Новости за 21.12.2015

A law student has been jailed for three years after posting a doctored image of Egypt's president wearing Mickey Mouse ears on Facebook

The senator from South Carolina never cracked one per cent in the polls.

​Nursing home workers across the United State are posting embarrassing and dehumanising photos of elderly residents on social media networks such as Snapchat, violating their privacy, dignity and, sometimes, the law.

Australian actress Eliza Szonert who snatched her son from her former partner was being held in police custody in Malaysia last night but had not been officially arrested, her mother Kay confirmed.

A suicide bomber on a motorbike attacked a joint NATO-Afghan patrol near Bagram air base in Afghanistan on Monday, killing six members of NATO's Resolute Support mission and wounding six other soldiers and police, officials said.

Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European soccer boss Michel Platini have each been banned for eight years by FIFA's Ethics Committee.

The timing of James Packer's board withdrawal suggests there is increasing momentum on a buyout deal forming in early 2016.

Richard John was a doctor, musician and art-lover.

Elsie Tu married a missionary and became a formidable warrior for social change.

This is not a morality play. It is not a collision of good and evil. It is simply ignorance, combined with a wilful deafness and blindness, dressed up as alternative medicine.

A government official warned a year ago that China's boomtown Shenzhen would run out of space to dump building waste. On Sunday his worst fears were realised.

Vets employed by Peter Moody admitted it was almost standard practice to inject horses with syringes of unknown contents.

Private equity firm CHAMP Ventures has agreed to buy control of outdoor retailer Macpac from Kathmandu founders Jan Cameron and Bernie Wicht.

Tight Adelaide bowling and a polished chase saw the Strikers ease to a win with five balls to spare.

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke says the late South Australian premier John Bannon was a man of ''total decency'' who accepted responsibility beyond the bounds of necessity. He was among mourners Mr Bannon's state funeral on Monday, among them Julia Gillard, Bill Shorten and eminent lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC .

Nathan Coulter-Nile injures shoulder as Adelaide Strikers beat Perth Scorchers by four wickets in Big Bash clash in Perth.

Four train stations in one of Victoria's most bushfire-prone areas will shut on code red fire days, leaving passengers stranded.

Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Even the most dedicated shopper can be turned off by the excess of Christmas so it must be maddening for this small, desert-worn woman who has dedicated her life to helping people who have nothing.

As Joe Hockey packs his bags for Washington, some of our cuddlier ambassadors are coming home.

The desperate and jobless are sold hope, but all they are buying is debt

Lighting candles, putting up Christmas trees, singing religious songs, sending Christmas greetings and putting up decorations could get you up to five years jail.

There are nearly 400,000 lights in and around the Kambah home of a man who was born on Christmas.

Have we reached 'peak iPhone', and can Apple invent the 'next big thing' to push on through it?

Two men have been arrested during a raid in Brussels as police searched for suspects in last month's terror attacks in Paris that left 130 dead.