Новости за 21.01.2016

ATMORE, Alabama - A man convicted of the 1992 rape and beating death of a woman is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday in what would be Alabama's first execution in more than two years.

SHANGHAI - General Motors Co. opened a Cadillac factory in China on Thursday to target the country's growing but crowded luxury car market.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Rory McIlroy began 2016 with a masterful display of driving to set up a 6-under 66 at the Abu Dhabi Championship, upstaging top-ranked playing partner Jordan Spieth in the first round on Thursday.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Victoria Azarenka is introducing tennis fans Down Under to "the dab."

NEW DELHI - India is tightening security with extra paramilitary soldiers and police deployed across the capital after a French consulate in southern India received a letter warning against the visit of French President Francois Hollande.

KABUL, Afghanistan - A deadly Taliban attack on a bus carrying employees of Afghanistan's biggest TV station drew widespread condemnation on Thursday, with activists denouncing it as an attack on freedom of speech and the country's young and fragile media sector.

WALINI, Indonesia - Indonesia broke ground Thursday on a joint project with China to build Southeast Asia's first high speed rail service, linking the Indonesian capital Jakarta with Bandung in western Java.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - In the waning moments of a strange 35-35 game against the New York Giants, as things seemed to be collapsing all around him and tempers were flaring after every whistle, Cam Newton stood calmly on the sideline, his hands tucked firmly inside his shoulder pads near his neck as he nodded his head confidently.

BEIJING - China has publicized recent live-fire landing exercises along the coast opposite Taiwan, days after the island elected an independence-leaning president.

TOKYO - Japan's economy minister has been accused in a popular magazine of accepting bribes, but he has denied any wrongdoing and promised an investigation.

DAVOS, Switzerland - The latest developments from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where world leaders and top executives are gathered this week. All times local.

Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews summed up the problem with the NFL's current overtime rule quite nicely when not even Aaron Rodgers' latest heroics could save the Packers from yet another playoff loss.

PHILADELPHIA - Temple coach Fran Dunphy was distracted just enough by yet another round of cheers that reverberated around the Palestra that he wanted to leave his team during a timeout and recognize some former greats himself.

CHISINAU, Moldova - Moldova's new pro-European government has been sworn in, after protesters stormed Parliament and scuffled with police following a vote that ended a standoff between the president and the legislature.

HONG KONG - The head of Hong Kong's stock exchange said Thursday that he wasn't a fan of recent moves by Beijing to prop up sagging share prices but it won't stop the exchange from expanding ties with mainland Chinese counterparts.

INDIANAPOLIS - Lawmakers are set to vote on two priorities of Gov. Mike Pence and the GOP majorities: sparing teachers and schools from penalties for poor student performance on the 2015 ISTEP.

CHARSADDA, Pakistan - Pakistanis buried their dead and observed a day of nationwide mourning Thursday following the brazen attack by Islamic militants who stormed a northwestern university the previous day, gunning down students and teachers and spreading terror before the four gunmen were slain by the military.

PARIS - Edmonde Charles-Roux, a French writer who was among the founding editors of Elle magazine and a longtime editor of Vogue before turning to literature, has died. She was 95.

INDIANAPOLIS - A man and two teens have been charged in the shooting death of a gas station clerk during a robbery outside of Indianapolis.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Peyton Manning and DeMarcus Ware watched the previous New England-Denver game from an equipment room at Sports Authority Field on a snowy November night two months ago.

CLARKSVILLE, Indiana - A southern Indiana aquatic center built two decades ago will be closed during the upcoming summer season because a long overdue multi-million-dollar renovation is taking longer than expected.

GREENFIELD, Indiana - A lawmaker from central Indiana is missing the opening weeks of the state legislative session after undergoing surgery.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - The trial of a 57-year-old man accused of conspiring with his half brother to blow up an Indianapolis home as part of an insurance fraud scheme is expected to last weeks.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Andy Murray raced through his second-round match like he was in a hurry to get somewhere, winning 6-0, 6-4, 6-1 against an Aussie who was playing on Rod Laver Arena for the first time.

NEW YORK - The Ziegfeld Theater in New York City will soon be out of the movie business.