About 10 million pounds sterling from the personal funds of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain were invested in offshore companies. Such data is contained in the Paradise Papers dossier. The offshore funds in the Cayman and Bermuda Islands, according to documents, were invested by the Duchy of Lancaster, which manages the queen's personal funds.

A helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia carrying Prince Mansour bin Muqrin and several high-ranking officials, including the governor of Ansour province. Saudi Arabian television, according to the Kuwaiti agency KUNA, announced the death of the prince, without specifying any details of what happened, except that the helicopter crashed near the border with Yemen. No survivors of the plane crash have been reported.

A gunman opened fire at a Baptist church in the small town of Sutherland Springs in Texas, USA. At least 27 people were killed and "more than 20-25" were injured, a police spokesman . said ABC News, citing a source, reports about 20 killed and 30 wounded. In total, the service was reportedly attended by about 50 people. According to the local press, the attacker was killed after a short chase . No details about his identity have yet been released. The FBI is at the scene of the massacre.

In Moscow, because of anonymous calls about the threat of explosions, the Bolshoi Theater, GUM and Central Department Stores, as well as the Metropol and National hotels were evacuated. This is reported by the Interfax agency . More than 10,000 people have been evacuated, he said. Not a single bomb was found during the checks. Earlier, on November 5, Moscow evacuated the Kosmos cinema, the Aeroport shopping center on Leningradsky Prospekt, and the Vysota cinema.

Tatyana Makeeva / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On November 5, 2017, supporters of the politician Vyacheslav Maltsev, according to his plan, were supposed to take to the streets and not leave them until the regime of Vladimir Putin would fall. Members of the Maltsev’s informal movement “Artillery” began to be detained in different cities of Russia since October; Some of them are accused of terrorism, the organization itself is also recognized as extremist.

Update. The Belgian court released Puigdemont and his associates, taking from them an obligation not to leave the country and to appear at the request of the investigator. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who was ousted from power, and four ministers of his government voluntarily surrendered to the Belgian police, where they fled after the decision of the Spanish authorities to introduce direct control in Catalonia.

In the Russian Lotto lottery, a jackpot of 506 million rubles was played. The winner was a resident of the Voronezh region. His winnings are the largest in the history of Russian lotteries. The jackpot was drawn on November 5 in the 1204 draw of Russian Lotto. The Russian Lotto lottery is run by the Russian Ministry of Sports. The drawing is shown on the air of the NTV channel.

American Hilabi / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Prince Al-Valid Bin Talal in Gidda, May 11, 2017 On November 5, it became known that several members of the royal family, as well as dozens of former and current government officials, were arrested in Saudi Arabia.

The prosecutor's office of Tatarstan demanded to withdraw the methodological recommendations of November 3, which establish the obligatory study of the Tatar language in schools. The supervisory authority believes that this item does not meet federal educational standards, and by issuing a “manual”, the regional Ministry of Education and Science went beyond its competence. “Such actions of the ministry are of a repeated nature,” the department notes.

Update. According to OVD -Info, as of 15:00 Moscow time, 310 people were detained in Moscow and six other Russian cities. 286 of them were detained in the capital. At least 237 people were detained in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Perm and Rostov-on-Don. It is reported by "OVD-Info". Most of the detainees in Moscow - at least 212 people.

On November 4, the Google News news aggregator began showing materials from the Federal News Agency (FAN) again, the agency's editors said. In addition, the FAN archive for 2014-2017 is again available in the aggregator. Note that FAN news was unblocked on a holiday on November 4 at 22:00 Moscow time, when the Russian office of Google Incorporated on Balchug Street, according to our information, was not working. At the same time in the United States at that time it was 14:00 in the afternoon.

John Stillwell / Pa / Scanpix / Leta on the night of November 5, during the celebration of the Night of Guy Fox, in the British city of Edenbridge burned a ten -meter stuffed producer Harvey Weinstein, accused of sexual harassment. Every year, for 20 years, residents of Edenbrida choose the "villain" from the news and burn his stuffed animal on the night of Guy Fox. In 2016, Donald Trump was such a “villain”.

The story of the physicist Matvey Bronstein and his wife Lydia Chukovskaya. Fragment of the book "Solar matter" The last photograph of Matvey Bronstein, 1937. From the archive of L.K. Chukovskaya. With the support of the “Book Projects of Dmitry Zimin,” the “ solar substance ” is supported by Corpus-a collection of popular science documentary stories physicist Matvey Bronstein.

More than 80 people were detained on Manezhnaya Square in the center of Moscow. It is reported by "OVD-Info". A police cordon has been set up in the square. Police officers are searching some passers-by. Open Russia also reports on detentions in St. Petersburg. According to her, two people were detained near Smolny.

Actor Harry Dreyfus, son of Oscar winner Richard Dreyfus, wrote for Buzzfeed about being harassed by Kevin Spacey at the age of 18. The publication notes that Harry's words were confirmed by five people to whom he told about the incident, including his father and brother. The incident took place in 2008 when Richard Dreyfuss was in a London theater play, The Old Vic, directed by Spacey.