Новости за 22.04.2016

MANILA, Philippines - A massive leak from a database containing personal details of more than 55 million registered voters in the Philippines will not compromise the May 9 national elections, officials said Friday, in the latest hacking scandal to hit the Southeast Asian nation.

COMMERCE CITY, Colorado - Jermaine Jones kept his mind off soccer by playing baseball with his kids and taking them snowboarding.

He's the cleanup hitter of the English language, the sultan of sonnet and song.

ISTANBUL - Four Turkish academics are going on trial in Istanbul accused of spreading "terrorist propaganda" for signing a declaration denouncing the renewed conflict with Kurdish rebels.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nirmala pouts when her father fits the prosthetic leg onto her stump and wraps the long straps around her waist. He whispers quiet encouragement in her ear as she grumbles. Finally, she limps around the Kathmandu sweatshop that is now her home.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - Wearing black headsets with tentacle-like sensors stretched over their foreheads, the competitors stare at cubes floating on computer screens as their small white drones prepare for takeoff.

BEIJING - Authorities in eastern China have halted plans to build a trash incinerator after rowdy street protests by residents and the arrests of two women.

RIO DE JANEIRO - At the flame-lighting in the ruins of Ancient Olympia, Brazil's sport minister Ricardo Leyser tried to assure the world about the troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

GAUHATI, India - Torrential rains triggered a mudslide burying a labor camp in India's remote northeast bordering China early Friday, killing at least 15 people, police said.

LOS ANGELES - Robert Leviton's loudest neighbor is a 12-lane freeway.

CINCINNATI - When he went to the Chicago Cubs as part of a trade that included bonus slots for international players, Jake Arrieta was convinced he'd someday do great things.

PORT TALBOT, Wales - To Mark Turner, the Tata Steel plant in this small Welsh town isn't just a factory. The steel worker sees two dragons, the plant's blast furnaces, breathing fire into the dawn sky over a town where monks first built a forge in the Middle Ages.

FRANKFURT, Germany - German car, truck and bus maker Daimler AG saw net profit fall 32 percent in the first quarter as costs to launch its new E-Class mid-size weighed on the bottom line, the company said Friday.

ST. LOUIS - The Chicago Blackhawks finally got a goal from one of their top stars. Patrick Kane's first of the playoffs saved the defending Stanley Cup champions' season.

MINNEAPOLIS - Prince was unresponsive in an elevator when the musician was found by sheriff's deputies who had been called to his suburban Minneapolis compound, a Minnesota sheriff says.

STODDARD, New Hampshire - A brush fire has burned more than 100 acres of forest in New Hampshire, forcing nearby residents from their homes.

TOKYO - Japan's first domestically manufactured stealth plane has made its first flight, making Japan one of only a handful of nations with airplane stealth capabilities.

KALAMAZOO, Michigan - A man charged with killing six people during a random series of shootings is returning to a southwestern Michigan court for a hearing on his mental competency.

SAN DIEGO - Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dropped its color-coded terror threat index developed after the 9/11 attacks amid widespread confusion and ridicule. So what did it do when tasked by Secretary Jeh Johnson in 2014 with measuring security along the country's borders?

SAN DIEGO - James Shields had a respectable night on the mound for the San Diego Padres, whose bullpen let a close game get out of hand in an 11-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday night.

HOUSTON - The Houston Rockets were down by one point with no timeouts and mere seconds remaining Thursday night.

SAN DIEGO - After losing six of eight games, the Pittsburgh Pirates needed a game like they got from Gerrit Cole on Thursday night.

MANILA, Philippines - The United States and Britain have warned their citizens to stay away from a southern Philippine region where suspected Muslim extremists are behind a wave of kidnappings, including those of 18 Indonesian and Malaysian tugboat crewmen.

BEIJING - All 45 Taiwanese wire fraud suspects detained in Beijing after being deported from Kenya have confessed to their crimes and will be put on trial, a Chinese police official was quoted on Friday as saying, signaling a refusal to compromise on a case that has raised new frictions between Taiwan and China.

ARLINGTON, Texas - The Houston Astros headed home from Globe Life Park on Thursday night following another fruitless series against their home-state rivals in the American League West.