Новости за 28.12.2017

The cruising industry is at the cusp of a technological revolution that, for the most part, spells good news for consumers.

Through Gen. Robert H. Reed’s efforts, the the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing at the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base was the first operationally ready wing of the A-10 aircraft in the U.S. Air Force.

Here's the framework for flying in 2018: Airlines, emboldened by a government that can't or won't regulate it in the way most customers expect it to, will try to squeeze passengers for every dollar.

A Taiwanese official resigned Wednesday after 200,000 passports were printed that mistakenly included an image of Dulles International Airport instead of Taiwan's Taoyuan International Airport.

Film critics do not, by any reasonable standard, lead glamorous lives. Most of our time alternates between sitting in dark rooms watching movies and sitting in lighter rooms writing about them. Not the stuff of great drama, not even close.

Planning for a one-stop veterans' transition service center at the site of a former state prison in Hempfield, Pa. is moving ahead on schedule, the developer recently told local officials.

Behind the beige building at 3000 Chouteau Avenue, noses from a collection of 26 warbird airplanes and helicopters from the U.S. and Russian military can be spotted from the busy road. They’re part of Dan Bissell’s private collection of military planes dating back to the 1950s

For those looking to get over some holiday homesickness during future Christmases in Japan, KFC’s Christmas bucket will not likely be that cure.

This week 900,000 active-duty servicemembers and 700,000 drilling Reserve and Guard members become eligible to opt out of a rigid yet more valuable High-3 military retirement plan into the new portable Blended Retirement System with government matching of thrift savings contributions and early vesting.

This week 900,000 active-duty servicemembers and 700,000 drilling Reserve and Guard members become eligible to opt out of a rigid yet more valuable High-3 military retirement plan into the new portable Blended Retirement System (BRS) with government matching of thrift savings contributions and early vesting.

Kahanu Garden was to be one of our two stops along the Hana Highway. The site would be the best of all worlds for us — native plants and flowers for me, and history for my husband.

Amped-up Spanish flamenco bars, dirndl skirts in Germany, ape tours of the Rock of Gibraltar — when does something slip from authentic to cheesy?

More than 150 years ago, an 11-year-old Tad Lincoln gave away a small ring that had been braided with hair from his pony. The woman's family kept the small ring over the years, and earlier this month they decided to donate the keepsake to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

With substance abuse already a major issue from Philadelphia to the White House this year, the Inquirer interviewed experts in five areas of addiction. Each was asked the same basic questions: Where are we in this crisis? What’s coming next? What has to change?

Their service spans different eras and different continents, but they’re all military veterans. That’s created a bond for 88-year-old Watson, 70-year-old John Ciliberto, 80-year-old Daniel Mazeroski, 75-year-old Mike Latzko and 92-year-old George Nisky.

The explosion at a supermarket in Russia's second-largest city was a terror attack, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, adding that he has ordered security agencies to kill terror suspects on the spot if they resist arrest.

Turkey's state-run news agency says anti-terrorism police have detained 38 suspected Islamic State group militants in the northwestern province of Bursa.

Until this week, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's rants, wishes and selfies were there for all to see on Facebook and Instagram. Now they are gone: wiped clean in apparently the first time anyone has been publicly banished from Facebook and Instagram because of U.S. sanctions.

The Army will end a program in 2018 that allowed some soldiers to receive retirement benefits without serving a full 20 years in uniform, the service’s top civilian recently announced in a memorandum.

At the five-star West Taleel resort, the white, two-story villas once housed as many as 3,000 migrants at a time waiting to set sail. Their traffickers had erected sand dunes along the beach to hide them from Libyan coast guard patrols and curious swimmers. The resort is now empty, as are the smugglers' other safe houses.

The Rhine Ordnance Barracks-based 212th Combat Support Hospital, marking 100 years since its formation as Evacuation Hospital No. 12 during World War I, now sends surgical teams directly into forward areas across the world using resources that can be found in any modern hospital.

Growing up in rural Oklahoma, speaking only the Cherokee language until age 5, Wes Studi didn't exactly see Hollywood as the most obvious career path. By the time he started working in movies, he was already in his 40s -- but it didn't take him long to make an impact.

The United States should look within to cut down demand for opioids which are fueling its deadly drug crisis rather than stressing unsubstantiated claims that China is the major source of these chemicals, a top Chinese drug enforcement official said Thursday.

Army Secretary Mark T. Esper's directive comes after years of back-and-forth between the Army and David D. White's family, which submitted a Medal of Honor nomination on his behalf in July 2011. The family has accused Army officials of mishandling the case and being unwilling to admit they were wrong after the fact.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia's actions in Syria have demonstrated the power of the nation's modernized military to the world.