On October 1, the contract between the US Department of Commerce and the Corporation for Domain Names and IP Addresses (ICANN), which allowed the US government to control the infrastructure of the Internet, expired. The corresponding statement is published on the ICANN website. It refers to the "historic moment" of the transfer of Internet governance to the private sector.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of three police officers accused of creating dens for pedophiles in order to blackmail them. Andrey Lomakin, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovskoye District, Alexander Rubanov, detective of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Perovo District, and Igor Frolov, an officer of the Criminal Investigation Department, were taken into custody.

The ban on abortions or their exclusion from the compulsory health insurance system will lead to an increase in the number of poor people in Russia. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Tatyana Yakovleva. “We will make even more of the poor population. If free abortions are abruptly made paid or banned, then they will be done anyway, but only for money.

Samsung has resumed sales of the Galaxy Note 7 phones, which were previously recalled due to a manufacturing defect that caused the devices to explode and catch fire. Phones went on sale in South Korea. When they will be available in other countries, it is not specified. The Samsung press service told Meduza that the malfunctions that were identified in the phones have been fixed. Analysts estimate that Samsung will sell about 20,000 phones daily.

The mystery of a lonely traveler, the secret of the master with a piece of paper and other detective stories described by journalists Photo: Australian Police In August 2016, The Daily Beast published detailed material about the death of two tourists from Holland in the jungle of Panama, which occurred under extremely mysterious circumstances. There are not so many truly mystical stories that journalists around the world are written; Medusa retells the most interesting of them.

A film about the Pigmei tribe disappearing with the onset of civilization In Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, in December 2016, the Artdokfest documentary festival will be held. Several films from the competitive program will be shown in October in Riga as part of the International Film Festival. Twice a week, the President of Artdokfest Vitaly Mansky tells at Medusa about all films participating in the competition.

US President Barack Obama had to rush ex-president Bill Clinton on the way from Israel to America. "Bill! Come on! " - shouted Obama Clinton when he climbed aboard the aircraft. Clinton, who was at the ramp, did not react to this call. Obama had to repeat: “Bill! Come on! I need to go home! " In the end, Clinton climbed aboard, greeted the president, shook his hand and patted his back.

As the hero of the harmless comic book turned into a symbol of hatred On September 28, the American non-governmental organization “Anti-Difamation League”, engaged in the fight against anti-Semitism, introduced the frog Pepe into the list of hate symbols, equating him to the swastika, the flag of the Confederation and the Cross “Kuklux-Clan”.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that Russia could become a rogue state because of its actions in Syria. “The attitude towards Russia in the world is deteriorating <…> If they continue to do what they are doing, they will lose any sympathy,” Johnson said in an interview with The Sun tabloid. The British minister accused Russia of war crimes in Syria.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Olga Golodets said that almost five million people in Russia work for the minimum wage. “Poverty hit the working people. This is a special situation. This trend has become serious,” Golodets said. According to RIA Novosti, the Deputy Prime Minister admitted that since 2014, "poverty has been steadily growing" in Russia. Golodets noted that the issue of raising the level of the minimum wage to the level of the living wage is now being discussed.

Saudi Arabia is sued in Washington over the September 11, 2001 attacks. Stephanie Ross DeSimone, the widow of an American soldier who died in a plane crash on the Pentagon, made a statement. The lawsuit is also filed on behalf of her daughter: Desimone was pregnant when her husband died. Desimone demands compensation from Saudi Arabia. Its amount is unknown. The lawsuit alleges that Saudi Arabia provided support to al-Qaeda terrorists and the leader of this organization, Osama bin Laden.

Scottish boxer Mike Towell has died in hospital after being knocked down twice by his opponent. The fight took place in Glasgow on Thursday 29 September. Towell was knocked down in the first round, but managed to continue the fight. In the fifth round, after the second knockdown of the Scottish boxer, the referee stopped the fight. Towell was given first aid in the ring and taken to the hospital on a stretcher. 25-year-old Mike Towell has previously fought 12 fights in his professional career.

The Ambassador of the Netherlands will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in connection with the publication of the report of the international commission investigating the crash of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk.

Podcasting is the distribution of audio over the Internet. The word appeared in 2004, thanks to the crossing of the recently appeared iPod and broadcast (“broadcast”). Using this technology, people began to create unique channels in which they post audio programs with varying degrees of regularity. Sometimes it's like regular talk radio, and sometimes it's like a real documentary. In some countries, podcasts are a big world.