Two goals of the Russian striker Pavel Vorobyov did not save Chicago Blackhox in the home match of the National Hockey League regular championship against Columbus Blue Jackets. "Hawks" lost the meeting with a score of 2: 3. "Columbus", which, in which Nikolai Zherdev was noted with an effective program, was in the score for most of his time.

The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, announced the abolition of additional security measures and increased readiness, which gave law enforcement agencies of the largest city in the United States after the signal of special services on the preparation of terrorist acts in the New York metro .

The strongest earthquake recorded in the territory of Pakistan occurred in the most seismic zone of the Earth: we are talking about Northern India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolia and a significant territory of China. The progress of the earth's crust in this region of the planet has a relatively simple geological explanation, writes La Repubblica (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The triumph of Olga Kapranova and a confident victory in the team standings of the Russian national team ended the World Cinema Gymnastics Championship in Baku. 18-year-old Kapranova won five gold awards, winning the most prestigious species-all-around. Olga Kapranova went to Baku as a dark horse, in whose ability to adequately replace the former leader Alina Kabaeva and win the two favorites - Ukrainians Anna Bessonova and Irina Chashchina - were believed by few.

As of Monday, there remained one dysfunctional in Russia on the territory of Russia in the "bird flu" a settlement in the Kurgan region, 17 points in the Novosibirsk region are suspicious. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, widespread on Monday.

The Moscow City Court postponed on October 17 the consideration of the protest of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to the decision of the Basmanny Court, which recognized the refusal to familiarize him with the case file to lawyers by the shareholder of the Yukos Leonid Nezzlin.

In 2006, Russian citizens will begin to issue foreign passports with a chip of energy -dependent memory that stores biometric data. This will allow with a high probability to exclude the fake of the passport and its illegal use: only the true owner of the document will be able to pass border control. On Friday, the results of the first tender conducted as part of the largest state IT project - the introduction of biometric passports in Russia were published.

British scientists made a breakthrough in the fight against malaria: they brought mosquitoes with fluorescent testicles. About this opening writes The Independent (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). The team of researchers from the imperial college of London found a way to determine the floor of mosquitoes - by their gene modification in such a way that luminous protein is produced in the sex flooring in male individuals.

Terrorist organizations keep up with progress. Al-Qaeda announced on one of the Islamist sites about a competitive set among its supporters for the vacancies of the Internet content editors, Bild-editors and video editors. According to the ASHARQ Al-AWSAT newspaper, which discovered an announcement, al-Qaeda is gaining editors to cover in electronic media what is happening in Iraq, Palestinian territories, Chechnya and other conflict zones where the militants operate.

In a completely destroyed earthquake of the Pakistani city of Balakot in the northwest of Pakistan two days after the disaster, a 6-year-old child was found alive. The boy was extracted from a masonry on Monday in the area of ​​the school in which he studied. It is still unclear what condition the boy was after a harsh test, and what damage he received, reports The Sydney Morning Herald with reference to AFP.

Due to peat fires in the Moscow region, the environmental situation in the capital itself sharply worsened-above Moscow there is a smoke curtain and smells of burning. The smell of Gary can last until Tuesday evening, the Interfax was told in the press service of Mosecomonitoring. "The metropolitan region is in the power of the anticyclone. The city is almost calm in the city, however, the air masses are moving in the anticyclone.

On Monday, October 10, laureates of the Swedish Bank Prize in the field of economic sciences introduced into the memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968 were announced. In 2005, they became the Israeli Robert Aumann and American Thomas Schelling "For improving our understanding of conflicts and cooperation through the analysis of the theory of games," the official website of the Nobel Prize reports. Aumann (born in 1931) - professor of Jewish University in Jerusalem.

In the UK, on ​​Monday evening, the announcement and rewarding of the laureate of the prestigious literary prize "Buker" will be held for 2005. According to RIA Novosti in the Organizing Committee of the ceremony, it will be broadcast on the air of the BBC-2 and BBC-4 television channels.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun did not exclude that the former president Leonid Kuchma could be held accountable as part of an investigation of a criminal case against a number of high -ranking officials of his administration.

On Monday, Nikolai Karachentsov is translated from the Center for Pathology of Speech and Neuroreabilization to the Sklifosovsky Institute. The actor’s wife Lyudmila Porgina in an interview with MK said: “We are so pity to part with the center of Shklovsky, because we are immensely grateful to both the speech therapy and the LFK employees, all -all! They worked with the speech apparatus, and“ put the muscles ” - a huge labor. The center became our native home.