On September 29, a demonstration was held in Barcelona in support of the actions of the police, who a year ago interfered with a referendum on the recognition of the independence of Catalonia. Supporters of the department also took to the streets and began to throw paint in demonstrators. After that, clashes with the police began, as a result of which 24 people were injured. Six were detained.

In the United States, an appeals court overturned a lower court's 2016 acquittal of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in a plagiarism case involving Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven". The court came to the conclusion that during the trial, the judge did not instruct the jury properly, incorrectly explaining to them the features of copyright.

A resident of New Hampshire, Steve Geddes, grew the largest pumpkin in US history: its weight was 2528 pounds, that is, 1146 kilograms. This pumpkin brought Geddes the first prize of the Deerfield Fair - six thousand dollars. According to an international organization that registers record-breaking pumpkins, the vegetable grown by Geddes is only 76 kilograms lighter than the world record holder, a pumpkin grown in 2016 by Belgian Matthias Wilemijns.

Eric Boone / Splash News / Vida News Cristiano Ronaldo in a nightclub in Las Vegas, June 2009 In April 2017, Der Spiegel said that one of the best football players in the world Cristiano Ronaldo paid 375 thousand dollars to a woman who accused him of rape. The article was based on the documents of the Football Leaks project, which publishes leaks about famous football players - the woman herself was not called the article, then flatly refused to communicate with journalists.

In Barcelona, ​​clashes between supporters of Catalan independence and police officers occurred, resulting in 24 people being injured. Six people were detained. The protesters had gathered to disrupt another demonstration - one in support of police actions that tried to disrupt the vote during the independence referendum a year ago. Police officers lined up to block the demonstrators' path. Clashes broke out after pro-independence protesters began throwing paint at their opponents.

Muhammad Rifki / AFP / Scanpix / Leta medical workers help those who have suffered from the earthquake and tsunami in the city of Palai on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Local authorities have already confirmed the death of more than 380 people.

In April, Gmail for the first time since 2011 updated the design of his web version. The update gradually appeared in different groups of users and should now be available to everyone. There are several new functions in the new version, but we decided to talk not so much about them as at all about how best to use mail, if you receive a lot of letters every day. Get rid of the excess in the design Gmail gives greater freedom to choose the appearance of the mailbox.

The fact that the vice-governor of the Voronezh region, Yuri Agibalov, retired, received 23 salaries and returned to work, said the Telegram channel "Nezigar". Sources of Kommersant confirmed this information; One of them said that "everything was done 100% according to the law, but at the same time 100% vile." The exact amount of compensation is unknown, but Kommersant writes about “hundreds of thousands of rubles”.

In Donetsk, an explosion occurred in a building where a congress of the Communist Party of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic was taking place. As a result, four people were injured, including Igor Khakimzyanov , one of the candidates for the post of head of the DPR. According to an Interfax source, the explosive device was presumably planted in the building the day before the congress.

The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on September 28 Oleg Sentsov, who was starving since mid-May, was taken from the colony to the Labytnang city hospital for examination. On the same day, the Federal Penitentiary Service published a new photo of Sentsov, without specifying exactly when she was made. September 29-139th day of the hunger strike Oleg Sentsov.

Galina Yuzefovich - about three good foreign novels Neil Williams. History of rain. M.: Eksmo, 2018. Translation by A. Osipov By including the novel by the Irishman Neil Williams in the Prose of Secret Feelings and Dreams series and packing it in the most delicate mauve cover, Russian publishers did everything to conceal this book from the reader to whom it was actually addressed.

Russian Daniil Kvyat will return to the Toro Rosso team in Formula 1 racing in the 2019 season. He will replace Frenchman Pierre Gasly in the team, who will move to the Red Bull Racing team. Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost said Kvyat "deserves another chance in F1." “He has faced difficult situations in the past, but I am sure that he has had time to grow up aside from racing and this will help him demonstrate his undoubted qualities on the track,” he said.

The heroine of the film "Complicity" - about life in a colony for minors and after it "Artdokfest" Medusa continues to present films from the competitive program of the Artdox Festival Festival - it will be held from October 19 to 23 in Riga and from December 6 to 12 in Moscow.

Journalist Sergei Kanev, who worked at the Investigation Management Center and participated in a recent investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat about Boshirov and Petrov, was forced to “urgently” leave Russia, reports Proekt, citing sources.

American singer Marty Balin, one of the founders of the Jefferson Airplane group, died at the age of 76. Close musician did not name the reason for his death. Balin founded Jefferson AirPlane, one of the most popular American psychedelic rock bands of the second half of the 1960s, along with the guitarist Paul Cantner (died in 2016) in San Francisco in 1965. He was one of the three main vocalists and authors of songs in the group, along with Cantner and Grace Slick.