Новости за 04.09.2016

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Christian Eriksen scored for Denmark to begin World Cup qualifying with a 1-0 win over Armenia, while Poland squandered a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw with Kazakhstan on Sunday. Poland captain Robert Lewandowski scored for the sixth consecutive qualifier — with a penalty in the 35th minute after Bartosz Kapustka got

NEW YORK — The horror thriller “Don’t Breathe” topped the box office for the second straight week, while several new releases struggled to find traction over a typically sleepy Labor Day weekend at North American movie theaters. The Sony Screen Gems release made an estimated $15.7 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates

AUBURN, Ala. — Clemson was scoreless in the first quarter, went nearly the final 10 minutes without a point and survived a late touchdown to eke out the victory. The description fit not only Saturday night’s 19-13 opening victory over Auburn but also No. 2 Clemson’s 20-17 early game against Louisville last season. It was

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis art gallery plans to display two dozen drawings and lithographs by Nelson Mandela. WRTV-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2bMlaAj ) the free exhibit opens Friday at Long-Sharp Gallery. The artwork focuses on the South African leader’s years in prison on Robben Island and his thoughts after his release. Mandela was confined to the prison

SANTA CLARA, Cuba — The first off JetBlue 387 were the TV cameramen, the U.S. secretary of transportation and the airline executives. As the tropical sun beat the tarmac, the VIPs traded congratulations on the arrival of the first commercial flight from the U.S. to Cuba in more than 50 years. Away from the cameras,

PRAGUE — The Czech Republic added forward Michal Birner and defenseman Tomas Kundratek to its team for the forthcoming World Cup of Hockey to replace injured Tomas Hertl and Radko Gudas. Both play for clubs in the Russia-based KHL, Birner in Russia’s Traktor Chelyabinsk and Kundratek in Slovakia’s Slovan Bratislava. The announcement Sunday by the

TRNAVA, Slovakia — Until Adam Lallana pounced in the fifth minute of stoppage time, Sam Allardyce was about to become the first England manager in 34 years to fail to win his opening game. Instead, Lallana’s late goal against Slovakia showed Allardyce he just might gain the fortuitous breaks his predecessors haven’t enjoyed. And the

JERUSALEM — The world’s main scouting organization on Sunday said it has no connection to a Palestinian troop in Jerusalem that dedicated a recent training course to one of the killers of an Israeli-American man. Stephen Peck, spokesman for the World Organization of the Scout Movement, said the Jerusalem troop is not a member of

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A University of Missouri assistant communications professor fired after interfering with journalists and police during student protests nearly a year ago has a new job with a university in Washington state. Melissa Click, whose profile now appears on Gonzaga University’s website, has been hired to a one-year lecturer job in the

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Wisconsin Badgers feel overlooked and underappreciated, and they’re out to prove detractors wrong. For proof, consider how Wisconsin outmuscled and outworked LSU in upsetting the fifth-ranked Tigers. “I feel like we were out to gain respect, and I think we did it at the end of the day,” linebacker T.J.

The mighty Southeastern Conference has taken more hits than usual in the opening week of the college football season, raising questions about the SEC’s status as the nation’s premier conference. Red flags went up around the country after the SEC, which has won over 80 percent of its nonconference games since 2006, went just 6-5

CAIRO — A provincial governor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country. The concrete sculpture, titled “Mother of the Martyr,” depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional artistic representation of Egypt, with

ARAMON FORMIGAL, Spain — A surprise attack by Alberto Contador helped Nairo Quintana boost his lead over Chris Froome to more than three minutes after Sunday’s 15th stage of the Spanish Vuelta. An audacious move by Contador’s Tinkoff team caught the peloton off guard with an attack at the start of the short 118.5-kilometer (74-mile)

SILVERSTONE, England — Maverick Vinales celebrated the first victory of his Moto GP career at the British Grand Prix on Sunday, giving Suzuki its first success since 2007. The 21-year-old Spaniard finished more than three seconds clear of British pole-sitter Cal Crutchlow of Honda to become the seventh different winner in the championship. “It feels

NEW YORK — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local): 4:35 p.m. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat American Jack Sock in four sets to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the second straight year. After failing to covert one match point in the third-set tiebreaker, the ninth-seeded Tsonga dominated the fourth for the 6-3, 6-3,

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Aging pipes and pumps are behind a proposed rate increase for water customers in South Bend. Public Works Director Eric Horvath tells the South Bend Tribune (http://bit.ly/2bVSZfQ ) critical parts of water system infrastructure are deteriorating. The 2017 budget calls for a 43 percent increase in water rates to pay for

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan has agreed to the deployment of a 4,000-strong regional protection force approved by the U.N. Security Council after first rejecting the peacekeepers as a violation of its sovereignty. Sunday’s announcement came after the Security Council met with South Sudan President Salva Kiir during a rare visit to the turbulent

NEW YORK — Latvian tennis player Anastasija Sevastova wore a Yankees cap to her news conference after she reached her first major quarterfinal. She bought it in Europe, not because she’s a baseball fan, but simply because she likes the interlocking “NY” logo. Turns out, though, that New York is proving a very special place

OKLAHOMA CITY — The 37 wastewater disposal wells to be shut down in north-central Oklahoma, where a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck this weekend, are just a fraction of the state’s total number. There are about 4,200 total wells across the state and about 700 in a 15,000-square-mile “Area of Interest” created by the commission to

MUNSTER, Ind. — Ceil Noworyta, of Munster, never dreamed of getting a tattoo, let alone getting one at the age of 63. But her mind would quickly change. Noworyta’s dream came true when Sir Paul McCartney pulled her and friend Toni Johnson on stage during his recent One On One Tour show in Grand Rapids,

NEW YORK — Two days after the New York Mets took him in the 19th round of the baseball draft this June, Gary Cornish boarded a 6:40 a.m. flight from Phoenix to John F. Kennedy Airport, took his physical and checked into his new home, the Red Lion Inn & Suites in downtown Brooklyn. Cornish

MONZA, Italy — Sebastian Vettel has promised better things to come for Ferrari after finishing on the podium at the Italian team’s home race in Monza for the second successive year. Vettel, who was second with Ferrari last year, finished third behind the Mercedes duo of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. Teammate Kimi Raikkonen was

FRESNO, Calif. — The Latest on a shooting inside a central California jail that wounded two officers (all times local): 9:45 a.m. Authorities have booked into jail an ex-convict accused of shooting and wounding two unarmed officers inside a central California jail. The Fresno County sheriff’s office says 37-year-old Thong Vang faces charges of attempted

PARIS — Crowds rallied Sunday in the French capital to urge an end to violence against the Asian community, after the beating death of a Chinese tailor called new attention to ethnic tensions in Paris suburbs. The prime minister tweeted his support for the march, organized by anti-racism and Chinese community groups calling for better

BEIRUT — The Latest on the Syrian civil war (all times local): 7:15 p.m. Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels have driven the Islamic State group from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border. The advance effectively seals the extremist group’s self-styled caliphate off from the