Новости за 18.12.2015

As a rule of thumb, the pricier the router, the faster your internet. Hayley Tsukayama tests a few out.

Crude slid to the lowest level in more than six years in New York as a rising number of oil rigs in the US signalled the supply glut will be prolonged.

Martin Shkreli has resigned from the pharmaceutical company he founded after being arrested on fraud charges.

As oil traded at around $US35 a barrel this week, hedge fund manager Pierre Andurand told investors to brace for further declines.

BHP Billiton's pledge to continually raise its dividend is looking increasingly unsustainable after Moody's flagged a credit rating downgrade.

US Marshals and the FBI have joined the search for the teenager whose "affluenza" defense spared him from jail after he killed four people while driving drunk.

Congress passed a $US1.1 trillion spending measure that averts a US government shutdown and ends a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.

The new year will usher in a fresh crop of Federal Open Market Committee voters, making it time for an updated breakdown of where policy makers stand.

Citigroup plans to cut at least 2000 jobs starting next month as chief executive Michael Corbat restructures some of the bank's businesses.

The air in China's major cities is atrocious. Last month, the smog choking parts of the country was so thick that the situation got widely described as having reached "doomsday" levels.

Russian officials have invited British, Chinese and Indian diplomats to witness the opening of the black box of a Russian warplane downed in Turkey last month.

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party leader called for "honourable resistance" against security operations in southeast Turkey on Friday as state media reported 55 Kurdish militants had been killed in three days of urban fighting there.

US stocks fell a second day, while the greenback trimmed its best week in a month as investors focused on prospects for a slowdown in global growth.

Martin Shkreli, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager who has come under fire on allegations of drug price gouging, has been arrested by US federal authorities.

ACN will fight on as shareholders wait.

As Peter Rox waited anxiously under dark skies for the road to his tornado-ravaged house to reopen, his 13-year-old daughter turned to him with a question.

Clover Moore has welcomed the decision to leave the City of Sydney as a standalone council.

In Queensland, the state of extremes, be it weather, sport or politics, it was a year for rebooting.  And it started off with a bang.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first film in the 38-year-old franchise to be released in a decade, is helping buoy PlayStation sales.

A record-breaking partnership has lifted the Adelaide Strikers to a 19-run win over the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League.

Forget expensive technical forecasts, Nicholas Egonidis​ can tell how well Christmas retail is travelling by counting his jocks.

Rival parliaments and other Libyan factions reach an agreement brokered by the UN to form a new government within 40 days.

The African Union's Peace and Security Council has proposed sending 5000 peacekeepers.

In a move expected to aid scores of people, Tasmania will be the first state in Australia to formally apologise over past convictions for consenting gay sex, as it expunges criminal records.

New Treasurer faces several headwinds that threaten the economy in the short and long term.