Новости за 19.10.2015

The Metropolitan Police has brought all its ongoing historical child sex abuse investigations under the control of one team, Scotland Yard announces.

Chinese smartphone maker Vivo seems to have got its timing right by agreeing to become the title sponsor of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Monday asked Thai Ambassador to India Chalit Manityakul, who called on him here, to help in promoting tourism to the state, an official statement said.

BoE governor to set out views on how leaving EU would affect bank’s work

Swansea 0 Stoke 1: Swansea are without a win since the end of August, and were punished by an early Bojan penalty

The event: Rock icon Courtney Love and composer Todd Almond, stars of “Kansas City Choir Boy,” joined theater-goers in the lobby of the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre following Sunday’s West Coast premiere. Having just received a standing ovation, the duo came ready to chat with friends...

Museum of Russian Icons curator and CEO Kent Russell said that new technology has been installed at the only museum in the United States that solely features Russian icons.

The Finance Ministry has declared fund donation to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as tax-free to encourage more donors in the country for the apex health institution, a statement said on Monday.

SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) — A traveling basketball coach from Oregon is charged with sending suggestive text messages to a teenage boy in Wisconsin.

Fans of NBC's "Parenthood" have had a major gap in their lives since the show ended in January: the glorious mother-daughter relationship between Lauren Graham's Sarah Braverman and Mae Whitman's Amber Holt. It seems the talented actresses have been missing that bond too, because they're now teaming up on a new project. 

The head of Russia’s National Defense Management Center said that over 17,000 weapons and military equipment have been delivered to the Russian armed forces in 2015.

Ray of hope: Vedanta restarts iron ore exports

Tech bellwether IBM, which is struggling to transform itself from a manufacturer of old-line hardware for corporate data centers to a provider of cloud and analytics services, on Monday reported lower-than-expected sales for the third quarter, but earnings beat analysts’ forecasts. The company was hard hit by the economic slowdown in Asia and plummeting demand for its server products.

Beyoncé is on the latest cover of Beat magazine, and there's no denying the superstar singer looks gorgeous. The shoot, which took place in the Hamptons, shows Beyoncé posing in a variety of swimsuits and colorful outfits.

Nothing gets the people going (specifically the Internet) like Kanye West news -- so it's no surprise that the two new tracks that just appeared on...

The Event: Famed polo player Nacho Figueras -- dubbed "the Brad Pitt of polo" by an announcer -- once again led Team Black Watch at the sixth annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Saturday at Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades. New this year was the addition of female players—...

In what appears to have been a desperate attempt to relate to the millennial generation, IHOP recently hired your parents to man its Twitter account. Or maybe your...

Revenue falls 14% thanks to a stronger dollar and falling hardware sales, and company shares fall.

Two weeks after PMC-Sierra Inc. struck a deal to be acquired by Skyworks Solutions Inc., Microsemi Corp. swooped in with its own offer Monday, a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $2.2 billion.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Geoff Edgers, national arts reporter for the Washington Post, who attended the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony Sunday night at the Kennedy Center.