Новости за 24.11.2015

LOS ANGELES - Pity TV fans back in the day, eager to buy really cool merchandise tie-ins to their favorite series but victims of bad timing.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

LOS ANGELES - John Stamos was sentenced to three years of probation Tuesday after he pleaded no contest to driving under the influence of a drug earlier this year.

NEW YORK - A highly regarded play about a fractious family's Thanksgiving get-together has something to really be thankful for this holiday season - it's going to Broadway.

NEW YORK - No one is coming close to challenging "The Big Bang Theory" when Americans turn on prime-time television in search of a few laughs.

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's state-run oil company says a fire at one of its refineries has injured eight people.

NEW YORK - If you catch the latest national tour of "Annie," you're in for a treat - the original director and lyricist is running the show. That's like drinking real Coke after years of only having New Coke.

PORTAGE, Indiana - Six members of a northwestern Indiana family alerted by a police officer knocking on their door escaped an early morning house fire.

EVANSVILLE, Indiana - The Tropicana Evansville casino will move from its current riverboat docked along the Ohio River to a new $50 million onshore facility under a plan announced Tuesday.

NEW YORK - Albie Hecht has quit as chief executive of the HLN network, leaving the CNN offshoot in search of a new boss.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian police say they have enhanced security measures for the country's top public officials after six people were detained last week in two separate cases and a "bomb lab" was found.

NEW YORK - Two activists featured in the campus rape documentary "The Hunting Ground" have compiled a book of "intensely personal" stories about sexual assault.

TUNIS, Tunisia - The latest on an explosion that targeted a bus carrying Tunisian presidential guards in the capital. All times local.

LOS ANGELES - Looking for a holiday present that's a perfect fit, procrastinator-friendly and a constant reminder of your generosity? Consider a gift subscription to one of the abundance of streaming choices that range from mainstream to niche.

NEW YORK - Regulators are proposing new procedures to monitor high-speed trading more closely in response to wild market swings brought on by a series of technical breakdowns.

LOS ANGELES - For those who have not heard his Latin-infused solo debut "Perfectamundo," Billy Gibbons offers this warning, "For the uninitiated I'll leave it with one word: Beware."

BEIRUT - An Assyrian group says Islamic State militants have released 10 more Assyrian Christian hostages they had held captive in Syria since February.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a businessman with close ties to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on suspicion of fraud in a bid for a drill ship contract with state-owned oil company Petrobras.

BEIRUT - The latest on the Russian warplane shot down by Turkey on Tuesday. All times local:

NEW YORK - The sudden collapse of the largest nonprofit insurance cooperative created by President Barack Obama's health care law is causing headaches in New York, especially for medical providers owed millions of dollars for treating the failed plan's patients.

BENGHAZI, Libya - A security official with Libya's Islamist government says a suicide car bombing struck a checkpoint in a town near the capital, Tripoli, killing five militia fighters.

NEW YORK - Erykah Badu is answering a phone call: her new eyeglasses are ready, and the frames are available for pick-up when she has time.

PARIS - The Paris attackers exploited intelligence holes from France to Syria, authorities say, taking advantage of mistrust between European governments, France's overwhelmed security services and the collapse of authority across the war zone contested by the Islamic State group.

GREENFIELD, Indiana - Police have arrested a mother and son accused of operating an unlicensed adult-care facility out of a duplex in central Indiana.

BRUSSELS - When extremists began their bloody attack on Paris on Nov. 13, it triggered the activation of an emergency response plan to treat the injured - and while 302 people were rushed to hospitals, only four died, according to a report published Tuesday in the journal, Lancet.