Новости за 16.01.2016

GENEVA - Swiss police say two foreigners have been killed in an avalanche while they were skiing off-piste in the Alps.

COSTA MESA, California - A Southern California man captured on video attacking an Uber driver has sued the driver for $5 million, claiming the video was recorded without his consent, a newspaper reported Saturday.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Demaryius Thomas will celebrate his mother's freedom and treat her to her first NFL game Sunday when the Denver Broncos play the Pittsburgh Steelers.

GREENWOOD, Indiana - A Hendricks County jail inmate who escaped in a stolen truck has been recaptured in a southern Indianapolis suburb.

ST. LOUIS - An effort to persuade the owner of the St. Louis Rams to keep his team in Missouri by building a new riverfront football stadium not only failed but also left the public on the hook for $16.2 million in expenses.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - Brian White and Derrick Henry each scored 16 points and The Citadel survived a late game comeback attempt by Furman to earn an 89-86 victory on Saturday.

BOSTON - The owners of the Boston Bruins say they will donate at least $200,000 to help the professional women's hockey player who suffered a spinal cord injury at the Winter Classic.

LOS ANGELES - Anze Kopitar agreed to an eight-year, $80 million contract extension with the Kings on Saturday, keeping Los Angeles' franchise center with the club through the 2023-24 season.

INDIANAPOLIS - Butler found a fitting way to honor Andrew Smith on Saturday.

PASADENA, California - A roundup of news Saturday from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs.

WORCESTER, Massachusetts - Austin Price knocked down six 3-pointers as he and Tim Kempton combined for 42 points to help Lehigh defeat Holy Cross 87-66 on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES - Southern California air regulators face a simple decision Saturday over a 12-week-old gas leak that has plagued Los Angeles residents and driven thousands from their homes.

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona - Alcohol is part of the culture of rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has reached a deal with the European consortium Airbus to buy 114 passenger planes once international economic sanctions are lifted as part of a nuclear deal, Iran's transport minister said Saturday.

LOS ANGELES - The latest in a series of U.S.-European satellites designed to detect and measure ocean phenomena like El Nino is scheduled for launch this weekend aboard a SpaceX rocket that will attempt to land its discarded first stage on a floating barge.

CHICAGO - Nearly two dozen Chicago Police Department employees have been called to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the 2014 death of a black teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer, according to records released to the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.

JOHNSTON, Iowa - In a swipe at the his party's front-runners, Republican White House hopeful Marco Rubio charged Saturday that anger alone isn't enough to qualify someone to be president.

OKLAHOMA CITY - A Texas man accused of killing two people while randomly firing his gun along an Oklahoma interstate last month may have fired nearly 30 times, police records show.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - More than 1,000 Palestinian families took possession of new apartments Saturday as part of a large Qatari-funded housing project in the Gaza Strip.

BELIZE CITY, Belize - An autopsy on the body of a U.S. tourist found dead in western Belize has determined that she was strangled to death.

SKOPJE, Macedonia - Talks among Macedonia's four major parties on a national election date have hit a snag, with the main opposition party rejecting the proposed date of April 24.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The Maldives government said Saturday that it has given permission to an imprisoned ex-president to travel to Britain for surgery.

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's defense minister says his country wants to have permanent NATO and U.S. troops' presence to ward off security threats.

PRAGUE - A memorial has been unveiled in Prague to honor a Charles University student who burned himself to death to protest the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia.

FREEHOLD, New Jersey - A fourth man has been charged in the 2009 beating death of a New Jersey middle school teacher who authorities say was killed when robbers mistakenly targeted her apartment.