Новости за 19.01.2016

PHOENIX - The college basketball season is revving up with some great games and individual performances as it winds toward March Madness.

SAN JOSE, California - When the Senators took a penalty late in the third period trailing by one, things looked bleak.

BEIJING - China's economic growth ebbed to a 25-year low in 2015 as trade and consumer spending weakened, deepening a downturn that has fueled anxiety abroad over its impact on an uncertain global outlook.

LOS ANGELES - Sharp-shooting J.J. Redick scored a career-high 40 points and the Los Angeles Clippers made a franchise-record 22 3-pointers in a 140-132 overtime win against the Houston Rockets on Monday night.

HYDERABAD, India - Shouting slogans and holding placards, hundreds of students on Tuesday angrily protested the death of an Indian student who, along with four others, was barred from using some facilities at his university in the southern tech-hub of Hyderabad.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Andy Murray began his bid for a drought-breaking title at the Australian Open with a 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 win over Alexander Zverev, checked to see there were no urgent calls from home, and walked into the controversy over match-fixing allegations that have overshadowed the opening two days of the tournament.

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says it has captured a Palestinian suspected of killing an Israeli mother of six in a West Bank settlement.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota - The St. Paul Police Department has put an officer on leave while it investigates allegations that he made a post on Facebook urging drivers to run over protesters who rallied against the police killings of two black men in the Twin Cities last year.

LOS ANGELES - A utility company said Monday that it has abandoned efforts to trap and burn the gas released by a huge natural gas leak in Los Angeles, but also said the 12-week-old leak should be stopped ahead of schedule - by the end of February or sooner.

TOKYO - The world's oldest man, a Japanese who died at the age of 112, said his secret to a long life was not to smoke, drink or overdo it.

MELBOURNE, Australia - The latest from the Australian Open on Tuesday (all times local):

TOKYO - The star of an Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin killings in Japan has been detained by immigration authorities at an airport near Tokyo.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Within minutes, the revelry of New Year's Eve in Dubai turned to horror as those gathered for fireworks downtown watched flames race up the side of one of the glistening city's most prominent luxury hotels.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Official: Bomb targeting police kills 11 in northwestern Pakistan.

IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHWEST COLOMBIA - The rebel leader known as Juan Pablo carries with him a new telescopic assault rifle and a heavy heart.

CANBERRA, Australia - The family of an Australian doctor and his wife abducted in Burkina Faso urged the kidnappers on Tuesday to release the couple so that they can continue their life-saving charity work in the West African country.

GLENDALE, Arizona - A year ago, the Sabres and Coyotes dismantled their rosters and began rebuilding, going through horrible seasons for a chance at one of two projected stars in the NHL draft.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Madison Keys is starting the new season with a new coach - who is a man - which is going well now that he's toned down the topspin.

BEIRUT - Syrian peace talks due next week are looking increasingly moot as a string of recent battlefield victories by government troops have bolstered President Bashar Assad's hand and plunged the rebels into disarray.

DALLAS - Thirty-seven-year-old Dirk Nowitzki said he was tired late in the Dallas Mavericks' 118-113 overtime win over the Boston Celtics on Monday night after the pesky, young Celtics turned a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit into a six-point lead.

TOKYO - Chinese shares were buoyed but the rest of Asian stock markets were largely flat Tuesday after China's quarterly economic growth met expectations, calming some of the investor jitters in the region.

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas - Tamarcio Wilson scored 22 points and Alcorn State never trailed in a 73-65 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Monday night.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - The Colorado Avalanche sacrificed their bodies Monday night and it paid off with a win.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A woman whose ex-boyfriend is in custody suspected of killing a police officer called 911 before the officer's death to warn police in an Ohio village that they were in danger, according to the dispatch call.

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of demonstrators caused the shutdown of one direction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in a police-brutality protest tied to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.