In the United States, there was a sensational turn in a high -profile murder case, completely half a century ago, during which one of the US President John Kennedy family was convicted. The crime was committed in 1975, it reached the trial only after almost three decades. Now the court decided to send the case of Michael Skakel, the nephew of the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (brother of the 35th President of the United States) - to revise, writes Los Angeles Times .

In the Orenburg region, in the district center of Ponomarevka, unknown people sawed off the head of the monument to Lenin. The record of the incident and photographs appeared on the social network "VKontakte" . "An emergency in Ponomarevka! On the night from 10/21/2013 on 10/22/2013, unknown people sawed off the head of the Monument to Lenin V.I!" - The group "I was born in Orenburg" informed. The Communists are outraged by the act of vandalism.

On Thursday, the players of the Makhachkala Anji on Thursday interrupted the 16-match, free-born series, defeating the Norwegian "Tromce" in the match of the third round of the group stage of the Europa League. The meeting at the Saturn stadium in Ramensky ended with a score of 1: 0, the only ball in the 19th minute from the program of Odil Akhmedov was scored by Nikita Burmistrov.

For the period from June 2012 to June 2013, the world celebrity, who earned more than others, became Madonna , but the pop diva did not have long to enjoy the fact of this fact-she was bypassed by a colleague Michael Jackson. According to the new Forbes rating, which collected the most successful commercial celebrities in commercial terms, the pop king has earned $ 160 million over the past year.

On the eve of the State Duma in the second reading adopted a bill on the introduction of a new method of calculating property of legal entities in relation to real estate since 2020. The cadastral value tax will be charged since 2014 and so far only in relation to large Moscow office and shopping centers. Developers talk about a double increase in the tax on this tax and predict the increase in rental rates and rising retail prices in the city next year.

The Russian woman Tima Turieva won a gold medal in the weight category up to 63 kg at the World Warm Athletics Championship, which takes place in the Polish city of Wroclaw. This award of the highest test was the first for the Russian national team at the current world championship, which will last until October 27. In the amount of the biases, its result was 252 kg - 112 kg in a jerk and 140 kg in a push.

The militants who stole the Russian engineer Sergei Gorbunov in Syria are members of the Kataib Mukhadzhirin group, known for their cruelty. It includes mainly foreign mercenaries who took part in the hostage and reprisals of the civilian population. The militants themselves said that they are responsible for the abduction, reports Russia Today .

The Moscow correspondent of the British newspaper The Financial Times Charles Clover became interested in the most closed and richest oil company in Russia - Surgutneftegaz, the Russian BBC service in the next press review reports. The structure of the owners makes it impossible to establish who actually owns the company, the journalist notes.

Information on the proposal of the County Chamber of Russia to form a reserve fund not at the expense of oil and gas revenues, but due to the surplus of the federal budget does not correspond to reality. "This is inaccurate information. Its appearance in the report is related to a technical error," the press service of the department said.

The defense of Johar Tsarnaev, whom the US authorities are accused of organizing and executing a terrorist attack during the Boston Marathon on April 15, most likely, will try to prove that he acted under the influence of his older brother Tamerlane. This was stated by authoritative in the USA experts on legal issues.

Patent images of a passenger car have leaked to the Internet, for which Ford Motor plans to restore the old name - Escort, which the company refused in 2002 after the appearance of Ford Focus, reports Carfactum.ru . Expect the appearance of Ford Escort in European markets prematurely. In April 2013, at the International Motor Show in Shanghai, an American company introduced a concept car with the same name, reporting its plans to start sales of a new C-class car-but only in China.

The Japanese automobile concern Nissan announced on Thursday its decision to recall about 188 thousand cars from the world market due to a defect in the braking system, which could lead to an accident, ITAR-TASS reports citing a company press release. Nissan said in a statement that the recall includes 2013 and 2014 Pathfinder SUVs, as well as a number of vehicles from Nissan's luxury Infiniti brand. The SUVs in question are the 2013 model JX35 and the 2014 model QX60.

The College of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Belarus sent for a new consideration a criminal case on the brutal murder of a student university Natalia Emelyankova. Earlier, the court sentenced the alleged killer who inflicted more than a hundred wounds to the victim. The motive for the reprisal was the use of the victim prison "Feni" (thieves' jargon). In the murder of a student, a 25-year-old resident of Gomel Alexander Grunov was found guilty.

US intelligence services are suspected of the head of Rossotrudnichestvo in Washington Yuri Zaitsev in the promoting of the recruitment of American citizens with Russian intelligence. Publications on this topic appeared in a number of American media, including electronic versions of The Washington Post and Mother Jones . The first as a source of information refers to unnamed US law enforcement officers.

The First Deputy Head of the President of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin on Thursday spoke at the seminar-meeting with the mayors of cities and the city managers. The Kremlin curator told the mayors about the attitude to political reforms of recent years and advised them not to abuse the passion of social networks. To the audience of the seminar, he addressed the prizes to use social networks for business, and not for the meaningless presence on the Internet.