Новости за 18.03.2016

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After years of pressure, SeaWorld made a surprise announcement: It no longer breeds killer whales in captivity and will soon stop making them leap from their pools or splash audiences on command.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Chippewa County sheriff's investigators are looking for a second "person of interest' in the fatal shooting of an Eau Claire man.

BUFFALO, N.D. (AP) — Opponents of a proposed 9,000-hog operation near the southeastern North Dakota town of Buffalo packed a public hearing to tell the Minnesota company planning the project to go elsewhere.

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Defending champion Barcelona will play Atletico Madrid in an all-Spanish quarterfinal in the Champions League.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say a man accused of killing a 17-year-old girl was seeking to eliminate witnesses in her boyfriend's earlier shooting death.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Gene Haas is no stranger to top-level motorsports, yet as he prepares for his first race as a team boss in Formula One, he admits to nervousness, and awe at the task ahead.

MACAU (AP) — Hou Hsiao-hsien's painterly martial arts masterpiece "The Assassin" claimed eight wins at the Asian Film Awards, including best film and best director.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The broker for the former Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha says there are a few offers on the table for the 228-acre site from developers interested in making the property an industrial park.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials say the number of children dying from flu-related complications is rising.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC says it welcomes the "strong statement" by Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for tougher action against doping in the country.

LONDON (AP) — They produce some of soccer's most acrimonious occasions, where emotions run higher than usual. Moods of cities swing on the results.

BEIJING (AP) — A photo of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg jogging Friday morning in downtown Beijing's notorious smog has prompted a torrent of amusing comments and some mockery on Chinese social media.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The laundering through the Philippines of $81 million stolen by hackers from a U.S. Federal Reserve account is adding to pressures on the Southeast Asian country to fix loopholes in its financial regime.

(HealthDay News) -- You may be interested in trying raw milk that has not been pasteurized. But the pasteurization process kills bacteria and other germs, so avoiding pasteurization does come with potential risks.

(HealthDay News) -- Among the many challenges for a person with Alzhaimer's and his or her caregiver is that the disease can disturb sleep.

MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) — A man accused of killing a couple at their Lyon County farmhouse during a burglary last year has pleaded guilty to charges.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Firebrand Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders appeared in a tightly guarded courtroom Friday for the first public hearing in his politically charged prosecution on hate speech charges.

Spring showers can bring the repairman instead of flowers.

State GOP rules require delegates to stick with assigned candidate unless he fails to muster a third of the vote.

BERLIN (AP) — A German court acquitted Friday former Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking and his ex-finance chief of charges of market manipulation connected to the sports car maker's failed attempt to buy Volkswagen.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Turkey's prime minister claimed the moral high ground at Friday's talks with European Union leaders, saying that the plight of refugees is nothing to haggle over as they sought a breakthrough to halt the massive influx of…

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump appeared to be wrapping up a victory speech at his sprawling Mar-a-Lago club earlier this week when he turned to the negative ads flooding the airwaves against him.

MIAMI (AP) — Final preparations are underway for a massive music festival that's bringing thousands of people to Miami this weekend.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf left Pakistan early Friday morning to receive medical care abroad, his aides said, leaving behind his trials on treason and murder charges for a city where he lived in…

Junior leaders Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig must lead their younger teammates