Новости за 19.10.2015

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's pro-business prime minister faced off Monday against her main challenger in a debate ahead of general elections this weekend - the first time two women are the top two contenders to lead the country.

HARTFORD, Connecticut - The impending retirement of Massachusetts' only nuclear power plant could roil energy markets across New England, leading to greater reliance on natural gas, driving up carbon emissions and putting more pressure on pipelines already facing bottlenecks.

WHITEHALL, Wisconsin - A federal safety agency has again cited Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. for alleged safety violations at one of its Wisconsin factories.

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis police officer who fatally struck a pedestrian with his cruiser will not face charges, a prosecutor said Monday.

NEW YORK - Pat Woodell, a former actress and singer who played the brainy sister Bobbie Jo Bradley for two seasons in the 1960s sitcom "Petticoat Junction," has died.

AUSTIN, Texas - It's easy to see what oil money means to the University of Texas. Tuition hasn't budged in three years because of gushing wells in the Permian Basin. More than a few buildings, including the football team headquarters, are named after wildcatters, and a pump jack stands outside the 100,000-seat stadium to commemorate the 1920s oil boom.

NEW YORK - A couple of big-time movie stars will be appearing off-Broadway next fall when Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo star in a production of William Shakespeare's "Othello" at New York Theatre Workshop.

PHILADELPHIA - Temple University is partnering with newspapers in Philadelphia, Dallas and Miami on a project designed to help traditional newsrooms speed their adoption of mobile and digital-first practices.

NEW YORK - Women have always been treated as part of the spoils of war. How some women might endure captivity and regular rape in squalid, harrowing conditions is explored with compassion by Danai Gurira in her complex drama "Eclipsed," currently performing off-Broadway at the Public Theater.

"Spending the Holidays With People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Yuletide Yahoos, Ho-Ho-Humblebraggers, and Other Seasonal Scourges" (Ballantine Books), by Jen Mann

MEXICO CITY - The body of a man wrapped from ankles to neck in white bandages was found Monday hanging from a bridge in Mexico City.

NEW YORK - The final season of the popular British drama "Downton Abbey" will begin on Jan. 3, leading up to a finale on the first weekend of March, PBS announced Monday.

NEW YORK - PBS' popular "Finding Your Roots" series, temporarily shelved after an episode omitted references to the slaveholding past of Ben Affleck's ancestor at the actor's request, will return to public television for its third season in January.

PHILADELPHIA - A demolition contractor charged in the deaths of six people buried in debris from a building collapse was found guilty Monday of involuntary manslaughter.

PARIS - France is tightening security on its vast public transit network after an attack on a high-speed train that was thwarted by a group of Americans.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Orchestra has approved a one-year contract that gives its musicians a 3 percent raise.

WOODBRIDGE, New Jersey - Hess gas stations are no more, but its annual toy truck is back.

VATICAN CITY - It's now quite certain that Pope Francis' big summit on family issues won't endorse any changes to church doctrine on the church's teaching about homosexuality or whether civilly remarried Catholics can receive Communion.

"What You See" (Forge Books), by Hank Phillippi Ryan

WASHINGTON - What happens to the Chinese economy resounds far beyond Shenzhen and Shanghai.

QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistani officials say a bomb planted on a passenger bus in the southwestern city of Quetta killed 11 passengers and wounded another 23.

ATHENS, Greece - Greece's leftwing government promised Monday to overhaul the country's private TV licensing system in the next two weeks as part of reforms it says will target corruption.

GRANADA, Colorado - If you aren't careful on this southeastern Colorado rural highway, you might easily pass the signs leading to a site that marks a dark and unjust episode in U.S. history.

ISTANBUL - Turkish news agencies say a court has issued an arrest warrant for a prominent lawyer in the Kurdish southeast on terrorist propaganda charges.

MOSCOW - Last year's runner-up Irina-Camelia Begu was among the winners on the first day of main draw play at the Kremlin Cup on Monday, while Angelique Kerber withdrew from the tournament.