Новости за 25.09.2015

TORONTO - BlackBerry has revealed plans to release the BlackBerry Priv as its first smartphone to run on the Android operating system.

PHOENIX - A suburban Phoenix police department has cleared an officer accused of abusing a police dog.

Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry helped give people the gift of hearing while in Rio de Janeiro for the Rock in Rio music festival.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A preliminary report has found that a floatplane struck the surface of a lake before crashing into a nearby, tree-covered hillside, killing three men on a fishing trip.

AUSTIN, Texas - A man who pleaded guilty to charges that he recruited terrorists while he was a top student at the University of Texas has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

WACO, Texas - Police say a man has been charged with resisting arrest after he crashed a vehicle through a gate at Waco Regional Airport in Texas in an attempt to steal a private jet.

BUFFALO, New York - A former baggage handler at the Buffalo-area airport has been sentenced to more than two years' probation for helping cocaine dealers smuggle drug money past security.

NEWARK, New Jersey - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has adopted new ethics rules as federal prosecutors probe potential wrongdoing at the agency, involving billions of dollars in public works projects.

CHICAGO - A U.S. judge Friday agreed to release a 24-year-old until his trial on charges he helped his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend kill the woman's mother in Indonesia by texting tips from more than 9,000 miles away in Chicago.

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador's communications secretariat has halted proceedings to shut down the country's last remaining independent press watchdog, Fundamedios, nearly three weeks after saying it would be dissolved due to alleged partisan political activities.

WASHINGTON - Washington's newest giant panda cub is nameless no more. Call him Bei Bei.

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Ralph Nader is the first to say his new museum is not quite like any other.

NEW YORK - New York's governor and the president of Cuba have met to discuss economic development as relations between the Caribbean nation and the U.S. continue to thaw.

LOUDON, New Hampshire - A New England racing museum is in the works at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

SAN DIEGO - A state government report released Friday recommends allowing SeaWorld to expand its killer whale facility at its San Diego park, outraging environmentalists who say the tanks could be used to breed more orcas to be kept in captivity.

NEW YORK - Holy musical matrimony? Pope Francis and UK pop group The Vamps are releasing albums of the same name on the same day.

PHILADELPHIA - Downtown Philadelphia streets are largely deserted a day before Pope Francis' visit.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two groups of Pacific walrus have been found dead along the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska. One incident is the subject of a criminal investigation. The other has been blamed on natural causes.

BERLIN - The latest developments on the Volkswagen emissions scandal. All times local.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida - The South Florida home owned by former teen idol David Cassidy has sold for just over $2 million.

BEIRUT - The leader of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group has welcomed what he described as Russia's growing "combat presence" in Syria, saying it will have a significant impact on the war in the neighboring country.

FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia - Rick Ross has filed a countersuit against two men who claimed the rapper attacked them at his home outside Atlanta.

INDIANAPOLIS - Longtime Indiana state Rep. William Crawford, who became one of highest-ranking black politicians in state history, has died.

Jason Crabb, "Whatever the Road" (Reunion Records)

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's prime minister says Russian airlines will be banned from flying into the country, the latest attempt to put pressure on Russia as the conflict in eastern Ukraine grinds on.