Новости за 28.02.2017

BELGRADE, Serbia — Two explosions occurred at a military facility in central Serbia Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring 25 others, Serbia’s Defense Ministry said. Three people are missing. The statement said the blasts took place at an ammunition depot in Kragujevac, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Belgrade, which stores mines

NEW YORK — Mets captain David Wright has returned from spring training to New York, been diagnosed with impingement in his right shoulder and was told not to throw for two weeks. The team says the third baseman was examined Tuesday at the Hospital for Special Surgery after feeling discomfort. He will be re-evaluated after

Succulents, which are plants with fleshy stems or leaves, are ideal houseplants. They have interesting shapes, are relatively pest-free, and thrive in the dry air of a heated home — and on neglect. Let’s look at cactuses, which are just one kind of succulent. Cactuses are native only to the Americas, having evolved 60 million

Dubai International Airport recently surpassed London’s Heathrow as the world’s busiest international air travel hub. If you can arrange it, Dubai is a great place for long layovers between long-haul flights. Dubai sits in desert country but that’s part of its appeal. It makes a handy stopover point for lazing on a beach, doing wheelies

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate has passed a bill overhauling an existing law that created a monopoly in the vaping industry and sparked an FBI probe. Sen. Randy Head’s measure effectively guts a 2016 law that allowed one security firm to play gatekeeper over the industry. A federal appellate court struck down portions of the

Is it not enjoyable to take advantage of another culture’s holiday to explore new recipes and treat yourself to something delicious? It is. And is St. Patrick’s Day not right around the corner? As the Irish might say, ’tis. Moist, biscuit-y Irish scones, lashed with rich butter and a few slices of smoked salmon top

PARIS — Three teenage girls and an 18-year-old woman were detained in different parts of France Tuesday as suspects in attack plots, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The four teenagers are suspected of taking part in an online chat channel, called “The Lionesses,” through the Telegram instant messaging application, the office said. Prosecutors allege they

PARIS — French media are reporting that an 18-year-old woman has been detained in northern France in a suspected attack plot. Citing the Paris prosecutor’s office, which handles terrorism cases, France 3 said the student in her final year of high school was detained Tuesday morning in Creil. France 3, without citing sources, said the

Nelly has promised to bring baseball Hall of Famer Mike Piazza back to eat in the rapper’s hometown of St. Louis after Piazza spoke ill of the city’s restaurant scene. Piazza recently bought in an Italian soccer club. He told The New York Times for a story published last week that he had met with

LACONIA, Tenn. — Authorities say human remains discovered along a highway in Tennessee were those of a man reported missing in August after a woman answered a Craigslist ad to be his caregiver. WMC-TV (http://bit.ly/2lPHdts ) reports the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office says the remains belong to Ellis Vogt. A utility worker found his remains

GROVETOWN, Ga. — Authorities say a man fatally shot a suspected intruder without realizing that his 14-year-old daughter had let the teenager into the home in east Georgia. Columbia County sheriff’s Maj. Steve Morris tells news outlets that Grovetown homeowner Derrick Fulton killed 17-year-old Jordan Middleton while investigating noises he heard downstairs about 3 a.m.

DURHAM, N.C. — A former Marine and his wife say the scene inside a Veterans Administration hospital in Durham, North Carolina, was so shocking that they took pictures and posted them to Facebook. Now thousands of people are expressing outrage and the head of the medical center says an employee involved has been removed from

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Plans are in the works for a paved 9.2-mile pedestrian and bicycle trail connecting the Indiana cities of Noblesville and Fishers. Officials announced Tuesday that the roughly $9.3 million Nickel Plate Trail project would be developed over the existing Nickel Plate Rail line. The Indianapolis Star reports the move also signals the

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns have placed a second-round free-agent tender on running back Isaiah Crowell. The tender — worth $2.8 million — would allow the Browns to match any contract offer Crowell might get from another team. If the Browns decided not to match an outside offer, they would receive a compensatory second-round draft

LONDON — British billionaire Philip Green has paid some 363 million pounds ($451 million) to settle pension claims with collapsed retailer BHS. The out-of-court settlement comes after the department store went out of business last year, throwing thousands without work and leaving a gaping hole in the employee pension plan. Green, who had owned the

BRUSSELS — A European Parliament panel chastised European authorities and automakers on Tuesday for failing to ensure that laws on diesel emissions were upheld, and called for much-improved oversight in the future. The investigating committee was set up after it emerged in late 2015 that Germany’s Volkswagen had installed software that allowed cars to cheat

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Authorities say a worker took a fatal fall at a West Virginia mine owned by Gov. Jim Justice. Patrick Graham is vice president for Southern Coal Corp. He says a worker at the company’s Bishop Preparation plant in McDowell County died about 10:30 p.m. Monday. Graham says both the company and mine

BOISE, Idaho — U.S. officials say three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe to eat. The approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last week gives Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company permission

HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. — A man who authorities say ran from a security guard and sprayed a fire extinguisher at him during a major fire at a northern Michigan ski resort has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. Thirty-one-year-old David Soltysiak of Petoskey learned his punishment Tuesday. He earlier pleaded no contest

BARCELONA, Spain — Netflix employees were personally affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban people entering from seven Muslim countries, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. Reed Hastings has been a critic of the temporary travel ban, which Trump hopes to revive in a revised form this week, and told The Associated Press on

Shopping for a wildlife safari is like taking a multiple-choice exam. You know the right answer is there on the page somewhere but they all seem so appealing. Most safari operators guarantee face time with animals and birdlife but those assurances come with varying degrees of viewer comfort, species diversity and proximity. Options range from

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs have signed offensive guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif to a five-year contract extension, locking up the former sixth-round pick before he reaches free agency next season. Terms of the contract announced Tuesday weren’t revealed, but the deal is believed to be worth $41.25 million, with $20 million guaranteed. That would make

ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia woman is charged with child neglect after police say officers found her and two other adults passed out in a car while the woman’s infant daughter cried unrestrained in a child safety seat. New media outlets report that officers who were called to a parking lot in Roanoke on Sunday

NEW YORK — No joke! Comedy Central is leaping off the screen this summer with a comedy cavalcade in the heart of San Francisco. Dubbed the Colossal Clusterfest, this three-day event will team Comedy Central with Superfly, the company known for staging such live shindigs as Bonnaroo and Outside Lands. Set for June 2-4, the

WASHINGTON — Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surgical repairs for the blurry close-up vision that is a bane of middle age. But who’s really a good candidate to toss their specs? “It’s not