The total number of people injured in protests in France against the increase in fuel taxes has reached 528 people, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said. Among them are 92 law enforcement officers. Castaner also noted that the number of protesters on Monday, November 19, decreased: according to his data, 27,000 people took to the streets that day. From January 1, 2019, the French authorities raise the tax on diesel fuel by 6.5%, on gasoline - by 2.9%.

Forbes magazine has published its annual ranking of the highest paid singers. It was led by Katy Perry, who earned $83 million in a year. Taylor Swift came in second with 80 million and Beyoncé came in third with 65 million. Both of these singers released a new album each during the reporting period. Katy Perry, who did not release records, earned more as she held a large-scale tour, Forbes notes.

Fighters of Russian private military companies have appealed to the International Criminal Court with a demand to start an investigation against the organizers of the PMCs. This was reported by Radio Liberty.

The bitcoin exchange rate fell below $ 5,000 for one bitcoin. According to Agence France-Presse, this has happened for the first time since October 2017. According to the CoinDesk service, which tracks the cost of cryptocurrency on various exchanges, the minimum value of the exchange rate in the last few hours was $4,951.47 per bitcoin.

Disabled people want sex lives and they’re talking about it, but no one in Russia is listening Anna Ivantsova for Meduza Sergey Basalaev Fifteen years ago, Sergey Basalaev saw the movie “Basic Instinct,” and consciously experienced sexual desire for the first time in his life. He was 20 years old at the time. Watching the scene where Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone dance in a night club, he suddenly realized that something “wrong” was happening to him.

Maxim Grigoryev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta clash of ChOP employees and local residents on Ivan Franko Street in Kuntsevo, November 19, 2018 The PIK Group of Companies wants to build up two quarters in Kuntsevo. The company insists that local residents will receive apartments with the best layout In December 2016, the Moscow Urban Planning Commission, headed by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, considered the reconstruction project of the 47th and 48th quarter in the Kuntsevsky district.

After a severe storm in Antarctica, a group of emperor penguins, which were observed by documentaries from BBC Earth, found themselves at the bottom of a ravine. For several days the birds could not get out of the trap - the walls were too steep and slippery. After that, some females still managed to climb the slope. They had to abandon their cubs - and they began to die of hunger. Members of the BBC Earth team decided to intervene - they took shovels and dug small steps in the ravine.

Twitter user MagicTheygirl shared how she programmed a neural network to generate images that look like a cross between a Pomeranian and a pomegranate . The neural network did a great job! Inspired by the experiment's results, MagicTheygirl asked the neural network to cross a pomegranate with a chow chow. In the comments, users noted that the intermediate fusion of a spitz and a garnet resembles a real living creature - the dumbo octopus.

Since the fall of 2018, all European football teams have been participating in a new tournament called the UEFA League. According to the plan of European football officials, the tournament, whose matches are distributed according to the calendar for a whole year, should replace comradely matches that do not cause much interest among fans. At first, very many were skeptical of the idea, but now, closer to the end of the first stage of the tournament, it becomes obvious that UEFA was right.

In 1918, Dziga Vertov made a film about the revolution. They lost it, and now - restored pieces from archives International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam Moscow after the 1917 February Revolution. Frame from the film "The Environment of Revolution" On November 20, at the IDFA documentary movie festival in Amsterdam, the debut film of the pioneer of the Soviet documentary of the Soviet Vertov “The Environment of Revolution” will be shown.

The 20th Century Fox studio has released the trailer for the freight version of Deadpool 2. The film, intended only for adults, has turned into a picture with a rating of 13+, which children can watch. 20th Century Fox Since 2006, the FOX studio persuaded Ryan Reynolds (he plays the protagonist) to star in the film about Deadpool with a rating of 13+. He agreed to do this on two conditions-firstly, some of the fees should go to charity.

Filip Singer / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On the anniversary of the beginning of the “velvet revolution” in Prague, a thousands of protest was held with a demand for the resignation of the country's Prime Minister Andrei Babish. About 20 thousand people passed from the Prague city to the old city with the flags of the European Union. They demanded that the departure of not only Babish, but also the President of the country Milos Zeman, who is considered an ally of the head of government.

At the beginning of November 2018, United Russia deputies announced a bill on “cyber squads”. According to the authors, they will have to help law enforcement agencies find illegal information on the Internet. Cyber ​​squads will be formed from volunteers who are over 18 years old. According to the deputies, cyber vigilantes should notify Roskomnadzor about their activities. We don’t know for sure - the text of the bill has not yet been published.

In Russia, the size of unemployment benefits has been increased, and payments have been introduced for unemployed people of pre-retirement age . The corresponding government decree was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. From January 1, 2019, the minimum unemployment benefit will increase from 850 to 1,500 rubles, and the maximum from 4,900 to 8,000 rubles. Pre-retirement age citizens who are left without work will receive from 1.5 thousand rubles to 11,280 rubles.

On November 19, the classic shooter Half-Life turned 20 years old. In honor of the anniversary, the developers of his fan Rome Black Mesa released a trailer in which they showed the alien world of Zen. This is one of the last levels of the original Half-Life. Black Mesa Fans worked on the final location for more than two years (the output of the new version of Black Mesa was repeatedly postponed). They significantly remade the design of levels and the behavior of computer characters.