Новости за 26.02.2016

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters will this weekend cast ballots in a referendum on whether the country should automatically expel foreigners who break the law, potentially even for not disclosing in…

LONDON (AP) — A British court has sentenced three brothers to decades in prison for raping and abusing teenage girls in the northern city of Rotherham.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A new report by a regional bloc says human smugglers are increasingly using Eritrean diplomats to traffic people to Europe.

BOSTON (AP) — Tom Brady and his family have gone to the dogs, and Patriots fans are lapping it up.

VIENNA (AP) — Suddenly, Afghans appear to be the new pariahs of Europe.

DUBLIN (AP) — The longtime chief of the Irish Republican Army, one of the outlawed group's most feared and secretive figures, received an 18-month prison sentence Friday for tax evasion a deca…

FRIDAY, Feb. 26, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- One of the key roadblocks to a cure for HIV infection and AIDS is the fact that the virus can "hide out" in a dormant state in immune system cells, ev…

FRIDAY, Feb. 26, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Women who give birth vaginally are slightly more likely to develop urinary incontinence afterward compared to women who have cesarean sections, accord…

FRIDAY, Feb. 26, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Cleveland Clinic surgeons this week performed the nation's first uterus transplant, an experimental procedure offering women without a womb the possib…

WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers lost a little confidence this month amid worries that slowing economic growth will hurt the job market, the University of Michigan says.

CHICAGO (AP) — Young transgender children allowed to live openly as the gender they identify with fared as well psychologically as other kids in a small study that suggests parental support ma…

LA MACARENA, Colombia (AP) — The stench of death envelops the makeshift morgue as Diego Casallas uses a box cutter to slash open a mud-caked body bag. The unidentified remains are all but deco…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy got a double dose of good news Friday. Economic growth in the final three months of 2015 didn't slow as much as previously estimated, and consumers roared ba…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two lawyers in Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's office urged his top aides to switch Flint back to Detroit's water system only months after the city began using the Flint Rive…

HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the attack at a central Kansas factory (all times local):

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. agency monitoring Iran's compliance to its landmark nuclear deal with six world powers is set to issue its first report since the agreement was implemented last month.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman whose family controls a western Pennsylvania cheese-making operation is scheduled to plead guilty — along with two of her companies — to charges that their grated che…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy got off to a good start in the new year. Americans boosted their spending in January at the fastest pace in eight months, while their incomes increased by the lar…

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A former high school teacher and wrestling coach charged with sexually abusing a female student has pleaded guilty to six felony counts.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. and global stocks rose modestly in early trading Friday, on track for a second straight weekly gain, helped by encouraging economic news in the U.S. and word from China th…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's main opposition party said on Friday that over 200 of its supporters have been detained across the country, hampering efforts to launch a legal challenge agains…

DODGEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin-based retailer Lands' End is apologizing to customers for featuring an interview with feminist and political activist Gloria Steinem in its spring catalog and…

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria and the provisional cease-fire proposed by the U.S. and Russia that is to go into effect at midnight (all times local):

HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — A man who wounded three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protec…