Новости за 14.02.2016

MERCED, California - Authorities say two men died over the weekend in a car crash that set off a series of collisions involving 16 cars in a foggy Central California highway.

NEW YORK - Much of the northeastern United States found itself in the not-so-warm embrace of teeth-chattering, record-shattering cold on Valentine's Day.

MEXICO CITY - The Latest on Pope Francis' visit to Mexico (all times local):

HELSINKI - Danes have honored the two victims of attacks by a gunman at a cultural center and synagogue a year ago in the capital, Copenhagen, with flowers, speeches and a torchlight parade.

MOSCOW - IAAF President Sebastian Coe has met with the new head of the Russian athletics federation, which was banned from world track and field in November over doping.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Simona Halep wasn't sure she would be healthy enough to defend her title at the hardcourt Dubai Tennis Championships, which start Monday, so she didn't enter the event at first.

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unprecedented appearance at the Supreme Court Sunday to defend a deal signed in December with U.S. and Israeli developers drilling offshore gas deposits.

BEIRUT - Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has called on the Lebanese to put aside differences and vote for a new president to end a vacuum that has lasted nearly two years.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal trial over a $100 million investors' lawsuit against Venezuela includes allegations of fraud, hints of an international criminal conspiracy, and references to diamonds, German junk bonds and a mysterious house fire in Switzerland.

LEBANON, Tennessee - Cumberland University is launching a major national project Monday - in time for Washington's Birthday - on the papers of Martin Van Buren. Van Buren was the eighth president of the U.S., serving from 1837 to 1841.

BERLIN - Ivo Ilicevic came off the bench to secure a 3-2 victory for Hamburger SV over Borussia Moenchengladbach that ended his side's run of six Bundesliga games without a win on Sunday.

COLLEGEVILLE, Pennsylvania - Officials say the number of students at a Pennsylvania college reporting symptoms of a stomach illness has now topped 200, but the source of the ailment remains a mystery.

IGLS, Austria - Francesco Friedrich edged fellow German Johannes Lochner to clinch his third straight two-man bob world title on Sunday, and Germany also won the team competition hours later.

MILAN - Keisuke Honda scored one goal and helped set up another as AC Milan extended its unbeaten streak to seven matches with a 2-1 win over Genoa in Serie A on Sunday.

BERLIN - Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a memorial service for the 11 victims who died in a head-on train crash in southern Germany.

WASHINGTON - The Latest on developments following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (all times local):

LONDON - After 10 months out injured, Danny Welbeck took barely 10 minutes on his return from surgery to score a precious goal for Arsenal.

DENVER - When sisters Caroline Clark and Dianne Rissman set up their quilt shop in the house on their family farm in Iowa 2004, vendors they would call about fabric or thread would helpfully tell them it would be easier to order on line.

BIRMINGHAM, England - Liverpool scored four goals in 13 second-half minutes to complete a 6-0 win at last-place Aston Villa in the Premier League on Sunday for the team's biggest victory under manager Juergen Klopp.

BUCKINGHAM, Virginia - The fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old man in rural Virginia is being investigated by the state police.

MANAMA, Bahrain - Hundreds of Bahraini youths shouting anti-government slogans took to the streets in Bahrain despite a heavy police presence Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of an uprising calling for political change in the tiny island kingdom.

PHOENIX - For nearly 20 years, John Feit was known around the St. Vincent de Paul nonprofit agency as one its most compassionate employees.

LONDON - If the European Union were a patient, its survival would be seen as threatened by multiple organ failure.

BEIRUT - The Latest on the civil war in Syria (all times local):

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Roberta Vinci snapped a losing streak in finals to beat top-seeded Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6-3 and take the inaugural St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Sunday.