Новости за 18.06.2015

A fire ripped through one of the most famous Catholic churches in the Holy Land on Thursday, damaging the roof and burning prayer books in what authorities believe is an attack by Jewish extremists.

A man whose failed good Samaritan gesture landed him in jail is back behind bars.

In a country without a first lady, French President Francois Hollande's companion may be nearly as official as it gets for the longtime bachelor.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates eased this week after hitting their highest levels this year in the previous week.

Balkan countries and the European Union on Thursday criticized Hungary's plans to build a fence along the border with Serbia to stop the flow of migrants reaching the country.

Manufacturing in the Federal Reserve's Philadelphia region expanded this month at the fastest pace since December, suggesting that an improving economy is boosting factory output.

An index designed to predict the future health of the economy posted a second straight strong increase in May, indicating the economy should gain strength in the second half of this year.

Differences over pushing for independence in Spain's powerful northeastern Catalonia region have torn apart the governing coalition that has ruled there for much of the past 40 years.

Syrian rebels advanced into a second government-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday, activists said, a claim denied by state TV.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week, evidence that layoffs remain at unusually low levels and the job market is moving closer to full health.

A French court has cleared 14 companies accused of bribing the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein in exchange for contracts as part of the U.N. oil-for-food program.

Inside the Islamic State's realm, the paper testifying that you have "repented" from your heretical past must be carried at all times. Many people laminate it just to be safe. It can mean the difference between life...

Israel's antiquities authority says archaeologists have discovered a rare 3,000-year-old inscription of a name mentioned in the Bible.

U.S. stocks are opening higher, led by gains for the health care sector.

German authorities say a billionaire businessman's son was kidnapped and held overnight before being released unharmed without payment of the millions of euros demanded.

Consumer prices increased in May by the largest amount in more than two years, reflecting the biggest one-month jump in gas prices in nearly six years. But outside of energy, price pressures remained modest.

The deficit in the broadest measure of U.S. trade increased in the January-March quarter to the highest level since the spring of 2012 as American exports declined.

Officials have changed a southeastern Wisconsin city's rules on service animals after a woman took a baby kangaroo into a McDonald's restaurant.

Three miniature houses modeled after the "Three Little Pigs" folktale have been removed from the side of an Ohio road where a truck hauling 2,200 piglets crashed - but it wasn't a big bad wolf that blew them away.

Hong Kong lawmakers defeated the government's Beijing-backed election plan Thursday, vindicating pro-democracy activists who flooded the streets last year in protest but leaving the city's long-term political...

Lawyers for a former leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia are urging the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to drop the case against him because he is terminally ill with brain cancer.

The African Union welcomed the decision by Madagascar's high court to reject parliament's effort to impeach the president and called on lawmakers to avoid further instability in the island nation.

Credit ratings agency Moody's says it has raised its outlook for Spain's banks to positive, scrapping the negative rating it had held for seven years.

A Republican lawmaker accidentally cast his party's first vote for the California budget in years because he was distracted by Facebook.

An Ohio pet rescue is searching for seven rare pythons that were stolen from the shop over the weekend.