Новости за 19.05.2016

Danish icon Mads Mikkelsen has wowed the world as Bond villain Le Chiffre and TV's Hannibal, and later this year he'll be back on the big screen in Star Wars spinoff "Rogue One". Yet he's also an arthouse favourite, having won the Best Actor award at Cannes for "The Hunt" in 2012. Now the actor is back in the south of France, this time taking a spot on the festival's prestigious main competition jury.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Thursday he had called for a planned Middle East peace conference to be held in Paris on June 3.

France was disrupted by a third straight day of mass strikes and demonstrations on Thursday as the prime minister called for protesters who torched a police car to face "harsh" punishment.

Uber unveiled its first self-driving car on Thursday, announcing it had begun testing an autonomous vehicle on the streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

La Finlande est la première qualifiée pour les demi-finales du Mondial-2016 de hockey sur glace, à la faveur de sa victoire contre le Danemark (5-1) jeudi à Saint-Pétersbourg.

Le Bureau d'enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA) va dépêcher trois enquêteurs au Caire accompagnés d'un conseiller technique d'Airbus afin de participer à l'enquête de sécurité autour de la disparition d'un A320 d'EgyptAir reliant Paris à la capitale égyptienne, a annoncé le secrétaire d'État chargé des Transports Alain Vidalies.

Le ministre français des Finances Michel Sapin a exclu jeudi toute éventualité de "guerre des monnaies", dans un entretien avec l'AFP à la veille d'une réunion des ministres des Finances et des gouverneurs des banques centrales du G7.

Une caserne militaire datant de l'empereur Hadrien au IIe siècle a été mise au jour par les ouvriers du chantier d'une station de métro à Rome, dont les usagers pourront, dans quelques années, admirer les fresques et mosaïques.

"The DAO", premier fonds d’investissement sans directeur ni existence juridique, a été créé grâce à un financement participatif record. Autonome, il se résume à un algorithme qui traite avec les internautes qui l’ont financé.

Germany's Andre Greipel won his third stage of the Giro d'Italia on Thursday before quitting the race at the end of the 182-kilometre 12th stage from Noale to Bibione.

Former British Open champions Padraig Harrington and Paul Lawrie expressed disbelief Thursday at a vote by Muirfield not to allow women members.

Roger Federer withdrew from the French Open on Thursday after failing to recover from a back injury, bringing to an end the 17-time major winner's run of 65 consecutive Grand Slams.

More than 1,400 bottles of "grand crus" from Burgundy's renowned Domaine de la Romanee-Conti wine estate will be auctioned off in Geneva Sunday in a sale expected to make millions.

Sitting on a red and green carpet inside a mosque in a suburb of Washington, Nabill Abdulle describes an invisible force. You can't see it, he says, but "it's there."

Canadian director Xavier Dolan, a freakishly successful 27-year-old presenting his fifth film at Cannes, shrugged off a critical mauling for his new all-star drama Thursday.

Deutsche Bank Thursday told shareholders, angered by big losses and scandals at Germany's biggest lender, that it was on the path back to growth but conceded it wasn't there yet.

L'Allemand Andre Greipel (Lotto), une nouvelle fois le plus rapide, a enlevé jeudi à Bibione la 12e étape du Tour d'Italie, son troisième succès depuis le départ.

La star philippine de la boxe, récemment élue sénateur, Manny Pacquiao a soutenu jeudi le projet du nouveau président philippin de rétablir la peine de mort, une idée qui rencontre une forte opposition dans ce pays très catholique.

La starlette de la téléréalité Nabilla Benattia a été condamnée à deux ans d'emprisonnement, dont six ferme, pour avoir poignardé son compagnon à deux reprises en 2014, jeudi par le tribunal correctionnel de Nanterre.

Le Suisse Roger Federer a annoncé jeudi son forfait pour le tournoi de Roland-Garros (22 mai-5 juin) en raison de problèmes de dos.

Roger Federer withdrew from the French Open on Thursday after failing to recover from a back injury, bringing to an end the 17-time major winner's run of 65 consecutive Grand Slams.

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday with possible wreckage spotted off a Greek island, as investigators probed whether it was downed by a bomb.

The United States has added the Islamic State group's branches in Libya, Yemen and Saudi Arabia to its global terrorism blacklist, the State Department announced Thursday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party won power in remote northeast Assam and made gains in other states on Thursday, expanding its political influence beyond its traditional heartland two years after a landslide national election victory.

Nepal's former rebel Maoists joined hands with hardline splinter groups to form a new political party on Thursday in a bid to bolster their strength after a string of splits.