Новости за 07.03.2016

DALLAS - JetBlue Airways is taking applications for 24 slots in a new program to train novice pilots to fly a passenger jet.

MUNICH - Luxury automaker BMW AG is showing off a sleek concept car aimed at a future in which drivers choose between the pleasures of high-performance driving and letting the car take control.

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan government still hopes to hold peace talks with the Taliban despite a recent statement from the insurgents saying they refuse to take part in the process, an official said Monday.

NEW YORK - When a team of documentary makers first suggested a movie about her life, Sonia Sanchez resisted.

NEW YORK - The Latest on Mayor Bill de Blasio's signing of anti-discrimination rules for New York City facilities (all times local):

NEW YORK - It could be said that it's where the magic and witchcraft began.

RIO RICO, Arizona - Arizona authorities are investigating after a fetus was found in a pipe at a wastewater treatment plant.

NEW YORK - McGraw-Hill Education, one of the largest publishers of school textbooks, said sales of its digital content and online programs surpassed print sales for the first time last year.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - Florida Gov. Rick Scott is moving ahead with an overhaul of the state's death penalty law.

BERLIN - The Munich archdiocese says a Congolese-born priest is stepping down from his job in a town outside Munich after receiving racial abuse and death threats.

JOHANNESBURG - The employer of an American anti-poaching pilot who died in a plane crash in Cameroon in 2014 says his remains were recovered from the wreckage and delivered to a morgue.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Former President George H.W. Bush slipped into some familiar baseball gear when he donned a Yale jersey for ceremonial pitches as his alma mater visited Texas A&M.

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia - A volunteer firefighter in Virginia who was suspended after rushing a toddler to a hospital in a fire truck says he has no regrets.

KOLKATA, India - A charity group established by Mother Teresa said Monday an Indian Catholic priest was abducted by militants when they attacked a retirement home in southern Yemen last week, killing 16 people including four nuns.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana will lower flags to half-staff at state facilities to honor late first lady Nancy Reagan.

ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas - Harding and Ouachita Baptist from the Great American Conference will open play this weekend in the NCAA Division II basketball tournament. Harding will make its sixth trip to the tournament, Ouachita made it for the second time.

CLEVELAND - The Latest on the nation's first uterus transplant (all times local):

PHILADELPHIA - Police say a man eating dinner at a Philadelphia fast-food restaurant was angry at a worker for cleaning near his table and shot another employee who tried to intervene.

NEW YORK - SMU, Michigan, Pittsburgh and Marquette headline the field for the 22nd annual 2K Classic benefiting Wounded Warrior Project, it was announced Monday.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Anti-corruption prosecutors have charged one of Romania's richest businessmen with money laundering and abusing his position as a chief executive of a leading insurance company.

LOS ANGELES - The Latest on stormy weather in the West (all times local):

WESTERLY, Rhode Island - Rhode Island residents are praying for an 8-year-old boy with terminal cancer who told his father he wanted to be famous in China.

NEW YORK - Celebrities including Whoopi Goldberg and Brian Dennehy have agreed to perform for one time only a thoughtful, 70-minute monologue. But there's a catch: They get no script ahead of time.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - Colorado Rockies reliever Jairo Diaz needs Tommy John elbow surgery and will be sidelined for the 2016 season.

BOSTON - Authorities say a shooting that killed one man and left six other people injured by gunfire happened at a party in a vacant apartment in the Boston suburbs.