Новости за 20.08.2015

Romans aghast at a spiraling mafia probe found new reason for outrage Thursday over the Hollywood-style funeral of a purported local crime boss: It was replete with a gilded, horse-drawn carriage, flower petals tossed from...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned Thursday and called early elections, hoping for a new, stronger mandate to implement a three-year bailout program that sparked a rebellion within his radical left party.

An Egyptologist who believes Queen Nefertiti's crypt may be hidden behind King Tutankhamun's 3,300-year-old tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings has been invited to Cairo to defend his theory, Egypt's...

Gap is keeping its fiscal-year profit forecast unchanged after further struggles in the second quarter marked by weakness at its namesake and Banana Republic stores that offset rising sales at Old Navy.

A new kind of grocery store is opening in Flowertown this month. ALDI will be opening their new location on Dorchester Road August 27.

Through the happy pants and whimpers of a group of K-9 officers with new protective gear, Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon announced a donation of 12 ballistic vests for K-9 officers in five area agencies.

The Charleston County Aviation Authority started efforts on Thursday to make sure the nine people killed at Emanuel AME Church on June 17 are never forgotten by telling their story to the millions of people who fly in and out of the city every year.

A Palestinian held without charge by Israel ended his unprecedented 66-day hunger strike Thursday, his lawyer said, after the Supreme Court ordered him released from detention.

Federal and New York regulators have sued two companies that make loans against retirees' pensions, saying they deceived consumers about the high rates of the loans.

At first glance, one might think Israelis are solidly behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's all-out diplomatic war against the U.S.-led nuclear deal with Iran. But look closer and deep fissures appear: There is...

Macedonia declared a state of emergency Thursday as it ramped up security on its border with Greece, stranding thousands of migrants on a dusty field.

A South Sudanese journalist was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the outskirts of the country's capital, his father said Thursday, in an attack that came days after President Salva Kiir was reported to have threatened to...

According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold, artworks and weapons vanished into a mountain at the end of World War II, as the Germans fled the Soviet advance. Now two men claim they know the location of the...

Valeant Pharmaceuticals will pay about $1 billion in cash to buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the maker of the first prescription drug intended to boost sexual desire in women.

The son of Senegal's former President Abdoulaye Wade lost a bid to be freed from his six-year prison sentence when the Supreme Court rejected an appeal on his conviction.

Britain and France on Thursday announced tougher security tools to guard the Channel Tunnel, a new joint police command to target human traffickers and 10 million euros ($11.2 million) in new British government money to...

Mozzarella cheese at Panera restaurants won't be as glaringly white. Banana peppers in Subway sandwiches won't be the same exact shade of yellow. Trix cereal will have two fewer colors.

Americans stepped up their home-buying for a third straight month in July, as sales accelerated to the strongest pace in eight years.

Donald Trump sells himself as a bold empire-builder, the kind of businessman who could force through big changes in Washington as president.

Hurricane Danny has formed in the Atlantic, becoming the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.

A review board has up to four months to decide whether and when Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison into house arrest, a spokesman for South Africa's justice ministry said on Thursday.

With little fanfare or a public announcement beforehand, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza was sworn in for a third term on Thursday in this central African country which has been plagued by political violence.

A South African foundation says Desmond Tutu will have to spend two more weeks in a hospital, after being hospitalized for the third time in nearly two months.

A German spy who allegedly acted as a double agent for the United States and Russia has been charged with treason, breach of official secrecy and taking bribes, Germany's federal prosecutors' office said Thursday.

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) -- While in Charleston for business, a Washington D.C. man bought a lottery ticket for  one of his employees that turned out to be a winner.According to SC Lottery officials, Deborah Jefferson's boss mailed her the ticket in May. She's been keeping the win a secret but was able to take a day off of work to fly to Columbia to claim her $100,000 prize.She told lottery officials she wanted to be sure the ticket really was a winner before she told anyone.Jeff...