Новости за 29.02.2016

MILAN - Not just individual styles but the entire fashion process was under discussion at Milan Fashion Week this year. Counter to trends in New York and London, Italian industry executives underlined that, beyond a few capsule collections and a handful of runway teasers, there would be no rushing Milan's designs from the runway into stores.

MOSCOW - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has presented a new book about his life and times ahead of his 85th birthday.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say a suicide bombing at a funeral north of Baghdad has killed at least 14 people and wounded 45.

BERLIN - Germany's biggest industrial union is seeking a 5 percent pay raise for some 3.8 million workers in Europe's biggest economy.

Microsoft says it will start shipping a developer version of its augmented reality device, HoloLens, for $3,000 on March 30.

BELFAIR, Washington - Authorities in Washington state have released the name of the fourth victim in a standoff that left five people dead, including the gunman.

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities have issued an alert after thieves stole a pickup truck with radioactive material aboard.

TOANO, Virginia - Lumber Liquidators swung to a fourth-quarter loss that was more than three times larger than expected as fallout over the safety of some of its products continues to rattle the embattled flooring manufacturer.

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee - The high school freshman's injuries outraged the Chattanooga prosecutor: Police said three older members of the basketball team shoved a pool cue into the boy's rectum while on a trip to a tournament, causing injuries that required emergency surgery.

PARIS - France's government delayed plans to water down the country's 35-hour workweek on Monday after backlash among Socialists, the far left and unions who fear reforming the stringent labor code will diminish workers' rights - and not the unemployment rate.

HELSINKI - Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has reshuffled his government after its environment and food minister resigned.

VIKEN, Sweden - It was a chaotic, late-night scramble to buy baby food with a screaming toddler in the backseat that gave Robert Ilijason the idea to open Sweden's first unmanned convenience store.

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's democracy champion and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said Monday that he might sue a history institute over documents it released that purport he was a communist-era paid informant.

WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in January, as the recent hot streak appears to have been curbed by a shortage of properties for sale and colder weather.

SURPRISE, Arizona - Ian Desmond is in camp with the Texas Rangers after signing his $8 million, one-year contract.

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian President Evo Morales is asking to see a son he says he'd long thought dead. It's a strange new twist in a scandal focused on his former girlfriend, who has been arrested as part of an influence-trafficking probe into the Chinese firm where she worked.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - When Loretta Lynn was growing up in Butcher Hollow in Kentucky in 1930s, her home in the coal mining community was always filled with music, either from her own voice echoing through the trees or the sound of the Carter Family's songs.

BROOKINGS, South Dakota - South Dakota State University head football coach John Stiegelmeier has named former Upper Iowa assistant Robert Arnheim as receivers coach for the Jackrabbits.

NEW YORK - Consol Energy Inc. is selling several mines and coal reserves to Coronado IV LLC. for $420 million. It says it will also suspend its dividend as it continues to deal with declining energy prices.

LONDON - Emergency crews are taking part in a large-scale disaster drill in southeastern England, complete with blood-covered "victims," trapped in rubble and mangled subway carriages in an Underground station.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy in Baghdad are warning residents along the Tigris river of a possible collapse of the Mosul Dam. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked Mosul residents along the Tigris river to move at least six kilometers (3.7 miles) away from its banks in a statement released Sunday night.

LONDON - Mark Rylance has followed his Academy Awards win with a nomination for best actor at London's Laurence Olivier theater awards.

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut - A Connecticut woman celebrating her 50th birthday in style has been charged with robbing the limousine driver she hired to chauffeur her around town.

MANASSAS, Virginia - An Army staff sergeant charged with killing his wife and a northern Virginia police officer who was on her first day on the job is being held without bail.

COLOGNE, Germany - Cologne says its former star forward Hannes Loehr died Monday. He was 73.