Новости за 22.09.2015

Drug giant Pfizer is starting 20 clinical trials this year and more soon after on treatments to conquer cancer as it also seeks to gain leadership in one of the hottest, and most lucrative, areas of medicine.

NEW YORK - The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that it has elected Maria Elena Lagomasino to its board.

CAIRO - Ali Salem, a famed Egyptian satirical writer whose works include one of the Arab world's most popular comedic plays, died Tuesday in his home in Cairo of natural causes, Egypt's state-run Middle East News Agency said. He was 79.

EATON, New York - The upstate New York college student who was piloting a small plane that crashed, killing her and a classmate, should not have been carrying a passenger, according to federal aviation rules.

KENTWOOD, Michigan - A Michigan woman who won a $1 million lottery prize didn't know about it for months, after leaving the ticket in a pile of mail.

CHICAGO - Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has again asked a federal judge to push back a deadline for pre-trial motions in his hush-money case.

PHOENIX - An Arizona woman charged with drowning her 2-year-old twin sons and trying to kill a third boy has pleaded not guilty.

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Rapper 50 Cent is suing a former consultant in federal bankruptcy court in Connecticut, alleging the man improperly acted as his agent and collected fees in advance for projects without his permission.

NEW YORK - Nearly twice as many people as usually watched the Spanish-language television institution "Sabado Gigante" turned out for the show's farewell on Univision after 53 years on the air.

CHICAGO - Grain futures were lower Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan prosecutors have arrested three judges on suspicion of corruption and other crimes.

The Institute of Medicine says patient input is critical as health providers try to figure out the right diagnosis. Here are tips from the IOM's report Tuesday, adapted from the National Patient Safety Foundation and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine:

Matthew Shilvock will succeed David Gockley as general director of the San Francisco Opera on Aug. 1, 2016, after serving as associate general director since 2010.

PHOENIX - The sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix built his reputation around defying those who said it wasn't his job to enforce immigration laws. But Sheriff Joe Arpaio's stubborn streak is catching up with him - and taxpayers will foot the bill.

CEDARVILLE, Ohio - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Tuesday blamed "P.C. culture" for the political fallout over his statement against electing a Muslim president.

MINSK, Belarus - An envoy from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has voiced regret over the intransigence of Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, who have insisted on holding local elections in defiance of the Ukrainian government.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia has a couple of gifts for visiting Pope Francis - an ivory-bone China bowl featuring images of Independence Hall and St. Peter's Basilica, and a bike with a chain guard shaped like an angel's wing.

BERKELEY, California - A federal judge has mostly upheld a new Berkeley ordinance that requires cellphone sellers to warn customers about keeping their cellphones too close to their bodies.

DALLAS - Chinese authorities have held a Texas businesswoman in custody for six months on allegations that she's a spy who stole state secrets, the woman's husband said Tuesday.

BRUSSELS - The European Union's two emergency meetings on the migration crisis this week won't provide any quick solutions to ease the plight of tens of thousands of people seeking sanctuary in Europe despite a decision Tuesday to share 120,000 more refugees arriving in Greece and Italy.

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Hundreds of Lithuanians have lain down on a cold, granite square in downtown Vilnius to draw attention to the high suicide rate that has caused concern in the Baltic country.

NEW YORK - Hollywood's awards season has a surprise new entry: "The Big Short."

BEIRUT - A coalition of several insurgent groups in Syria claimed it has freed a British woman and her five children who were kidnapped in the country as they fled an area controlled by their rival the Islamic State group.

"Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear" (Riverhead Books), by Elizabeth Gilbert

The world of Nancy Meyers sure is beautiful.