CLEARWATER, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — Un hombre de Florida de 72 años se disponía a dormir cuando escuchó “un increíble rugido” y cayó al suelo, cubierto de material aislante y vidrios rotos, sobreviviendo por poco a la caída de un avioneta que arrasó su casa rodante y destruyó el remolque de al lado. El piloto y tres personas que se …

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has refused Ukrainian requests to hand over the bodies of scores of prisoners of war whom the Kremlin claims were killed in the downing of a Russian military transport plane by Kyiv’s forces, a Ukrainian intelligence official said. Andrii Yusov, the spokesperson for Ukraine’s military intelligence, in televised remarks late Thursday reaffirmed Kyiv’s call for …

TORONTO (AP) — The NHL will wait for the judicial process to play out before making any decisions about four players facing sexual assault charges in a 2018 case involving Canada’s world junior team that year, Commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday. Addressing the situation at All-Star Weekend days after the NHL players were charged by police in London, Ontario, with …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on the complexities of people and places in the American South, has died. She was 88. An obituary from her family said Gilchrist died Tuesday in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where she had lived in her final years. Gilchrist published more than two dozen …

Tyson Fury postponed his heavyweight unification title fight with Oleksandr Usyk this month after suffering a “freak cut” above his eye, Queensberry Promotions announced on Friday. They were set to fight on Feb. 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Usyk was putting his WBA, IBF and WBO titles on the line against Fury’s WBC belt to find the first undisputed heavyweight …

SAN DIEGO (AP) — More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California’s iconic piers that have dotted the Pacific coast since the Gold Rush, posing the biggest threat yet to the beach landmarks that have become a quintessential part of the landscape. At least a half dozen public piers are closed after being damaged repeatedly …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she’d better already have a place to park her plane. Even the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., seems to be rooting for her. Places to leave private aircraft at airports …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court said Friday it has jurisdiction to rule on a request by Ukraine for a declaration that Kyiv is not responsible for genocide, but not on other aspects of a Ukrainian case against Russia. The two countries have at various times accused each other of committing genocide. Ukraine filed its case …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Saint Mary’s Gaels (17-6, 8-0 WCC) at Gonzaga Bulldogs (16-5, 7-1 WCC) Spokane, Washington; Saturday, 10:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Saint Mary’s (CA) takes on the Gonzaga Bulldogs …

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh fulfilled one of his goals by winning a national championship at his alma mater. Now he’s looking to capture his ultimate goal of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy with one of the teams he played for. Harbaugh resumed his pursuit of a Super Bowl title on Thursday when he was introduced as the Los Angeles …

The terrorist threat from al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and their affiliates remains high in conflict zones in Africa and in Afghanistan – and threat levels have risen in some regions including Europe, U.N. experts said in a new report. The panel of experts said in the 23-page report that the relationship between Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and al-Qaida remains close, …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Not all heroes wear capes. Some don’t wear anything at all. With only towels around their waists, patrons aboard a floating sauna in a Norwegian fjord rescued two people whose car had plunged into the water. The car appeared to have driven off the quay on Thursday at the Akershusstranda, an area where ships dock at …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Quinnipiac Bobcats (16-4, 8-1 MAAC) at Manhattan Jaspers (5-13, 2-7 MAAC) Riverdale, New York; Friday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bobcats -6.5; over/under is 151.5 BOTTOM LINE: …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — It wasn’t long ago, during North Carolina’s best start in Atlantic Coast Conference play in more than two decades, that veteran big man …

BELGRADO, Serbia (AP) — Serbia pedirá una reunión urgente del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU para analizar la escalada en las tensiones con Kosovo, su antigua provincia, después que el gobierno kosovar decidió prohibir el uso del dinar serbio e introducir el euro en zonas donde viven miembros de la minoría serbia, informó el viernes el presidente serbio. El …