Новости за 23.08.2015

TORONTO/VANCOUVER/SYDNEY, Aug XX (Reuters) - Many of the world's junior miners are laying down their picks and shovels to start new ventures ranging from egg exporting to medical marijuana farming, as they as try to survive a crash in metals prices by shifting away from exploration.

LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Australia reduced England to 258 for eight and were closing in on a consolation victory when rain halted play on the fourth day of the final Ashes test at The Oval on Sunday.

BERLIN, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Championship leader Sebastien Ogier won the German rally in dominant fashion on Sunday to edge closer to his third consecutive driver's title.

MADRID, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Markets will be watching for China's next move as signs of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy stack up, raising expectations it will act to stoke growth.

PARIS, Aug 23 (Reuters) - France coach Philippe Saint-Andre left out flyhalf Francois Trinh-Duc from his 31-man World Cup squad announced on Sunday, in favour of Frederic Michalak.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's interior minister led calls on Sunday for a crackdown on right wing militants and racists after a second night of scuffles between protesters and police outside a refugee shelter in the eastern German town of Heidenau.

RIYADH/KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian entrepreneur Essam al-Zamel has overcome many obstacles to found a string of technology companies in the past decade, but he thinks sliding oil prices will be hard to handle.

Aug 23 (Infostrada Sports) - Starting grid from the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday 1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 2. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes 3. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams-Mercedes 4. Sergio Perez (Mexico) Force India - Mercedes 5. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) RedBull - Renault 6. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes 7. Pastor Maldonado

SHANGHAI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - China on Sunday allowed pension funds managed by local governments to invest in the stock market for the first time, potentially channelling hundreds of billions of yuan into the country's struggling equity market.

North Korea says young people are signing up to the army in order to fight against the South, as officials hold meetings to try and ease the tensions. Yiming Woo reports.

North Korea says young people are signing up to the army in order to fight against the South, as officials hold meetings to try and ease the tensions. Yiming Woo reports.

BERLIN, August 23 (Reuters) - One of Europe's biggest start-ups, Germany's Delivery Hero, the online food takeaway service, has ruled out a stock market listing for this year but could be ready by next year, its chief executive said in an interview.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) - Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was handed a five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday after the team changed his car's gearbox.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was handed a five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday after the team changed his car's gearbox.

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on all political forces in the country on Sunday to rally behind his plans for constitutional change aimed at ending a separatist conflict in the east and defeating what he termed the "Russian aggressor".

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on all political forces in the country on Sunday to rally behind his plans for constitutional change aimed at ending a separatist conflict in the east and defeating what he termed the "Russian aggressor".

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Road access to Iraq's southern Umm Qasr commodities port was restored on Sunday following a two-day closure by protesters after the authorities promised to create new jobs, a port company spokesman and port workers said.

BASRA, Iraq, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Road access to Iraq's southern Umm Qasr commodities port was restored on Sunday following a two-day closure by protesters after the authorities promised to create new jobs, a port company spokesman and port workers said.

PARIS/MADRID, France (Reuters) - Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.

PARIS/MADRID, France (Reuters) - Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Fourteen members of one of El Salvador's most powerful street gangs were killed in a prison on Saturday in what appeared to be an internal gang purge, authorities said.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) - The Russian Grand Prix could become a night race as early as 2017, according to Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and organisers.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Russian Grand Prix could become a night race as early as 2017, according to Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and organisers.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Malaysia's debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) said on Sunday it has not been contacted by Swiss authorities but is ready to assist in any investigation if approached.

A sibling of the U.S. Air Force serviceman who foiled a train attack in France, speaks of his "warrior" brother. Yiming Woo reports.