A train carrying crude oil derailed in the US state of Alabama. This was reported on November 8 by the local ABC News branch. The incident occurred near the town of Aliceville in the west of the state. The derailed train, notes Reuters , consisted of 90 oil tanks; 20 of them derailed, and 11 caught fire as a result of the crash. Oil began to leak onto the ground, but it is unclear whether any of it entered nearby water bodies.

Producer of the group “Tender May” Andrei Razin filed a lawsuit against the NTV television company. reported this on November 8 RIA Novosti . Razin demands to recover 16 million rubles from NTV as compensation for material damage he suffered after the cancellation of the group’s concerts.

The results of monitoring the effectiveness of universities are officially published on the website of the Main Information and Computing Center. The message about the publication of monitoring results on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science is dated November 7, but on the morning of November 8 it was not available in the “News” section on the department’s website. some results reported Earlier, on the afternoon of November 7, Rossiyskaya Gazeta .

Google will update the rules for installing extensions for its Chrome browser on the Windows operating system. This is stated in a press release received by the editors of Lenta.ru. Users will only be allowed to download extensions from the official Chrome Web Store. You will no longer be able to install browser extensions obtained from third-party sources. The new rules will come into force in January 2014.

The governor of the Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, filed a lawsuit to protect his business reputation against State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergei Mamaev. reports this Interfax . According to Belykh’s lawyer, in October 2013, in one of his public statements, Mamaev made statements discrediting the governor, which, according to the plaintiff, are untrue.

“Nobody calls the American currency $ollar” Designer and type designer Yuri Gordon about the ruble sign Ruble signs in various typefaces from the Letterhead studio. Illustration: Yuri Gordon This week, voting for the ruble sign, the symbol of the Russian currency, which began to be chosen back in 2007, opened on the Bank of Russia website.

Some time ago, Vicarious announced that it had taught a computer to solve 90 percent of CAPTCHA tests. Captcha is a well-known “humanity test”, an image in which only a flesh and blood user can recognize the information. The usual type of captcha is several letters and numbers in a distorted form, placed on a non-uniform background to prevent it from being read by a computer. Captcha is correctly called a reverse Turing test.

An explosion occurred in the Paris Palace of Sports (Palais des Sports) on the evening of November 8, L'Express reports, citing the police. According to L'Express, seven people were injured as a result of the incident. Three of them are in serious condition. Meanwhile, Le Parisien reports fifteen wounded. A pyrotechnics explosion occurred during a rehearsal for the play “1789. Les amants de la Bastille" (“1789. Lovers of the Bastille”).

This week in Nature, appeared details of an almost detective story that unfolded in the quiet world of classical zoological systematics and taxonomy. An international team of scientists has discovered that the baby elephant described by Carl Linnaeus in his Sistema Naturae can no longer be a syntype of the Indian elephant and that the animal painted by Rembrandt in 1637 must be replaced in its place.

Russian Railways announced a competition to attract loans in the amount of 75 billion rubles in 2014. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to company materials. The monopoly announced a competition for six lots: three for 10 billion and three for 15 billion rubles. The loan term will range from two to five years. Applications are accepted until November 27.

The former general director of Oboronstroy OJSC Larisa Egorina cooperated with the investigation in the Oboronservis case, but refused to admit her guilt, and she will be tried on a general basis. newspaper writes about this on Friday, November 8 The Kommersant .

The Russian Foreign Ministry advised singer Grigory Leps to take into account the “international context” when planning his foreign trips. this on Friday at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications.

The American Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is on vacation in the United States, but intends to return to Moscow soon. about this The diplomat wrote in his microblog against the backdrop of reports that appeared in the Russian media about his likely imminent resignation. “I only came to Stanford now on VACATION,” the ambassador’s tweet reads. “I’m returning to Moscow next week.” Information about McFaul's resignation was published on November 8 in Gazeta.ru.

The leading symphony orchestra of the Netherlands, the Concertgebouw, will give two concerts in Moscow. As reported in a press release received by Lenta.ru, the performances will take place on November 9 and 10 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. On November 9, the Concertgebouw will perform Beethoven's piano concerto No. 3 and the symphonic poem "A Hero's Life" by Richard Strauss.

The European Trust Bank (“Eurotrust”) has suspended accepting new deposits from individuals. Sergei Charikhov, director of the retail business department of the financial organization, told Lenta.ru about this. According to him, this decision is due to the fact that the bank has accumulated excess liquidity, and the cost of raising funds from the population is high. The financial institution will continue to accept deposits from legal entities.