Новости за 25.08.2016

LUINTRA, Spain — English rider Simon Yates won a hot and hilly sixth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday, while Darwin Atapuma of Colombia kept the overall lead for a third consecutive day. Yates, the twin of fellow cyclist Adam Yates, completed the 163-kilometer (101-mile) route from Monforte de Lemos to Luintra in just

The process of selecting Sidney Crosby as Canada’s captain for the World Cup of Hockey was a simple one. “It was: ‘This is what we’re going to do. Any questions? Next,” general manager Doug Armstrong recalled. Crosby wearing the “C” for Canada was a no-doubter given his track record of scoring the winning goal on

WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 people using brown, green and white umbrellas have created a giant living version of the National Park Service emblem to celebrate the agency’s 100th anniversary. The Park Service took an aerial photograph of Thursday’s gathering. The first 1,000 people to arrive received a T-shirt commemorating their participation and were allowed

After acknowledging they misidentified some of the men shown in an iconic image raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, the Marines now say they were also mistaken in listing the names of those who raised an earlier flag amid intense fighting on the island. In a statement Wednesday, the Marines

BRADENTON, Fla. — Deputies in Florida arrested a shirtless 27-year-old burglary suspect after they say he caught a ride on a school bus. The Bradenton Herald-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2bZ2mxr ) reports that when Erik Hall boarded a school bus without a shirt Tuesday morning, the driver thought he was a student. Authorities say the driver told Hall

LONDON — The dodo bird is extinct — but one collector can now have their own dodo skeleton. Summers Place Auctions is selling what it describes as a rare composite skeleton of a dodo bird, a creature once found on the island of Mauritius. It comes from a collector who compiled the bones from private

WASHINGTON — The Washington Nationals have acquired left-handed reliever Marc Rzepczynski from the Oakland Athletics for minor league infielder Max Schrock. The A’s also sent cash to the Nationals as part of the trade announced Thursday: $500,000 to be paid on Sept. 30. Rzepczynski gives Washington another lefty out of the bullpen since trading Felipe

WASHINGTON — The job market is humming, and so are the U.S. financial markets, with major stock indexes near record highs. All that would normally trigger a green light for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates — especially when they’re barely above all-time lows. Yet the Fed, still casting a wary eye on the

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — A month before his 20th birthday, Frenchman Esteban Ocon will make his Formula One debut for the Manor team at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. The 18-year-old Dutch driver Max Verstappen — his former rival — will be competing in his 32nd GP, already has four podiums to his name and is

HELSINKI — A court in Norway has detained a 32-year-old Norwegian man, suspected of joining the militant Islamic State group in Syria two years ago. The Oslo District Court said Thursday that the suspect, an ethnic Norwegian, has acknowledged being in Syria from December 2014 to May this year, but denies guilt. The court ordered

KAMAS, Utah — Utah authorities believe they have found the remains of an Australian hiker who went missing more than five years ago in a rugged mountain wilderness area. County sheriff’s officials said Wednesday that the skeletal remains were found Friday in the High Uinta Mountains by a man and his son. Nearby were items

NEW YORK — U.S. retailers including J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart are scrutinizing whether sheets Welspun India Ltd. had said were high-end Egyptian cotton were actually cheaper knock-offs, questions that have sent the textile company’s shares plunging more than 40 percent. Since Target announced Friday that it was pulling the sheets from its stores and online

ST. LOUIS — The nonprofit Catholic organization SSM Health will provide birth control pills at the 26 clinics inside St. Louis-area Walgreens stores that it began operating Thursday, an SSM spokesman said. Four groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote letters to SSM and Walgreens on Aug. 18, asking whether the clinics would

Loyal owners of Volkswagen diesel cars understandably felt betrayed when they learned the German automaker had rigged the testing process to bypass U.S. emissions standards. But many are having a change of heart after learning how much VW will pay them to turn in their cars. San Diego resident Mark Holthoff, a manager for a

NEW YORK — Authors Jason Gay, Harrison Scott Key and Mary Norris have been named finalists for the 2016 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Gay was cited for “Little Victories,” his book about family and fatherhood; Key was noted for his memoir about his father, “The World’s Largest Man;” and Norris, a longtime editor at

WASHINGTON — Cars that wirelessly talk to each other are finally ready for the road, creating the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths, improve the safety of self-driving cars and someday maybe even help solve traffic jams, automakers and government officials say. But there’s a big catch. The cable television and high-tech industries want to

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A doctors group that seeks alternatives to using animals in medical education and research says the emergency medicine training program at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine violates federal law by using live animals. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wrote Thursday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, saying the

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America is trying to seal from public view documents in a lawsuit that claim female visitors to a Tennessee prison were forced to undergo strip searches to prove they were menstruating. Three women have accused the company of violating their rights by forcing them to expose

BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona has signed Netherlands goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, clearing the way for Claudio Bravo to complete his move to Manchester City. Barcelona announced the transfers of both ‘keepers on Thursday, signing Cillessen before finalizing the sale of Bravo. The Spanish champion says Cillessen agreed to a five-year contract after securing his transfer from

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Boston Red Sox have placed rookie left fielder Andrew Benintendi on the 15-day disabled list with a left knee sprain. Benintendi was hurt in the seventh inning of a 4-3 loss in 11 innings to Tampa Bay on Wednesday night. He tried to avoid a tag while running toward second

NEW ORLEANS — The Latest on the sentencing in Louisiana of former NFL star Darren Sharper in a drug and rape case (all times local): 10:20 a.m. A Louisiana judge has formally imposed a 20-year prison sentence on former NFL star Darren Sharper, who last week was sentenced by a federal judge to 18 years

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Ohio State opened training camp earlier this month, coach Urban Meyer said it was “open season” for starting jobs. With a little more than a week to go before the season opener, some of those jobs have yet to be locked down. That happens when a team has to replace eight

NEW YORK — Dwayne Johnson elbowed Robert Downey Jr. aside to become the highest-paid actor with a fast and furious income of $64.5 million, according to Forbes magazine. The former wrestler beat out Jackie Chan with $61 million and Matt Damon, who earned $55 million. The rest of the top five on the list, released

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City has completed the signing of goalkeeper Claudio Bravo from Barcelona for 13.75 million pounds ($18.2 million) in a move that could spell the end of Joe Hart’s decade-long career at the English club. City announced the arrival of the 33-year-old Chile international on Thursday on a four-year deal. City manager

BERLIN — The European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe has captured images of a bright burst of light on the comet it is orbiting, apparently caused by a landslide. The dramatic light flashes were recorded Feb. 19 and accompanied by rising temperatures and sharp increases in dust, gas and plasma released from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Eberhard