The terrorist attack on the Christmas market in the center of Berlin on December 19 was carried out by a "warrior of the Islamic State". The corresponding message was spread by the news agency IG "Amak". On the evening of December 19, a truck drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market near Kurfürstendamm and Zoo train station. As a result, 12 people died and 48 were injured. The incident was classified as a terrorist attack.

The US Treasury Department announced the expansion of sanctions against Russia in connection with the conflict in Ukraine. The sanctions list includes several Russian companies, seven individuals and two seagoing vessels, the oil tankers Marshal Zhukov and Stalingrad. Most of the companies included in the sanctions list are mainly associated with Crimea: State Unitary Enterprise "Crimean Sea Ports", "Crimean Railway", LLC "RosChemTrade".

Photo: Valery Sharifulolin / TASS Coffin with the body of the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, who was shot in Ankara on December 19, is met at the Vnukovo Moscow Airport.

Sony has released the first teaser trailer for Emoji: The Movie (originally titled Emoji: Express Yourself ). "Hello. As you can see, I am an emoji. And I'm happy to announce our first movie," says the tired smiley face 😕 at the beginning of the teaser. Comicbook.comTHE EMOJI MOVIE — Official Trailer #1 (2017) Animated Comedy Movie HD According to the plot, emoji live in the Textopolis messenger, where each emoticon has only one face.

Berlin police have released a man who was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the December 19 Christmas market attack. According to Focus, citing a statement from the Berlin prosecutor's office, he has not been charged, there is no evidence against him. Earlier, Die Welt, citing its own sources, reported that the man detained by the police had nothing to do with the attack, and the performer remained at large.

The mother of two children Tom Yorka died of cancer On December 18, Rachel Owen, an artist and teacher of Italian, specialist in Dante's Divine Comedy, died of cancer . Most Radiohead lovers know her as the “same Rachel” with which the leader of the group Tom York lived together for 23 years and which gave birth to two children. In 2015, the couple dispersed, and it was not difficult to find the echoes of this event in the songs from the last album of the Radiohead “A Moon Shape Pool”.

The video blogger Casey Neistat, who was conducted for a year and a half of the super -popular video blog in daily mode, and in November 2016 sharply stopped doing this, released a new video. In it, Neustat rides a snowboard, clinging to a huge drone. The drone, who collected Neustat and his friends, is so powerful that he was able to raise a blogger several meters. And with its help you can ride up the slope. Caseyneistat Human Flying Drone

Foreign intelligence services continue to try to gain access to information of a political, military, economic and scientific nature. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a gala evening dedicated to the Day of the Security Service Worker. According to the President, the timely discovery of any enemy plans against Russia, no matter where they come from, is of the utmost importance.

What are they saying about the new part of the Star Wars? (Spoilers!) Photo: Lucasfilm / Walt Disney In Russia, an Outcast-one came out: Star Wars. Stories ”-spin-off classic series George Lucas. The film talks about how the rebels stole the drawings of the death star in front of the IV episode of the movie saga. In the first weekend, the picture raised $ 290 million (155 million of them in the USA and Canada).

The head of the Center for Combating Extremism in Ingushetia, Timur Khamkhoev, was accused of beating a detainee to death. According to the Investigative Committee, in July 2016 Khamkhoev and his accomplices, other policemen, beat a man and a woman, demanding to confess to an assault on the Ingush branch of Rosselkhozbank in the settlement of Sunzha. The beaten man died in the premises of the "E" Center. Timur Khamkhoev and six of his subordinates were detained on December 7, 2016.

SK started a case of causing death by negligence Photo from the archive of Natalia Kösegi On Tuesday, December 20, the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region opened a criminal case of causing death by negligence. On December 15, the driver of the taxi service “lucky” took a 77-year-old man at the wrong address and left one in an unfamiliar village. He was searched for a day, while in the taxi service itself they refused to help both the relatives of the man and the police.

Photo: UMIT BEKTAS / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Coffin with the body of the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is carried to an airplane at Ankara airport. On the evening of December 19, the ambassador was shot dead when he made a speech at the opening of an exhibition in the Turkish capital. On December 20, the body of the murdered will be delivered to Moscow.

"Medusa" found out which bonuses are laid for those whose Mastersard card is connected to Apple Pay Photo: Cultura Creative (RF) / Alamy / Vida Press Apple Pay technology came to Russia just a few months ago. The first to pay for purchases with a smartphone were Mastersard cards, who tied their cards to Apple Pay. In order for users to get used to paying with the help of a new contactless technology, Mastersard organized a series of different discounts and promotions.

Concentrate for baths "Hawthorn" in Irkutsk poisoned 97 people, 58 of them died. This was announced by the press secretary of the regional Ministry of Health Tatyana Lebedeva. According to Lebedeva, 34 people died in hospitals, while the rest "were taken to the forensic medical examination bureau by ritual services." 38 people remain in hospitals. Another one was released. In the Irkutsk region, a state of emergency has been introduced in connection with the mass poisoning of "Hawthorn".

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was killed in Ankara; he was shot by Turkish police officer Mevlüt Altintas, who shouted: “Don’t forget Aleppo! Don't forget Syria! Almost immediately, the attacker was shot dead by Turkish security forces. Russia, Türkiye and the UN Security Council called the incident a terrorist attack. Turkish authorities believe that Altintas is associated with the Gulenist movement, which is recognized as terrorist in the country.