Новости за 24.03.2016

DENVER - A University of Colorado professor who came under fire for heading an obesity-fighting group funded by Coca-Cola is stepping down from his executive director position at the university's wellness center.

NEW YORK - A consultant to Iran's United Nations mission accused of circumventing U.S. sanctions against Iran has been arrested on tax and money laundering charges.

ORLANDO, Florida - For the third year in a row, the retirement community The Villages in central Florida was the nation's fastest-growing metro area.

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin has hosted the crown prince of Abu Dhabi for talks which were to focus on the Syrian crisis.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett has introduced a package of ethics reforms that would strengthen reporting requirements, impose stronger penalties and create a website so the public has better access to ethics disclosures.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee - A police officer shot and killed a man in Tennessee who had pointed a gun at him, authorities said Thursday.

NEW YORK - British actor Ben Whishaw has found himself to be a magnet for important roles. They even come back every few years.

Tributes to Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff, who died Thursday at the age of 68 as a result of lung cancer:

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BRADFORD, England - Former England soccer international Adam Johnson has been jailed for six years for child sex offenses.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) will meet with President Barack Obama in Washington next week on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit.

PARIS - France has confirmed an isolated case of mad cow disease in a five-year-old cow that died in the northeast Ardennes region.

WASHINGTON - More people sought U.S. unemployment aid last week, but applications are still at a low level consistent with steady job growth.

RABAT, Morocco - Morocco's Interior Ministry says investigators have dismantled a nine-member cell linked to the Islamic State group in Libya that was in the final stages of preparing "terrorist operations" in the North African kingdom.

DAMASCUS, Syria - Backed by Russian airstrikes, Syrian government forces on Thursday pushed into the ancient town of Palmyra that has been held by the Islamic State group since May, state TV reported, as an Iraqi military spokesman announced the start of a long-awaited military operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from IS militants.

VIENNA - Austrian anti-doping authorities have banned cross-country skier Harald Wurm for four years for blood doping.

AMSTERDAM - Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff, who revolutionized the game with the concept of 'Total Football,' has died. He was 68.

NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio - Police in Ohio say a school security guard for a Cincinnati-area district has been charged in threats that led to recent school evacuations and were traced to his prepaid cellphone.

BRUSSELS - The Latest on the suicide bombings this week in Brussels (all times local):

HONG KONG - A book editor whose disappearance nearly three months ago rattled civil liberties advocates in Hong Kong returned home from the Chinese mainland Thursday, police said.

BREMEN, Germany - Werder Bremen says U.S. forward Aron Johannsson is not expected to play again this season because of a groin injury.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - From psychiatrist and poet to leader of the Serbian resistance in Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic ultimately chose a brutal path.

PARIS - Just one race into the new Formula One season and unhappy drivers are calling the sport's decision-making "obsolete and ill-structured" and calling for a "restructuring" of its governance.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida - The six Florida jurors who sided with Hulk Hogan in his lawsuit against Gawker Media over the online publication of a sex tape say they believe the ex-pro wrestler was emotionally distressed over the incident.

TOKYO - Japan's whaling fleet returned Thursday with 333 whales it caught in its first Antarctic harvest since an international court ruling stopped its hunt two years ago.