Новости за 21.01.2016

DAVOS, Switzerland - Next week's planned start of Syria peace talks may be delayed by "a day or two" for logistical reasons, but the process will begin roughly on time, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday.

SARASOTA, Florida - A Florida woman whose 8-week-old infant was found buried near their home has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

KOKOMO, Indiana - Indiana University Kokomo officials say the second phase of a $14 million renovation of a more than 50-year-old campus building is nearly complete and students are already using several brand-new classrooms.

LANCASTER, Pennsylvania - Authorities say an 11-year-old boy was killed after being crushed by a hay bale in Pennsylvania, a day after an 8-year-old in the area was seriously hurt in a farm equipment accident.

DAVOS, Switzerland - The United States on Thursday urged the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to support a credible peace process with the Afghan Taliban.

NEW YORK - Bank Of New York Mellon more than tripled its fourth-quarter profit on rising in net interest revenue and lower expenses, easily beating most expectations.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Bryson DeChambeau was still in high school when he told his father: "I think I can change the game of golf."

STOCKHOLM - Swedish prosecutors have cast doubt on Ecuador's assertion that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be questioned imminently at its embassy in London.

MOSCOW - A former Zenit St. Petersburg player has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of beating his wife to death.

FLINT, Michigan - A former U.S. Marine recently released from an Iranian prison in a prisoner-swap deal is returning to Michigan.

SANAA, Yemen - The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network says it has lost contact with one of its chief correspondents who they suspect has been kidnapped in the war-torn city of Taiz, central Yemen.

BREMEN, Germany - Chelsea defender Papy Djilobodji has joined Werder Bremen on loan until the end of the season.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Zhang Shuai went eight years without a victory at a Grand Slam tournament. Now, within a span of two days, she has two.

PORT HURON, Michigan - A trial is taking placed for a Michigan couple accused of abusing, torturing and starving the man's 5-year-old daughter to death.

DANVILLE, Ohio - Funeral services have been set for a police officer who authorities say was killed by a man who set out to find a cop and kill him.

WARSAW, Poland - The foreign ministers of Germany and Poland took a conciliatory tone with each other as they met Thursday at a time of heightened tensions between the neighboring nations.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Police fired on ethnic protesters in southern Nepal on Thursday, killing at least three and wounding eight, in fresh violence likely to trigger more trouble in the Himalayan nation facing severe shortages of fuel and other supplies because of the protests.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin - Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is being replaced in the Pro Bowl because of an injury.

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee - An assistant manager is accused of raping two women after he caught them shoplifting at a Dollar General store in Tennessee.

NEW YORK - A man accused of ambushing a New Jersey woman and stabbing her to death in her driveway is suing New York City's transit authority for $50 million.

NEW YORK - Verizon moved to a profit in its fourth quarter as it held onto more customers.

NEW YORK - "Cats," once Broadway's longest-running show, will not be a "Memory" for long - the musical is coming back to New York.

MILAN - The new British-Canadian director of Milan's Brera Art Gallery pledges to complete a 50-year-old plan to create a new gallery across the street for contemporary art.

LONDON - A British judge has published a report on the 2006 death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, saying President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by the Russian security service to kill him with poison. Here is a timeline of events surrounding the case:

PARIS - Leaders of the Paris bid for the 2024 Olympics secured a 2 million euros ($2.2 million) sponsorship deal Thursday with the operator of France's national lottery.