Новости за 16.02.2016

CINCINNATI - A suburban township in southwest Ohio is dropping its court case against a man charged with zoning violations for his holiday "Zombie Nativity" scene, an official said Tuesday.

STORRS, Connecticut - UConn forward Morgan Tuck knows her reconstructed right knee has only a few more good years of basketball left in it.

SANFORD, Maine - A Maine woman who was accused of stealing a hard-cider truck and crashing it into a barn in December has been accused of stealing a man's car while he was picking up takeout food and is back behind bars.

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - Arkansas pitcher Zach Jackson has been named to the watch list for the Golden Spikes Award.

BERLIN - A European satellite designed to monitor environmental changes will also be able to provide early warnings of possible migrant flows at a time when governments on the continent are grappling with an unprecedented influx of people fleeing conflict and poverty elsewhere in the world.

INDIANAPOLIS - A federal judge has allowed a former Indianapolis high school boys' basketball coach to leave jail while he faces charges that he enticed a 15-year-old girl into a sexual relationship, but he must stay at a community corrections facility.

BAMAKO, Mali - Jihadis used armored vehicles in the attack on the United Nations mission in northern Mali that killed at least seven peacekeepers last week, a spokeswoman for the mission said Tuesday.

FULLERTON, California - The Latest on the California trial of a man accused of abducting and raping a teenager he later married and impregnated (all times local):

CHICAGO - The last time New Zealand's defending Rugby World Cup champion All Blacks team played in the U.S., the game was a record-setting sellout.

NORMAN, Oklahoma - Two University of Oklahoma baseball players have been named to the watch list for the Golden Spikes Award.

NEW YORK - Monday's Grammys telecast missed a beat with the TV audience, delivering a seven-year low in viewership.

CHICAGO - The World Cup champion U.S. women's national team will play Colombia in an April 6 match in East Harford, Connecticut.

Mavis Staples, "Livin' On A High Note" (Anti-)

Wynonna & the Big Noise (Curb)

Vince Gill, "Down To My Last Bad Habit" (MCA Nashville)

Joey + Rory, "Hymns That Are Important To Us" (Farm House/Spring House)

MINNEAPOLIS - The new home of the Minnesota Vikings is about 90 percent done.

NEW YORK - Shares of hospital operator Community Health Systems fell more than 25 percent after the company reported an unexpected quarterly loss due partly to lower hospital visits from a year ago and slower-than-expected benefits from an acquisition.

PARIS - France's Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a three-month extension of a state of emergency imposed after deadly attacks around Paris in November, even as rights groups say it undermines fundamental freedoms.

JERUSALEM - Israel's Partner Communications has cut ties with French mobile phone giant Orange eight months after a public spat over politics.

BEIRUT - Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person.

NEEDHAM, Massachusetts - Chinese subsidiaries of a Massachusetts software company have agreed to pay more than $14.5 million to resolve the federal government's allegations that they illegally provided recreational travel to Chinese government officials.

JERUSALEM - Israel's Supreme Court has rejected a hunger striking Palestinian prisoner's request to receive treatment in a Ramallah hospital.

MALE, Maldives - A court in the Maldives on Tuesday convicted an opposition leader of terrorism and sentenced him to 12 years in jail.

PHILADELPHIA - The oversized, inflatable rats found snarling at nonunion worksites are getting some high-flying backup.