Новости за 21.01.2016

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - FIFA has asked sport's highest court to impose a two-year ban on a South Korean player who blamed his positive test for a steroid on a mustache-growing cream.

NEW YORK - Fifth Third Bancorp on Thursday reported a surge in fourth-quarter profit on the sale of a stake in the payment processing company Vantiv Inc.

GARY, Indiana - Students at a privately operated school in Gary are protesting because they're frustrated by repeated closures because of a lack of heat.

MOSCOW - The Russian ruble hit another historic low against the dollar Thursday as currencies slid across the former Soviet Union against the backdrop of low oil prices.

NEW YORK - Will Smith says he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two straight years of all-white acting nominees.

IDOMENI, Greece - The latest developments in Europe's immigration crisis. All times local.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - A Budapest court has sentenced a Hungarian man to three years' probation because he publicly denied that the Holocaust happened.

BOSTON - This ball controversy can't be blamed on the Patriots.

SAVANNAH, Georgia - A Georgia judge won't grant early release from jail for a movie director sentenced for the death of a camera assistant while shooting a film about singer Gregg Allman.

CHICAGO - Grain futures were mostly higher Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

NEW YORK - Are you ready for some (bespoke) football? With Super Bowl 50 on the horizon, the NFL and the Council of Fashion Designers of America teamed up to deck out a half-century's worth of pigskins to raise money for the league's charitable foundation.

OKLAHOMA CITY - One of two Oklahoma brothers accused in the stabbing deaths of their parents and three siblings is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that says he must be charged as an adult.

NEW YORK - Travelers reported a 17 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit because of falling energy prices and record-low interest rates, but the insurer still beat most expectations and revenue was better than most had projected.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Baseball cap turned backward, pumping himself up with cries of "C'MON!" Lleyton Hewitt fought one last feisty encounter. Then he gathered his three young kids on center court and said farewell.

INDIANAPOLIS - Some Indiana school officials say students faced frozen screens and error messages during a test run of the online ISTEP exam.

DETROIT - The Detroit public school district says all schools are in session a day after a massive sick-out by teachers closed most schools.

LAFAYETTE, Indiana - Lafayette police say an infant is in good health after a man used the state's safe haven law to drop the child off at a hospital in the Indiana city.

PHOENIX - With hundreds of golf courses and 300 days of sunshine a year, it's easy to cast metropolitan Phoenix as a retiree's paradise that leaves everyone else out in the cold. But within the desert beats the heart of an actual urban core that has come into its own. There's an emerging restaurant-and-retail scene along with classic attractions like the view from Camelback Mountain, plus newfound treasures like peeking inside a little-known house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

DAVOS, Switzerland - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday it is likely that some of the billions of dollars in sanctions relief granted to Iran under a landmark nuclear deal will go to groups deemed terrorists.

KAMPALA, Uganda - Conservation groups want Uganda's government to end plans to drill for oil in a lake on Uganda's western border with Congo, saying oil exploration there threatens Africa's oldest national park.

MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain's state-run Gulf Air announced Thursday it will purchase 19 new Airbus aircraft worth a listed value of $2.35 billion, part of its effort to compete in the region's race between carriers.

LOS ANGELES - Passengers arriving at Los Angeles International Airport will be allowed to leave in an UberX car starting Thursday morning.

MONTPELIER, Vermont - Mos Def's arrest in South Africa shined a light on the world passport, a document invented by a Vermont man in the aftermath of World War II.

PORT HURON TOWNSHIP, Michigan - Hundreds of tow truck operators formed a funeral procession for a fellow driver in Michigan who was fatally struck while pulling another vehicle out of a ditch.

JACKSONVILLE, Alabama - Jacksonville State says it's reviewing the arrest of quarterback Eli Jenkins on a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence.