Britney Spears tweeted a new video. In it, the singer, dressed in a crop top, short shorts and a shirt elegantly dropped to her shoulders (she even changes outfit in the middle of the video!), is painting something in the garden of her house. Then we see the painting that Spears is working on: it can safely be called a masterpiece of naive art (and the right side of the canvas resembles a rainbow version of Edvard Munch's The Scream).

Stargal / Photobank Lori School No. 15 Balashikha In one of the schools near Moscow, the teacher left her position after instead of a lesson showed schoolchildren a new adaptation of Stephen King’s book “It” about an evil clown terrorizing children and adolescents. According to media reports, this caused the indignation of the mother of one of the schoolgirls, but the Ombudsman Ksenia Mishonova, the teacher later, later stood up for the teacher.

On October 14, the police in Crimea detained 49 people who participated in uncoordinated pickets, the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. It was not specified in which settlements these people were detained. “After receiving explanations from them and conducting preventive conversations, all participants in the events were released from the police department premises,” Interfax quotes the report as saying.

A parade-carnival of the participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students took place in Moscow, which takes place in Russia from October 14 to 22. The parade started at 15:00 on Vasilyevsky Spusk and ended near the Luzhniki sports complex, where a festive concert is taking place. How many people took part in the procession is not yet specified.

Eike Schroter / ABC At the end of September, the ABC channel began the series “Good Doctor” made by the same showranner as Dr. House - David Shor. “Good Doctor” is one of the most anticipated normal series (that is, those that can be watched by the whole family or one eye) of this fall. But when he came out, the opinions of critics were divided: some call the series secondary, others - naive.

Canadian Joshua Boyle, released with his family from captivity in Pakistan, said that Haqqani militants killed his daughter and raped his wife, Kaitlen Coleman. He read the text about this to reporters upon arrival at the Toronto airport. According to Boyle, the murder of his daughter was revenge for his refusals to agree to some Haqqani proposal. He did not say what proposal he was talking about.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Can Navalny become president?

Amazon Studios has announced the end of a series starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore, which was to be produced in collaboration with The Weinstein Company. The decision was made in connection with numerous allegations of sexual harassment against one of the founders of The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein; the project's cancellation was announced shortly after Amazon Studios suspended CEO Roy Price over similar allegations.

Off the coast of Côte dʼIvoire on October 14, an An-series transport aircraft crashed with ten people on board. As a result of the crash, four citizens of Moldova were killed. Two Moldovans and four French citizens were injured. The plane was carrying cargo from the French armed forces from Burkina Faso to the capital of Côte dʼIvoire.

Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko, who heads the Batkivshchyna faction in the Verkhovna Rada, announced plans to run in the 2019 presidential elections in Ukraine. “I will not entrust this matter to anyone else. <...> We will win in order to put the country on its feet, ”she said on the air of the NewsOne TV channel on the evening of October 13. “I have trusted the leaders of the country more than once, including my voice to govern the country.

The Office of the Ohio Inspector General Network (or Svitch), to which the computers found under the ceiling were connected The Verge published the story of Adam Johnston, a prisoner who managed to secretly get a computer and even gain access to a prison database. For 17 years, from his 35, Johnston spent in conclusion: he was convicted of murder related to drugs.

The Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation instructed the heads of regions and federal departments to collect data on positive changes in the country in order to create a positive agenda in the media before the 2018 elections. This is reported by BBC Russian Service, citing sources in the Kremlin, the government and companies operating in various industries.

Roskomnadzor reported that it demanded that the social network VKontakte and the video hosting YouTube remove pages about the “subcultures of ‘zatseping’ and ‘roofing’ .” According to the agency, 187 pages have already been removed, and another 91 “are in the process of being removed.” According to a press release from Roskomnadzor, the content of these pages “may attract young people to commit extreme acts, including those that are life-threatening.” The department added that “the subcultures

Galina Yuzefovich - about two fantastic novels (excellent and not very) The Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich tells about two new novels in the science fiction genre: the good literary debut of the Englishman Nika Harkuay “The World that Distant” and the new, not the most successful novel of the famous American science fiction writer Nile Stevenson “Semiyevia”. Nick Harkway. The world that disappeared. M.: AST Publishing House, 2017. Translation by E. Romanova.

Members of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission on history, which in early October recommended that the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky be deprived of the degree of Doctor of Science, published a statement in connection with the “discussion in the media” that arose around this decision. The experts said that their conclusion about Medinsky's work was not caused by "disagreement with his 'vision of history' or his 'patriotic stance'".