Новости за 15.05.2017

North Korea on Monday boasted of a successful weekend launch of a new type of "medium long-range" ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead. Outsiders also saw a significant technological jump, with the test-fire apparently flying higher and for a longer time period than any other...

Jim Kaiser was cooling off at a thatched-roof bar on the white-sand beach in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, when I struck up a conversation with him.

“I assume you’ve heard the definition of an airplane?” reader Paul Brown of Santa Ana asked in an email. “A silver tube hurtling through the sky from Point A to Point B with 100 or more passengers, all of whom have paid a different fare.”

“Little,” as locals call the Caribbean’s Little Cayman Island, is a diminutive chunk of porous limestone 110 miles south of Cuba with a human population of about 150.

If you made a mistake on your tax return and didn’t realize it until after the filing deadline, congratulations — you’re human. In the 2015 tax year alone, the Internal Revenue Service sent 1.6 million notices to taxpayers for 2.1 million math errors on their returns.

SpaceX plans to launch a commercial communications satellite Monday afternoon in what will be the Elon Musk-led company’s fifth launch of the year.

Santa Paula police have arrested a man suspected of lighting another man on fire over the weekend, causing burns to over half of the victim’s body, authorities said.

It’s the television industry’s biggest week of the year. Thousands of advertisers on Monday will descend on New York City’s most prestigious venues — Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall — to get their first glimpse of the major networks’ new fall schedules before agreeing to...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday appointed Edouard Philippe, a relatively unknown 46-year-old lawmaker, as prime minister, making good on campaign promises to repopulate French politics with new faces.

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, even 50 years later, when you visit San Francisco, home of the Summer of Love.

California’s status as a far-left state was emphatically reconfirmed by Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget last week — not so much by his proposal, but by his presentation.

The question seemed simple, wondering how Ondrej Kase had managed to maintain his belief in himself while he was shuttling back and forth between the American Hockey League and the Ducks, but the Czech-born forward was puzzled by one unfamiliar word.

The popular close-up shot of Sunday’s television broadcast was that of Ducks center Ryan Kesler bumping helmets with Nashville Predators center Ryan Johansen on faceoffs.

If the future of transportation is centered on driverless vehicles available to passengers on demand, its first industry powerhouse may have just been hatched.

Powers Boothe, the character actor known for his villain roles in television’s "Deadwood" and in the movies "Tombstone," ''Sin City" and "The Avengers," has died. He was 68.

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Supergirl Absent for most of this season, Calista Flockhart returns, and her character’s reappearance complicates the problem Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) is facing involving actions that the president (guest star Lynda Carter) wants taken against Rhea (guest star Teri Hatcher). Jeremy...

Nick Ritchie scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period, and the Anaheim Ducks roared back from an early two-goal deficit to even the Western Conference finals with a 5-3 victory over the Nashville Predators in Game 2 on Sunday night at Honda Center.

Hundreds of rebels and their families began leaving a northeastern neighborhood of Damascus and heading toward rebel-held areas in northern Syria Sunday, in another step that would eventually bring all parts of the capital under the control of President Bashar Assad's forces, state media and opposition...

Alex Meyer is 6 feet 9 and possesses the ability to throw 99-mph fastballs. But the 27-year-old Angels right-hander does not have a consistent belief that he belongs in the big leagues.

The White House is calling North Korea a “flagrant menace” after the test launch of a ballistic missile, the seventh such firing this year.

Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen picked up two intermediate time bonuses in the final stage through downtown Sacramento to win the Women's Tour of California on Sunday.