Новости за 16.08.2016

American International Group said on Monday it would sell its mortgage-guaranty unit to Arch Capital for about $3.4 billion.

Ginger Zee visits the famed Napa Valley where drought and climate change are forcing winemakers to adapt.

After heating up the summer with his sophomore effort Still Brazy, Compton rapper YG is bringing the West Coast to major cities across the country on...

One of Anjem Choudary's early recruits explains why the radical preacher's message once appealed to him.

Today marks the date that we welcomed the Queen of Pop and lost the King of Rock & Roll. Madonna was born Aug. 16, 1958. As we celebrate the...

Over 300 Al-Shabaab suspects were arrested on Tuesday in Mogadishu during a security operation by joint forces from Somalian government and African Union peacekeeping mission (Amisom), authorities said.

If the self-made billionaire could do it all over again, here's what he would advise his younger self.

NY Fed President William Dudley says a September rate hike "is possible."

SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank said Tuesday that more than 3 million people are likely to get paid below minimum wage next year. The Bank of Korea said in a report that the number of workers, whose pay is below the minimum wa

HOUSTON — Simone Biles has won more world championships, Nastia Liukin has as many Olympic medals and Shannon Miller has more world and Olympic medals combined. And yet, more than 30 years later, the Sports Illustrated headline of Aug. 13, 1984, rings true: “Only You, Mary Lou.” The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2beYnc6) reports Mary Lou Retton

Breakfast is gloriously calorific.

Acting swiftly on the information received by locals, security forces on Tuesday launched a search operation in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir.

De invloedrijke moslimgeestelijke Fethullah Gülen heeft twee keer levenslang en nog eens 1900 jaar extra cel tegen zich horen eisen.

Voordat het politieke vergaderjaar binnenkort weer echt begint, zijn de ministers en staatssecretarissen van VVD en PvdA dinsdagmiddag informeel bijeengekomen in Delft. Het is de laatste heidag van het tweede kabinet van de liberale premier Mark Rutte.

Jeff Janis may or may not have been anywhere near the field for the Packers at the beginning of the season anyway. But now there’s a medical reason. Via Michael Cohen of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Packers wide receiver had surgery to repair a fracture in his right hand, and said he’d be out…

RIO DE JANEIRO - Het Nederlands volleybalteam heeft zich in Rio de Janeiro geplaatst voor de halve finales van de Olympische Spelen. Het team met daarin onder meer Maret Balkestein-Grothues (Almelo), Judith Pietersen (Eibergen), Femke Stoltenborg en Myrthe Schoot (beiden Winterswijk) in de gelederen was met 3-1 (25-19,25-14,23-25,25-20) te sterk voor Zuid-Korea.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Het Nederlands volleybalteam heeft zich in Rio de Janeiro geplaatst voor de halve finales van de Olympische Spelen. Het team met Maret Balkestein-Grothues (Almelo) en Judith Pietersen (Eibergen) in de gelederen was met 3-1 (25-19,25-14,23-25,25-20) te sterk voor Zuid-Korea.

Fake iPhones are so well-manufactured that common people find it hard to distinguish it from the original.

Air raids killed 19 civilians, including three children, in rebel-held districts of Syria`s battleground second city Aleppo on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.

DESTREHAN, La. — A former Louisiana prosecutor who was accused of soliciting sex from at least 20 women in exchange for favorable treatment faces his own sentencing Wednesday in federal court. Harry Morel served as the elected District Attorney of St. Charles Parish outside New Orleans for more than three decades. Now he faces a

Egypt’s tourism hopes that Russian inspectors will come to assess security at airports for the last time in August before Russia restarts charter flight to the country, an Egyptian tourist industry source told local media Tuesday.

The singer drops abuse claims from a contract dispute she's defending against record producer Dr Luke.

DAKAR, Senegal — One of the largest yellow fever outbreaks in decades could soon spread globally, aid group Save the Children warned on Tuesday as the World Health Organization is set to launch one of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted in Africa. The massive vaccination campaign begins this week in Congo and Angola,