Новости за 03.08.2015

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama challenged America and the world to step up efforts to fight global warming on Monday at the formal unveiling of his administration's controversial, ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama challenged America and the world to step up efforts to fight global warming on Monday at the formal unveiling of his administration's controversial, ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Philadelphia police said on Monday they will not investigate the weekend vandalism that ended an experimental robot's attempted hitchhiking trip across the United States unless the Canadian universities that own it file a criminal complaint.

(Reuters Health) - Preschoolers who are extremely picky eaters may also be more prone to mental health problems, a study suggests.

(Reuters Health) - Preschoolers who are extremely picky eaters may also be more prone to mental health problems, a study suggests.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Cape Cod have begun using a helicopter-style drone to monitor humpback whales off the coast, collecting breath samples from their blowholes and taking aerial pictures.

More and more Palestinians with permanent residency in East Jerusalem are applying for Israeli citizenship -- while defying taboo. Gavino Garay reports.

BOSTON (Reuters) - One Massachusetts chicken is about to get a costly leg up on life - a $2,500 prosthetic limb made on a 3-D printer.

BOSTON (Reuters) - One Massachusetts chicken is about to get a costly leg up on life - a $2,500 prosthetic limb made on a 3-D printer.

(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 4 in lawsuits that challenge the Federal Communications Commission's "net neutrality" rules, which prevent broadband providers from blocking or slowing Internet traffic, the court said on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly & Co on Tuesday will confront the first U.S. trial over allegations it failed to warn users of its popular antidepressant Cymbalta that they could suffer severe withdrawal symptoms, including suicidal thoughts and electric shock-like sensations.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly & Co on Tuesday will confront the first U.S. trial over allegations it failed to warn users of its popular antidepressant Cymbalta that they could suffer severe withdrawal symptoms, including suicidal thoughts and electric shock-like sensations.

Jury in Denver clears way for James Holmes to receive death penalty for killing 12 moviegoers in 2012 shooting spree. Sean Carberry reports.

U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at a Young African leaders event the day before his birthday, was welcomed by the crowd with a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday." Rough Cut. (No reporter narration).

U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at a Young African leaders event the day before his birthday, was welcomed by the crowd with a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday." Rough Cut. (No reporter narration).

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Joe Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson family of musical performers, was discharged on Monday from the Sao Paulo hospital where he had been treated following a stroke.

MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan leaders threw down a challenge to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday by pressing ahead with early elections next month portrayed as a proxy for a vote on independence.

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A prominent Burundi human rights activist who openly opposed President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial bid for a third term in office was shot and seriously injured on Monday, a family member and witnesses said.

Relief teams are delivering aid to to areas of Myanmar's Rakhine State devastated by deadly flooding. Rohgh Cut (no reporter narration).

Relief teams are delivering aid to to areas of Myanmar's Rakhine State devastated by deadly flooding. Rohgh Cut (no reporter narration).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, they found, things had grown worse.

WESTFIELD, N.J. (Reuters) - Bobbi Kristina Brown was buried alongside her mother, Whitney Houston, on Monday, bringing to a close the brief and tragic life of the only child of the singing legend.

ROME (Reuters) - Police in Sicily arrested 11 suspected mobsters they believe were helping Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro evade capture and spread his orders to the rest of the criminal organisation.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has expelled a Russian diplomat and Moscow has retaliated by throwing out a Swedish diplomat, Sweden's foreign ministry said on Monday, declining to say when either expulsion occurred.

U.S. President Barack Obama unveils a plan to limit carbon pollution from power plants, calling it the "single most important step" ever taken by the U.S. to fight climate change. Rough Cut (No reporter narration).