Новости за 03.12.2015

​Tiger Woods has opened up about his "fantastic" relationship with his ex-wife and expressed his desire to continue playing golf at the highest level in a rare and extensive interview with Time.

Pack a bag for the jungle and get on your favourite grey henley (half-tuck mandatory), because the hype for the first new console Uncharted game since 2011 is gearing up.

US stocks were sharply lower overnight as European Central Bank's minimal rate cut and extended stimulus failed to impress investors.

A man armed with a gun has barricaded himself inside a unit block in Sydney's south-west, police say.

The civil war that has consumed Syria for nearly five years contains echoes of an earlier conflict at the opposite end of the Mediterranean. The similarities between the Syrian and Spanish civil wars suggest that the Syrian war, like the Spanish one before it, could potentially foreshadow future conflicts.

Oil rebounded from the lowest price in more than six years in London as the OPEC prepares to meet. Gains accelerated as the euro rose.

The European Central Bank unveiled a range of measures to tackle too-low inflation, from a cut in the floor for interest rates to an expansion of its bond-buying program.

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Swiss police arrested the two top football bosses in the Americas on Thursday on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes linked to television rights, widening a graft probe into world football's governing body.

Copper, zinc and nickel hit one-week lows as bearish speculators shrugged off a retreat in the US dollar and focused on weakening demand in China.

The man was among about 1500 people trying cross into Macedonia and then on to northern Europe.

Fed chair Janet Yellen delivered a cautiously upbeat outlook for the US economy, and signalled that she hopes to tighten monetary policy slowly after liftoff.

Iron ore is on the cusp of dropping into the $US30s a metric ton as the biggest producers expand supply and the onset of winter in China dulls demand.

America's infatuation with guns - inflamed by the ludicrous stances of the NRA, and abetted by Congress' fear of that powerful but irresponsible group - is suicidal. There are too many guns, too easily obtained.

Police say they have identified the former Sydney Hells Angel bikie's killers in a major breakthrough into investigations into alleged Australian criminal networks operating in Thailand.

Just a few years ago, amid staffing and budget cuts to police and emergency services brought on by San Bernardino's looming bankruptcy, one of the city's attorneys issued a chilling warning: "Lock your doors and load your guns."

A video released online by Islamic State on Wednesday purportedly showed the beheading of a man the group said was a Russian spy its fighters had captured and who had been in Syria and Iraq since last year, the SITE monitoring group reported.

Tony Abbott is causing waves and Turnbull will have to work out whether to ignore him, embrace him, or perhaps even induce him to leave.

Australia's second largest brewer, Carlton & United Breweries, is being forced to recall about 40,000 slabs of Carlton Dry glass beer bottles because of the possible presence of glass in the product.

Lucy Turnbull, the head of the new Greater Sydney Commission, says no conflict will arise between her job and her husband's.

As families brace for the silly season almost one-quarter of Australians are worried about how they will pay for Christmas gifts and food.

Melbourne City ran riot on the Central Coast on Thursday night , breaking their Gosford duck in brilliant style with a 5-1 win over the hapless Mariners.

The Canberra Times' cartoonist David Pope has been recognised at the prestigious Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, winning an award for his cartoon Charlie Hebdo.

Fairfax Media's coverage of politics, business and international affairs has been recognised at the prestigious Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism in Melbourne.

Adele Ferguson has won back-to-back Walkley awards for her business investigations in a stellar night for Age journalism.