Новости за 18.01.2016

NAIROBI, Kenya - The bodies of at least four Kenyan soldiers slain by Somali Islamic extremists arrived in the Kenyan capital on Monday.

MENLO PARK, California - WhatsApp, a popular mobile messaging service owned by Facebook, says it will drop its 99-cent subscription fee over the next several weeks.

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan Senate bill released Monday would revise healthier meal standards put into place over the last few years to give schools more flexibility in what they serve the nation's schoolchildren, easing requirements on whole grains and delaying an upcoming deadline to cut sodium levels on the lunch line.

Duke's streak in the Top 25 is over after a 16-year run.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon - A Cameroon official says a 14-year-old suicide bomber has attacked a mosque in Cameroon's north, killing at least four people.

NEW YORK - Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me" and Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies" are finalists for the National Book Critics Circle prize.

LOS ANGELES - The Rams have begun taking deposits for season tickets to their first season back in Los Angeles.

INDIANAPOLIS - Frigid temperatures are hampering efforts to euthanize turkeys at several southwestern Indiana farms where a strain of bird flu was found last week, freezing the hoses used to spread a foam that suffocates the affected flocks, a spokeswoman for a state agency said Monday.

PORTLAND, Oregon - Portland State is mourning the sudden death of a freshman linebacker.

NORMAN, Oklahoma - University of Oklahoma women's basketball signee Nancy Mulkey has been named a McDonald's All-American.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - Dorian Finney-Smith tried to be Florida's vocal leader.

LAGOS, Nigeria - Fifty-five people, including former governors, Cabinet ministers and government workers, stole $9 billion dollars from Nigeria's treasury, the information minister said Monday.

PHILADELPHIA - The Eagles are sort of going back to their glory days.

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities want to talk to actor Kate del Castillo, who arranged Sean Penn's interview with drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a government official said Monday.

BRUSSELS - The European Union said Monday that all its deals with Israel must "unequivocally and explicitly" show that they cannot apply to occupied territories, a move that builds on a November decision to label Israeli products made in the West Bank.

DETROIT - Commissioner Adam Silver is noncommital about the possibility of the Detroit Pistons moving downtown.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The cold, dust-blown prison yard where inmates are welding a new steel bell tower for the Feb. 17 visit of Pope Francis is a microcosm of the changes that have brought hope to the once-infernal border city of Ciudad Juarez, both inside and outside the walls.

FORT COLLINS, Colorado - A Colorado man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to deliver their third child crashed and died after apparently suffering some kind of medical problem.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City teammates Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are finalists for spots on the 2016 U.S. Olympic basketball team.

GENESEO, New York - The latest in the deaths of three young people at a home near a college campus in New York (all times local):

BOISE, Idaho - The family of an Idaho pastor who was freed after being held in an Iranian prison is planning to reunite with him on the East Coast.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - Spain and Italy received the full number of starters for men's road events at the Rio Olympics on Monday, while the U.S. was granted just two starters in the road race and two in the time trial.

DENVER - Administrators at a suburban Denver high school dismissed increasingly obvious warning signs that a troubled student was a threat before he killed a classmate and himself two years ago, a report released Monday shows.

ROME - The Vatican says it will ensure that its supply chains don't use forced labor after a forum of some of the world's biggest supermarket chains and food manufacturers announced new efforts to slave-proof their own supply chains.

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