Новости за 01.10.2015

World headquarters for the daily fantasy site Draftpot is a bedroom in a New York City apartment a few blocks from Columbia University.

NEW YORK - Amazon will stop allowing the sale of Google and Apple video-streaming devices on its site as it focuses on its own Prime Instant Video streaming service.

TRENTON, New Jersey - The first combination of breakthrough drugs that boost the immune system to fight cancer has been approved, giving maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. an early lead over competitors testing other combos in a pharmaceutical gold rush of sorts.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. unemployment rate - now just 5.1 percent - grabs a lot of the attention each month when the government issues its jobs data. Yet the rate doesn't come close to sketching a full picture of the job market.

LOS ANGELES - John Guillermin, a veteran British director best known for bringing to life big budget adventure films like "The Towering Inferno" and the 1976 "King Kong" has died. He was 89.

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey - PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are expected to give a much-needed jolt to New Jersey's fledgling Internet gambling market, but observers say the market needs to expand to other jurisdictions in order to truly thrive.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Some foreign ticket buyers for next year's Olympics are paying higher prices than they should, failing to benefit from the steep decline in the value of the Brazilian currency against the dollar.

AGOURA HILLS, California - Chris Cornell has a new album out that's so toned down he said it's meant to be played in the bathroom on his acoustic guitar.

ARCADIA, California - Federal investigators have seized computers and boxes of evidence from Gemcoin, a digital currency firm based in Southern California that's accused of bilking tens of millions of dollars from Chinese and U.S. investors.

SAVANNAH, Georgia - Two former managers of a Georgia peanut plant were sentenced to federal prison Thursday for their roles in a deadly salmonella outbreak, though the men received far less time behind bars than the ex-boss they helped convict.

NEW YORK - Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that its board approved its plan to split into two separate companies.

WASHINGTON - Los Angeles-based auto lender Westlake Services faces $48.35 million in cash relief and penalties for deceiving customers and falsely threatening criminal prosecution, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says.

NEW YORK - John Krasinski, who starred for nine years in NBC's workplace comedy "The Office," is going back to one - onstage.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania - Prosecutors added a new perjury count and other criminal charges Thursday against Pennsylvania's attorney general, saying they found a signed document that contradicts her claims she never agreed to maintain secrecy of a grand jury investigation in 2009, before she took office.

PHOENIX - A man accused in some of the freeway shootings that put Phoenix drivers on edge for weeks pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that prosecutors say could lead to 100 years in prison if he's convicted.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - After decades of environmental damage caused by hill-sized piles of acidic hazardous waste in Florida and Louisiana, one of the world's largest fertilizer makers has settled a massive federal lawsuit that amounts to nearly $2 billion in fixes, improvements and cleanup.

PUEBLA, Mexico - A plain-spoken Mexican nun has become an unlikely television star while trying to save her congregation from mounting debts.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is tightening limits on the smog-forming pollution that's linked to asthma and respiratory illness - setting a new national ozone standard of 70 parts per billion.

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Alabama coach Nick Saban believes Georgia's Nick Chubb and Sony Michel stack up well against any tailback tandem in college football.

LARAMIE, Wyoming - As the Wyoming men's and women's basketball teams prepare to begin practice for the new season, both squads will have rosters dominated by young, inexperienced players.

FOREST ACRES, South Carolina - The young police officer killed in a South Carolina mall shooting was a committed officer of the peace who loved working in the tiny suburban community of Forest Acres, his wife Kassy Alia said Thursday.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Denver Broncos outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware has won the first Defensive Player of the Month honor of his 11-year career.

FRANKTON, Indiana - The attorney for a man who had a central Indiana school arson conviction overturned says a $3 million lawsuit settlement will let him start a new life.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates - A fire broke out Thursday in a high-rise residential tower in the Emirati city of Sharjah, sending thick smoke billowing over the city and snarling traffic as commuters headed home at the end of the local work week.

For the first time in 110 weeks, Manchester United enters a Premier League game as the leader. And a trip to Arsenal on Sunday is the perfect platform for Louis van Gaal's side to justify - and fortify - its spot at the summit.