Новости за 18.09.2015

NEW YORK - Travelers entering the U.S. from Liberia will no longer be screened for Ebola.

MONTPELIER, Vermont - One of the hottest early Septembers on record is slowing the seasonal cycle when leaves turn from green to breathtaking reds, oranges and yellows, and draw visitors in droves to northern New England.

TORONTO - A Canadian judge has eased the bail conditions for former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr.

VIENNA - The head of the U.N. atomic agency is planning a trip to Tehran to push for long-delayed interviews with Iranian scientists linked to alleged past work on nuclear arms, two diplomats said Friday.

NEW YORK - Broadway's next Captain Hook will be Terrence Mann.

NEW YORK - Megan Fox will guest star in a recurring role next season on "New Girl."

DURANT, Oklahoma - Aretha Franklin is postponing two upcoming concerts in Oklahoma, citing a busy travel schedule.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Former Argentine soldier Silvio Katz says he doesn't recall how long his hands and feet were tied while he was stuck in the mud, partially naked in freezing temperatures as members of his battalion were forced to urinate on him.

LONDON - Models and fashion insiders have descended on the British capital for London Fashion Week, the biannual style showcase featuring a five-day whirlwind of runway shows, parties and celebrity-spotting. Here are some of the day's highlights as the event kicked off Friday.

DENVER - Boosted by a recent victory in Colorado, an environmental group is expanding its legal campaign to try stop coal mining because of climate change by challenging permits for some of the largest mines in the West.

NEW YORK - Coca-Cola was notified by the IRS that it owes $3.3 billion more in federal taxes, as well as interest, for 2007 to 2009, the company said Friday.

MARIDI, South Sudan - The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in a rural South Sudanese state reached 183 on Friday, a regional official said, as medical staff and volunteers struggled to keep up with the influx of severely burned patients.

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis man convicted 20 years ago in the slaying of his first wife has agreed to plead guilty in his second wife's killing.

NEW YORK - Relief washed over the bond market this week after the Federal Reserve decided to hold off on hiking interest rates. But many investors were left to wonder: Was it just a temporary reprieve?

CENTRAL ISLIP, New York - A suburban New York investment fund manager has been sentenced to six years in prison for running a nearly $18 million Ponzi scheme.

NEW YORK - Producing the second soundtrack for the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" became a family affair for show creator Jenji Kohan.

BRUSSELS - The movement of tens of thousands of people toward Western Europe is overwhelming border authorities from Greece through the Balkans to Hungary and Slovenia.

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah - Some in the group of seven hikers were new to climbing and swimming through narrow canyons when fast-moving floodwaters trapped them in a popular sandstone gorge in southern Utah's Zion National Park.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - A British pharmaceutical company that told Arkansas not to use its products during executions is trying to determine if the state plans to use them anyway, but prison officials are dismissing inquiries about the drug by citing a new law that makes all execution policies an official state secret.

NEW YORK - Carl E. Schorske, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and popular classroom lecturer whose "Fin-De-Siecle Vienna" is widely regarded as a classic work of intellectual scholarship, has died.

WASHINGTON - Consumer-friendly ratings of the benefits of new drugs. Limits on what patients pay. Requiring drug companies to disclose how much they actually spend on research.

NEW YORK - An auction will feature a painting by Kazimir Malevich (MAL'-ih-vihch) that was returned to the artist's heirs after a half-century in an Amsterdam museum.

BEIRUT - Syrian warplanes unleashed a wave of deadly airstrikes on the Islamic State-held town of Palmyra in central Syria on Friday, killing at least 15 and wounding many more, activists said, in some of the heaviest bombardment since the extremist group seized the ancient town May 10.

SAN ANTONIO - Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's former squad leader testified Friday that before Bergdahl walked away from his post in Afghanistan six years ago, he expressed concern that Bergdahl didn't seem to be adjusting well to their deployment but was told to be quiet.

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks dropped in midday trading Friday as investors interpreted the Federal Reserve's decision to hold off raising interest rates as a signal of that global economy is remains weak. Bonds rose and the price of oil fell, pushing down energy stocks. Financial stocks, which would benefit from higher rates, also dropped.