Новости за 11.03.2016

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana residents who will lose an hour of sleep this weekend when daylight saving time returns won't lose any time to buy alcohol early Sunday.

NEW YORK - Capital One has teamed with Amazon to let owners of Amazon's Echo smart speaker system pay their bills and get other account information through voice commands.

SYDNEY - Nicholas Fitzgerald scored a second-half goal Friday to give Melbourne City a 1-0 victory over Adelaide United in the A-League.

MADRID - Spain's top sports official doesn't expect FIFA to fall into the "mistake" of trying to pressure the Spanish government with threats because of a probe into alleged wrongdoings by local federation president Angel Maria Villar, who is a FIFA and UEFA vice president.

LONDON - The British press on Friday accused President Barack Obama of launching an unprecedented verbal attack on British Prime Minister David Cameron in a magazine interview.

LONDON - British Athletics says Olympic and world long jump champion Greg Rutherford has withdrawn from the World Indoor Championships in Portland next week due to "a recent chest infection and slight hamstring issue."

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's top security minister said Friday that authorities have started efforts to fight forest and peatland fires that often pollute Southeast Asia's air as the dry season begins this month.

JERUSALEM - Israeli forces raided a TV station run by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in the West Bank as part of a crackdown to curb months of violence that Israel says has been fueled by incitement in the Palestinian media, police said on Friday.

NEW DELHI - A massive cultural festival is opening on the banks of the Yamuna River in the Indian capital Friday despite concerns that the sprawling construction of roads, ramps and pontoon bridges would irreparably damage the floodplains of the river.

MOSCOW - The foreign ministers of China and Russia are opposing the possible deployment of an advanced American missile-defense system in South Korea.

MOSCOW - Russia has given a spot in its national soccer team to Brazil-born goalkeeper Guilherme in the first of a wave of planned naturalizations of foreign players.

MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino businessman, one of six people under investigation for the alleged laundering of $81 million dollars thought to have been stolen from the U.S. account of Bangladesh's central bank, on Friday asked authorities to unfreeze his bank accounts, denying involvement in the scheme.

RICHMOND, Indiana - Wayne County's first Reverse Job Fair brought employers and job seekers together Tuesday, and another similar event might be offered soon.

WASHINGTON - The board of Wounded Warrior Project, one of the nation's largest veteran support groups, has fired two top officials amid news reports accusing the group of wasteful spending.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry said the project created "a community jewel." Building contractor Larry Weigand said it was one of his company's most challenging accomplishments.

SEOUL, South Korea - Global shares rose Friday with Europe off to a strong start as investors reassessed an unexpectedly wide array of stimulus measures announced a day earlier by the European Central Bank.

TOKYO - With a new season just around the corner, Japanese baseball is in a state of turmoil over a gambling scandal that has embroiled the league's most popular team.

BERLIN - A 23-year-old German man is in custody after falsely claiming to have a bomb inside a suitcase he was trying to bring into the U.S. Embassy, police said Friday.

ATHENS, Greece - Authorities in Greece say they hope an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border can be emptied within two weeks, as people are slowly persuaded to move to nearby government-built shelters.

MIAMI - The spread of the Zika virus in Latin America is giving a boost to a British biotech firm's proposal to deploy a genetically modified mosquito to try to stop transmission of the disease.

GENEVA - A U.N. report describing sweeping crimes like children and the disabled being burned alive and fighters being allowed to rape women as payment shows South Sudan is facing "one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world," the U.N. human rights chief said Friday.

His sort of motivational messages are scribbled in marker on a poster hanging in his room: Carlin Isles is too small. Too weird. Not good enough. Won't amount to anything.

MIAMI - Nothing to see here but statesmen.

ZURICH - FIFA has fined and warned the Papua New Guinea soccer federation for failing to play the second leg of a women's Olympic qualifying playoff.

BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana - Record-setting flooding in northern Louisiana prompted numerous high-water rescues of stranded families and animals and officials said some levees could overflow Friday.