In the Georgian village of Kistauri (in the eastern part of the country), a local resident, peasant Otar Saakashvili, was arrested, the Caucasian Knot reports . According to the publication, he was arrested in early October after he tried to find out why one of the wineries (Badagoni) did not accept grapes from peasants.

The Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia has agreed to pay two students a total of $610,000 in compensation for being spied on by webcams on their laptops, the Associated Press reports . Laptops were issued to schoolchildren for study, but some computers were running a program that discreetly took pictures through a webcam. The students were not warned about this feature. The case began in February 2010 when Harriton High School student Blake Robbins filed a lawsuit.

Work on Steven Spielberg's game known as Project LMNO has been discontinued, Joystiq reports. Representatives of the publishing house Electronic Arts announced this to the site. They emphasize that, despite the cancellation of the game, the publishing house continues to cooperate with the famous film director. Rumors about the cancellation of Project LMNO have been circulating in the press for a long time.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development has canceled open competitions for the creation of two information systems worth 20 and 35 million rubles, respectively. The winners were allocated 16 calendar days to implement the first project , and for the second .

Thailand has introduced a 15 percent tax on bond yields for foreign investors holding local securities. The Financial Times reports this. In this way, the state is trying to combat the influx of capital, which leads to too rapid growth of the national currency. Similar measures were taken by several countries, including Brazil, South Korea and Indonesia, but in Thailand they turned out to be the most radical. The new tax will come into force on October 13.

The current winner of the Gagarin Cup, Kazan Ak Bars, interrupted a two-game losing streak in the 2010/11 KHL regular season. On Tuesday, October 12, Ak Bars defeated Sibir. The match, held in Novosibirsk, ended with a score of 3:2 in overtime, the official KHL website reports. Vasily Tokranov, Alexey Emelin and Evgeny Skachkov distinguished themselves for Ak Bars. Skachkov scored the winning goal in the third minute of overtime after a pass from Ilya Nikulin.

Cellular operators and Internet providers may be forced to pay royalties for downloading music. Corresponding amendments to the Law “On Communications” were submitted to the State Duma on October 11. newspaper writes about this The Kommersant . The bill was developed by deputies from the United Russia party, headed by Vladislav Reznik , who also holds the position of chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market.

In Bremen, sappers found a warehouse of weapons and ammunition from World War II on the territory of one of the kindergartens on Schleswig Strasse, Radio Bremen reports. In an underground cache at a depth of about two meters, carbines and ammunition for them, faust cartridges, as well as disassembled machine guns and parts of hand grenades were discovered. Apparently, the weapons were hidden at the end of the war by one of the infantry units or militias.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to take control of the case of the head of the Nizhny Tagil branch of the City Without Drugs Foundation, Yegor Bychkov. radio station reported this on October 12 The Ekho Moskvy , citing presidential press secretary Natalya Timakova . It was previously reported that the frontman of the Chaif ​​group, Vladimir Shakhrin, was able to hand over the materials of Bychkov’s case to Medvedev during a personal meeting .

The city authorities decided to introduce penalties for placing advertisements on asphalt. reports this RIA Novosti . According to Vladimir Makarov, head of the Moscow Advertising, Information and Design Committee, violators will most likely be fined. The head of the committee noted that recently the number of advertising on asphalt has increased significantly, and therefore the authorities decided to fight it. At the moment, the final decision on the punishment has not yet been made.

Former head coach of the Russian national hockey team Vladimir Krikunov compared St. Petersburg SKA with an excellent herd that “does not have a traveling shepherd.” Krikunov noted that SKA has a “crazy selection of players,” but he does not know what kind of coach the team’s coach, Ivan Zanatta, is, writes the Hockey Truth publication .

India will test launch the upgraded Agni-II Plus medium-range ballistic missile in 2011. This as reported by The Hindu was stated by the Director General of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of India, Vijay Kumar Saraswat, . According to him, the modernized missile will differ from the conventional Agni-II in increased range, accuracy and lethality. As TNN clarifies , the launch of a new ballistic missile could take place before the end of 2010, in the next two months.

The Irish High Court has handed down a verdict in the case of internet service provider UPC against major record labels. According to the court's decision, the provider is not obliged to disconnect its users from the Internet for downloading pirated content, writes The Irish Times .

China has become the largest consumer of energy resources in the world, surpassing the United States in this indicator, Reuters reports citing the director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Nobuo Tanaka. Speaking at an industry conference, Tanaka said that demand for energy resources in China is growing and currently about half of all oil produced in the world goes to the Chinese market. No one can predict when this market will become saturated, the IEA director said.

The company "Esta-Holding" of billionaire Rinat Akhmetov plans to reconstruct the building of the Kyiv Central Department Store that it owns. As writes , the department store will most likely become an analogue of the famous London store Harrods. the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya A company representative emphasized that the TSUM building will remain as an integral architectural ensemble: “We will not touch anything from the outside, since this is a historical and beloved building.