In Saudi Arabia, specialized committees began work on collecting data on the victims of the tragedy in the main mecca mosque, where more than 100 people were killed when the lifting crane falls. The King of Saudi Arabia Salman Bin Abd al-Aziz ordered to pay one million Saudi Riyalov (about 16.4 million rubles) to the families of the dead and people who became disabled as a result of an accident, the Al Arabiya television channel reports.

Specialists of the American National Aerospace Agency (NASA) found evidence that in antiquity there were lakes on the surface of Mars. Confirmation of this hypothesis of steel, in particular, the data collected by the Curiosity rover, says in a study published in Science journal. The work notes that the existence of lakes meant a more humid climate on the planet as a whole, and this, in turn, implies a greater suitability of Mars for the emergence and maintenance of life.

“Today is Boris Nemtsov’s birthday, and today a monument to him was unveiled at the cemetery. Everything is worthy - those who understand who the country lost were able to honor his memory. And the country lost a lot with his death. There is one pompous phrase that refers specifically to to this occasion. Now there is no one to “raise your voice.” Everyone understood perfectly well that no party from the opposition could defeat the party in power.

“Aleksievich is a very old and important story. He was an author who wrote about the toughest, blackest thing, which it was impossible not to write about, but from which Russian society always turned away bashfully, engaged in survival, earning money: about a shameful war, about betrayal their own, about fear and pain, and also about attempts to glorify those things in the past that, in an amicable way, are a reason for mourning.

Microsoft will remove the classic "control panel" from Windows. This was announced by the head of Microsoft programs Brandon Leblank. He said that, ultimately, the “control panel” will be replaced by “parameters” - after the missing settings are transferred to the “parameters”, CNews reports.

In Syria, Deputy Commander -in -Chief of the Iranian Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (KSIR) General Hossein Hamedani was killed. He was engaged in advising the military personnel of the regular Syrian army, struggling with the militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (IG, banned in Russia) and was killed on Wednesday evening, October 7, near the city of Aleppo in the north of Syria, the KSIR reports, which refers to the Reuters agency.

The military operation of the Russian Federation in Syria, aimed at the destruction of militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization prohibited in Russia, showed the weakness of the Russian Federation in the Middle East and the weakening of the leadership of President Vladimir Putin. Such a statement was made by US President Barack Obama in the program "60 minutes" on the CBS television channel.

In Kaluga the day before, the grand opening of the synagogue and the communal center located in the restored historical synagogue building took place.

The head of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, in an interview with the German publication, Handelsblatt said he was not worried about the possible competition with Apple in the electric vehicle market because it hires specialists dismissed from Tesla. During the interview, the newspaper journalist asked the mask if he was afraid of that Apple's plans, because she hires key engineers from Tesla to work. “Key engineers? They take those people whom we fired. We always joke the Apple“ Tesla cemetery.

The amendments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the rules of the road (traffic rules) relating to dangerous driving contradict the meaning of traffic rules, since any violation is considered a deliberately dangerous and subject to punishment, Petr Shkumatov, the coordinator of the School Vederok Society (OSV), told Interfax .

A fighter of mixed martial arts Alexander Emelianenko, sentenced to four and a half years in prison for rape, is transferred to the colony. “We were notified that Emelianenko was transferred to one of the colonies a few days ago. In which one he was, it is still unknown to us, we will be informed after,” TASS said Cohaber Dolbadze's lawyer. The athlete was convicted that in March last year, in an apartment in Perevetovsky Lane, Moscow abused a housekeeper, and then stole a passport from her bag.

Oil prices on Friday continued to grow. So, according to Interfax , WTI oil rose by 7:45 Moscow time by 1.8% - up to 50.31 dollars per barrel. The quotes of the November Brent oil futures on the ICE Futures London Exchange rose by 1.3% to $ 53.74 per barrel. The night before, oil prices accelerated the growth amid the reports of OPEC plans to collect a technical meeting on October 21 and rumors about a possible reduction in production level.

American scientists claim that they have found a way to predict a human sexual orientation using genetic information, Sky News reports. Scientists have discovered nine sections of the genome that determine it. The discovery was made as a result of a study, during which scientists compared the DNA of 47 pairs of twin men, including brothers with various orientations.

Melkitsky (Greek-Catholic) Archbishop Aleppo Jean-Kleman Jenbart welcomed military support of President Bashar al-Assad, which Russia provides in Syria. In an interview with Swiss television, the quotes from which the AFP agency quotes, Melkitsky hierarch called the bombardment of the positions of the Islamic state by Russian aviation a source of hope for the country's Christians.

Businessman Alexei Alyakin, a former shareholder of a number of ruined banks, was put on a federal wanted list on charges of organizing large thefts from Pushkino Bank, the owner of which he was. About this newspaper Kommersant was told by sources in law enforcement agencies.