Новости за 12.09.2018

Françoise Hardy is an immediately recognizable face who also possesses a poetic way with words — launching her to European super-stardom in the 1960s. At age 74, Hardy released her 28th album.

The Saudi-led coalition has bombed markets, weddings and even a bus carrying kids during its three year campaign against Shiite Houthi rebels. The U.S. supports the coalition.

The focus heading into Apple's event was on its new iPhones, but it also unveiled a redesigned Apple Watch with a sensor allowing users to take an electrocardiogram they can share with their doctor.

Nearly 30 naval ships were ordered to leave the Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia on Monday in order to escape the storm.

Health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee will stop covering OxyContin prescriptions next year. Instead, they'll promote the prescribing of two "abuse deterrent" alternatives.

The WNBA Finals are underway, and the league's popularity has increased, SB Nation's Tamryn Spruill explains why the WNBA and its players are still trying to win something more than games — respect.

Mexico City's thirst is sucking even more water from the ancient lake bed on which the city sits, it to sink. Climate change, political inaction and poor infrastructure is intensifying the problem for a metropolis of 22 million people.

A new report from the Kew Gardens in London is billed as the first comprehensive report on the state of the world's fungi.

Virginia guitar maker Brian Calhoun devised a strategy game called Chickapig. (It features pooping chicken-pig hybrids.) Now he's getting some friends — like Dave Matthews — to spread the word.

The Syrian regime has stepped up shelling attacks on the last major rebel held stronghold of Idlib. It could lead to a major offensive where millions of civilians are at risk.

Italians coined the words "espresso" and "cappuccino" and think of themselves as the custodians of top quality coffee. So the arrival of the first Starbucks in Milan has been met with skepticism and alarm — but also curiosity.

Typhoon Mangkhut is hurtling toward the Philippines and China with the potential for strong winds.

President Donald Trump praised the government's response to Hurricane Maria, causing an outcry among many in Puerto Rico.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Puerto Rico Senate Minority Leader Eduardo Bhatia Gautier about President Trump's claim that the federal response to Hurricane Maria was an incredible success.

Nearly 3,000 National Guard soldiers are being activated in North Carolina, where the governor warns that time to prepare is running out. He says residents should plan on losing power for days.

Embattled drugmaker Purdue Pharma defends OxyContin as some insurers are dropping the drug in favor of other abuse-deterrent opioid painkillers.

Governors in five states have declared states of emergencies ahead of Hurricane Florence's arrival on the Eastern Seaboard. Officials have ordered the evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people.

With Hurricane Florence about to make landfall, FEMA is going to be tested once again. Is it prepared under President Trump?

The pope is set to meet with a group of U.S. cardinals and bishops tomorrow in Rome to discuss the roiling clergy sex abuse scandal and the role some bishops played in its cover-up.

Several Democrats considering 2020 presidential bids have made some early moves to elevate their national profiles even before the 2018 midterm elections.

Leana Wen was an ER physician before she became the city's health commissioner. In her new role, she will be the first doctor in nearly 50 years to lead Planned Parenthood.

American universities have created a consortium that offers temporary academic homes for refugee scholars threatened by war and authoritarian governments.

CBS said Fager's exit was not directly related to allegations that he had ignored complaints about harassment from a number of women, but instead that he had "violated company policy."

Chef Daniel Brophy was shot dead in June at the culinary institute where he was an instructor. In 2011, his wife wrote a blog post imagining different methods and motives for killing one's spouse.

Anjem Choudary, convicted of exhorting people to join the Islamic State, is set to walk free next month after serving half of his sentence.