rival President Edgar Lungu, in a tight race marred by political tensions.

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine's agency for emergency situations says eight people have been killed in a mini-bus collision in the country's south.

Only 120 lawmakers of 301 attended the session of the Yemeni parliament, according to local media.

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