Новости за 29.06.2016

LILLE, France — Belgium won’t be lacking for support when it takes on Wales in the quarterfinals of the European Championship as it tries to make the final four in a major competition for the first time since the 1986 World Cup. The game on Friday takes place in the northern French city of Lille,

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart is trying to get a jump on Amazon’s second annual sales bonanza. The world’s largest retailer is offering a free 30-day trial on its two-day unlimited shipping service, and an extra month free for paying members, starting Wednesday as it looks to sharpen its attack against the online leader. Beginning Friday,

BETHEL, N.Y. — A judge has ordered an upstate New York farmer to stop using eggshells as fertilizer after neighboring businesses complained the smell and clouds of flies drove away customers. The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports (http://bit.ly/292kC8m ) Peter Hofstee has been applying crushed eggshells to his hay fields in the Sullivan County town

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A top United Arab Emirates official ordered the merger of two prominent government wealth funds on Wednesday, streamlining the country’s investment strategy as it weathers a slump in oil prices. The decision by Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will combine Mubadala Development Company and the

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame is working on plans to generate electricity for the campus from a downtown South Bend dam. A memorandum of understanding with the city calls for Notre Dame to pay for building the hydroelectric plant at a city-owned St. Joseph River dam and running transmission lines to

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana is offering a $75 credit to eligible households to help pay for higher electric bills when air conditioners are in use during the summer. The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority says its 2016 Summer Cooling Program begins Friday and ends Aug. 12. The agency says local service providers also will have

INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge in Indiana has sentenced a British man to 85-years in prison on child pornography charges. U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence sentenced Domminich Shaw of London on Tuesday. Shaw pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to advertise child pornography and conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography charges. The 35-year-old

BLACKLION, Ireland — Hugh Maguire can’t believe the British really did it. The Northern Ireland farmer, like many residents along the United Kingdom’s virtually unmarked land border with the Republic of Ireland, faces the risk of financial ruin if Britain proceeds with plans to exit the European Union. EU farm subsidies provide most of his

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Former television judge Joe Brown cannot practice law in Tennessee under an order from the state Supreme Court. According to The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/292mXhT), the state’s highest court has placed Brown on disability inactive status, which designates that a lawyer is temporarily disabled and incapacitated from practicing law. Lawyers can resume practice

LONDON — Nominations were opening Wednesday to replace British Prime Minister David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party, with the victor getting the challenge — or the poisoned chalice — of becoming the country’s next leader and negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union. Cameron announced his resignation after British voters decided last week,

LONDON — The Latest on Wimbledon (all times local): 1:15 p.m. The retractable roof has been closed for the opening Centre Court match on Day 3 at Wimbledon. Third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska is playing Kateryna Kozlova in a first-round match. Rain has disrupted play on the outside courts, with showers forecast off and on throughout the

LONDON — Roger Federer has never faced an opponent at Wimbledon quite like this. The seven-time champion — perhaps the greatest player of all time — has a second-round match on Centre Court on Wednesday against a 772nd-ranked British qualifier who had never won a tour-level match until Monday. Marcus Willis, 25, is the lowest-ranked

SAN FRANCISCO — Using smartphone sensors to peek over its drivers’ shoulders, Uber is promising to keep a closer eye on their behavior — while discouraging speeding or slamming on the brakes. The global ride-hailing company on Wednesday announced an extensive test of new software that aims to increase safety by analyzing data from individual

TOKYO — Toyota announced Wednesday it is recalling 1.43 million vehicles for defective air bags and another 2.87 million vehicles for faulty fuel emissions controls. Toyota Motor Corp. said it has not received any reports of injuries or fatalities related to either recall. Some 932,000 vehicles are involved in both recalls, so the total number

VIENNA — Austria captain Christian Fuchs is retiring from the national team, a week after Austria was eliminated from the European Championship. In a video posted on his Facebook page Wednesday, the Leicester defender said the 2-1 loss to Iceland “was my last match in red-white-red.” “Looking back I have to say I am very

BERLIN — Volkswagen’s main shareholder, Porsche SE, says it made a loss after tax of 273 million euros ($302.3 million) last year due to the emissions cheating scandal affecting VW’s diesel cars. Porsche SE, which holds 52.2 percent of voting shares in Volkswagen, made a profit after tax of 3 billion euros in 2014. It

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden will try to give efforts to cure cancer a jolt during a summit in Washington that’s casting a spotlight on research and innovative trials taking place across the country. Scientists, oncologists, donors and patients planned to gather Wednesday at Howard University for the daylong event, with thousands more participating

TOKYO — Mitsubishi is resuming sales of vehicles for which it had reported inflated mileage, after offering to compensate each buyer with 100,000 yen ($960) to make up for the extra gas. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Wednesday that it will start accepting orders for its eK Wagon minicar models from July 1. The Tokyo-based automaker

BEIJING — Tibetan film director Pema Tseden has been hospitalized following a scuffle at a Chinese airport, bringing an outpouring of support from fans on social media. Tseden’s producer Sonam said the director was detained Saturday following a dispute over left luggage at the airport in the western city of Xining. The next morning, he

NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey man faces sentencing Wednesday for a brutal home invasion beating that was caught on a home surveillance camera. Shawn Custis, of Newark, was convicted June 1 of aggravated assault, robbery and other crimes for the 2013 attack in Millburn. A woman and her 3-year-old daughter were home at the

SHANGHAI — Brazilian forward Hulk is expected to join Shanghai SIPG in a deal local media are predicting could be a record for the Chinese Super League. SIPG said more than 1,000 fans were at Shanghai’s international airport Wednesday to welcome Hulk, who is set to move from former Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg. The

MANILA, Philippines — The bodies of dozens of suspected drug peddlers have turned up in the Philippines in recent weeks, providing an eerie backdrop to the swearing-in on Thursday of Rodrigo Duterte, who has warned of a bloody presidency in his bid to eradicate crime. Some of the dead were killed in gunfights with police;

MADRID — Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says he hopes his conservative Popular Party can form a strong, four-year coalition government — or else be allowed run a minority one and avoid fresh elections. Rajoy reiterated his offer to link up with second-place, center-left Socialists and fourth-place, business-friendly Ciudadanos although both have already said they

HONOLULU — Some of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s neighbors are grumbling about a rock wall he’s having built on his property on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Retiree Moku Crain said Tuesday the wall looks daunting and forbidding. Crain hopes and expects Zuckerberg will soften the wall’s look by planting foliage

MORROW, Ga. — An Atlanta-area man has been charged with murder after his 11-year-old disabled stepson drowned in a bathtub. Clayton County police spokeswoman Sgt. Ashanti Marbury tells news outlets that Michael D. Smith of Morrow placed the autistic and physically disabled boy in the bathtub Tuesday afternoon and left the bathroom to check on