Новости за 27.12.2015

SALT LAKE CITY - Alec Burks is out indefinitely after breaking his left lower leg against the Clippers on Saturday night. The team announced the fifth-year guard had an MRI Sunday morning that showed a fractured fibula.

DALLAS - There has been little mystery with Alabama's offense this season. The Crimson Tide have a 6-foot-3, 242-pound Heisman Trophy winner at tailback in Derrick Henry and the plan has been to swing that sledge hammer as many times as it takes to break the defense.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Peyton Manning said a report by Al Jazeera set to air Sunday that suggests he obtained performance-enhancing drugs was "completely fabricated, complete trash, garbage."

BAMAKO, Mali - Islamic extremist in Mali's north have killed at least 15 people in two attacks in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria, a jihadi group and resident said.

BOSTON - A Chipotle restaurant near Boston College has reopened several weeks after 136 patrons fell ill with norovirus.

The latest from NFL games on the 16th Sunday of the regular season (all times EST):

ALGIERS, Algeria - A leading figure of the North African affiliate of al-Qaida has been killed in an ambush by Algerian soldiers, one of 109 terrorists killed by Algerian security forces in 2015, the country's Defense Ministry said Sunday.

JERUSALEM - Israeli Cabinet ministers on Sunday gave preliminary approval to a bill that imposes new disclosure requirements on nonprofit groups that receive foreign funding - drawing accusations it is cracking down on pro-peace groups, rattling relations with Europe and deepening an increasingly toxic divide between liberal and hawkish Israelis.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - Family members say a New Jersey toddler struck in the face by a stray bullet while sitting in his family's parked car has undergone surgery and is expected to recover fully.

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PHILADELPHIA - Chip Kelly has plenty of time to figure out where things went wrong for the Philadelphia Eagles.

LACONIA, New Hampshire - The trial for a man accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and raping and imprisoning her over the course of nine months has been pushed back until the summer.

BETHEL, Maine - A Maine 8-year-old battling leukemia got her Christmas wish to meet New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

LOS ANGELES - Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood's most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and the Woody Guthrie biopic "Bound for Glory," died Sunday. He was 93.

NEW YORK - The Waterford crystal ball in Times Square is being worked on in preparation for its glittering entrance into 2016 later this week.

BAGHDAD - Islamic State fighters are putting up a tough fight in the militant-held city of Ramadi, slowing down the advance of Iraqi forces, a senior Iraqi commander said Sunday.

ST. LOUIS - Joe Strauss, a sports columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who covered baseball for nearly three decades, has died. He was 54.

PHILADELPHIA - There are two questions Ruth Fine has heard repeatedly from visitors emerging from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' comprehensive retrospective of work by artist Norman Lewis.

NEW YORK - The New York Islanders have placed goalie Jaroslav Halak on injured reserve because of an upper-body injury.

GARLAND, Texas - At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in apparently strong tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused substantial damage this weekend, while five people died in a flash flood in Illinois.

LOS ANGELES - Iowa tight end Jake Duzey will not play in the Rose Bowl against Stanford after aggravating a knee injury in practice.

LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron sent hundreds more troops into northern England on Sunday to help exhausted residents and emergency workers fight back rising river waters that have inundated towns and cities after weeks of heavy rain.

FRANKFURT, Germany - Germany's top downhill racer Josef Ferstl is out for the season with a knee injury.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's top courts are pushing ahead with adopting an electronic-filing system that state officials say will eventually give the public free access to online court records statewide.

DENVER - A marijuana banking case set for arguments Monday is testing the federal government's stated goal of addressing the cash-only nature of the quasi-legal pot industry.