Новости за 12.12.2016

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Bob Dylan couldn't make it to Stockholm to pick up his literature award or attend the Nobel ceremonies, but he'll be here with his band in April for a few gigs.

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Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transport, has denied claims that he is behind the non-declaration of results in Ikwerre and Emohua LGAs in Rivers rerun poll...

Ahead of a coronial inquest, lawyers for Steven Freeman's family are looking into the role an untreated brain injury played in his death.

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's unification ministry on Monday strongly condemned North Korea for raising tension on the divided peninsula by staging a military drill targeting the South's presidential office. North Korean leader Kim Jong-

New York Giants' Odell Beckham Jr celebrates a touchdown against Dallas Cowboys with the Moonwalk and a royal wave.

The general manager of a major Chinese newspaper group that has been in trouble with the government for blackmail and corruption fell to his death on Monday, the newspaper said. The 21st Century Business Herald carried a short statement on its official microblog from publisher 21st Century Media Ltd saying 21st Century Media's general manager, Liu Jiandong, had fallen from a building and died despite efforts to save him. Police only identified him by his family name, Liu, and said he was a company general manager. Читать дальше...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Human rights groups are sharply criticizing a Bahraini appeal court’s ruling upholding a nine-year prison sentence against the country’s leading Shiite opposition figure.

Ousted chairman urges shareholders to push for governance reforms

Here are top five deadliest catches of Jeremy Wade.

Virat Kohli hit his personal best of 235 in 4th Test against England.

Countless people will die in the final assault on Aleppo as diplomats work for a breakthrough in Geneva.

Arsenal have been handed the toughest road possible in the UEFA Champions League draw, landing Germany heavyweights Bayern Munich for the third time in the past five years.

Wilson Nduka Wowo argues that the religious leaders in charge of the churches should be duly arrested and prosecuted for the death of the their members.

In an effort to prevent potential adverse effects of Brexit on the economies of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, the United Kingdom should begin drafting bilateral customs agreements between the two countries, UK parliament said in a press release Monday.

Trump said Sunday that he could do away with the so-called "one-China" policy.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is facing flak over his wife Grace Mugabe’s love for expensive jewelry after it emerged that the first lady had splurged $1.4 million on a diamond ring at a time when the country’s poor were languishing in hunger.

The new lanes will be restricted to MnPASS tag holders along with buses, carpools and motorcycles during peak travel times. Those hours are 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays in the southbound lane and 3 to 7 p.m. for the northbound lane.

The European Union and Cuba signed an agreement normalizing ties, ending years of friction between the two over Cuba’s human rights record and opening the way for broader economic and trade relations.

MELBOURNE, Australia — A Syrian refugee has graduated from an Australian high school with top honors just two years after beginning to learn English.

On the auspicious occasion of Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the city came alive with magnificent decoration at all prominent places.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Syrian refugee has graduated from an Australian high school with top honors just two years after beginning to learn English. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Saad Al-Kassab earned a 96.65 on an Australian college admissions test. Al-Kassab graduated dux, the Australian equivalent of valedictorian, from one of the country's largest Catholic high schools. Al-Kassab says his initial poor English skills made it tough to get into a high school when he first arrived in Australia in June of 2014. Читать дальше...

Any spat risks hurting Taiwan businesses — and US interests as badly

While being known for having an ear for music, Indians rarely study Western classical music the same way they study and practice Indian classical music. This is more evident when it comes to choir singing of opera and Western sacred music. Nadya V Balyan, a choir conductor from the Russian city of Tula, who has been living in India for past decade, is challenging this trend with her own approach to choral conducting and singing.