Новости за 02.10.2015

SALEM, Massachusetts - A former Roman Catholic priest who raped an altar boy and spent more than a decade in prison will be freed after prosecutors withdrew a civil petition Friday to have him committed as a sexually dangerous person.

WASHINGTON - Federal health officials on Friday expanded approval of an innovative Merck drug to treat patients with an advanced form of the most common lung cancer.

Google is officially 'Alphabet.'

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Florida - A penthouse boiler room exploded because of a gas leak Friday at a 33-story high-rise near Miami, injuring at least six people, fire officials said.

NEW YORK - General Mills is recalling 60,000 bags of its Cascadian Farm frozen green beans after one package tested positive for listeria, the second time this year the company has found the bacteria in its green beans.

INDIANAPOLIS - A company that operates dozens of nursing homes across Indiana that fired its top executive last month after federal agents searched his home and company headquarters has fired another top officer and a third has resigned.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma's highest criminal court unanimously agreed Friday to halt all of the state's scheduled executions after its prison system received the wrong drug for a lethal injection this week.

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina - Officials have concluded that the death of a member of the Army's elite parachute team during a Chicago air show was accidental, and performances are resuming.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - A Chinese-American researcher has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from his U.S. employers, but his attorneys are hoping to limit the time he serves in prison.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian state media is reporting that the country's Foreign Ministry has ordered a senior Bahraini diplomat to leave Iranian territory in 72 hours.

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan took its long-running dispute with neighboring India to the United Nations Friday as the country's U.N. Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi presented three dossiers to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's office alleging Indian involvement in fomenting unrest in Pakistan.

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia lifted a state of emergency on Friday imposed nearly three months ago following a massacre at a luxury beach hotel that killed 38, mainly British tourists, the president's office announced.

PARIS - The sky was the limit for powerhouse Christian Dior which built an entire floral mountain within the Louvre to house its 15 minute show at Paris Fashion Week. On the front row was Rihanna, attracting almost as much attention as the decor. Here are the highlights of Friday's shows:

CAIRO - The recent decision to ban all female staff from wearing the full face veil aims to put an end to student complaints of "poor communication" in class, the head of Egypt's Cairo University said Friday.

PANAMA CITY - A former Panamanian president who was deposed in 1988 after challenging then-dictator Manuel Noriega has died.

INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mike Pence has directed state agencies to work to raise the awareness of a law that allows Indiana residents to obtain and use a drug that can reverse heroin overdoses.

MODOC, Indiana - The board of one of Indiana's smallest school districts hopes a plan to recruit students from China will boost enrollment and keep the district running past next year.

NEW YORK - Score one for the selfie stick: Cindy Crawford believes those photos of you by you can help boost self-image.

HOUSTON - Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. this week declined by 29 to 809.

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana - Bloomington police have identified an Indiana University student and her live-in boyfriend found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.

MEXICO CITY - A newly launched effort to find critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises has already spotted at least two and perhaps three of the elusive, rarely seen creatures in Mexico's Sea of Cortez.

Janet Jackson, "Unbreakable" (BMG/Rhythm Nation Records)

CAIRO - Yemen's internationally recognized government withdrew media statements by its Foreign Ministry officials saying it cut ties with Iran, a government spokesman said Friday.

LONDON - Sam Smith's 007 theme has gone straight to No. 1 - the first James Bond song to top the U.K. singles chart.

PARIS - Eurotunnel freight train drivers, increasingly fearful they may accidentally kill migrants sneaking from France to Britain, are speaking out about the growing number of deaths around the vast site - 13 since June - saying they are afraid to drive their trains.