Новости за 15.10.2015

NORTH PORT, Florida - Florida authorities believe they have found the body of a missing 9-week-old boy whose parents are already in jail on child abuse charges.

Margee Kerr says she has the best job in the world: She studies fear for a living, and loves to scare herself as part of her research.

DENVER - A longtime corrections official from northern Illinois has been chosen to lead Denver's embattled sheriff's department, the first step toward major reforms of an agency mired in misconduct and excessive force allegations.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - Lincoln Chafee's awkwardness on the national stage has left many voters wondering why the former Rhode Island governor is running for president.

HONOLULU - Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii. She was 31.

WASHINGTON - The health care law's historic gains in coverage may be leveling off: The Obama administration announced Thursday it expects only a slight overall increase in enrollment next year.

PHILADELPHIA - The final US Airways flight is taking off from Philadelphia and stopping in Charlotte, North Carolina, then Phoenix and San Francisco.

NAIROBI, Kenya - An official of the Kenyan National Police Service Commission says 63 police officers including a police spokesman have been fired for "corruption and integrity issues."

BERLIN - "Homeland" star Claire Danes walks through a narrow alley in Lebanon in the latest episode of Showtime's hit show, and passes a wall sprayed with graffiti in Arabic.

KABUL, Afghanistan - A medical charity whose hospital in northern Afghanistan was bombed by the U.S. military said on Thursday that a U.S. tank forced its way through the closed gates of the compound, contravening an agreement that they would be informed.

SAN FRANCISCO - So many people have gone so long without buying a new personal computer that the industry's biggest players are trying something different: a quirky advertising campaign. The $70 million marketing push aims to highlight how much better PCs have gotten since smartphones and tablets came along.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Country star Willie Nelson has rescheduled two shows and canceled another due to an unspecified health issue.

ODENSE, Denmark - Some children held their noses and grimaced in disgust. Others got curious and came up close to watch Danish zoo officials carve up a lion carcass and display its blood-red organs in a public dissection Thursday that stirred outrage outside Denmark but little within.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana - A Purdue University expert says flooding losses to Indiana's corn and soybean crops will be much lower than expected and concentrated in certain areas.

CANON CITY, Colorado - Prisons have long been a way of life in this southern Colorado community, with schoolchildren practicing inmate-escape drills and almost everyone counting a relative who works in corrections.

NEW YORK - Millions of Americans are getting new credit and debit cards with more secure chip technology, and that's already leading to headaches for companies that rely on working cards to charge their customers every month.

WASHINGTON - Older Americans got a double dose of bad news Thursday: There will be no cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits next year, and Medicare bills are set to soar for many.

KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudanese state-run radio says Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old American teenage boy arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a bomb, has met Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir.

FORT STEWART, Georgia - Firearms manufacturers are competing for a rare chance to sell the U.S. Army a new handgun that would replace its current Cold War-era model, and they must meet a lengthy list of requirements to win the lucrative deal.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Four centuries after William Shakespeare wrote "something's rotten in the state of Denmark" in his play "Hamlet," the small Scandinavian country clearly has gotten its act together.

LONDON - South Africa's National Treasury says it will consider the economic impact of a proposal by the world's biggest beer maker to buy SABMiller - a company with South African roots.

VIENNA - The U.N. nuclear agency will be able to deliver an assessment of the suspicions that Iran worked on atomic weapons by Dec. 15, as planned, it said Thursday.

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities are investigating the deaths of 36 marine animals that washed up on an island in the Gulf of California.

NEW YORK - When I brought home review models of Amazon's Echo speaker, a sort of smart, voice-controlled speaker, and two Dash buttons that reorder household products with a single touch, I wasn't convinced I'd find them all that useful in my daily life.

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuadoran officials have asked the United Kingdom to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leave his asylum at country's embassy in London briefly for medical checks. Britain responded Thursday by saying he could have medical care but would be arrested if he leaves the embassy.