In Rome, these days you can observe a beautiful sight √ evening flights of starlings. Every fall, they fly here for wintering from northeastern Europe. However, each time the arrival arrival turns into a real disaster for the inhabitants of the Italian capital. The bizarre figures that tourists admire have long ceased to delight the inhabitants of Rome, who are upset by bird excrement on the roads and buildings.

According to the NTV television company with reference to Interfax, the progress -M1 cargo ship at 7:05 was plucked from the International Space Station, freeing a place for the Union with an international crew on board. At 10:52, "Progress" was flooded in a given Pacific region. To the freedom, the Zvezda service module, which is part of the ISS, tomorrow at 12:19, the manned ship "Soyuz TM-31" is attached, which will deliver the first long expedition to the ISS.

The solemn ceremony took place on November 1 at the Vagankovsky cemetery, where the outstanding figure skating coach was buried. Among the students of Stanislav Zhuk is repeated world champions, Europe and the Olympic Games Irina Rodnina, Alexander Zaitsev, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Sergey Grinkov, Elena Vodorezova, Alexander Fadeev and many others.

In 1993, Leonid Filatov began work on the film “The Love Adventures of Tolik Paramonov” based on his story “Freedom or Death”. The plot of the film is the story of a dissident who, having betrayed his friends, breaks out to the West, and there becomes a zealous communist. While working on the film, Leonid Filatov became seriously ill, and the film was never completed.

Above the Afghan city of Kandahar, a reconnaissance aircraft was spotted without identification marks. The Taliban brought all the air defense systems into full combat readiness, NTV reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. The Taliban authorities believe that this is an American spy plane, which leads an air survey of the area.

On this day, the club from Tel Aviv will play in the Israeli championship with Hapoell. According to Sport-Express, in the coming days all the necessary documents regarding the insurance of the football player will be signed. Recall that the former captain of Spartak signed a contract with the Samara “wings of the Soviets”, and in Maccabi is on the basis of rent before the end of the year.

The victory in the presidential election in the United States of the Democrats of the Democrats of Albert Gora is preferable for Russia. So believes the famous Russian diplomat Julius Vorontsov, who from 1990 to 1999 worked in the United States first as a regular representative of the USSR and Russia to the UN, and then as an ambassador of Russia. According to Vorontsov, the candidate from the Republicans George Bush Jr.

According to the latest reports, the Boeing-747 disaster of Singapore airlines at the Chan Kai Shi airport in Taiwan took the lives of 79 people. Official representatives remain silent about the possible causes of the accident, while the press puts forward a variety of versions, starting from the weather and ending with a terrorist act. This was reported by the NTV television company. All night on the flight field of the Chan Kai Shi Airport, rescuers conducted search work at the crash site.

The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR), meeting in New York, addressed a message to flocks around the world, reports the Orthodox newsletter "Vertograd-inform". The message welcomes the canonization of the new martyrs and the royal family by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).

Of the 12 bodies of submariners raised from the Kursk atomic submarine, the individuals of four people are identified. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Northern Fleet Vladimir Navrotsky. According to him, the bodies of another eight submariners raised from the atomic submarine are preliminarily identified. The night before, the Laboratory of the forensic examination in Severomorsk conducted the identification of the three dead submariners of Kursk.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, volunteered to take a course on anti-racism education after seeing research showing racism exists in the Church of England. The Archbishop of York is ready to join him. Archbishops will be taught how to identify hidden racism in their own thoughts and actions. The course will last 24 hours and will be based on the testimonies of Anglicans from ethnic minorities who have faced discrimination in their parishes.

In Columbia, a violent discussion of elections in the city council of Bogota, the capital of the country, is now underway. The fact is that the shoe cleaner was elected to the City Council of the capital. These days, 37-year-old Luis Eduardo Diaz says goodbye to his workplace, for the last time it shines on the shoes of passers-by. After a few days, Diaz himself will clean his shoes from the street cleaner. Its monthly income increased from $ 300 to $ 4000.

The night before, the Laboratory of the forensic examination in Severomorsk conducted the identification of the three dead submariners of Kursk. According to the NTV television company with reference to the Interfax agency, the bodies of senior lieutenant Alexander Brazhkin were identified (according to the staffing table, it was assigned to the 9th compartment), the senior assistant to the turbinist Michman Viktor Kuznetsov (8th compartment), Michman Mikhail Bochkov (9th compartment).

The rival of the Moscow Lokomotiv on the 2nd round of the UEFA Cup, the Slovak “Inter”, today held the match of the National Championship against “Kosits” and won with a score of 2: 0. Both goals at the 12th and 72nd minutes spent Nemet. After 14 rounds, the metropolitan club takes 2nd place in the table. He has 33 points. Just one point more with the leader of the "Slovan".

Today, in the USA and in many other countries, the horror of the carnivals and parties begin - the so -called Halloween comes - the night of terrible masquerades with pumpkin, in which candles burn. This was reported by the NTV television company. Contrary to generally accepted ideas, this is not an American, but an ancient European tradition. The pumpkin depicts the head of the Scandinavian god of wisdom mimire.