Новости за 15.01.2016

Merck will pay $830 million to resolve a federal class-action lawsuit involving shareholders and the painkiller Vioxx, which the drugmaker pulled from the market years ago over safety concerns.

CHICAGO - Grain futures were mixed Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A former Dutch soldier has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the killing of combatants from the Islamic State group in Syria while fighting with a Kurdish militia.

GITEGA, Burundi - A court in Burundi has sentenced four generals who were the alleged leaders of a failed coup to life in prison.

MINNEAPOLIS - U.S. Bancorp said Friday that its fourth-quarter net income slipped less than 1 percent from a year ago, and its adjusted earnings met Wall Street expectations.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - In the course of six years without a major terrorist attack, Indonesia had grown more and more confident that it had stayed on top of any threat from Islamic militants.

BERLIN - A town in western Germany has banned male refugees from a swimming pool after complaints of harassment from female bathers and staff - news that comes as a national poll Friday showed that Germans are becoming increasingly concerned about the country's ability to integrate the huge numbers of asylum-seekers who arrived last year.

BEDFORD, Indiana - A southern Indiana county is moving toward state approval for a needle exchange program to combat its hepatitis C epidemic.

KEY WEST, Florida - Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter says he was just trying to enjoy a vacation when he was arrested outside a Florida Keys bar.

BRUSSELS - The European Union's reputation is being tarnished by the failure of member countries to manage the refugee emergency, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned Friday.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Authorities in Turkmenistan have publicly burned piles of cigarettes as they embark on a campaign to stamp out smoking spearheaded by the healthy living-obsessed president.

SKOPJE, Macedonia - Macedonia's prime minister has submitted his resignation to the speaker of Parliament, launching the procedure that should see him replaced by a caretaker until early elections April 24.

WARSAW, Poland - The daughter of respected Polish World War II Gen. Wladyslaw Anders has been appointed to head a council that preserves wartime monuments to Polish troops worldwide.

ABUJA, Nigeria - President Muhammadu Buhari is ordering an investigation into Boko Haram's mass kidnapping of the schoolgirls from Chibok and its aftermath, but signaled no progress in efforts to rescue the students abducted nearly two years ago.

WASHINGTON - Americans tapered off from shopping toward the end of the holiday season, while lower gasoline prices cut into overall retail sales in December.

PASADENA, California - Say what you want about the Kardashians, they know how to take care of the family business.

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Parliament on Friday adopted disputed new regulations for police surveillance that widen its scope but also put it under stricter court control.

WASHINGTON - U.S. producer prices fell slightly in December, reflecting a big drop in energy prices. The decline capped a year in which prices at the wholesale level fell, underscoring the continued absence of inflationary pressures.

FRANKFORT, Indiana - Crews repossessing a sports utility vehicle last Friday likely saved a pit bull terrier's life.

PASADENA, California - In the grandly silly tradition of "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" comes TV police show parody "Angie Tribeca," which started as a husband and wife's private joke.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis authorities say a domestic violence suspect in custody died in the back of an ambulance after a medical emergency.

MISHAWAKA, Indiana - There's a room in Grissom Middle School where books, paper and pencils have given way to video games, air hockey and pop-a-shot.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida - Port St. Lucie, a disparate series of residential developments and strip malls, had little to boast beyond its proximity to a nuclear plant and its fame as the spring training home of the New York Mets. Then Lily Zhong came to town, plunked down $500,000 for vacant land and promised to finally build a real downtown.

UPLAND, Indiana - Taylor University has cancelled a student trip to Turkey in the wake of a suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed 10 tourists.

INDIANAPOLIS - State officials are kicking off a new state-wide campaign to combat distracted driving with the unveiling of a specialty license plate for Indiana drivers.