Google Vice President Alan Eustas made a height of about 41.4 kilometers, thereby setting an absolute record for the height of a free fall and surpassing the achievement of the famous extremal of Felix Baumgartner, TJURNAL reports. It is worth noting that Yustas did not seek to beat Baumgartner's record. Back in 2011, he turned to Paragon Space Development , specializing in equipment to maintain life in extreme conditions.

In the Moscow district of Konkovo, unknown landscapers defeated the Muscovite after a request to show permission to cut down trees. This was told on the blog on the website of the Echo of Moscow radio station, journalist Anna Nikolaeva. According to Nikolaev, on October 23, people with chainsaws arrived in the courtyard of the house on Vvedensky Street and cut down ten healthy trees - poplars and aspen. Adult trees with a diameter of up to 50 centimeters were cut.

On Monday, People's Artist of the USSR Joseph Kobzon, as he was going to , arrived at the Donbass, where he was going to distribute humanitarian aid and perform concerts in Donetsk and Lugansk, TASS correspondent reports. In the city of Makeevka, Donetsk region, Kobzona was met with applause, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The artist visited the hospital N2, where he talked with doctors and patients and sang his song to them: "Donetsk, Donetsk!

Users of the Dpreview forum discovered that the Pentax company used a photograph taken earlier to advertise the K-S1 camera, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. The appearance of an advertising banner on a number of popular photo sites was timed to coincide with the launch of the Pentax K-S1 camera in three new colors called the “Sweets Collection”.

More than 2.6 thousand Russian troops applied for the receipt of housing subsidies within the first two months after the emergence of such an opportunity, the director of the Department of Housing of the Ministry of Defense Sergey Pirogov told reporters.

The entire team of researchers of the State Central Museum of Cinema, headed by the founder and president of the museum, Naum Kleiman resigned - in an open letter published on the museum’s website , it is said that this is due to the distrust of the new director of the museum Larisa Solonitsyna, which the team announced earlier. "With chagrin, they are forced to inform you that the hopes of the collective of the State Central Museum of Cinema for fruitful work with L. O.

The capital of Ukraine may soon have a new heplan, which Prepared since 2008 by 11 scientific institutions. Public Utilities Institute of the General Plan of Kyiv assesses the development of a master plan, which provides for the development of the capital until 2025, at 20 million hryvnias ($ 1.54 million). However, the project has many opponents who promise to dry its authors. It is reported by "Today.ua" .

The famous businessman and founder of Tesla Motors and Space X Elon Musk announced a serious threat that artificial intelligence can pose for humanity, the TechCrunch portal writes. During a large performance, the mask at the anniversary symposium of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the businessman was asked what he thinks regarding the prospects of creating artificial intelligence.

The Ministry of Construction introduced a draft resolution to the government, extending the "Summer time" to calculate the cost of electricity for multi -tariff meters. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to the Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of Andrei Chibis. According to him, the draft resolution was agreed at a meeting on Friday. “The main thing that managed to agree on is that users should not pay for reprogramming electric meters.

The main owner of the Russian team "Formula 1" Marussia F1, entrepreneur Andrei Cheglakov announced on Monday the complete cessation of the sponsorship support of the team in which the temporary department was introduced. “This is a sad note, but it sounds against the backdrop of the magnificent stage of the Grand Prix who was first held in my country,” said Cheglakov TASS. “I want to express the words of gratitude to each team’s member, both on the track and on the basis in the Banburi.

In Estonia, law enforcement agencies detained a ninth -grader suspected of killing a school teacher. The woman was shot right in the educational institution, writes Delfi . Information about shooting at the Paalalinna school in the city of Viliandi entered the police at 13:55 Monday, Interfax reports with reference to the southern district prosecutor's office. The teacher, who received a gunshot wound, died.

The Russian model Yevgeny Vavrinyuk, who in December 2013 accused the goalkeeper of the Colorado NHL club Semen Varlamov of domestic violence, filed a lawsuit in a civil court, hoping to receive one million dollars from the Russian hockey player as compensation for the damage caused, R-Sport reports with reference to TMZ .

In the air harbor of the Dominican Republic, drug police detained a foreign passenger who tried to carry tens of thousands of euros across the border. The smuggling currency was hidden in the stomach of the attacker. In the digestive tract of the 40-year-old suspect were 16 capsules in which 55 thousand 500 euros lay, writes The Dominican Today with reference to the representative of the National Drug Control Agency Dario Medrano. The unprecedented fact of smuggling was recorded with an X -ray.

Finland police finds out the circumstances of a serious accident in which a large mother and her kids died. According to preliminary data, the woman committed suicide, crashing into passenger transport in her car. The tragedy occurred in the town of Rautavaar on the highway 75 on Sunday evening. The police believe that a woman, driving three young children in a passenger car, intentionally went to a frontal collision with a regular bus.

Two members of the Belgian government received threat letters, reports the Internet publication of Europe-Online Magazine . The messages are addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs of the country Jan Yambon, as well as the Secretary of State on Shelter and Migration of Theo Franken. In letters, the requirement is made that the above officials leave the country, otherwise they will be killed, the site reports with reference to the Belgian agency Belga .