Новости за 26.12.2016

NEW DELHI — Indian police said Monday that they arrested four men on suspicion of raping an American tourist who came to New Delhi alone earlier this year, marking another incident of sexual violence to stir outrage.

This has been the year of the penalty in the NFL.

Not so much because more flags have been thrown in 2016 — through Week 15 teams were averaging 8.09 flags a game this season compared to 8.10 in 2015 — or because a larger-than-normal number of games have been decided by questionable calls.

More because the questioning of the competence of the officials began, literally, on opening day with a flurry of unflagged hits to the head of the reigning MVP, Cam Newton, and continued, in some form, virtually every week, without a stop. Читать дальше...

PITTSBURGH — Mike Sullivan’s arrival in Pittsburgh last season provided the spark that turned the Penguins’ listless season around.

FRASER, Mich. — Officials say crews have begun pumping sewage into a Detroit-area river to prevent flooding after a sinkhole forced people from their homes and closed roads.

RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett has undergone surgery after breaking two bones in his lower right leg in Saturday’s loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different?

LOUISA , Va. — Virginia State Police say they’re investigating after a man was shot during a struggle with a Louisa County sheriff’s deputy near a crash scene.

NEWPORT, Tenn. — Authorities in Tennessee are searching for four inmates who broke out of jail on Christmas.

BEIRUT — Under different circumstances, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s capture of Aleppo would project an aura of invincibility. He has survived nearly six years of revolt.

LEICESTER, England — Deprived of the stars behind its improbable triumph last season, Leicester was beaten 2-0 at home by Everton on Saturday in the latest disappointing result of its Premier League title defense.

LOS ANGELES — It was an intergalactic holiday at movie theaters as “Rogue One” blasted past a quartet of new releases to hold onto the top spot at the weekend box office.

LONDON — Olivier Giroud headed home an 86th-minute winner as Arsenal avoided another Christmas stumble in the English Premier League to beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Monday.

SWANSEA, Wales — Swansea’s woes deepened under American coach Bob Bradley with a 4-1 loss at home to West Ham in the English Premier League on Monday.

Before the advent of daily fantasy sports (“DFS”), Week 17 had traditionally been an afterthought for many fantasy players, as league championships had been won (or lost) in Week 16 and it afforded an opportunity to watch a week of football with undivided support for your favorite NFL team.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine President Mauricio Macri is shaking up his economic team a year into an administration that has struggled to spur growth and lower inflation.

A look at songs and albums from George Michael’s career. Michael’s publicist said Sunday that the singer-songwriter has died. He was 53.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian aviation authorities said Monday that an airliner that crashed with a Brazilian soccer team aboard had run out of fuel before it could land. Seventy-one people died in the Nov. 28 accident.

LONDON — Chelsea set a club record of 12 straight English Premier League wins as it beat Bournemouth 3-0 on Monday.

MANCHESTER, England — Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored an acrobatic back flick to wrap up Manchester United’s 3-1 win over Sunderland in the English Premier League on Saturday, ensuring a miserable return to Old Trafford for former United manager David Moyes.

Villanova starts its fourth week as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 and the ranked teams stay the same from the last poll except for Florida, which replaces fellow Southeastern Conference member South Carolina.

The Chinese like to feature whole steamed fish on the menu of their New Year’s feasts. Said to signify togetherness, abundance and long life, it’s a dish with symbolism that is as important as taste. Indeed, you’re supposed to leave the bones, head and tail intact, a way to help ensure that the new year will be a winner from beginning to end.

A Drexel University professor has been summoned to a meeting with school officials after he tweeted a Christmas Eve message that appeared to support “white genocide.”

Embracing Soviet-style communism, Fidel Castro overcame imprisonment and exile to become leader of Cuba and defy the power of the United States at every turn. The strongman’s half-century rule was marked by the unsuccessful U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. But after surviving a crippling trade embargo and dozens of assassination plots, Castro died in November at age 90.

NEW YORK — New York City police say a woman and her 4-year-old son have been found dead in their Harlem apartment.

SYRACUSE, Ind. — Northern Indiana police say a woman and her son were killed and three others were injured in a head-on crash that may have stemmed from a street racing incident.