Italian tennis player Roberta Vinci beat Serena Williams in the semifinals of the US Open with a score of 2:6, 6:4, 6:4 and prevented the American from setting a historic achievement: to win all the Grand Slam tournaments in one calendar year. Serena Williams was the main favorite of the tournament, which she had already won last year. Roberta Vinci did not even receive a seeded number - the organizers of the US Open did not rank her among the favorites.

Screen capture: SobiNewsRussia1 / YouTube An Army major at a Russian military base in Bryansk has been forced to file for a transfer, following the discovery that his 15-year-old daughter was filmed with three friends "twerking" throughout the city in public, including at a World War II monument dedicated to two local infantry divisions. Bryansk oblast prosecutors have opened an investigation into the video, though it's not yet clear what the nature of the girls' crime might be.

A crane fell on the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, the largest mosque in the world. As a result, 62 people died. At least 30 people were injured. The crane fell due to strong winds. Now the Saudi authorities are preparing for the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage, which will begin later in September. Al-Haram Mosque (Reserved Mosque) is the main and largest mosque in the world. In its inner courtyard is the main shrine of Islam - the Kaaba.

The most crazy ideas of entrepreneur Ilona Mask Photo: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters / Scanpix The founder of the private space company SpaceX and the lively prototype of the Iron Man, Ilon Musk, proposed increasing the temperature of Mars using thermonuclear explosions - and this is not his first crazy idea. "Medusa" talks about the most amazing offers of Ilon Mask. Before the base of SpaceX, Elon Musk was a fairly successful startup of Silicon Valley.

In a Vkontakte blog post today, the ruler of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called on Russian lawmakers to draft legislation that would ban judges from issuing rulings of any kind that concern the Koran and other holy texts. On September 7, it was revealed that a judge in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ruled earlier this summer that the book "Prayers to God, Their Purpose and Place in Islam" constitutes a work of illegal extremism.

The Security Service of Ukraine announced that the murder of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov was prevented. In this case, the head of the Slobozhanshchina battalion was detained in Kharkov. According to the SBU, the group was preparing other murders. Battalion "Slobozhanshchina" is headed by Andrey Yangolenko. about his detention shortly before the official press release .

The Tagansky Court of Moscow decided to arrest Andrey Popov, who calls himself "God Kuzey", on suspicion of fraud. The investigation petitioned for Popov's arrest. The suspect's defense insisted on his release. According to Popov's lawyers, the man cannot move independently and is visually impaired.

Rebellious general Abdukhalim Nazarzoda was killed in Tajikistan, Asia-Plus reports. According to his source, Nazarzoda was killed in the Romit Gorge, where he was hiding with his supporters. This information has not been officially confirmed. The source did not provide details, citing the fact that an official statement should be prepared.

Alexander Gorbunov, the man who journalist Oleg Kashin says hired three men to kill him in December 2010, has been released unexpectedly from pretrial detainment, Kashin reported (with photos of the apparent release forms) earlier today on Facebook. Gorbunov is said to have been released on his own recognizance. Gorbunov is the CEO of the St.-Petersburg-based Leninets Holding Company, which designs and produces aircraft electronics and weapons-targeting systems.

Alexander Gorbunov, the alleged organizer of the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin, was released from the pre-trial detention center. Kashin himself announced this and published a corresponding resolution on Facebook. Here's about the subscription. Posted by Oleg Kashin on Friday, September 11, 2015 Alexander Gorbunov was the manager of the Leninets enterprise, which is partly owned by the Turchakov family. In June 2015, it became known that Gorbunov was arrested for weapons possession.

The UK House of Commons voted down a bill to legalize euthanasia in England and Wales. He was supported by only 118 deputies with 330 votes against. According to the bill, terminally ill patients who had no more than six months to live, at their request, were asked to prescribe a lethal dose of drugs that the patient would take on their own. This would require the conclusion of two doctors and the approval of the court. The bill was drafted by Labor MP Rob Marris.

The remains of the last Romanov children, Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria (son and daughter of Nicholas II), will be buried in Peter and Paul Fortress, the original citadel of St. Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great. The burial ceremony will take place on October 18, 2015. The remains of Alexei and Maria will be buried alongside their family members, who were buried there in 1998 after their bodies were discovered by archeologists.

At least 5.4 billion rubles (about $80 million) has been stolen from the funds allocated by the Russian government to the construction of the “Vostochny” cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Police have launched an investigation into possible money laundering. $5.4 million are officially reported as missing in the case files. Earlier, however, Russia’s Attorney General had said 7.5 billion rubles ($126 million) had gone missing at some point in the construction project.

Austrian politician Alexander Spritzendorfer posted a video showing policemen guarding a camp in Resk, Hungary, throwing food at a crowd of migrants. The process of distributing food was filmed by the politician's wife Michaela Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser, who brought essential items to the camp as part of a charitable mission.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko disclosed in an interview with a Ukrainian news channel why the EU and the US have refused to provide weapons to Ukraine, saying, “I was given two reasons. First, you don’t have an army. What you do have is infiltrated by Russian agents, and everything we give you will end up in Russia.