Новости за 27.11.2015

Three police officers have been shot at an abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, according to United States media reports.

Suit to be filed on Monday, with proceeds to be used for environmental cleanup of the mine disaster.

Ladies are not really welcome in the highest ranks of corporate religion.

Record numbers of homes in Australia's two biggest cities go under the hammer on Saturday as owners try to catch the end of the boom.

The "plastic bag and tape" fix applied to at least 63,300 faulty Samsung washing machines has been slammed by an expert as "deficient".

The S&P 500 closed little changed on Friday, a fourth straight day of declines, amid weakness in energy and Walt Disney.

Mourners bowed their heads and stood in sombre tribute as the names of the dead were read out on Friday at a ceremony to commemorate victims of the bombing and shooting rampage in Paris two weeks ago.

A suicide bomber hit a procession of Shiite Muslims in Nigeria's Kano state on Friday as they walked to the city of Zaria to pay homage to their founder in the country.

Nickel fell amid scepticism among investors on whether cutbacks by the world's biggest producer, China, are able to make a dent in the global glut.

The jury in Chris Cairns' London trial has finished the week with still no verdict.

China's stocks tumbled the most since a plunge in August as some of the nation's largest brokerages disclosed regulatory probes.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, an avowed republican, has met the Queen at the opening of the CHOGM leaders' meeting in Malta.

US Treasuries rose after the Thanksgiving holiday as a drop in Chinese shares drove demand for the relative safety of fixed income.

Village councils in northern India are demanding a local Coca-Cola bottling plant be banned from extracting water from the ground, claiming its over-use has led to water scarcity.

The former HSBC employee who leaked information on large-scale tax evasion at the bank has been sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated industrial espionage.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned Russia not to "play with fire", but added he did not want to harm relations with Moscow after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet.

At a meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop in September, legendary British filmmaker Ridley Scott encouraged a change to Australia's filmmaking incentives that could mean three Alien movies will be shot in Sydney.

Sri Lanka has called on Saudi Arabia to pardon a domestic worker sentenced to death by stoning after she admitted committing adultery while working in the Arab nation.

When he eventually starts to make tough decisions and the euphoria fades, the new PM will have to navigate between two dangerous sets of forces.

Sydney's future housing will mirror of its working-class past, in a vision outlined by the state's planning minister on Friday.

More than half of Sydney's homeowners say they would be unable to afford to buy a house in their own area if they were starting over and entering the property market now.

Expert panel concerned about "impacts of branding and logos located within iconic 'Australian' views".

Copyright changes spell the end to the golden age of literature, warn Australia's leading fiction writers.

It wasn't so many months ago that Sam Frost was working with the dreaded paparazzi to take supposedly candid snaps, like frolicking on a beach and pretending she had no clue there was a lens trained on her, to fuel the publicity machine as her star was on the ascent.

Authorities have downgraded the terror threat level that has kept Brussels on edge since last weekend, but police raids across Belgium continue in search of terror suspects.