Новости за 13.09.2020

LOS ANGELES — People who closely follow box office earnings have noticed a surprising lack of transparency surrounding ticket sales for “Tenet,” the $200 million-budgeted sci-fi epic from director Christopher Nolan that released last weekend in U.S. theaters. Since “Tenet” premiered, Warner Bros., the studio behind the film, has parceled out carefully selected breadcrumbs of […]

Six-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton took a knee before the start of the Tuscan Grand Prix on Sunday with a message on his shirt declaring “Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.” The words “say her name” and a photograph were on the back of Briton Hamilton’s shirt. The Mercedes driver, the sport’s […]

BLACKVILLE, N.B. — Three teenaged boys were killed in an automobile crash in central New Brunswick early Sunday, the principal of the local school says. Rodney Buggie, principal at Blackville School, said two of the boys were in Grade 12 and the other graduated in June. By early Sunday afternoon, the RCMP had yet to […]

LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” pulled in $23.2 million over the weekend at box offices in China, a slow start for the big-budget epic about a Chinese folk hero in its most important theatrical market. The debut for “Mulan” fell short of director Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” which grossed $29.8 million in […]

HOUSTON — Tropical Storm Sally strengthened off the west coast of Florida on Sunday and was poised to become a hurricane, bringing the threat of dangerous storm surges and high winds to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The storm track was disrupting oil production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico […]

MELBOURNE — Police in Australia’s Victoria state arrested 74 people and fined 176 for breaching public health orders as scattered protests against a weeks-long coronavirus lockdown continued for a second straight day across Melbourne. A riot squad marched through fruit and vegetable stalls at the city’s landmark, the Queen Victoria market, before the scuffling with […]

MONTREAL — Quebec Independent Investigations Bureau has been called in following a shooting incident in Montreal in which one police officer and four civilians were shot early Sunday morning. A 33-year-old man was shot by police when allegedly returning gunfire around 2 a.m. following a complaint of noise and loud music near the Old Port […]

A gunman shot and critically injured two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies as they sat in their patrol car late on Saturday in an attack that was captured on video. Footage of the incident released by the sheriff’s department showed the suspect approaching the parked vehicle on foot in the city of Compton and firing […]

NEW YORK — Naomi Osaka won the most unique of U.S. Open titles on Saturday when she beat Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 1-6 6-3 6-3 to lift the trophy for the second time in three years. With the hardcourt major being staged without any fans in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japanese fourth seed […]

ROME — A group of migrants who had been blocked aboard a tanker in the Mediterranean for more than a month were allowed to land in Sicily on Saturday after Italy agreed to take them in, NGO Mediterranea said. The 25 people still at sea disembarked late on Saturday in the port town of Pozzallo, […]