Coastal areas of the Philippines are preparing to deal with the effects of Typhoon Maggie, the strongest tropical cyclone to approach the country's shores in the past four years, the Associated Press reports . The typhoon is expected to reach the Philippine provinces of Isabela and Cagayan on the afternoon of Monday, October 18.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Northwestern District upheld the cassation appeal of the social network " Vkontakte " against the decision to recover one million rubles from it in favor of VGTRK for distributing the film "Piranha Hunt", the licensing rights to which this television and radio company owns. This was reported on the website of the Vedomosti newspaper .

In Buryatia, the head of the municipal formation "Ivolginsky District" Alexander Tsydenov was fined by the court for 40 thousand rubles for beating the head of the administration of the rural settlement "Ivolginskoye" Viktor Ochirov, reports the website of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Buryatia.

The new head coach of the Moscow hockey club "Spartak" Igor Pavlov said that the team's task under his leadership will be to reach the playoffs, and in the knockout matches "Spartak" intends to "make some noise" - to go through one, two or three rounds. writes about this The newspaper "Sport-Express" . Pavlov became the coach of Spartak on October 16, 2010. Previously, the 45-year-old Latvian specialist worked as an assistant to the head coach of Sibir Novosibirsk.

The hosting company Reality Check Network suffered a hacker attack on October 16, writes TorrentFreak . As a result, all the resources to which it provides hosting services were disconnected from the Internet. These companies included large torrent trackers such as Torrents.net, TorrentReactor and others. At the time of writing, the websites of the provider and these trackers were not open.

The European company Airbus Military has announced its intention to offer the Indian Ministry of Defense the purchase of a promising A400M Grizzly military transport aircraft, Aviation Week reports . According to the company's plans, the official offer to the Indian military will be made in 2011. According to Airbus Military, in the Indian Air Force, the A400M will be able to fill the niche not occupied by the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aircraft.

Martin Freeman will star as a hobbit in Peter Jackson's upcoming film , Deadline reports . Rumors have been circulating since September 2010 that Freeman, best known for his role as Watson in the Sherlock miniseries, has been offered the role of young Bilbo Baggins. According to Deadline, Warner Bros.

I argued until I was hoarse on Skype with a colleague, an excellent teacher. She says that now she will do everything differently than before, when she was little and I was younger. Well, why, he says, force children to learn poetry? Why should they remember about one uncle who “ruled the most honestly,” or about another who must say whether “Moscow, burned by fire, was given to the Frenchman for nothing”?

HTC has introduced the Gratia smartphone in Europe, writes Engadget with reference to the company's press release. This model will run on the Android 2.2 mobile platform, on top of which the HTC Sense interface will be installed. Gratia is equipped with a 3.2-inch multi-touch screen with a resolution of 320 by 480 pixels. This model has a built-in five-megapixel camera with autofocus. Moreover, it is already sold in the USA under the name HTC Aria.

13 thousand subscribers in Birobidzhan and 3,200 subscribers in Khabarovsk were left without the Internet. reports this ITAR-TASS . According to Vesti.ru , the outage is due to a fire in a cable well in Khabarovsk, which occurred on the night of Monday, October 18. Due to damage to the fiber-optic cables of Transtelecom companies, more than 11 thousand telephone exchange subscribers also lost communications.

Juventus captain Alessandro Del Piero repeated the club's scoring record, set about 50 years ago. On October 17, Del Piero scored his 178th goal for Juventus in the Italian championship and repeated the achievement of Giampaolo Bonipetri, who played in the Turin team in 1946-1961, writes La Gazzetta dello Sport. Del Piero scored his 178th national league goal in a home match against Lecce.

The head of the Helikon Opera theater Dmitry Bertman received an offer to head one of the Swedish theaters, RIA Novosti reports . The director has not yet decided on the answer, but said that his decision will depend on the actions of the Moscow government, which the day before suspended the reconstruction of the Helikon Opera building. “The decision on the Helikon Opera will also be the decision of my fate,” Bertman said in a conversation with the agency.

A seriously ill woman, convicted of causing grievous bodily harm, died in the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center on the night of October 17. reports this Interfax with reference to the official representative of the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service Sergei Tsygankov. According to him, the body of 57-year-old Natalya Khokhlova was found in one of the cells of the detention center. According to preliminary data, death occurred from acute cardiovascular failure.

Based on posts on the Twitter microblog, you can predict changes in the Dow Jones index. This conclusion was reached by scientists who analyzed entries made in microblogs from March to December 2008. A preprint of the authors' work is available on arXiv.org. In total, experts took into account 9.7 million posts written by 2.7 million Twitter users in their study.

18.10.2010, 09:41:26 version Print | PDA/PDA Roger Kornberg. Photo ©AFP The nature of great discoveries Interview with the 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Why do people go to lectures by outstanding specialists? Looking at an elderly (or not so elderly) person who has something to do with something great and getting their autograph is certainly not bad, but it is hardly the only reason why people crowd in lines and then sit or stand for hours in a stuffy room.