Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz was attacked at a charity concert. This information was confirmed to the Polish TV channel TVP Info by the mayor's press secretary Magdalena Skorupka-Kaczmarek. The attacker burst onto the stage while Adamovich was giving a speech and stabbed the mayor several times with a sharp object, probably a knife. Adamovich was given first aid at the scene and then taken to hospital, Onet writes . His condition is considered extremely serious. The attacker was detained.

Kanye West will not perform at the Coachella festival, where he was supposed to be one of the headliners, due to disagreements between the musician and the festival organizers, Billboard reports, citing sources. In early January, West said he didn't want to perform on the Coachella main stage and instead asked for a "giant dome" to be built for him in the middle of the festival grounds.

The temporarily acting as the first deputy governor of the Vladimir region, Marina Chekunova, will take part in the general cleaning of the hospital of the city of Stronino, whose doctors she advised to hang the curtains and wash the floors. Chekunova talked to the hospital staff on January 11. She talked about plans to repair the building and advised employees to put things in order in the hospital. “We will discuss the problems, but look at yourself. Hang the curtains, wash the floors, where?

On the evening of January 12, a video with a hashtag #DeleChallenge was posted on the Twitter of the Moscow Tubmary Transport Operator Mosgortrans. On it, buses in chorus are “singing” the hit of the British singer Adele “Someone Like You”. Flashmob #DeleChallenge originated on the Tiktok social network, where users upload short videos. The first video was posted with the hashtag #haribochallenge, because the marmalade bear Haribo “sang along” Adele “sang along” it.

In Paris, rescuers found the body of a woman who was reported missing after an explosion at a bakery. This is reported by BFM TV with reference to the office of the city prosecutor. It is assumed that the deceased lived in an apartment located above the bakery. Her remains have not yet been identified. The explosion happened on January 12th. According to preliminary data, it was caused by a gas leak.

A passenger plane of the Czech airline SmartWings, flying to Prague, left the runway at Sheremetyevo Airport. This was reported to Interfax by a source in the air traffic control services. The incident occurred after a 300-meter run before takeoff from Sheremetyevo. “The crew did not hold the plane, and it drifted 100 meters to the left of the runway,” the source said. According to him, there were 40 passengers and seven crew members on board. None of them were hurt.

The Washington State Department of Transportation in the USA figured out how to deal with the theft of road signs - they began to write other, less interesting for the thieves, numbers. Since 2012, the agency has had to replace 608 distance signs on state highways. Most of them were taken by motorists "as a keepsake" because they liked the numbers. Most often in recent years, two signs have been stolen - with marks of 69 and 420 miles.

17-year-old American provoked an accident in the city of Layton (Utah). The girl was driving a car blindfolded, deciding to participate in a flash mob based on the horror movie Bird Box. Bird Box Challenge (the so-called flash mob based on the "Bird Box") while driving ... a predictable result. It happened on Monday because the driver was blindfolded while driving [on] Layton Parkway. Fortunately, there were no injuries.

On January 10, New Zealand nanotechnology specialist Michelle Dickinson tweeted a picture consisting of black and white vertical stripes. “You can only see this optical illusion if you shake your head (I'm serious),” she wrote. What is the illusion? The cat's face is hidden in the picture. In the comments, Twitter users said that the illusion can be seen in another way - instead, you can shake the phone screen or move the page with the picture up and down.

The Russian women's biathlon team won the relay at the World Cup in Oberhof, Germany. The relay was run by Evgenia Pavlova, Margarita Vasilyeva, Larisa Kuklina and Ekaterina Yurlova. This is the first victory for the team in seven years. The last time the Russians won the relay was in 2012, also in Oberhof, Sports.ru notes. Updated .

A resident of the Bashkir city of Uchaly shot his wife and two other people, after which he committed suicide. This was reported by the Department of the Investigative Committee of Bashkiria. The crime took place on the night of January 13th. A man, being drunk, quarreled with his wife; she ran away to the neighbors. He took a gun and, pursuing his wife, killed a neighbor, and also wounded her husband and another neighbor, who soon died in the hospital.

The Lublin Court of Moscow returned the director of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, a statement of claim against politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported to Interfax by the press service of the court. The reason for the return was the shortcomings in the statement of claim, which Zolotov did not eliminate in due time. Viktor Zolotov filed a lawsuit against Alexei Navalny for the protection of honor and dignity on December 11.

Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press / Pa Images / Scanpix / Leta rally in protection of the lands of the tribe is vestes. Vancouver, January 8, 2019 The construction of the gas pipeline in the west of Canada is engaged in Coastal Gaslink. The gas pipeline with a length of 670 kilometers is supposed to be used for the export of natural gas mined in the province of British Colombia.

A new pistol for the Ministry of Defense, designed to replace the Makarov pistol (PM) as a personal weapon, will be launched into serial production in 2019. This was reported by RIA Novosti, citing a source in the defense industry complex. The pistol in question is chambered for 9×21 cartridges and was developed by the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering (TsNIITOCHMASH) in Podolsk. Testing of the new weapon was completed in early January.

"Amediathek" On January 13, the American HBO and January 14 in the Russian Amediatex is the continuation of the series “Real Detective”. The action in it again unfolds in the American south. This time, the detective performed by Mahershal Ali is investigating the disappearance of children in Arkansas in the 1980s. The film critic Yegor Moskvitin looked in advance five out of eight episodes and is convinced that the third season turned out to be no worse than the legendary first.