In France, about 110 people were stuck in 36 cabins on a cable car in the Mont Blanc mountain range due to technical problems. The cable car connecting the peaks of Aiguille du Midi (3842 meters) and Helbroner (3462 meters) stopped at about 17:30 local time (18:30 Moscow time) on September 8, writes Le Figaro. Rescuers from France and Italy began an operation to evacuate people, however, according to the Italian agency ANSA, it was suspended due to weather conditions.

NASA has launched the Osiris-REX spacecraft, which has to reach Benn asteroid and take a sample of soil on it. The ATLAS V rocket brought the apparatus into the space. The launch occurred from Cape Canveral on September 9 at 2:05 PM in Moscow, as planned. Photo: ula Photo: NASA Photo: NASA Asteroid Benn - rotates around the sun not so far from the earth, between Venus and Mars. With a small degree of probability, it can crash into the ground in the next century. Osiris will get to it in 2018.

During the attack on collectors in Moscow on September 8, at least 50 million rubles were stolen. This is reported by "Kommersant" without indicating the source. Alfa-Bank, which owned the stolen money, refused to comment on the details of the incident, the newspaper writes. At first, all three [collectors] allegedly claimed that there was no money in the car, then they began to name different amounts of stolen money.

The official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Markin, apologized to Novaya Gazeta journalist Nadezhda Prusenkova for the “rude statement” addressed to her. Earlier, he called Prusenkov, who convicted him of plagiarism from her article, "a useless journalist." “I publicly apologize to Nadezhda Prusenkova, whom I offended as a woman and a journalist with a rude statement unusual for me,” wrote on Twitter.

On Novy Arbat in Moscow, a taxi collided with a BMW car, which was the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov. This is reported by "Gazeta.ru" without indicating the source. No one was injured in the accident. There is no confirmation of Surkov's involvement in the incident. According to RIA Novosti, BMW had a number from the federal special series of AMR numbers. Gazeta.ru, citing a source close to Surkov, reported that the car was assigned to him.

On the Novokurkinskoye highway in Moscow on the evening of September 8, an accident occurred involving a bus, KamAZ and four cars. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow traffic police. As a result, bus and truck drivers were injured. They are both hospitalized. According to the press service of Mosgortrans, the bus driver received "significant injuries", Interfax reports . The Moskva agency, citing a source, writes that the man lost both legs.

The New York Times published an article about the former governor of New Mexico and US presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who admitted that he did not know what Aleppo is. During an interview with MSNBC, the politician asked the journalist: "What is Aleppo?" At the same time, Nyt herself informed readers that Aleppo is the capital of the Islamic State terrorist organization.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation acknowledged that in 2014-2016 the Russian army received more awards than in previous years, and explained this fact by “an increase in the intensity of sudden checks of the combat readiness of troops and other combat training activities in the army and navy.” Thus, the Ministry of Defense responded to the report of the Bellingcat research group, published on August 31.

The Moscow police found two cars in which the criminals who robbed collectors fled the scene of the crime. It is reported by TASS. “In the course of the Interception plan, police officers found two Zhiguli cars, in which the thieves who robbed collectors fled,” the police said. The search for the robbers continues. On the afternoon of September 8, on Tushinskaya Street in Moscow, an attack was made on collectors.

What are they saying about the iPhone 7 and wireless headphones? Photo: Stephen Lam / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Apple in the evening of September 7 introduced the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus without a 3.5-mm headphone port, as well as Apple AirPods wireless headphones for $ 159 and a new Apple Watch watch model. This is the first presentation in a few years, which showed so many really new products, so it is not surprising that they are all discussed.

Five people took part in the attack on the car of collectors in Moscow on September 8. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow police. The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that the robbers managed to take bags of money from the collectors when they carried them out of the burning car into the street. After that, the criminals fled in two VAZ cars. The stolen funds belonged to Alfa-Bank. This was confirmed by the press service of the institution, Interfax reports.

The Reddit user spoke about the unusual question that his teacher included in the test. The teacher himself never celebrated those present in the classroom, and on the day of the exam left the city. In the test, which was given to the students in the middle of the quarter (apparently, the case took place back in 2015, and the exam was in mathematics), the last question sounded like this: “About half a quarter has already passed. So, I suppose everyone knows me.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of new heads of the department of internal security of the FSB of Russia. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta, citing a source in the security service. Aleksey Komkov, the former head of the 2nd service of the CSS, became the head of the department (according to the publication, he is engaged in planning operational activities and is known as "counterintelligence in counterintelligence").

In the city of Alpine in western Texas, a school was shot at. According to preliminary data, one person was injured, his condition is not specified. Police said they were looking for two suspects. All schools in Alpine are closed. Students were evacuated from the school where the shooting took place. In total, about 280 people study in it. About 6,500 people live in the city of Alpine.

A fan of conspiracy theories became a victim of conspiracy therapists and declared war on them: The New York Magazine Photo: Frank Becerra Jr. / AP / Scanpix / Leta The murder of 27 people at the Sandy Hook school in 2012 is one of the worst crimes in modern US history. True, among the supporters of the theories of the conspiracy, the version is popular that in fact there was no murder: the government allegedly staged the death of schoolchildren to tighten the control of weapons.