Новости за 12.02.2016

Bank of America is the latest on Wall Street to lower expectations for the US stock market in 2016.

A man sitting outside State Library Victoria was stabbed in the neck and ear when he refused to handover his mobile and the attacker is now on the run.

Two teenage girls have died in a shooting at a school in the US city of Phoenix.

A Japanese ruling party lawmaker who drew attention for seeking to take paternity leave said Friday he would resign over an extramarital affair.

It is "extraordinarily premature" to even talk about using negative interest rates, said New York Fed chief William Dudley.

This week, financial markets were buffeted once again by events that not so long ago would have been improbable, if not unthinkable.

Pope Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church meet in Havana on Friday, nearly 1000 years after Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome, for the first encounter in history between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch.

The Indy will disappear from British news stands as it becomes one of the first national newspapers in the world to buckle under pressure from the internet.

Deutsche Bank plans to buy back about $US5.4 billion of bonds in euros and dollars as it seeks to allay investor concerns about its finances.

US stocks halted a five-day slide that dragged global equities into a bear market, as oil rebounded from a 12-year low. Bank shares surged.

Tim Minchin has called on Cardinal George Pell to return from Rome to appear at the royal commission into institutional child abuse. He also expressed pride in being an Australian but said "we're arseholes as well".

The organisation behind Sydney's celebrated Mardi Gras parade is in a pickle over its newly-announced partnership with Simon Longstaff's Ethics Centre.

The leaking of key parts of the transcript of a recording featuring crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen finally starts to give the public the insight it needs to make up its own mind about her dispute with corruption watchdog chief Megan Latham.

Richard Graham kept Japanese import Ayumu Goromaru on ice for most of the night as the Brumbies completed a strong trial victory on their visit to Brisbane.

Bill Pulver says a far more stable financial situation as a result of a new television rights deal means the ARU will focus its investment on sevens, women's rugby and community rugby despite the professional game generating 90 per cent of its revenue.

Beefed-up troops, war "headquarters" and a readiness to respond to Russia has experts on both sides fearing an accident, leading to a war nobody intended.

The US, Russia and other powers have reached agreement on a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria's civil war that allows for immediate humanitarian access to besieged areas, Secretary of State John Kerry has announced.

Some are sent bonkers by their neighbour's barking dog or cars honking horns, for others it is the traffic in the sky that is driving them to distraction.

This week it became clearer than ever that Megan Latham is in the fight of her legal life, pitted against two other high-profile members of the legal fraternity in New South Wales. Not everyone will walk away unscathed.

One of two victims allegedly shot, gagged and stuffed in a box over what police believe was a drug debt has been remembered as a loving father whose big blue eyes and huge personality helped win his soul mate.

Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris is to be charged with seven further counts of indecent assault against girls and women, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service has announced.

​Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf was handed a five-year ban by the Indian cricket board (BCCI) on Friday over his involvement in an illegal betting scandal that blighted the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) season.

Singing the national anthem of his adopted country took a while to get used to for Perth-born Matthew Davies.

Baby Charlie holds one of his 300 beads that represent the medical incidents he's endured in his three-month-life, including open heart surgery.

Brisbane Roar have dodged A-League disaster, salvaging a 2-2 draw against plucky Newcastle in Friday night's clash at Suncorp Stadium.