The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzhich, for the first time since the beginning of the trial , appeared at the hearing in the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) in the Hague. The decision to continue the trial of it will be made by the judges until the end of the week. Earlier, Karadzhich boycotted the process, but on Monday said that he would attend a court hearing on Tuesday, without specifying the reasons that prompted him to stop the boycott.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet, headed by the Lada guard vessel, after the liberation of the Arctic Sea off the coast of West Africa and his escort to Malta, where the ship was transferred to the owner, is returned to Russia. According to RIA Novosti , a source in the Black Sea Fleet, the ships will reach Sevastopol and Novorossiysk at the end of next week.

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a cruel mortal sentence was sentenced to a 22-year-old serial pedophile. The maniac will first chop off their heads, and then put the corpse for public reproach, crucifying it on the cross. As follows from the case file, last year the man was arrested and accused of rape five children. He was also accused of the fact that he threw one victim at the age of three in the desert after rape, condemning to death.

The International Monetary Fund sold 200 tons of gold to the India reserve bank for $ 6.7 billion, making the first transaction for the sale of this metal over the past nine years. The transaction covers the daily volume of trading from October 19 to 30 at market prices. The average price of gold sales for India amounted to $ 1045 per ounce, Bloomberg said with reference to the IMF official.

The founder and editor -in -chief of the TechCrunch.com blog, dedicated to Web 2.0 products and companies, Michael Arrington became interested in the topic of gaming fraud on social networks. In his opinion, the developers of social games for Facebook and MySpace, as well as intermediaries, are actively resorting to dishonest methods of earning naive users, and the administration of social networks usually looks at it through fingers, because it has “two percent” from this.

The Papal Council for Social Communications created a web portal, with which he could collect and provide information about Catholic mass media around the world, reports the Catholic resource of Milites Christi Imperatoris . The portal Inter Mirifica.net was created in cooperation with the conference of Latin American bishops and the World Catholic Communications Association ( Signis ).

The Swiss trader Rosukrenergo AG, controlled by Gazprom, filed a lawsuit against the Hungarian trader Emfesz with a request to recover over $ 500 million for non-payment of gas contracts of 2004-2009. According to the newspaper Kommersant on Tuesday, the Hungarian company recently put up complaints about Rosukrenergo for $ 1.7 billion. Experts believe that mutual claims indicate that the parties will soon come to a settlement agreement.

The Russian stock market on Tuesday fell to the levels of almost month ago. According to Interfax , this happened on the eve of the decision of the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the USA at a rate that will be announced on November 4. According to the results of the auction, the MICEX index slopped up to 1218.42 points (-3.78%), the RTS index-up to 1306.04 points (-3.76%), the prices of most "blue chips" on exchanges decreased by 2-6.1%.

The true triumph of Russian art was the auction in New York. For auction, the famous Sotheby's house put 162 lots - painting, graphics, photographs, documents and products from precious metals. Each lot found its buyer. The total sales reached 13 million 794 thousand 275 dollars. In turn, the auction organizers, according to the most conservative estimates, expected to reach the figure $ 9 million, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill proposed introducing a new term to use, which would designate the community of countries united by Russian culture. "It would be possible to introduce the concept of" country of the Russian world.

The Moscow City Court recognized the legal scheme for payment of deposits lost due to the collapse of the USSR in Sberbank without taking into account inflation over the past period, RIA Novosti correspondent from the courtroom reports. Thus, the judicial board rejected the cassation appeal of the Lev Zaitsev depositor against the decision of the Presnensky court of the capital. He sought to compensate him to be lost with inflation adjusted. However, the court refused the plaintiff to.

The Islamic Movement "Taliban" called its victory the abolition of the second round of the presidential election in Afghanistan. According to the militants, it was they by their attacks and threats to disrupt the vote, AP reports. According to the results of the first round of elections, the current president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and the former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah were the leader.

The State Duma on Tuesday adopted in the second reading amendments to the Fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the protection of the health of citizens and individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation. According to the amendments, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergencies, customs officers, drivers and bailiffs are now obliged by the law to provide first aid to the victims in traffic accidents.

Georgia plans to create a new Russian -speaking channel, which will broadcast in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as in the Russian republics of the North Caucasus. According to the "News Time" sources in television circles, the "first Caucasian" may appear on the air in early 2010. It is created on the basis of Georgian public television, which is considered pro -government.

The famous American heavyweight Chris Arreol will be temporarily excluded from the WBC rating and is deprived of the opportunity to fight for the title of this organization for obscene abuse in the ring after stopping the battle with Vitaly Klitschko. Such a decision was made on the Congress of the World Boxing Council on these days, reports Boxingscene.com .