Guinness Book experts refused to register a world record set by three hundred cooks from Yangzhou, since moral standards were violated. “We canceled the results, carefully considering the information provided by the organizers,” said the representative of Guinness Greater China, Sharon Yang to the Sinhua agency. Four tons of rice according to the traditional recipe were prepared in the last week during the celebration of the 2500th anniversary of the city of Yangzhou in the province of Jiangsu.

The first racket of the world, 34-year-old American tennis player Serena Williams, who decided to complete the season ahead of schedule , later plans to interrupt his career due to the birth of a child. According to overseas media, she is waiting for the first -born from her boyfriend - Canadian rapper Obri Drake Graham, better known under the mononym Drake. According to The Tennis Times , the four-time Olympic champion is located at the 12th week of pregnancy.

On Monday evening, on October 26, the Palestinian media reported that the Air Force of the Israeli Defense Army strike at the objects of militants in the Gaza Strip. According to Newsru Israel , the first messages from the gas sector arrived at about 22:00, three hours after the missile shelling of Israeli territory. The press service of the Israeli Defense Army reported that the strikes were inflicted on two Hamas facilities in the south of the Gaza sector.

The Ambassador of Ukraine to Serbia Oleg Alexandrovich protested against the visit to the Crimea of ​​Serbian deputies and public figures. This was announced on his Facebook page by one of the members of the Serbian delegation - the president of the Serbian Patriotic Movement of the "door" Boshko Obradovic. To prove his words, Pravovich published a copy of the letter of the Ukrainian ambassador.

In the Ilovlinsky district of the Volgograd region, their own coins are preparing to mint, which, perhaps, will pay in some places. Sketches of three silver and four copper coins were developed by the famous artist Vladislav Koval. The first batch of coins will be released by the end of November. “The main feature of the coins will be that they can be paid in canteens, say, for a comprehensive lunch,” he told the website of “Notepad Volgograd” .

On October 27, the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg recognized the MDK community on the VKontakte social network prohibited in the Russian Federation, Fontanka reports. The prosecutor's office of the Central District of St. Petersburg filed a lawsuit to restrict access to the popular community in August.

The famous American boxer Roy Jones - the youngest received a passport of a Russian citizen. The solemn event was held in Moscow in one of the central branches of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, TASS reports. "This is a very big step for me. I am very happy that now I will come to Russia as a citizen of this country. Russia is an excellent country, there are great people," the athlete said. The boxer noted that he has already begun to study the Russian language.

The Russian Geographical Society (RGO) held the day before a press conference on the "All-Russian Geographical Dictation" . The knowledge test should take place on November 1 at 170 sites in all regions of the country. Journalists were told about the dictation procedure, using a card without Crimea for a clear example in Russia. Lyap of the organizers of the press conference attracted the attention of journalist Dmitry Kiselev, in respect of which sanctions from Ukraine are operating.

More than two thousand property JSC "Garrison" (former OJSC "Oboronservis") will be put up for sale. Sales are resumed after the defense department adopted new rules for the selection of objects for implementation, all the stages of privatization will be under the control of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by the company "Russian auction House" (Rad).

“The tradition of meddling “before daddy gets into hell” is alive. There were no guarantees that European regulators would allow the construction of South Stream (and no one from Moscow applied to these regulators for permission!), but Gazprom still spent billions dollars for an obviously failed project. Another substantial portion of billions was buried in the ground in the Far East, building a useless gas pipeline from Sakhalin to Vladivostok.

The St. Petersburg Football Club "Zenit" in the winter transfer window will try to rent a Columbia striker Radamel Falcao, who plays for the London Chelsea on lease rights, says The Telegraph . The publication notes that Zenit head coach Andre Villash-Boash wanted to purchase Falkao in the summer, but then the financial requests of Monaco, who own the right to the player, turned out to be too high.

As a result of a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.5, which occurred on Monday in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the latest data, about 350 people were killed, most of them Pakistanis. At least at least 2,000 people were injured, the Air Force reports. Earlier, 300 dead were reported. The shocks were also felt in India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Four people were killed in India, more than 10 were injured.

VTB 24 launches a preferential program for converting a foreign exchange mortgage into rubles at a rate of 11% per annum, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the bank’s message. For all foreign exchange mortgage borrowers, the program will be available from November 2. The conversion will be carried out at the rate close to the exchange rate at the time of restructuring. The program will be valid until December 31, 2015.

During trading on Tuesday, October 27, oil prices are reduced against the background of an oversupply of supply and the expectation of a weekly increase in reserves in the United States. So, as of 7:26 in Moscow, the December futures on Brent were 0.34%cheaper, up to $ 47.27 per barrel. The price of WTI oil futures decreased by 1.1%, to $ 43.5 per barrel, Reuters reports.

On the day of memory of the victims of political repression, which is celebrated in Russia on October 30, the Voice of Memory Voice will be held at the Butovo training ground in Moscow. In the temple of new martyrs and confessors of Russians, a memorial service will be performed, after which flowers will be entrusted to the worship crosses, the interfax-religion portal in the Memorial Scientific and Educational Center of Butovo reported on Tuesday.