Новости за 28.01.2016

WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for long-lasting manufactured goods tumbled in December, with a key category that tracks business investment plans falling for a second straight month.

TIMBUKTU, Mali - A Mali army spokesman says that at least two soldiers died in an explosion and another in an attack in the country's north.

NEW ORLEANS - The district attorney in New Orleans says a grand jury has indicted 10 people in connection with a wild shootout at a city playground late last year.

NEW YORK - Special guests at this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will include The Black Keys, Rob Thomas and Metallica's Lars Ulrich.

BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's constitutional court is studying a petition demanding that Spain return a collection of 122 pre-Colombian gold ornaments given by a 19th century president to its former colonial power.

BARNSTABLE, Massachusetts - An attorney for a Coast Guardsman charged with killing a petty officer and injuring two other people in Massachusetts says they plan an insanity defense.

LONDON - One day last month, an elderly man took a train from London to northwestern England, trekked up an isolated hillside, and died.

BURBANK, California - GameStop is dipping a toe into the video game publishing business.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts - Raytheon blew past Wall Street's profit expectations for the fourth quarter and said Thursday that it expects both profit and revenue to improve this year.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico's power company said Thursday that it reached a new deal with bondholders as it seeks to restructure roughly $9 billion in debt.

WASHINGTON - A U.N. panel recommended Wednesday that cargo shipments of rechargeable lithium batteries be banned from passenger airliners because the batteries can create fires capable of destroying planes, said aviation officials familiar with the decision.

NEW YORK - The Super Bowl is a little more than a week away, but advertisers are going strong online, offering up celebrity laden teasers well ahead of the game. Teasers are one way Super Bowl advertisers can build buzz without revealing their full Super Bowl ads too far in advance. Here's a look at the top celebrity teasers so far.

MOSCOW - Russians who took out mortgages denominated in a foreign currency are protesting at their banks to demand that the loans be restructured.

NEW YORK - Caterpillar Inc. reported a fourth-quarter loss as sales for equipment continued to slide amid weakness in the mining and energy industries.

BAGHDAD - The top U.S. general in Iraq warned Thursday of the potential collapse of Mosul Dam in the country's north, saying that such an event could prove "catastrophic."

JUBA, South Sudan - When a delegation of South Sudanese rebels returned to the government-controlled capital Juba last month after two years of war, Nyajok Koat thought she would finally return to the home she fled when the fighting began.

DEARBORN, Michigan - Improving sales in most of the world helped Ford Motor Co. achieve a record pretax profit in 2015, and the company says the numbers could go even higher this year.

ABERDEEN, Mississippi - A Mississippi man seeks to overturn his 2014 conviction that he sent poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The acting CEO of a Saudi firm that has owed $6 billion in debts since a 2009 crisis says he's hopeful a tentative agreement being offered to its creditors will be accepted.

NEW DELHI - India took a step toward modernizing its cities on Thursday by awarding 20 with funds to solve problems from shoddy sewage treatment to snarled traffic.

GENEVA - The World Health Organization is convening an emergency committee on Monday to decide if the Zika virus outbreak should be declared an international health emergency.

CHICAGO - A former running back for Northern Illinois University is suing two daily fantasy sports sites in Chicago federal court alleging they used his name to generate millions of dollars in revenue.

BANGKOK - A massage parlor tycoon-turned-politician and outspoken critic of corruption has been sentenced to two years in prison for employing gangster tactics in 2003 to clear a prime piece of real estate in Thailand's capital.

BERN, Switzerland - A whistleblower has given potentially key evidence to Swiss prosecutors in their investigation of FIFA and suspended president Sepp Blatter.

MOSCOW - The Kremlin says there are no concrete plans to cut oil output in coordination with major producers Saudi Arabia and OPEC.