In Jordan, a school bus was washed away during a rainstorm. As a result, at least 17 people died, most of them children. In total, according to preliminary data, there were 37 schoolchildren and seven adults on the bus. Some of the survivors are in critical condition. They went on an excursion around the Dead Sea. Because of the incident, King Abdullah canceled his trip to Bahrain. The Israeli military joined the search and rescue operation.

The Open Media publication found direct flights from the Cypriot city of Larnaca to Simferopol in the booking system on the S7 airline website. Flights to Crimea from the territory of the European Union were banned after the annexation of the peninsula to Russia in 2014. Round-trip flights were scheduled for November 6 and 7 and cost 131,000 rubles per ticket. At the time of publication of the news on the S7 website, there are only flights on this route with a transfer in Moscow.

Update. A TASS source said that "the police received a false call." In the north-west of Moscow, a policeman was wounded in the head with a firearm, TASS reports, citing a law enforcement source. Whether the police officer survived and under what circumstances the shooting took place has not yet been specified. The incident occurred on Aviatsionnaya Street, not far from the Schukinskaya metro station, the agency writes.

The bombs sent to former President Barack Obama and other Democratic politicians in the United States were, according to investigators, assembled according to instructions from the Internet. This was reported by Reuters, citing a source. As the agency's sources note, such instructions are distributed on Islamist websites. Alternatively, the bomb's design may have been taken from The Anarchist's Cookbook. There is no information yet about possible suspects in the bomb mailing case.

A painting created by artificial intelligence was sold at Christie's for $432,500. This is the first such work sold at a major auction, Chirstieʼs said; Initially, the lot was estimated at 7-10 thousand dollars. The painting is called "Portrait of Edmond Belamy" and is part of the "Belami Family" series , created by the French team Obvious with the help of artificial intelligence, which studied 15,000 portraits of the 14th-20th centuries.

On October 22, the Murmansk bailiffs announced that they managed to calculate and catch the hidden debtor on alimony thanks to the information received from his video blog.

Google can be fined 500-700 thousand rubles for refusing to connect to the system with a list of sites blocked in Russia. It is reported by Roskomnadzor. As follows from the message, Google, at the request of Roskomnadzor, had to connect to this system to exclude blocked sites from the issuance, but did not do this.

Scientists have been trying to solve the mathematical shortest superpermutation problem since 1993. You don't have to be a mathematician to understand it. Just imagine the numbers 1, 2, 3. Permutation - these three numbers in any order: 123, 213, 321. There are six permutations in this case. And there is a superpermutation. This is a number series of all possible permutations, each of which is present in this series once.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow opened a criminal case on the attempted murder of a teenager, a video of the beating of which was published the day before. “Using an insignificant excuse, [teenagers] began to inflict multiple punches and kicks on the head and vital organs of their peers. After the young man fell to the ground and asked for help, the attackers continued to strike with their feet, ”the Investigative Committee said.

A state of emergency has been introduced in Sochi, Tuapse and Absheron regions due to flooding. The corresponding order was given by the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratiev. An operational headquarters has been set up in Tuapse to ensure the organization of measures to eliminate the consequences of the emergency. In the Krasnodar Territory, due to heavy rains that took place on October 24 and 25, the water level in the rivers rose sharply.

We looked at him - and yes, now there will be spoilers Netflix Caitlin Zellner (on the right) checks what traces on the bullet remain after it passes through the skull On the Netflix channel, the second season of the documentary series “Making A Murderer” was released - you can watch it in English with English or Russian subtitles). The show talks about Stephen Avery, who was most likely not committed by a life -condemned murder.

Kinsa The manufacturer of the smart degree of smart degrees Kinsa sells statistics collected from users about their health to other companies. These data are then used to target advertising, writes The New York Times. The startup Kinsa, founded in 2012, launched the first model of a smart thermometer in 2014 on the market. The thermometer synchronizes with the smartphone and transmits information about the temperature and symptoms of a possible disease there.

The lower house of the Russian parliament approved in the first reading a package of bills on the introduction of a special tax regime for self-employed citizens. For the self-employed who provide services to individuals, it is proposed to set a tax rate of 4%, for those who provide services to individual entrepreneurs and legal entities - 6%. It will be possible to apply these tax rates only if the income does not exceed 2.4 million rubles per year (about 200 thousand rubles per month).

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on a special tax regime for the self-employed - “professional income tax”. For now, the regime will operate only in Moscow, the Moscow and Kaluga regions and Tatarstan. This is called the "experimental regime" and will last until 2028. The word “self-employed” usually refers to people whose income is not related to a formal job or a registered business, such as private tutors or nannies.

Other Russia activist Olga Shalina opened her veins at the Interpolitech exhibition of state security equipment, her close friend Maria Alekhina told Meduza. During the exhibition held at VDNKh, Shalina climbed onto the exhibited paddy wagon, scattered leaflets with the words “FSIN is hell”, after which she opened her veins. Standing on the roof of the car, as eyewitnesses say , the activist spoke for at least 10 minutes about the situation of prisoners in Russian colonies.