Новости за 29.10.2015

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - How should adults respond when a teenager defies her teacher?

JERUSALEM - An American educator and peace activist who worked for coexistence and who died this week from wounds sustained in a Palestinian attack is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Facebook for allowing gruesome Palestinian pages that incite violence, his son said Thursday.

Slipping enrollment and struggling competitors have done little to shake the faith that the nation's biggest health insurers have placed in the Affordable Care Act's public insurance exchanges.

They say history repeats itself, and that's never been truer than with the "Assassin's Creed" series. No matter where and when each game takes place, you know you'll get a hearty historical romp loaded with breathtaking acrobatics, bewildering conspiracies and beautifully realized re-creations of the world's great cities.

BELLEVUE, Washington - Expedia Inc. (EXPE) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $283.2 million.

NEW YORK - Organizers of a rally against police brutality are speaking up in support of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who has been condemned by the New York Police Department's commissioner and police associations over his remarks at the weekend event.

OMAHA, Nebraska - The former Berkshire Hathaway executive who earned praise from Warren Buffett while leading NetJets for four years is joining a private equity firm that invests in hotels.

HEBRON, West Bank - The West Bank's largest city has become a focal point of Israeli-Palestinian violence, with near-daily deadly confrontations erupting at Israeli army checkpoints that guard enclaves of Jewish settlers in the once-thriving center of Hebron.

NEW YORK - Bonds aren't boring anymore.

DETROIT - Volvo Cars is working on a kangaroo detection system to avoid costly car crashes in Australia.

CHICAGO - Grain futures were mixed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

ANGOLA, Indiana - Authorities say a garbage truck driver was fatally injured when a semitrailer ran into the vehicle as it was stopped along a highway in rural northeastern Indiana.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez has put his old profession as physician to use - helping revive a young French woman on a flight to Paris.

MOSCOW - On the square outside the former headquarters of the KGB in Moscow, Russians on Thursday read the names of victims of political killings in Soviet times in a 12-hour-long ceremony.

NEW ORLEANS - For years, Karrine Steffans was one of the most sought after video vixens in the hip hop industry.

YONKERS, New York - New York's attorney general has settled with a company that falsely claimed the clothes dropped in its 1,100 donation bins were going to charity.

BISMARCK, North Dakota - The Iraqi government has turned to North Dakota for help in finding solutions to the wasteful burning of natural gas that's a byproduct of oil production.

QUETTA, Pakistan - A tribal police official says a roadside bomb in southwestern Pakistan has targeted a local tribal elder, killing him and six of his associates.

LAS VEGAS - MGM Resorts International plans to shift some of its casino-resort real estate into a separate company that will lease the properties back to MGM to boost value for shareholders and give both companies more flexibility to grow.

HUNTINGBURG, Indiana - A southwestern Indiana-based mining company says it will eliminate as many as 138 jobs as it reduces its workforce at all of its facilities.

PORTLAND, Maine - The rapid warming of waters off New England is a key factor in the collapse of the region's cod fishery, and changes to the species' management are needed to save one of America's oldest industries, according to a report published Thursday in Science magazine.

MOSCOW - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged the West to stop isolating Russia, and met with Vladimir Putin on an unusual diplomatic foray.

NEW YORK - Hate your cable box? In a few weeks, Time Warner Cable is going to start testing in New York City a cable service that doesn't need one and is delivered over their customers' home Internet.

PARIS - L'Oreal says its sales grew 10.1 percent in the third quarter thanks to strong demand across its range of consumer, professional and luxury cosmetics.

BANGUI, Central African Republic - The United Nations says Central African Republic's election commission has announced presidential and parliamentary elections for Dec. 13.