Новости за 06.10.2015

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc rolled out its much-anticipated "Project Lightning" on Tuesday, a feature that shows users the site's best tweets and content as curated by a Twitter team.

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maternal and newborn deaths in Sierra Leone have soared since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as fear of being infected and mistrust of health workers deter pregnant women from giving birth in health facilities, researchers said on Tuesday.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Sarajevo court convicted four Bosnians on Tuesday of financing terrorist activities and recruiting people to fight for Islamic State in Syria, sentencing them to up to 3 1/2 years in prison.

Water Missions International loaded cargo trailers with water purification systems to send to Columbia on Tuesday so that people there would have safe drinking water.

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Italy will begin relocating refugees this week under a European Union plan that aims to spread the burden of the continent's biggest migrant crisis since World War Two, the EU's migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Tuesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's policymakers should forge ahead with structural reforms to put the world's second-largest economy on a more sustainable footing, even as growth is likely to slow further to 6.3 percent in 2016, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

WOLFSBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Hans Dieter Poetsch's first board meeting as chairman of Volkswagen on Wednesday could turn out to be his most important, coming just hours before a deadline set by German regulators and testimony by the company's top U.S. executive in Congress.

Items worn by characters in Sylvester Stallone movies, including "Rocky" and "Rambo", are to be auctioned in Los Angeles. Francis Maguire reports.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces destroyed the homes of two Palestinian militants and sealed off part of a third in Jerusalem on Tuesday, in a crackdown launched by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after four Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.

Ford will manufacture two new families of engines in India, code-named Panther and Dragon, which will power the new Endeavour and the Figo/Figo Aspire models, apart from Ford’s upcoming, India-specific MPV. Ford will also shoehorn these made-in-India engines in other global vehicles, and it is expected that  270,000 vehicles will be churned out globally; all powered by Panther and […]

The Ducati 899 Panigale is on its way out and filling its shoes would be the much talked about 959 Panigale. While the new motorcycle will be unveiled at the EICMA Motorcycle Show in Milan in November 2015, this new Ducati has already been snapped with absolutely no camouflage, apart from one small sticker covering the product name on the […]

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in the Indian capital plan to set up a programme to help rescued victims of human trafficking through training and work placements, the first part of the country to do so, a government statement said.

Britain's America's Cup team led by Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie demonstrates its latest yacht in their development programme for their 2017 America's Cup challenge

Romanian senators have adopted draft legislation obliging supermarkets to sell more meat and produce from the country in a bid to support local farmers.

Freeport-McMoRan said Tuesday that it is considering spinning off its oil and gas business and other strategic alternative to focus on its copper mining business.

A study says the 500 largest U.S. companies would owe an estimated $620 billion in taxes if they were to repatriate their funds. Fred Katayama reports.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - A Japanese and a Canadian scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass, opening a new window onto the fundamental nature of the universe.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - A Japanese and a Canadian scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass, opening a new window onto the fundamental nature of the universe.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - A Japanese and a Canadian scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass, opening a new window onto the fundamental nature of the universe.

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish judge confiscated former economy minister Rodrigo Rato's passport on Tuesday as a precautionary measure, a Madrid court said, as it investigates allegations of money laundering, tax fraud and corruption against him.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies carried out 24 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Tuesday.

Stars Cate Blanchett and Elisabeth Moss, hit red carpet for industry screening of political thriller "Truth". Edward Baran reports.

Belarus’s three former political prisoners have urged the EU not to remove sanctions on Minsk until Belarusian authorities fulfill all EU conditions for normalizing the bilateral relations, including the rehabilitation of former political prisoners and significant improvements in the human rights situation.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholics should stop using condescending language such as "pity" towards homosexuals and find ways to welcome them as sons and daughters of the Church, bishops have told a major gathering on the family.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholics should stop using condescending language such as "pity" towards homosexuals and find ways to welcome them as sons and daughters of the Church, bishops have told a major gathering on the family.