The twenty -sixth Tokyo International Film Festival opened on Thursday in the center of the Japanese capital, RIA Novosti reports. The first film will see the guests of the review will be Captain Phillips with the participation of Tom Hanks. The tape of the American director Paul Greengrass is based on real events and tells how the team of the container truck near the coast of Africa fights with the Somali pirates who had attacked them.

“By the way, there are also statistics on the interaction between judges and the prosecutor’s office at the investigation stage. Information on the courts' consideration of petitions to select a preventive measure in the form of detention: 147,784 petitions were considered, of which 132,923 were granted. Information on the courts' consideration of petitions to select a preventive measure in the form of house arrest: 3,030 petitions were considered, of which 2,714 were granted."

The next representative of Fauna was a victim of espionage games in the Middle East. In Lebanon, they caught a white -headed sip, ringed by Israeli scientists, and recorded it in the Mossad agents. A sensor was accepted for a spy device that allows you to track the movements of the bird, writes Newsru Israel , referring to Israeli and Arab sources. Representatives of the Hizballah radical group announced to capture the feathered “spy”.

Russia took 49th place in the ranking of countries with the maximum concentration of people living on their territory located in conditions of slavery. The indicator was determined by the rate of a thousand "free" inhabitants. In total, 162 states were included in the rating. And the total number of slaves around the world, according to Global Slavey Index 2013 , is about 30 million people.

"AvtoVAZ" instead of the departed to build Igor Komarov’s missiles will be headed by a foreigner. According to the company’s press service, the AvtoVAZ board will offer the president of the Swede Bu Anderson, now the president of the GAZ group, as president. On Wednesday, AvtoVAZ President Igor Komarov filed a departure application in connection with the transition to another job - to the United Rocket and Space Corporation.

The innovative Google Glass-computer glasses will be able to call the taxi owner, record a recipe, remove a panoramic picture and even help play golf, testifies the study conducted by an AndroidPolice Internet resource specialist. According to Digit.ru , he managed to analyze the Google Glass APK files used in the Android system to archive applications.

The County court of Big Manchester made on Wednesday the indictment in the case of the 84-year-old large British Ilyas Aucar. For almost ten years, the businessman kept the Pakistani orphan in captivity , subjecting a young and deaf girl to rape, writes The Manchester Evening News . The accomplice of the crimes became the wife and daughter of Ashara. Ilyas Ashar was accused of sexual abuse, abduction with the aim of exploitation and fraud with social subsidies of the state.

Russia does not consider the Netherlands exhaustive for the situation that occurred with the brutal beating of Dmitry Borodin's diplomat in Holland. “The apologies brought by the Netherlands cannot be considered as the final point in what happened. The Russian side does not suit the situation, since there is still no reaction on the key issues that we previously identified,” Interfax quotes the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich.

The Chinese farmer with his own hands amputated his right leg at home to save his life. 47-year-old Zheng Yanilang conducted an independent operation at night while his wife was asleep. For amputation, the Chinese needed a locksmith, a small knife for fruits and a towel, according to the Chinese newspaper The Shijiazhuang Daily . Overcoming pain, Yanilan, cutting the skin with a knife, drank his right leg almost to a level of 15 centimeters below the knee, clarifies The Huffington Post .

In the capital, an attack was attacked on a 36-year-old employee of Vedomosti Nikolai Epple. According to the preliminary version, it was a robbery. The crime was committed on the night of October 16, writes Life News with reference to the victim himself. “They attacked me from behind, hit my head and pulled out a bag,” Nikolai said. From the blow, the journalist lost consciousness. By the time the victim came to his senses, the attackers had already disappeared.

The police of Yaroslavl put on the wanted list a man who recently sexually abused a young child on the territory of the Museum of the Estate of the writer Nikolai Nekrasov in the village of Karabikha. The operatives compiled a photobot of a daring pedophile. It is published on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Yaroslavl Region.

Ronan Farrow , the son of the star of Hollywood Mia Farrow and the cult American director Woody Allen, will debut on television in the middle of January as a leading weekly program on the MSNBC television channel, reports The Hollywood Reporter with reference to the official statement of the President of the Fila Gryffin television channel.

The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov published an analytical article in the newspaper Pravda about the draft budget of Russia for 2014 and the next three years. The current budget is the worst over the past 10 years and eliminates all points of development of the state, writes the leader of the Communist Party.

At least 61 people became victims of a series of explosions in various areas of Iraq. Most of the terrorist attacks occurred in the Shiite Muslim regions of Baghdad, whose streets were filled with ambulances. Early morning on Thursday, a terrorist-suicide terrorist was blown up in a car in one of the villages of the province of Ninevia, as a result of which at least 15 people were killed, more than 50 were injured, AP reports.

The royal family of Holland will visit Russia, despite tension in the relations of the two countries. In the Parliament of the Netherlands, some deputies called to cancel the visit of King Villem-Alexander and Queen Maxima planned to Russia on November 9, but most parliamentarians were against this, reports dutchnews.nl . Several deputies called to cancel the visit of the royal couple in response to the incident with the beating of the Dutch diplomat in Moscow.