Новости за 02.02.2018

STOCKHOLM — Finland’s president, 69-year-old Sauli Niinisto, has announced the birth of a son. It’s been a busy week for the Finnish head of state, who won re-election in a landslide victory Sunday and was sworn into office for a second six-year term Thursday before his second wife gave birth to a healthy boy on

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki’s lost to Daria Kasatkina 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Friday. Kasatkina came back from a break down to win the first set in a tiebreaker before speeding to a 3-0 lead over the top-ranked Wozniacki in the second

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State wasn’t supposed to even be in this position, entering February with several marquee wins and in the discussion for an NCAA Tournament bid. Yet first-year coach Kevin Keatts isn’t talking about the possibility of his program getting back there after its two-year absence. “We’re not a mature enough team

GREENSBURG, Pa. — A young man who pleaded guilty to stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard at his suburban Pittsburgh high school when he was a teenager says his prison sentence is too long. Alex Hribal’s defense attorney Pat Thomassey says in a filing made Friday the facts of the case do not

LOS ANGELES — Lupita Nyong’o is hailing the “public, intimate conversation” about sexual misconduct in Hollywood and elsewhere. The 34-year-old actress who wrote an essay in October detailing her experiences with Harvey Weinstein said she’s been happy to see the growth since then of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. “It feels like the public

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers has agreed to play Syracuse in a home-and-home series in football starting in 2020. The Orange will play at High Point Solutions Stadium in 2020 and the Scarlet Knights will go north the following year to play at Carrier Dome. The series replaces a previously scheduled home-and-home for Rutgers against UCLA.

ROCKWALL, Texas — A Texas couple has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-year-old girl to an Illinois family. Steve Marks has been charged with purchasing or selling a child for sex. He’s being held at Rockwall County Jail with bail set at $1 million. Police affidavits allege Marks knowingly sold the child for sex

TUNIS, Tunisia — Scores of journalists held a sit-in Friday in the Tunisian capital to protest what they say is growing pressure to film, photograph and write only what puts security officers and the government in a good light, reviving memories of the era before Tunisia kicked off the Arab Spring seven years ago. Videos

AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn’s leading rebounder is a 6-foot-3 transfer from Presbyterian College. The best shot blocker and tallest starter is a 6-foot-7 guy whose other college options included MIT and Yale. The 11th-ranked Tigers are having their best season in decades and have built a two-game lead in the Southeastern Conference despite being undersized

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s foreign relations secretary said Friday that it might come as a surprise but his country’s relationship with the United States today is “more fluid” and “closer” than it was with previous U.S. administrations. Mexico has had well-publicized disagreements with President Donald Trump during the past year over trade, immigration and payment

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Defense has been No. 2 Virginia’s calling card since Tony Bennett became the coach nine years ago. The Cavaliers play at a pace that some have described as boring, but it’s one its players and fans have come to embrace. Shot-clock violations are celebrated as much as tomahawk dunks. When the opposing

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Latest on the killing of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student in California (all times local): 3:10 p.m. A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to killing a gay University of Pennsylvania student in a trial that’s prompted calls to change state murder laws. Twenty-year-old Samuel Woodward entered the

The coordinator of the women’s national team for USA Gymnastics has stepped down, the latest departure to rock the embattled organization in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal centered on former team doctor Larry Nassar. Valeri Liukin made the announcement on Friday, less than 18 months after taking over for Martha Karolyi in September

APOLLO, Pa. — A family has been reunited with its dog 10 years after the dog went missing. Debra Suierveld and her family assumed their dog Abby had died after she ran away in 2008 from their home in Apollo, but decade-old sadness turned to joy on Saturday when Suierveld received word someone had found

OAKLAND, Calif. — The NBA’s Golden State Warriors will buy the popular half-time entertainer known as the Red Panda Acrobat a custom-made, $25,000 unicycle to replace the one stolen from San Francisco’s airport. KTVU-TV reports Friday that the team notified Rong Niu’s agent of its plan to replace the 7-foot (2.13-meter) unicycle the acrobat uses

HARRISON, N.J. — The New York Red Bulls have signed Venezuelan midfielder Cristian Casseres Jr. The Major League Soccer team says the 18-year-old is a discovery signing, who will occupy an international spot on the roster. Casseres has played in Venezuela’s first division and has represented Venezuela on the U-17 and U-20 national teams. He

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi lawmakers pushed ahead Friday with a bill that could make the state the first to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, setting up a possible court challenge. Mississippi already bans most abortions after 20 weeks. It’s tied with North Carolina for the nation’s earliest ban. Members of the Republican-controlled

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — U.S. Olympic bobsledder Nate Weber will never forget the sound. He was going through a brutal outdoor summertime workout last year and was starting a series of outdoor sprints, when an extremely loud noise got his attention. Then came another noise, louder than the first. And another, louder yet again. “My

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on a Los Angeles school shooting (all times local): 5:30 p.m. Prosecutors say a 12-year-old girl has been charged with two felonies after a gun went off in her backpack, striking two classmates and leaving three others injured. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office says the girl has been

QUITO, Ecuador — Sitting in his wheelchair on a brightly lit stage, Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno launched into a sermon about why no political leader should be allowed to remain in office for years on end. “No one should think they are the owner of power,” said Moreno, who was clad in a black leather

SANTIAGO, Chile — Authorities say three children were killed and at least 20 other people were injured when a bus carrying a Chilean youth soccer team crashed with another bus in Argentina. The early Friday crash happened in a road in the Andes cordillera near the city of Mendoza. Officials said the crash is being

LONDON — West Ham has fired its player recruitment director for telling agents the Premier League club would not sign any more African players. In an email sent to agents and published by the Daily Mail on Wednesday, Tony Henry complained that African players “have a bad attitude” and “cause mayhem” when they are not

FARGO, N.D. — The Latest on the sentencing of a North Dakota woman who admitted killing a pregnant neighbor (all times local): 2 p.m. A North Dakota woman who admitted killing a pregnant neighbor and cutting the baby from the womb while the mother was still alive has been sentenced to life in prison without

SRINAGAR, India — The Indian army said Friday that three soldiers were killed when an avalanche struck their Himalayan post in the Indian portion of Kashmir. The army said the soldiers died in the Machhil sector near the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Mehbooba Mufti, the top elected official of

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Hideki Matsuyama withdrew from the Waste Management Phoenix Open before his second-round tee time Friday because of a left wrist injury, ending his bid to match Arnold Palmer’s record of three straight victories in the event. Matsuyama opened with a 2-under 69 on Thursday at TPC Scottsdale. The 25-year-old Japanese star has