Новости за 29.01.2016

VALPARAISO, Indiana - The FBI has suspended an information technology employee of its Chicago field office who's charged with raping a 16-year-old baby-sitter.

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida - Wayne Taylor Racing added Rubens Barrichello to its lineup for the Rolex 24 at Daytona because star driver Jordan Taylor has not been feeling well.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana veterans say Gov. Mike Pence's focus on a plan to certify veteran-owned businesses isn't enough response to reports that find Indiana lacking in services for former members of the military.

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana - Indiana University is starting a pilot program that could make it easier for high schools to offer dual credit courses when a new state requirement starts next year.

MAUCKPORT, Indiana - Forensic anthropologists are working with a southern Indiana sheriff's department in excavating human remains.

JERUSALEM - U.S and British intelligence cracked the codes of Israeli drones operating in the Middle East and monitored their surveillance feeds for almost 20 years, according to documents leaked by an American whistleblower and published in international media on Friday.

MADRID - Official figures show the Spanish economy grew by a strong 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three months.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Mexican national charged with fatally shooting a young San Francisco woman walking on a city pier is seeking dismissal of his criminal case, which added to the national debate over illegal immigration.

ATLANTA - Lawyers for an inmate set to die in days are asking a conflicted federal appeals court to weaken Georgia's law that keeps secret the source of the state's lethal injection drug. It's the toughest of a number of secrecy laws passed in recent years by death penalty states eager to stabilize their execution drug supplies.

TOKYO - The Bank of Japan on Friday said it will charge lenders that leave too much cash on idle deposit with it, introducing a negative interest rate policy for the first time as it seeks to shore up a stumbling economic recovery.

BEIRUT - In a Middle East torn apart by war and conflict, fighters are increasingly using food as a weapon of war.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza maintained their perfect record in Grand Slam doubles finals, beating the Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 7-6 (1), 6-3 at the Australian Open on Friday to extend their winning streak to 36 matches on the way to a third major title.

SAN FRANCISCO - As the digital advertising market booms and demand for smartphones wanes, Alphabet Inc. could soon dethrone Apple as the world's most valuable company.

TOKYO - Sony Corp. reported a 33.5 percent jump in quarterly profit as sales improved in its PlayStation 4 video game business.

TOKYO - Toyota is planning to raise its half stake in minicar maker Daihatsu to full ownership.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy likely slowed significantly in the final three months of 2015 - and the picture seems to have grown gloomier in the first few weeks of 2016.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida - A young black man left paralyzed when shot by a sheriff's deputy is expected to be cross-examined in the federal trial over his lawsuit.

TOKYO - Honda's quarterly profit slipped 19 percent as costs related to air-bag recalls eroded the benefits from growing sales.

KAMPALA, Uganda - Amnesty International says new satellite images, video footage and witness accounts show that dozens of people killed by Burundian security forces in December were later buried in mass graves.

DALLAS - Ethan Couch was behind the wheel of a pickup truck, reeking of booze when police confronted him. He had no driver's license. Next to him was a passed-out, half-naked girl, and an open vodka bottle lay on the backseat floor.

DALLAS - With no postseason possibility because of NCAA penalties, No. 13 SMU was looking for a perfect season.

FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck is expected to learn Friday whether he'll be moved to an adult jail as he awaits a judge's ruling on transferring his case to the adult court system.

SAN DIEGO - The scorecard for Scott Brown was not unusual for the Farmers Insurance Open. After a rugged start, he took advantage of the par 5s and ran off eight birdies over his last 11 holes to grab a share of the lead at Torrey Pines.

MOBILE, Alabama - Noah Spence has to repeatedly address the troubled past that took him from Ohio State to college football exile and then to Eastern Kentucky.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Last Sunday, Nick Kasa was like any other fan of the Denver Broncos.