Новости за 11.03.2016

NEWARK, New Jersey - Commuters and businesses on both sides of the Hudson River braced for the worst as negotiators for rail unions and New Jersey Transit met again Friday to try to head off a weekend shutdown from a strike.

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens say P.K. Subban has been released from a hospital after sustaining a neck injury in Thursday night's game against the Buffalo Sabres.

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United says it is holding talks with fan groups in an effort to stop them from signing about soccer tragedies.

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's vehement former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, says the leaders who came to power following 2014's bloody upheavals are stifling the country by tolerating corruption.

NEW YORK - A Russian banker accused of participating in a Cold War-style spy ring pleaded guilty Friday to a conspiracy charge and agreed to spend up to 2½ years in prison, making it likely he'll be returning to his homeland in the next year.

HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas - A suspended Arkansas judge on Friday pleaded not guilty to a negligent homicide charge filed after his son was found dead in a hot car last summer.

MONACO - Russia's track and field federation has not yet done enough to reform its anti-doping program in order to have its athletes reinstated to global competition, the IAAF said Friday.

MIAMI - A field trial releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys would not harm humans or the environment, according to documents released Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

ORLANDO, Florida - UCF has fired basketball coach Donnie Jones following a loss to Tulane in the American Athletic Conference Tournament.

ATHENS, Greece - The Greek soccer federation says it has appealed to the country's highest administrative court against a government decision to suspend the Greek Cup competition following fan violence at a semifinal match.

DAKAR, Senegal - Evelyn Gitau became hooked on chemistry in high school in Kenya. Alta Schutte remembers nearly losing her father to cardiovascular disease in the South African mining town where she grew up. Axel Ngonga, born in Cameroon, was fascinated as a child by ants, following them to figure out their patterns.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida - New York Mets shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera has a strained patella tendon in his left knee and will be sidelined for at least two weeks.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Authorities have re-arrested a former leader of a militia accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during Sierra Leone's civil war after he violated terms of his early release, a security official said Friday.

DETROIT - With hopes of speeding development of self-driving cars, General Motors has acquired a small software company that's been testing vehicles on the streets of San Francisco.

WINCHESTER, Kentucky - A fire destroyed an apartment building in central Kentucky overnight, killing three, injuring at least five and forcing some residents to leap from second-story windows to escape.

NEWCASTLE, England - Rafa Benitez started this season tasked with winning the Champions League with Real Madrid. He will end it trying to keep Newcastle in the English Premier League.

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands - Ruslan Murashov won the first men's 500-meter race at the speedskating World Cup finals on Friday, while his Russia teammate and World Cup leader Pavel Kulizhnikov missed the competition after testing positive for meldonium.

BUFFALO, New York - A person with direct knowledge of the decision has told The Associated Press that Buffalo Bills receiver Chris Hogan has signed a three-year, $12 million contract offer extended to him by the New England Patriots.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Authorities have charged five inmates at a juvenile prison in South Carolina after a disturbance last month.

RACE: 25th Indianapolis 500

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The International Equestrian Federation has banned two United Arab Emirates federation officials for wrongdoing in endurance racing.

NEW YORK - Retired New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter will be part of Major League Baseball's delegation in Havana for the Tampa Bay Rays' exhibition game against Cuba's national team on March 22.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Iolanda Balas, a two-time Olympic high jump champion from Romania, died Friday following gastric complications. She was 79.

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina - What could be a plentiful peach crop is shaping up in orchards across upstate South Carolina.

LONDON - So far, Maria Sharapova's attempts to limit the damage from her doping revelation have been well-judged, branding and crisis managers say. But whether she can hold onto her financial and sporting clout will ultimately depend on the length of any ban she is handed.