Новости за 16.03.2016

SANAA, Yemen - The U.N.'s humanitarian chief in Yemen said Wednesday that none of the warring parties there were fulfilling their obligations to protect civilians or facilitate humanitarian assistance.

LAKE WORTH, Florida - The Latest on a Florida barn fire that killed 12 horses and injured 11 others (all times local):

INDIANAPOLIS - The state Supreme Court has affirmed the murder convictions of a southern Indiana man in the shooting deaths of three men and a woman in a small community outside Columbus.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida - The woman who had sex with Hulk Hogan on video testified Wednesday that she didn't know their encounter was being filmed and said she was very upset that her then-husband had recorded the encounter.

CHICAGO - The Chicago City Council has rescinded a city sales tax on tampons and sanitary napkins.

NEW YORK - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:

WASHINGTON - The latest on the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, which ended Wednesday. The central bank kept interest rates steady amid uncertainty about the global economy and financial markets. (All times local)

ISTANBUL - A British scholar was deported from Turkey Wednesday after he said he was found with invitations to Kurdish New Year celebrations.

NEW YORK - Times Square will get even more crowded on Monday - and filled with even more fuzzy creatures - for World Puppetry Day, part of a national celebration for those who give life to animated objects.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Latest on the Ohio Supreme Court decision allowing a second execution attempt on a death row inmate following a 2009 botched procedure (all times local):

UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland - The Latest on charges in a deadly shootout outside a police station in the Washington suburbs (all times local):

PORTAGE, Indiana - An Indiana Toll Road official says the privately operated highway has begun a two-year, $200 million rehabilitation project that will be its largest single project since its construction in 1954.

FARGO, North Dakota - The North Dakota Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a man who was tried last year on a 20-year-old drunken driving charge.

JOHANNESBURG - The United Nations and human rights groups are expressing concern over the arrests in Congo of 18 anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Goma.

NEW YORK - The story of a fisherman who survived nearly 12 hours adrift in shark-filled waters, already optioned by The Weinstein Company for a feature film, will also be coming out as a book.

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan - An investment adviser accused of stealing $16 million from a prominent philanthropist in western Michigan has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering.

WASHINGTON - Forget mosquito bites. Volunteers let researchers inject them with the dengue virus in the name of science - and an experimental vaccine protected them. Next up, scientists plan to use this same strategy against dengue's cousin, the Zika virus.

NEWPORT, Kentucky - The Latest on efforts to recover a car that fell from a bridge into the Ohio River and identify who might have been inside (all times local):

LAS VEGAS - A teenager who fatally stabbed his mother and younger brother and became the focus of an international search before he was located a week later on the Las Vegas Strip has been sentenced to spend at least the next three decades in state prison.

MEXICO CITY - Authorities banned more than 1 million cars from the roads and offered free subway and bus rides to coax people from their vehicles as Mexico City's first air pollution alert in 11 years stretched into a third day Wednesday.

LONDON - Sylvia Anderson, the co-creator of the cult classic science fiction TV puppet show "Thunderbirds," has died at 88.

LOS ANGELES - Two bald eagle chicks have hatched in a nest high in a tree in California's Channel Islands National Park.

NEW YORK - Nearly 57,000 high-end bicycle wheel hubs are being recalled because they can fail and possibly cause a crash.

JONESBORO, Arkansas - Arkansas State University has introduced Baylor assistant Grant McCasland as ASU's new men's basketball coach.

NEW YORK - The New York Jets refilled their defensive line after losing "Snacks."