On Monday, November 25, former captain of the English football club Manchester United, Bill Foulkes, died at the age of 82. This was reported on the club's official Twitter. Foulkes was one of nine team players to survive the 1958 Munich plane crash. After the death of half the team, the Englishman received the captain's armband. Foulkes, who played as a defender, spent his entire career - from 1952 to 1970 - with United. Over the years he played 688 games.

Publisher EA has closed the FIFA Manager series of football management simulators. The creator and lead designer of the simulators, Gerald Koehler, announced this in an open letter . FIFA Manager 14, which went on sale in October, was the latest installment in the series. He explained that football management simulators as a genre are most popular in two countries - England and Germany, where in recent years the entire market for such games belongs to just one series.

The attacking midfielder of the St. Petersburg football club “Zenith” Miguel Danny will miss the Champions League group tournament match with Atlético Madrid. This was reported by the official website of the Russian team with reference to head coach Luciano Spalletti. The Italian added that defenders Alexander Anyukov and Cristan Ansaldi will not play against Atlético.

The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh has sentenced those accused of attacking the American consulate in Jeddah in 2004. The Saudi Gazette newspaper, published in this city, writes about this. The decision was announced on Sunday, November 24. The terrorist who survived the attack was sentenced to death, and the remaining 19 convicts will have to spend from one and a half to 23 years in prison. All 20 convicts were members of a terrorist group, the total number of which was 55 people.

Amazon is developing a new generation of Kindle Paperwhite readers, TechCrunch reports. A feature of the devices will be a clearer screen than their predecessors. The display resolution will be three hundred dots per inch. By comparison, today's Kindle Paperwhites have 212 pixels per inch of display. That's less than rival Kobo. The Kobo Aura HD reader, released in 2013, has a screen resolution of 265 dpi. The screen will not be the only innovation in the device.

An American man, taken to Mexico at the age of three, met his mother after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the United States illegally. reported this on November 24 Reuters . In November, 37-year-old Mexican citizen David Amaya Barrick was detained in California along with other illegal migrants. At first he identified himself as Mexican, but later said that, according to his grandparents, he was born in Chicago.

The US Air Force has signed a contract with the American company Northrop Grumman for the maintenance of A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, Defense News reports. The transaction amount was $24 million. The signing of the agreement took place despite the possible decommissioning of all attack aircraft of this type in the next few years due to a sharp reduction in defense budget spending.

id Software founder John Carmack has finally left the studio. Eurogamer reports this with reference to studio director Tim Willits. As Willits said in a statement, Carmack left because he is now more interested in creating other projects rather than developing id Software games. The studio director also assured that Carmack's final resignation will not affect the studio's projects, since his work on the id 5 engine and other technologies necessary for creating games has now been completed.

The State Border Service of Ukraine accused Vitaliy Klitschko of violating the access control regime at customs at Krivoy Rog airport. This is reported on the department's website . As the report says, on the afternoon of November 24, Klitschko refused to go through customs control at the Krivoy Rog airport, where the plane the politician was flying on made an unscheduled landing.

The Russian metallurgical company Mechel has agreed with international banks on covenant holidays until the end of 2014. This was reported in a press release from the organization. The agreement was signed on a syndicated loan worth a billion dollars. On the part of the creditors, the agreement was concluded by the banks ING, Société Générale, UniCredit, Commerzbank, Raiffeisen Bank, VTB, Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation, ICBC.

The Investigative Committee transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office the materials of the criminal case initiated against oppositionists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev. This was reported on the Investigative Committee website on November 25. Now the supervisory agency must approve the indictment, after which the case will be sent to court.

The United Nations officially announced on November 25 that the Syria peace conference will begin on January 22, 2014 in Geneva, reports the Associated Press . The UN Secretary-General, commenting on this message, expressed the hope that the conference will become an instrument for ending the civil war and peaceful transformation of Syria.

In the episode of Family Guy that aired on Sunday, November 24, talking dog Brian, one of the regular characters of the animated series, died. Fox has produced a video dedicated to Brian's memory. The series is called “Life of Brian” - the same name as the Monty Python film released in 1979. According to its plot, the dog is playing on the street with Stewie (the youngest child of the Family Guy and one of the main characters of the series) and gets hit by a car.

Teachers from Great Britain set a new world record. They made what Sky News reported was the longest journey ever on a covered three-wheeled scooter, also known as a tuk-tuk. 28-year-old Richard Sears and Nick Gough traveled about 37.5 thousand kilometers in a tuk-tuk, traveling through Asia, Africa and South America. The men made their way as part of an action to help educational projects in developing countries. So far the teachers have visited 37 countries and are currently in Peru.

German engineers have tested an eighteen-rotor electric helicopter designed for short flights. A video of the first flight of the Volocopter prototype was published by e-volo, a startup created to develop it. A working model of a remote-controlled helicopter, as reported on the startup's website, can be in the air for 20 minutes - in the near future the creators of Volocopter plan to increase the flight time to an hour. There is no word on the prototype's carrying capacity.