Update: The source of the fire caused by the short circuit has been contained. There were no casualties, the Foreign Ministry said on Twitter. More than 10 fire engines arrived at the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow on the evening of October 5. According to an Interfax source, the fire occurred in the basement of the building, at least one person could have been injured.

Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA / Scanpix / Leta The grandson of the British Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry, sued The Sun and Daily Mirror. The news about this appeared after the wife of Prince Meghan Markle filed a lawsuit against the newspaper Mail on Sunday (Sunday edition of The Daily Mail), and Harry himself published a letter in which he declared war on the yellow press.

British musician Elton John has revealed for the first time that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago. As the singer writes in his autobiography “Me” (“I”), an excerpt from which is published by The Daily Mail, a neoplasm that turned out to be malignant was discovered in him in 2017 during a preventive examination on the eve of his 70th birthday. The singer decided to resort to surgery rather than chemotherapy.

The security service of Sberbank, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, found out which of the employees was involved in the leakage of customer data. In a statement published on the website of the credit institution, it is said that this is the head of the sector in one of the bank's business units.

Employees of the delivery service Ozon in St. Petersburg on October 5 went on strike. According to Fontanka, about 40 couriers joined the protest action - a little less than half of the employees who deliver orders on weekends. The strike, its participants told the publication, was decided to be held after the employees were given the next salary. The couriers, they said, received significantly less than they expected based on the amount of work they had done.

The head coach of the football club "Dynamo" Dmitry Khokhlov resigned after the defeat in the match with "Orenburg" (0:2). The resignation was accepted by the club's management "due to unsatisfactory results," the Dynamo press service said, adding that an acting head coach would be appointed in the near future. Dmitry Khokhlov became the head coach of Dynamo on October 7, 2017. The defeat against Orenburg on October 5 was Dynamo's fourth loss in a row.

Delil Souleiman / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Syrian boy looks at Turkish combat vehicles patrolling the border. October 4, 2019 Turkish President Recep Erdogan announced that his country was preparing a military operation in the northeast of Syria. According to him, the invasion of the ground forces may begin in the coming hours, in extreme cases, on Sunday, October 6.

Adam Bowen and James Monseese, founders of e-cigarette company Juul, are no longer billionaires, according to Forbes. On October 4, The Wall Street Journal reported that one of Juul's investors, hedge fund Darsana Capital Partners, had written off more than a third of its investment in the company. After that, according to the publication, its value decreased from 38 billion to 24 billion dollars. Bowen and Monseese each own 1.75% of Juul, which is $420 million each at the new valuation.

Six elephants died in a waterfall in Khao Yai National Park. According to BBC News, citing representatives of the national park, presumably, a three-year-old elephant first fell into the waterfall, and five adult animals died, unsuccessfully trying to save him and each other. The two remaining from the herd of elephants remained on the rocks near the waterfall. Park staff is developing a plan to save them.

15-year-old Russian Alexandra Trusova performed four quadruple jumps in one program at the Japan Open team figure skating tournament. In women's skating, as noted, this happened for the first time in history at an official tournament. Trusova received 160.53 points for her free program. The current world champion Alina Zagitova showed the second result, scoring 154.41 points.

A shameful question for the 70th anniversary of the PRC Kevin Frayer / Getty Images This week, China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, which was formed after the Communist Party won the civil war in 1949. Now in this country the second largest economy of the world after the United States, and this has been achieved thanks to large -scale reforms of recent decades that radically changed Chinese society, but did not shake the authorities of the Communist Party.

The Finance Ministry expects that real incomes of Russian residents will continue to decline despite wage growth. This forecast, TASS reports, is included in the Finance Ministry's materials for the draft budget for the period 2020-2022. The Ministry of Finance cites the growth of “mandatory payments, including interest on loans provided” as the reason for the decline in income.

Artist Pokras Lampas has started work on a new version of the Suprematist Cross graffiti on Pervaya Pyatiletki Square in Yekaterinburg. This was announced on Saturday by the organizers of the Stenograffia festival in their public on VK. “Schedules, air temperature, agreements with representatives of different spheres of society: all the stars aligned and Pokras Lampas arrived!” - the message says . A sketch of a new version of the "Suprematist Cross" "Stenograffia" showed in mid-September.

Google Corporation is known, among other things, for regularly shutting down its services. For example, many users still cannot forget the Google Reader RSS aggregator, which stopped working six years ago. Or the photo service Picasa or even the social network Google+. There is even a special site " Google Graveyard ", which lists all the services already "killed" by the company, as well as projects that the corporation is going to close in the near future.

The police put Pavel Fuks, the brother of the former shareholder of the Teremok pancake network, Roman Fuks, on the wanted list, TASS reports. According to the agency's source, Fuchs "was charged in absentia with fraud on an especially large scale during the construction of one of the houses on Mytnaya Street." The Tagansky Court of Moscow received a petition for the absentee arrest of a businessman. Consideration, TASS was told in the press service of the court, is scheduled for October 11.