Новости за 16.12.2015

Fans of Star Wars, who queued for hours in Paris to watch the latest installment on the largest screen in France, declare it a masterpiece. Kyrrie Blenkinsop reports.

Fans of Star Wars, who queued for hours in Paris to watch the latest installment on the largest screen in France, declare it a masterpiece. Kyrrie Blenkinsop reports.

LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that Russia's continued focus on targeting most of its air strikes in Syria against opposition forces rather than Islamic State was helping the militants advance.

LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that Russia's continued focus on targeting most of its air strikes in Syria against opposition forces rather than Islamic State was helping the militants advance.

LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that Russia's continued focus on targeting most of its air strikes in Syria against opposition forces rather than Islamic State was helping the militants advance.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the extradition to the United States of a man the Federal Bureau of Investigation has described as the world's biggest facilitator of child pornography.

RIYADH (Reuters) - Some key members of the 34-nation anti-Islamic State coalition announced by Saudi Arabia have a fundamental question: just what is it?

(Reuters) - A decades-long decline in teenage drinking and smoking continued in 2015 and use of some drugs by eighth-graders and high school students also fell, while marijuana consumption extended a five-year flat trend, according to results of a study released on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - A decades-long decline in teenage drinking and smoking continued in 2015 and use of some drugs by eighth-graders and high school students also fell, while marijuana consumption extended a five-year flat trend, according to results of a study released on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The European Parliament plans to set up a committee to investigate Volkswagen's emissions scandal and determine whether regulatory oversight of the car industry was too lax.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday that there remains no evidence the couple who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, on December 2 were part of an organised cell or had any contact with overseas militant groups.

NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Motorists logged 273.5 billion miles on U.S. roads in October, a 2.4 percent increase over last year and the most ever for the month, according to data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

PARIS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Pumping water to higher levels when power is cheap and releasing it at times of peak demand is still the best option for massive energy storage and seaside cliffs have potential for that, Spanish utility Iberdrola's chief executive Ignacio Galan said.

(Reuters) - Chinese electric car company NextEV has hired Cisco Systems Inc's former tech head, Padmasree Warrior, as its chief development officer and the chief executive of its U.S. unit.

WASHINGTON - Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve is set to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis. (USA-FED/ (WRAPUP 1), moved, by Howard Schneider, 750 words)

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - James Schnurr, just two months into his job as chief accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stood before a packed ballroom in Washington last December and upbraided a little-known regulator.

NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Motorists logged 273.5 billion miles on U.S. roads in October, a 2.4 percent increase over last year and the most ever for the month, according to data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two young men of Palestinian descent are on trial in Germany for planning to bomb the Israeli embassy in Berlin or other Israeli targets, a criminal court spokesman said on Wednesday.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa (Reuters) - Opener Alex Hales failed for the second time as England ended day two of their warm-up match against a South African Invitation XI on 99 for three on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - MPs on Wednesday voted in favour of the use of fracking to extract shale gas under national parks, weakening a decision against fracking in national parks made earlier this year and giving shale gas explorers access to more resources.

LONDON (Reuters) - MPs on Wednesday voted in favour of the use of fracking to extract shale gas under national parks, weakening a decision against fracking in national parks made earlier this year and giving shale gas explorers access to more resources.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Opener Alex Hales failed for the second time as England ended day two of their warm-up match against a South African Invitation XI on 99 for three on Wednesday.

LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - British lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favour of the use of fracking to extract shale gas under national parks, weakening a decision against fracking in national parks made earlier this year and giving shale gas explorers access to more resources.

LONDON/BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Angola is expanding its long-term oil sales deals to China, signing a 10-year agreement with Sinochem Group that would make the Chinese firm one of the largest contract buyers of Angolan oil.

LONDON/BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Angola is expanding its long-term oil sales deals to China, signing a 10-year agreement with Sinochem Group that would make the Chinese firm one of the largest contract buyers of Angolan oil.