Petersburg "Zenith" beat "Valencia" in the first round of the group stage of the Champions League. The match in Spain ended with the score 2:3. The match was broadcast by the NTV channel. In the first half, Zenit took the lead thanks to two goals from the Hulk. Valencia bounced back - first Joao Cancela scored, and then Andre Gomes. The decisive goal was scored by Zenit player Axel Witzel. Zenit and Valencia play in a group with Lyon and Gent. These teams played in Belgium in a draw (1:1).

Apple has released a new operating system for mobile devices iOS 9. It is available for download, but as a rule, the first time the download can be quite long. The new version of the OS has a battery saving mode, as well as the Wi-Fi Assist service - it turns off networks with a weak signal. In addition, in iOS 9, apps will take up less space than before.

Illustration: Daria Sazanovich / "Laddy, you are a transformer" Writer Larisa Renar, author of eight books about “female power” and energy, has been teaching women to meet men and attract them for many years. In particular, she offers a course of six trainings of 17 thousand rubles each. Among the exercises that the followers of the Renar practice are the rotation of the funnels of the female power.

Photo: ESA / Rosetta / PHILAE / Rolis / DLR The European Space Agency published a video in which the fall of the Phil Sunde on the comet Churumov-Gerasimenko through the eyes of the apparatus itself was recreated. The video is glued from photographs taken in November 2014, when he headed to the surface of the comet.

Two Russian pranksters have taken credit for fooling British musician Elton John into believing he received a phone call from Vladimir Putin earlier this week. Alexey Stolyarov ("Lexus") and Vladimir Krasnov ("Vovan") announced today to Russian News Service that they are the ones who telephoned Elton John, pretending to be Putin. Lexus says he claimed to be Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, and Vovan pretended to be the Russian President.

Apple has delayed the first major operating system update for the Apple Watch. On September 16, the second version of WatchOS was supposed to be released. According to the company, the update had to be postponed due to a bug that would take longer to fix than planned. iOS 9, as planned, will be released on September 16th. A new release date for WatchOS 2 has not been announced. WatchOS 2 allows you to create apps that can interact directly with sensors.

The US Embassy was suspended from the work of the American Center at the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature. The library notified the embassy of the termination of the cooperation agreement, and also warned that the director of the American Center would be replaced. "The US Embassy in Moscow deeply regrets the Russian government's unilateral decision to close the American Center," US Ambassador John Tefft said in a statement.

How a sitting governor may be implicated in the 2010 murder attempt on independent journalist Oleg Kashin Photo: Maxim Andreev / Kommersant On September 7, the public learned the names of the alleged attackers who nearly killed opposition journalist Oleg Kashin in 2010. The men seem to be linked to Andrei Turchak, Pskov's powerful governor. Turchak and his allies, however, remain free, while incriminating evidence against them piles up.

The prisoner raised all Manchester to his ears. Photo gallery Photo: Joel Goodman / Lnp / Rex / Vida Press On the afternoon of Sunday, September 13, the prisoned prison of Strangevays in Manchester got out on its roof. He spent the next 61 hour there. Stuart Horner, who was serving a 27-year-old deadline for the murder of his uncle, protested against the poor conditions of maintenance in prison: he paced the roof in one underwear, beat the glass with iron rods, and crushed surveillance cameras.

The deputy head of Russia's Joint Chiefs, Nikolai Boganovsky, has admitted the possibility that Moscow might construct an air force base in Syria. "There are no plans for any such base today, but anything can happen," Boganovsky told the news agency Interfax-AVN . On September 14, Bloomberg reported that Russia is currently leading talks on removing Assad from power.

Ilya Rozhdestvensky - about how Russian police are trying citizens Photo: Tatyana Makeeva / Reuters / Scanpix In the suburbs, after interrogation in the police, a member of the Group "Firebird" Sergey Pestov died. On September 4, the police broke into the garage, where he rehearsed with his friends, put on all handcuffs and began to beat the musician. Then he was taken to the station. Pestov needed medical care; Doctors who came to the department stated that he was in a coma of the third degree.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Bogdanovsky admitted the possibility of building a Russian air force base in Syria. “Today, there are no such plans, but anything is possible,” quoted Bogdanovsky as saying. Interfax-AVN Since the beginning of September, there have been regular reports in the media about an increase in the Russian military presence in Syria.

Tajikistan has carried out a special operation to exterminate the armed supporters of rebel General Abdukhalim Nazarzod, says an Tajikistani Interior Ministry representative. The Interior Ministry representative says General Nazarzod's last remaining eight supporters were eliminated earlier today, on September 16, in the Ramit Gorge. The identities of the rebels will be disclosed after an investigation is conducted.

Photo: Ray Tang / Rex / Vida Press In June 2015, the name of the buyer of the most expensive brand in the world - “British Guiana” became known. A year earlier, as it turned out, it was acquired by the shoe designer Stewart Vaitsman, put the brand in the back pocket of his trousers and went home. Mark cost him nine and a half million dollars. It was not always worth it. Some than one and a half centuries ago, it cost only one center Esquire tells the story of this rare brand.

The state prosecutor demanded that Dmitry Semenov, a member of the regional council of the Parnassus party in Chuvashia, be fined 200 thousand rubles for reposting a demotivator with an image of Dmitry Medvedev in a fur hat and with the inscription “Death to the Russian reptile.” Semenov announced this on his Twitter. Semenov is accused of public calls for extremism.