Новости за 24.12.2016

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today’s children, bemoaning how some must escape bombs or flee in migrant boats and how others are prevented from being born at all.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Pop star Ricky Martin is thanking fans for their support following the hospitalization of his father Enrique Martin.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Prime Minister has lashed out at President Barack Obama accusing him of a “shameful” move at the United Nations over West Bank settlements and said he is looking forward to working with his “friend” President-elect Donald Trump.

MILFORD, Pa. — A defense attorney says an insanity defense is unlikely in the trial of a man charged with fatally ambushing a Pennsylvania state trooper and wounding a second trooper near a rural barracks in eastern Pennsylvania.

HONOLULU — The Latest on President Barack Obama’s annual two-week vacation in Hawaii (all times local):

BARTELLA, Iraq — For the 300 Christians who braved rain and wind to attend Christmas’s Eve Mass in their hometown, the ceremony evoked both holiday cheer and grim reminders of the war raging around their northern Iraqi town, and the distant prospect of moving back home.

COEBURN, Va. — A 36-year-old Virginia woman faces a murder charge after authorities say she crashed head-on into another car while trying to avoid a drunken-driving checkpoint, killing a Missouri mother.

Jets running back Matt Forte is missing his first game Saturday against the New England Patriots with a torn meniscus in his right knee and an injured shoulder.

TUNIS, Tunisia — About 200 people have protested in the Tunisian capital against the return of Tunisian jihadis who have fought abroad.

The Latest on week 16 of the NFL season on Saturday (all times local):

GARY, Ind. — Three young children have died and a woman has been injured in an apartment fire in Gary.

Connor Harris of Lindenwood, who made more tackles than any other college player, is the winner of this year’s Cliff Harris Award.

In a year filled with stunners, sports certainly went along for the ride.

The New York Jets say that Todd Bowles will coach from the sideline Saturday against the Patriots, a day after going to the hospital with a medical scare.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Lindenwood linebacker who made more tackles than any other college player is the winner of this year’s Cliff Harris Award, given annually to the top defender in small-college football.

Search crews have rescued a Pennsylvania family that got stranded Thursday on a snowy forest road in northern Arizona while trying to reach the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, which is closed for winter.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods is having quite the week.

First, he showed off a white goatee in a shirtless photo , saying it’s a Christmas tradition for his kids.

Then, still sporting the white facial hair, he played 18 holes with President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump and Woods met Friday morning at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump typically spends the holidays.

Read full story at TheRepublic.com

CINCINNATI — After writing and talking repeatedly about the problems facing the kind of people he grew up with, best-selling author J.D. Vance is coming back to his home state to try to do something to make things better.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Canadian man is being held on $5,100 bond in Florida after driving a baggage-towing vehicle across the tarmac at Orlando International Airport.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Rashaan Evans has had some of his biggest moments in Alabama’s most important games. Now, he has a chance to create some more.

PIKESVILLE, Md. — Baltimore County Police say an officer responding to a disturbance call in a Baltimore suburb shot a man with a knife. The man’s condition wasn’t immediately clear.

LEVITTOWN, N.Y. — To untold numbers of children, he’s simply Uncle Tim.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A spokesman for a Pakistani militant group says their chief has survived a gun attack while travelling in Afghanistan.

NEW YORK — Tributes and well-wishes poured in for “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher, who was spending Christmas Eve in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a medical emergency on a flight the day before.

FRANKFURT, Germany — More than 54,000 people in the southern German city of Augsburg must leave their homes Christmas morning while authorities defuse a giant 1.8-ton aerial bomb from World War II.