Новости за 07.04.2016

Islamic State fighters have kidnapped scores of workers in an area northeast of Damascus after launching an attack on government forces there this week, Syrian state television and a monitoring group said on Thursday.

Cameron denies offshore fund was set up to avoid tax and says he can't bear his father's name being dragged through the mud.

A sex attacker with bad body odour tried to assault a woman at a beauty salon in Preston last week, police say.

Homes are sold without disclosure of whether they contain the deadly material and there is no law to enforce such declarations.

The US military has christened an experimental self-piloting ship designed to hunt for enemy submarines, a major advance in robotic warfare at the core of America's strategy to counter Chinese and Russian naval investments.

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The prospect of becoming Australia's largest ghost town isn't very appealing to Whyalla, as angry locals ask why a nearby regional city got $385 million in taxpayers' funds to keep a lead smelter open.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday condemned a leak of confidential offshore account details that has shaken politicians around the world, claiming that it was part of a Western plot to weaken Russia.

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Cargill, the 151-year-old company that's one of the biggest players in the global agriculture markets, sees no improvement on the horizon for slumping crop prices.

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A school's decision to allow two Muslim pupils not to shake their teachers' hands has added fresh fuel to an ongoing debate in Switzerland about integration of immigrants.

Jamie Dimon said he's concerned demand for Treasuries will decline and the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates faster than people expect.

The European Union executive is considering whether to make US and Canadian citizens apply for visas before travelling to the bloc, a move that could raise tensions as between the US and Brussels.

A rare copy of a first edition of William Shakespeare's collected plays has been found in a vast aristocratic house on the Isle of Bute, off the western coast of Scotland.

Iron ore shipments by the world's largest producers expanded 10 per cent in the first three months of 2016 and shows no sign of slowing.

Take a sneak peak at the Disney's new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – complete with new rebel characters in the sci-fi saga.

The body of a woman was found in the water near Cabarita Wharf in Sydney's inner west last night.

Danish police arrest four people on suspicion of having been recruited by Islamic State in Syria to commit terrorist violence.

Belgian prosecutors have appealed for help to find a man suspected of leaving a bomb at Brussels Airport on March 22.

Tony Abbott says there has been more "continuity" than change since the change in leadership to Malcolm Turnbull.

Well, the sky didn't fall in and the TV world as we know it didn't implode. But there was certainly a tremor.

Laing O'Rourke has successfully piloted a mobile solar-diesel project and is set to roll it out commercially under new subsidiary SunSHIFT.

Conventional wisdom says vulnerable Senate Republicans would like to share the ticket in November with anyone but Donald Trump. But the apparent replacement choice, Texan Senator Ted Cruz, might not be much better for them.