Stratolaunch Systems conducted the first demonstration flight of the world's largest aircraft. The tests took place over the desert north of Los Angeles. Video of the flight was published by photographer Jack Byer. The wingspan of the Stratolaunch aircraft is 117 meters, which is more than that of the An-225 Mriya, which was previously the leader in this parameter (88 meters). The length of the aircraft is 73 meters.

Microsoft has notified Outlook.com email users that hackers have gained access to a "limited" number of accounts, according to Techcrunch and The Verge . Hackers gained access to user data by hacking into the account of a support employee. The hackers could view email addresses, folder names, and subject lines, but not the contents of emails and attachments. Also, cyber-hackers failed to gain access to account passwords. All violations relate to the period from January 1 to March 28, 2019.

On April 13, a football match between the CSKA and Orenburg teams took place in Moscow, ending with a score of 2:3 in favor of the Orenburg team. Before the game, the announcer announced that "the robot Alyosha, known to the general public, is invited to the field." He came out onto the lawn and was the first to kick the ball, passing it to a player from the Moscow team. The announcer did not specify that in fact this was not a robot, but a person in a robot suit.

London police have cordoned off the Holland Park area in Kensington after a shooting took place near the embassies of several countries. According to social media users, about 10 shots were fired in the area. The Telegraph clarifies that the police with the shooting detained the driver of the car that crashed into the car of the Ukrainian ambassador. A spokesman for the Ukrainian embassy said the man in the car posed a threat.

Update. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow confirmed that they opened a criminal case on fraud committed by unidentified RUSADA employees during procurement in 2011-2014. The police estimated the damage at more than one million rubles. Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Yuri Ganus confirmed that a criminal case had been opened in the organization due to possible theft.

Director Pavel Lungin made a speech at the show of his film "Brotherhood" about the war in Afghanistan. The event was held at the Ministry of Culture, there were deputies of the State Duma, veterans of the Afghan war, as well as the head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. According to the results of the event, the Minister of Culture proposed to transfer the film outlined on May 9 to a later date.

Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Former Pope Benedict XVI interrupted a long public silence and wrote an open letter about why various sexual crimes, especially pedophilia, spread among the Catholic priests. His message turned out to be a real manifesto of modern Western conservatism, not only church. He sees the root of the problems in the sexual revolution of the sixties, which, in his opinion, gave rise to a "new normality", which turned out to be destructive.

The Russian national figure skating team took third place at the World Team Figure Skating Championships in Japan. The first place was taken by the USA, the second - by Japan. On the last day of the championship, Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva won the free program in women's singles with 153.89 points. The second was the American Brady Tennell (150.83), the third was the Japanese Kaori Sakamoto (146.70). The fourth place was taken by the Russian figure skater Sofia Samodurova (138.84).

The site of the most popular Yaroslavl edition 76.ru, blocked on April 12, was unlocked on the afternoon of April 13, representatives of the publication in their telegram channel said . Claims to the publication arose because of the news , which described Graffiti, which appeared on the building of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the end of March.

At the annual theme festival, Star Wars Celebration showed the first trailer for the ninth episode "Star Wars". The picture was called "Climbing Skywalker." The film will complete the new trilogy of Star Wars, which also includes the seventh episode (“Awakening of force”) and the eighth - “Last Jedi”. According to the director and screenwriter of the film by Jay Abrams, the tape will be the last chapter in the Sagi -Kayuoker family saga.

Since April 13, the Visa international payment system has increased the maximum amount of purchases to three thousand rubles, with contactless payment for which you do not need to enter a pin code. Prior to this, a pin code had to be entered if the payment exceeded a thousand rubles. According to Sberbank, at the end of 2018, more than 270 million bank cards were issued in Russia. 50% of payments on them are made in a contactless way.

The explosion of a high-voltage cable occurred near the building of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported. Initially, the police received information about the explosion at the embassy. But, as representatives of Kyivenergo specified, a high-voltage cable of the South-Western Railway broke in this area. As a result of the incident, no one was injured. The pavement received minor damage.

Maxim Slutsky / TASS / Scanpix / Leta private house in Tyumen, which hid suspects in the preparation of the attack, April 13, 2019 On the evening of April 12, a counter -terrorist operation was introduced in Tyumen. The FSB cordoned off the streets of Novoselov, Magnitogorsk and locomotive, although initially many special vehicles were seen in the city center - in the region of the regional government.

The novel about the love triangle and scientific rivalry is based on real history The Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich tells about the novel “Euphoria” by American writer Lily King (Phantom Press, Translation by M. Alexandrova). King is the author of four novels, but it was the “euphoria” that the New York Times included Glory to her in the ten best books of 2014. In the first approximation, Lily King Roman “Euphoria” tells of the “golden age of anthropology”.

Report "Medusa" from a public hearing in North Tushin. There renovation will lead to a very intense compaction Roman Vukolov / TASS In six districts of Moscow, quarters projects have been prepared, from which renovation will begin. At the site of demolished houses - mainly five -story buildings - there will be higher buildings, up to 24 floors.