Новости за 28.10.2018

BARCELONA, Spain — Luis Suarez scored a hat trick to lead Barcelona to a 5-1 rout of Real Madrid on Sunday, giving the defending champions the Spanish league lead and putting the future of Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui in serious jeopardy. With the injured Lionel Messi watching from the Camp Nou stands, Suarez doubled Barcelona’s

Harry Houdini, the Jewish escape artist who thwarted every attempt to cage him, died not long after being punched in the gut by a college student. Houdini’s abdominal muscles were legendary, but the student didn’t give him enough time to tense them before delivering a blow that ruptured his appendix. Something like this happened to

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — Officials in a northwestern Indiana city are sending new absentee ballots after a school board candidate’s name was missing. Dangelo Coles says voters called him last week to say they didn’t see his name on the ballot in East Chicago. Five people are running for a school board seat. Lake County’s

LONDON — Carson Wentz threw three touchdown passes to different players as the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-18 at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. Tight end Dallas Goedert caught one of the touchdown passes in the first half, and running back Wendell Smallwood and tight end Zach Ertz scored theirs in the second half

HARTFORD, Conn. — Two decades after losing the NHL’s Whalers, its only major-league sports franchise, the city of Hartford is experiencing an athletic revival by embracing the minor leagues. Construction has begun just south of downtown on a $10 million project to rebuild an old football stadium into a modern soccer pitch that will serve

MOSCOW — Police in Moscow and St. Petersburg have detained about 50 people taking part in unauthorized demonstrations against a criminal case filed against 10 young Russians for allegedly taking part in in extremist group that aimed to overthrow the government. Lawyers for the 10 suspects who were arrested in March say undercover police fabricated

VALLONIA, Ind. — The cause of death remains unknown in the case of a body found in a duffel bag under an abandoned mobile home in southern Indiana. Indiana State Police say an autopsy Sunday revealed no signs of trauma. Results from toxicology tests will take weeks. The body of 22-year-old Jacob Dodson of Campbellsburg

Star linebacker Khalil Mack is sitting out for the Chicago Bears against the New York Jets, the first game he’s missed since entering the NFL, while the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos are down three starters apiece for their AFC West matchup. Chiefs center Mitch Morse is going through the league’s concussion protocol, while

MANCHESTER, England — The 12 boys who were trapped with their soccer coach in a flooded cave in northern Thailand for almost three weeks were guests at Old Trafford for Manchester United’s home match against Everton in the Premier League on Sunday. Wearing red-and-white United scarves and with a look of excitement on their faces,

DOHA, Qatar — Aliya Mustafina understands she didn’t have to come back. Nobody would have blamed the Russian star gymnast for calling it a career after the birth of her child Alisa in the spring of 2017. The demands of pregnancy and motherhood typically don’t play nice with the demands of being a world-class gymnast,

PRAGUE — The Czech Republic’s prime minister has told U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that a possible U.S. withdrawal from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty would be wrong. Andrej Babis told reporters in Prague on Sunday that relations (with Russia) “aren’t ideal and we’re returning to Cold War times.” Babis said that “it would be

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has ordered state flags to be flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Holcomb is also asking residents and business to fly flags at half-staff until sunset on Wednesday. Eight men and three women inside the Tree of Life Synagogue were killed during worship

TIRANA, Albania — Police in Albania say that a man has been shot dead in a gunbattle with officers during an annual event to celebrate Greece’s entry in World War II against Italy. Police said in a statement Sunday said that 35-year-old Konstantinos Kacifa first started shooting in the air in the village of Bularat,

The Latest on Week 8 in the NFL on Sunday (all times EDT): 12:25 p.m. Former Carolina receiver Rae Carruth’s son, Chancellor Lee Adams, attended the Panthers’ home game against the Ravens — six days after Carruth was released following 18-plus years in prison in connection to the murder of Adams’ mother. The 19-year-old Adams

The Latest on Week 8 in the NFL on Sunday (all times EDT): 11:35 a.m. Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Jason Peters returned to the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London after being evaluated for a concussion, but right tackle Lane Johnson will not after sustaining a knee injury. Peters left the game in the

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Latest on the winning tickets sold for the Powerball jackpot (all times local): 11:45 a.m. The winning Powerball ticket sold in Iowa marks the largest lottery prize ever won in the state, even though the $688 million jackpot will be split with another winning ticket holder in New York. Iowa

NEW YORK — Mike Meyers and Jamie Lee Curtis can’t be stopped. “Halloween” has topped the box office for the second straight weekend, carving up $32 million in ticket sales. The top three films were all unchanged at the North American box office, as Hollywood left “Halloween” to dominate the pre-trick-or-treating weekend. The sequel to

A day after the shooting that left 11 dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue, friends and family members recalled the victims — professors and accountants, dentists and beloved doctors serving their local community. Officials released the names of all 11 victims during a news conference Sunday, all of them middle-aged or elderly. The victims of synagogue

Melvin Wax was the first to arrive at New Light Congregation in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood — and the last to leave. Wax, who was in his late 80s, was among those killed when a gunman entered the synagogue Saturday and opened fire at Sabbath services. Fellow members of the congregation, which rented space in

LONDON — Former England player and manager Glenn Hoddle remains in a serious condition in hospital after suffering a heart attack in a TV studio. In a statement reported by Britain’s Press Association on Sunday, an unnamed spokesman for Hoddle said he “continues to respond well to treatment” a day after collapsing. The statement said

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking access to nine properties within a Superfund site in northwestern Indiana that have never been tested for lead or arsenic contamination. The EPA says in court filings that the East Chicago properties may be tainted with lead or arsenic at levels that may pose

PETERSBURG, Ind. — A southwestern Indiana judge is weighing whether to reduce the bond of a man who is accused of killing and burning his ex-girlfriend’s two dogs. A Pike County judge heard testimony Wednesday about 28-year-old Jordan Hunt’s request to have his $350,000 bond lowered. The Hazelton man has been in custody since Sept.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it any better. An Ohio high school football coach tells the kicker — his daughter — to try a 25-yard field goal with 4 seconds left in a tie game. The daughter, nervous and hyperventilating on the sidelines, jogs onto the field and, despite her fears, hammers the

If you’re unhappy with how health care works, you could just start an insurance company. That’s essentially what Mario Schlosser did in 2012 after he grew frustrated navigating the system when his wife delivered their first child. Six years after Schlosser, a data scientist, co-founded Oscar Health, his New York-based insurer covers about 250,000 people,

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida authorities have linked six more deaths to Hurricane Michael, raising the state’s death toll to 35. The storm’s overall death toll now stands at 45, with 10 deaths in other states. Florida Emergency Management Division spokesman Alberto Moscoso said in an email Saturday that two more deaths were confirmed in hard-hit