Новости за 31.08.2015

(Reuters Health) - Many women with severe menopausal symptoms are not being treated for them even though safe, effective remedies are available, a study from Australia suggests.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An increase in thyroid cancer among children is unlikely after the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant four years ago, but it remains unclear exactly how much radiation children in the vicinity of the plant were exposed to, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said in a report released on Monday.

Bank Holiday Monday has proved a complete washout for much of the country. On the last bank holiday until Christmas, nearly two weeks’ worth of rain fell in swathes of South-east England and East Anglia. The South-west of England also endured similarly miserable conditions; its beaches, rather than full of holidaying families, were more a picture of abandoned grey.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new tranche of 7,000 additional pages of emails from former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server will be released on Monday at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT Tuesday), State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.

Two of Britain’s largest energy suppliers are more reliant on coal to produce the electricity they sell to customers than they were 10 years ago.

Volvo Cars of North America will now be the title sponsor of the Family Circle Cup Tennis Tournament on Daniel Island.

A heavily produced propaganda video from Islamic State purports to show a newly minted form of coin currency for use within territory IS militants have claimed. Gavino Garay reports.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation after a man was shot dead by officers in North London.

FRANKFURT/DETROIT (Reuters) - A group of deep-pocketed China-based internet entrepreneurs and financial investors, including Tencent  and Hillhouse Capital, is backing an effort to create NextEV, a new rival to U.S. electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc .

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a century after first-class passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic ate grilled mutton chops and custard pudding in an elaborate dining room, the ship's last luncheon menu is expected to fetch up to $70,000 in an online auction, a curator said on Monday.

(Reuters) - A Bay Area man who found a $20 bill on a street outside San Francisco International Airport used it to play the California lottery and won $1 million, a lottery spokesman said on Monday.

A popular Irish harbor city has edged out Charleston as the world’s most friendly city, according to a newly released Travel + Leisure ranking.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fourth seed Kei Nishikori's hopes of making another magical U.S. Open run came to a quick end on Monday as last year's runner-up fell at the first hurdle, falling 6-4 3-6 4-6 7-6 (6) 6-4 to Frenchman Benoit Paire.

Heather Watson's US Open drought continued as the British number one bowed out in the first round to America's Lauren Davis.

Heather Watson lost to an American for the second time in a row at a Grand Slam tournament here, but that was where the similarities with her dramatic defeat to Serena Williams at Wimbledon two months ago ended.

If you have watched a music video in the past decade, you probably did not watch it on MTV, a network now mostly stuck in a never-ending loop of episodes of Teen Mom. This fact does not stop MTV from continuing to hold the annual Video Music Awards, and it does not stop many of us from tuning in – or at least watching the most talked-about bits on YouTube.

LONDON (Reuters) - West Bromwich Albion have signed goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard from Manchester United on a two-year contract.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's former Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton finished second in her first ride as an amateur jockey at Ripon on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former world number one Ana Ivanovic was the first major casualty of the U.S. Open as the Serbian seventh seed fell 6-3 3-6 6-3 to Dominika Cibulkova in the opening match at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday.

South Carolina’s 47 state parks took in record revenue in its latest fiscal year, lifted by an improving economy and other factors.

CLEMSON — Deshaun Watson is Clemson’s starting quarterback.

Eight minutes of silence instead of a homily marked the Vatican funeral Monday of a former papal diplomat, whose trial on charges of possession of child pornography and sexual abuse of minors had begun this summer in a...

  By definition, a fractal is a never-ending pattern, which, bound by repetitive iterations can create dynamic shapes/systems. We’ll take a wild guess and say that the fractal in these pictures has to do with triangles in its core. There are triangles everywhere in this design, and the “dynamic shape” is the Peugeot Fractal Concept. Little […]

A judge in Mozambique has found two journalists and an academic guilty of defamation over a Facebook post.

Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers has released the name of the victim of Sunday’s fatal shooting in College Township.