Новости за 21.01.2016

CORAL GABLES, Florida - Major League Baseball is making a slight expansion of instant replay this year, allowing video reviews to assist umpires in placing baserunners when balls go out of play.

SANTA CLARA, California - The San Francisco 49ers have signed former CFL wide receiver Eric Rogers to a two-year deal.

NEW YORK - A New York federal judge seems unimpressed with a U.S. citizen's claims to immunity in a United Nations bribery scandal because he was working as a diplomat for a foreign government.

DAVOS, Switzerland - The opposing sides won't initially meet face-to-face in planned Syria peace talks in Geneva next week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday, a new sign of obstacles that remain in the latest diplomatic push to end the conflict.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - Tony Stewart is a man at peace as he heads into the final season of his NASCAR career.

COLUMBIA, Missouri - Missouri defensive tackle Terry Beckner Jr. has been indefinitely suspended after a marijuana possession arrest.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - A former Iowa women's field hockey coach has a "reasonable possibility" of proving that gender or anti-gay discrimination played a role in her firing, an Iowa Civil Rights Commission investigator has found.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A suicide car bomber rammed the gates of a restaurant near a beach in Somalia's capital before gunmen fought their way into the building in an attack claimed by an Islamic extremist group that killed at least three people on Thursday, a police official said.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The United States says it will no longer oppose lending to Argentina from multilateral banks.

One major reason that young-adult fiction is so alluring - when done well - is that it gives youngsters such a fulfilling scenario of independence from those older adults in their lives who always think they're smarter and stronger. That scenario is front and center in "The 5th Wave," where every adult is either evil, inhuman (literally), or nice but helpless. It's truly up to the young - make that the young, buff and good-looking - to save humanity.

ADELAIDE, Australia - Bloodied and bruised, American cyclist Tyler Farrar borrowed a bike and shoes from a fan to complete Wednesday's third stage of the Tour Down Under, the first event of the 2016 WorldTour.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Gronk pushes off. Brady whines.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Chiefs general manager John Dorsey expects running back Jamaal Charles to be ready for next season, though he sidestepped questions Thursday about a number of pending free agents.

NEW YORK - Freaked out by the stock market's big swings?

CHARLESTOWN, Indiana - A judge has ruled that a southern Indiana wildlife facility can keep its exhibitor's license despite the U.S. Department of Agriculture's efforts to revoke it.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Eldon Samuel Jr. was a violent man who was hooked on prescription drugs, owned numerous weapons and was preparing his sons for a zombie apocalypse, his estranged wife Tina Samuel told the court Wednesday.

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina - A local group in South Carolina wants to rebrand the Atlantic Beach Bikefest as the Unity Bikefest and promoting it as an event for all races.

NEW YORK - John Krasinski will be getting some A-list officemates in the new play "Dry Powder" - Claire Danes and Hank Azaria are jumping aboard.

MARKSVILLE, Louisiana - An attorney for the second of the two deputy Marksville city marshals who was being held on $1 million bail in the November shooting death of a boy says his client is in the process of bonding out of jail.

GUATEMALA CITY - The former mayor of the popular tourist city of Antigua and 10 other officials and private citizens were arrested Thursday in a case of alleged corruption, Guatemalan authorities announced.

LOS ANGELES - Former rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has a new lawyer in a murder case filed after authorities said he ran over two men in a parking lot last year in Compton, California.

MIAMI - Get ready for a sideline Samba or a touchdown tango at Miami Dolphins home games next season.

FLORENCE, Italy - American-born forward Giuseppe Rossi has made it clear he is on the verge of leaving Serie A club Fiorentina in search of more playing time.

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois - University of Illinois trustees have approved a contract that will pay football coach Bill Cubit $1.2 million a year for two years.

BRUSSELS - Top NATO brass on Thursday agreed on changes to recommend in the alliance's force posture and decision-making procedures to better deal with a more aggressive Russia and other evolving security threats.