Новости за 22.02.2016

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Ford CEO Mark Fields says the 112-year-old company is tripling its investment in new technologies that will ultimately lead to self-driving vehicles — but will make sur…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Uber car was ambushed and burned highlighting an escalation of tension between conventional taxi operators and drivers of the ride-sharing app, a Kenyan police officia…

HONG KONG (AP) — London-based bank HSBC said Monday it is among a number of firms being investigated by U.S. authorities over the hiring of people connected to Asian governments, raising the r…

LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AP) — Authorities at a British military base in Cyprus used an excavator to smash tens of thousands of euros worth of illegal gambling equipment that were seized in police raids.

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on global financial markets (all times local):

LONDON (AP) — Uncertainty over Britain's future in the European Union sent the pound plunging Monday, as Prime Minister David Cameron tried to shore up support for remaining in the bloc when t…

PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) — A brawl broke out at a Florida pizzeria after an order of garlic knots arrived with cheese on top.

PARIS (AP) — A glut of oil will keep prices from rebounding until next year, much later than previously forecast, experts at the International Energy Agency said Monday.

ROME (AP) — Italy's prime minister says he's rooting for Hillary Clinton to be elected president of the United States.

MADRID (AP) — Transport workers in Barcelona are staging the first of four days of strikes, increasing road traffic problems in the northeastern Spanish city as the four-day Mobile World Congr…

LONDON (AP) — Buying luxury clothes online right off the runway. Trying them on virtually. Not having to wait months for the new collection to ship.

MIAMI (AP) — A bail hearing is set for a Florida-based sports agent charged with being part of a conspiracy to illegally smuggle Cuban ballplayers into the U.S.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a man who shot four Mississippi law enforcement officers and was killed in a shootout says authorities refused to let her talk to her son during nearly six …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Most Democrats consider income inequality a very important issue and half of them think tougher regulations of the financial markets imposed after the 2008 financial crisis di…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in a north Indian state on Monday began lifting curfews in key towns and protesters gradually removed roadblocks after 12 people died in clashes during their demon…

NEW DELHI (AP) — An editor of one of Bangladesh's most respected newspapers has sparked an uproar by admitting that eight years ago, he published unsubstantiated reports alleging corruption by…

BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets rose Monday as investors looked to this week's meeting of finance ministers from major economies for reassurance about threats to world growth.

North Koreans marking the 74th birthday anniversary of the country's late leader, Kim Jong Il, and a hot air balloon festival in Lucknow, India, were among images from daily life around Asia l…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run agency says a court has charged 14 people in connection with last week's suicide car bombing in Ankara and ordered them jailed pending trial. Seven oth…

HONG KONG (AP) — HSBC warned of a "bumpier" global financial outlook thanks to China's slowing economy, as it reported Monday that profit dipped slightly last year.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in a north Indian state have begun lifting a curfew in key towns and protesters have removed roadblocks after clashes left 12 people dead during their demonstratio…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's main opposition leader was arrested Monday as he tried to leave his home near the capital, a day after he urged his supporters to protest his house arrest.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg likes to boast that his 3-year-old effort to bring the developing world online has reached millions of people in some of the world's poorest nations.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities trying to piece together an hours-long weekend rampage that left six people dead in western Michigan said they are looking into a report that the suspect pi…

MIAMI — As 3-year-old Vincent Zou’s parents were preparing a Chinese hot pot dish in their Miramar, Fla., home, his father put a pot of boiling water on the kitchen island. Little Vincent was …