Новости за 20.07.2015

NEW YORK - Grocery store operator A&P is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to sell off stores as it faces increasingly tough competition.

BERLIN - The defense team for former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening, convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for his service in Auschwitz, has filed an appeal in his case.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - Addy and Emma Nozell aren't the first New Hampshire residents to collect photos of themselves with as many presidential candidates as possible. But in the age of selfies, the Merrimack sisters are attracting a lot of attention, so much so that candidates now arrive in the state ready for their close-ups with the teens.

In this photo by Koji Sasahara, participants carry one of several portable shrines, or mikoshi, into the sea at dawn on Marine Day at the Hamaori Festival in Chigasaki, Japan. About 10,000 spectators watched the purification rite Monday at the annual festival that also marks the arrival of summer in the Chigasaki region. The festival originates from an ancient tale about a shrine that was washed away by a flood and later found by fishermen. A Shinto ghost or spirit is believed to ride inside the shrines that are carried into the water. Читать дальше...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Star center Liz Cambage has been included in the Australian women's basketball squad for a three-game series against Japan next week, when she is expected to return to national duties nine months after rupturing her Achilles.

KABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike hit two Afghan military checkpoints on Monday in a restive province east of the capital, Kabul, killing seven Afghan troops in what an Afghan official described as an accident due to bad coordination.

"Speaking in Bones" (Bantam), by Kathy Reichs

PERTH, Australia - A wooden boat suspected to be carrying asylum seekers was spotted off the Australian coast Monday in a rare failure of the country's tight surveillance of its northern seas, media reported.

SAN DIEGO - You might say Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki danced their way into "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

GALVESTON, Texas - Emergency personnel have extinguished a fire aboard a barge carrying petroleum after the vessel collided with another barge near the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel.

TEHRAN, Iran - The lawyer of a detained Washington Post journalist charged with espionage in Iran says the next hearing in his trial likely will be the last.

MOSCOW - The daughter of a former Russian prime minister has accepted the job of deputy governor in a Ukrainian region, a decision that has sparked criticism in both Russia and Ukraine.

BEIJING - A prominent Chinese rights lawyer whose trial is drawing near on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble has been denied access to lawyers for nearly a month, his wife and one of his attorneys said Monday.

ADELAIDE, Australia - James Milner scored his second goal in as many outings in Australia, helping Liverpool to a 2-0 win over Adelaide United on Monday night and back-to-back victories in friendlies against A-League clubs.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - Authorities say a South Bend man has died after a tractor that he was using to do yard work turned over on top of him.

INDIANAPOLIS - Traps set up in the Indianapolis area show populations of mosquitoes are nearly three times as high as what would normally be seen at this point in the year.

FLORIDA KEYS UNDERWATER STATUE

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The developer of a branch of the Louvre being built in the Emirati capital says one of the workers on the project has died in the first such incident on the project.

HOUSTON - Halliburton's second-quarter profit dropped as it dealt with some charges tied to the oil market slowdown. But the company's adjusted results easily topped analysts' estimates.

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses' outlook on sales in the coming months has darkened after sales growth slowed in the second quarter, according to a survey released Monday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Zenit St. Petersburg's star striker Hulk says he encounters racism in "almost every game" in Russia and the Brazil international fears it could tarnish the country when it hosts the 2018 World Cup.

NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia - Hundreds of Russian scientists say companies abroad are refusing to sell them scientific equipment they need to do their work and Western publications are curtly turning down their research papers.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania is tapping into the Dracula legend, offering concert-goers free tickets in exchange for their blood.

ROME - An Italian judge has indicted 25 suspected members of the extreme-right movement Stormfront on charges of racial hatred and making threats following posts on the group's website against migrants, Jews and officials.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's foreign minister on Monday criticized the United States and Israel for not taking the threat of military action against Tehran off the table following the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.