Новости за 21.01.2016

CONCORD, New Hampshire - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to establish the "Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge," areas of New England and New York to preserve more shrubland and young forests for numerous species, such as the New England cottontail.

WASHINGTON - George Washington's women's basketball game against visiting George Mason has been moved to Friday at noon instead of Saturday in hopes of avoiding the heavy snowstorm that is forecast for the area.

CORAL GABLES, Florida - Major League Baseball is pushing back this year's deadline to make trades without waivers by one day to Aug 1, wanting to avoid having players on the field during Sunday afternoon games as they are about to get dealt.

MEXICO CITY - A strong earthquake struck well off the Pacific coast of western Mexico on Thursday, but authorities said there were no reports of injuries or damage.

LONDON - Gianni Infantino has declared 500,000 euros ($542,000) in financial backing from UEFA for his FIFA presidential campaign.

DETROIT - Britax Child Safety is recalling more than 71,000 infant car seats because the carrying handles can break.

TEMPE, Arizona - Arizona State won 13 games in Charli Turner Thorne's first season back after taking a year off. The Sun Devils reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament the second season and made it to the Sweet Sixteen a year ago.

TAMPA, Florida - Chicago Blackhawks left wing Richard Panik will not play against Tampa Bay after oversleeping and reporting late to the team's morning skate.

TORONTO - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it will cut 1,000 jobs and slash spending by US$279 million (CA$400 million) this year as it adjusts to lower shipment volumes and falling commodity prices.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Actor, director and producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who also founded and directs the online creative collaborative hitrecord.org, was named Thursday as Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year.

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish court ruled Thursday that the state was right to terminate the lease of Hitler's World War II bunker to a private company that failed to pay rent or upgrade it as a tourist attraction.

NEW YORK - All Ennio Morricone asked of Quentin Tarantino, after committing to score his new Western, "The Hateful Eight," was that the director feature his music prominently and give it the space needed to convey its message.

PARIS - U.S. and coalition forces are battling Islamic State militants in the skies and on the ground across Iraq and Syria, but the allies are increasingly also targeting the airwaves, where they now are losing the propaganda war.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A Danish city has ordered pork to be mandatory on municipal menus, including for schools and daycare centers, with politicians insisting the move is necessary for preserving the country's food traditions and is not an attack on Muslims.

FAIRFAX, Virginia - A convicted serial killer has been formally sentenced to life in prison for the slayings of three prominent Alexandria residents over the course of a decade as part of a grudge against the city's elite.

COTTEKILL, New York - Authorities say 58-year-old twin brothers have died after the pickup truck they were riding in hit a tree along an upstate New York road.

LOS ANGELES - Firefighters have responded to the Los Angeles Zoo after a worker fell into the gorilla enclosure.

CORYDON, Indiana - A southern Indiana man has been convicted of strangling his girlfriend and dumping her body in the Ohio River last summer.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has changed church regulations to correspond to his rule-breaking celebration of the Easter Week ritual of washing the feet of men and women, Christians and not, in a sign of universal service.

MARION, Alabama - Public health officials say another case of tuberculosis has been confirmed amid an outbreak in rural Alabama that has killed three people since 2011.

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa on Thursday reported a slight drop in the annual number of killed rhinos, but conservationists said rhino poaching remains unacceptably high and some warned that a South African court ruling in favor of a domestic trade in rhino horn could further imperil the threatened animals.

LONDON - The latest developments in the lengthy British public inquiry into the 2006 poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

PARK CITY, Utah - The culmination of the Sundance Institute's year-round work developing fresh perspectives in drama and documentary films is taking over Park City, Utah, for the next 11 days.

JERUSALEM - A George Clooney doppelganger is brewing up tensions between two coffee companies in Israel.

SCARSDALE, New York - The husband of a 58-year-old pediatrician at a New York City children's hospital was arrested and charged Thursday with her murder inside their multimillion-dollar home in an affluent suburb.