Oil production in the United States is growing rapidly, and soon the country, having overtaken Saudi Arabia, will be able to become the largest oil producer, the Associated Press reports, referring to the oil market analysts. Due to the high prices for energy and the use of new technologies in the United States, the production of raw oil and other liquid hydrocarbons, which include, among other things, this year can grow 7% to 10.9 million barrels per day.

In Sudan, a large fire at a military enterprise broke out tonight. The arms factory is located on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital - Hartum. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the satellite television channel Al-Jazeera . Explosions are heard in the area of ​​the factory complex. The cause of the fire was a fire on one of the warehouses located on its territory. The fire flashed after midnight in local time (about 01:00 Moscow time).

Microsoft's Corporation decided to strike piracy in China. The new Windows 8 operating system in this country will not be sold in the boxed version. Users will be able to either download the system from the developer’s website, or get it in a pre -installed form with a new computer. Everything else will be considered a pirate copy, reports CyberSecUmy.ru .

Journalists who have the opportunity to test the Microsoft Surface tablet a few weeks before the official exit are mainly praised its powerful filling, but scold it for numerous shortcomings of Windows RT, Vesti.ru reported. Microsoft succeeded brilliantly on the hardware front, one of the first reviews reads. The thickness of the Surface case is the same as that of a full -sized iPad - 9.4 mm, but it is a little wider, has stereoodynamics, not mono, which means it is better for watching films.

The Moscow City Duma at a plenary session on Wednesday approved in the first reading an increase in transport tax rates from January 1, 2013, Interfax reports. The head of the Department of Economic Policy and Development of the capital, Maxim Reshetnikov, reminded the deputies that the previous city law on transport tax was adopted in 2008, and the accumulated inflation was 50%, and the increase in rates will increase by average by 13 percent.

The Doc Documentary Cinema Center will show on Wednesday, October 24, in the multimedia center of RIA Novosti, a film from the competition program "Kinotavra-2012" "I do not like you" Pavel Kostomarov and Alexander Rastorguev. This is a kind of movie experiment: the directors arranged a casting and the cameras passed to the young people and offered to shoot themselves.

Marat Gelman “I’m trying to understand why the authorities need all this? Polls show that they are doing well with the support of the population. The opposition is weak and small, the Duma is controlled, big business is absolutely loyal. Why, if you imagine that this is reasonable behavior, do you need to achieve this confessions?

The US police are investigating the circumstances of the tragedy that occurred in Louisian. There, a black girl arranged self-immolation to additionally discredit the racist organization of Ku-Klux-Klan. However, the investigators came to the conclusion that there was no xenophobe attack, and the victim herself gives false testimonies.

The State Duma on Tuesday took immediately in the second and third, final, reading amendments to the criminal legislation, expanding the interpretation of the concepts of "state treason", "espionage", "illegal receipt of state -owneds." The discussion took no more than five minutes.

In the Brazilian city of Alagoinas there was an incident, quite worthy of the legendary Latin American series. According to The Independent , the washer of cars to Zhilbert Arauu appeared at his own funeral, which frightened some guests before the swoon and put others. Friends and relatives buried 41-year-old Arauzhu by mistake. The police incorrectly determined the victim - in fact, she investigated the death of another car washer, Zhenwald Santus Gama.

The American, who told the world about the "naked party" , which Prince Harry arranged in Las Vegas, is sure that the British intelligence agencies organized her arrest after a revealing interview. The lawyer of the accused of fraud Kerry Raigher is sure that they do not treat his client in the same way as the rest of the defendants in such cases.

The US Department of Defense has signed a contract with Lightning Packs worth $ 2.4 million to introduce a technology that will allow the military by the military by backpacks that will produce electricity during movement, CNEWS reports science and development .

There were new evidence that Kazan police officers and, and a large -scale scandal with the death of the Dalniy police detained in the Dalniy police department, applied cruel tortures to the suspects. So, a month before the resonant incident with Yuri Nazarov, who died in the hospital in March from the consequences of rape by a bottle, law enforcement officers from the Kazan OP "Yudino" tortured a local resident taken to the department. After bullying, he died.

In September, 7 thousand people lost their work than they received it. For August, this difference was even more - almost 39 thousand people. The number of dismissed employees in Russia for the second month in a row exceeds the number of work hired, cites Rosstat. In September, the number of employees hired was almost 460 thousand people, and almost 467 thousand were dismissed.

The UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon accepted on Wednesday the most well -known Korean in the world - rapper Psy (reads as Sai ”and thoroughly danced with him the eccentric dance of Gangnam Style (“ Cannes Stayl ”), which in the video on YouTube broke all the records of popularity by RIA Novosti .