US Air Force began its consideration of applications for the creation of a new strategic bomber. It is reported that the military will choose between two models proposed by corporation Northrop Grumman, as well as a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The winner will be declared in October. According to Defense News, on Tuesday the developers presented their plans for a new...

This year, crime rates soared in various US cities after several years of decline, according to the local government and the American media. American authorities have not yet announced general statistics for 2015, but some of the cities themselves have already published the data. At least 30 cities reported an increase in homicides. Experts find it difficult to say with certainty what lies...

Vietnamese customs officers confiscated a container in the port of Danang, in which there were a ton of elephant tusks and more than four tons of pangolin skins - a rare animal that resembles an armadillo, said Friday the newspaper "Khom Chad Luek". The cargo was registered as "canned beans in banks" and travelled from Malaysia to a private trading company in Vietnam. A week earlier in Danang,...

In Astana, August 27 an agreement between the Government of Kazakhstan and the IAEA on the establishment of the international bank of low enriched uranium (LEU) in the republic is signed in Astana, August 27. The bank will be formed in the territory and with the use of technical base of the Ulba Metallurgical Plant (UMP) in Ust-Kamenogorsk. The signing ceremony was attended by representatives of...

Growth in bank lending to companies and individuals in the euro zone accelerated in July 2015 compared with the previous month, according to the European Central Bank (ECB). Thus, the policy of quantitative easing (QE), implemented by the ECB, is bearing fruit. The total volume of bank lending in the past month increased by 0.9% compared with July 2014, after increasing by 0.2% a month earlier....

China and India play a major role in ensuring the growth of the Asian population and identify trends in the process of urbanization. According to the research institute McKinsey in 2010, it is expected that the two countries will provide 62% of the continent's urban population growth between 2005 and 2025, and an impressive 40% of the growth in the world. Statistics point to the urgency of the...

The political crisis in Brazil does not have a negative impact on relations with Washington, as well as the causes of delays in the bilateral cooperation. This is the official discourse of both countries, which emphasize the resumption of relations, turned over from the fresh leaf, formalized by Dilma Rousseff’s visit to the US in June, after the crisis caused by the scandal with the surveillance...

The Chinese people wonder why there is “so many black people” in France, Sweden “imports waste”, “milk-induced longevity” in Bulgaria, and Poland “hates China”. Foreign Policy examined the most popular searches in the main Chinese search engine Baidu to find out what they the citizens of the PRC think about rest of the world. Like other search engines, Baidu has an auto-complete feature, that is,...

In recent years, the two partners - Berlin and Ankara - collected many claims to each other. Dissatisfaction of Germany, which is home to more than three million Turks, is arisen by reluctance of many immigrants to integrate into German society. The Bundestag is convinced that this is fault of the president Erdogan and his entourage, who has repeatedly called German Turks to preserve their native...