The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 received Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for the discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO detector, the Twitter Prize reported. On February 11, 2016, scientists announced that they managed to open gravitational waves that were formed as a result of the merger of two black holes with a total mass of 53 sun.

The French police reported on the prevented terrorist attack in Paris before the match of the national football championship. According to The Daily Mail , before the Sunday game between Paris Saint-Germain and Bordeaux at 4:30 in the morning, a homemade bomb was found at the metropolitan stadium, which was supposed to activate a call from a mobile phone. It was four gas cylinders that were doused with gasoline.

Rospotrebnadzor announced the results of the study of spinners, which was started after federal television channels announced toys with zombie tools and dangerous opposition fun. Experts told RIA Novosti that spinners do not affect the psyche of children and can be dangerous only because of small details that kids like to pull in their mouths.

The Parisian Louvre decided to reduce the degree of the provocative exhibition of sculptures in the gardens of Tuilery a couple of weeks before the opening of the exposition. The sculpture called "Dominicator" was made by the Atelier Van Lieshout team. It depicts 12-meter humanoid monsters weighing 30 tons in a piquant pose. Over the past three years, a sculpture in the style of ironic constructivism has been exhibited in Germany.

The Ulan-Ude police in Buryatia detained two girls suspected of killing two people. One of the alleged killers is studying at school. They committed a serious crime when trying to apartment theft. The investigation began after on October 1 at 14:50 the duty part of the N1 police department in Ulan-Ude received a message that the corpses of two women were discovered in the River, near Taganskaya Street.

The prison on Ireland's Spike Island, dubbed "Irish Alcatraz", has won the 2017 World Travel Awards as Europe's best tourist attraction. According to The Daily Mail , this prison is virtually unknown outside County Cork, but at the awards ceremony, which took place on October 1 in St. Petersburg, it managed to bypass the Roman Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower and Buckingham Palace. The current tourist attraction dates back to the 6th century, when monks settled on Spike Island.

A new version of the Toyota Highlander SUV called Elegance has gone on sale in Russia. It can be purchased at a price of 3,226,000 rubles until the end of October this year, Dvizhok reports, citing data from the Russian representative office of Toyota Motor. The new modification is cheaper than the 2017 model year Highlander, which was sold in Russia in the two most expensive trim levels: Prestige (from 3,374,000 rubles) and Luxe Safety (from 3,524,000 rubles), the portal notes.

A group of 19 forensics under the leadership of the former FBI agent Vince Pankoka began a new investigation into the circumstances of the arrest of Jewish girl Anna Frank - the author of the diary, which brought her worldwide fame, writes The Guardian . The detectives intend to check the version that the Frank family was betrayed by someone and issued Gestapo, as well as to establish exactly who is worth it.

The Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) of Russia approved an order to exclude the British Virgin Islands from the list of countries whose authorities do not provide information about owners of offshore companies. The corresponding order of the department has already been signed and is now on registration with the Ministry of Justice, writes RBC with reference to a source in the tax service.

The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the intention of Canada to adopt an analogue of the American "Magnitsky Law", which provides for sanctions for foreign citizens involved in human rights violations. This initiative is an undisguised intervention in the internal affairs of Russia and will not remain unanswered, the press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa Kirill Kalinin promised.

“One of the interesting questions in the situation with the American record-breaking shooter: what did he actually shoot from? Eyewitnesses claim that he fired automatic fire (in bursts); in the video, these bursts are also clearly audible. However, it is not legal to buy automatic weapons in the USA It’s just difficult, but very difficult,” the publicist writes on Facebook .

The US Navy has formed the first ever squadron of underwater robots. A message about the appearance of a formation called UUVRON 1 (Unmanned Undersea Vehicle SquadRON 1) was published on the Navy website .

A citizen of the Russian Federation Svetlana Zakharova, who was accused of trying to extort 400 thousand dollars of an attempt to extort the former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer, entered into an agreement with the prosecutor's office and left prison. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal . According to the publication, the Russian woman pleaded guilty to the theft. According to the terms of the transaction, the 27-year-old Zakharov was sentenced to 90 days of imprisonment.

The court in Dagestan sentenced the member of the gang of Arthur Bekbolatov, who in July 2016, who shot the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Magomed Nurbagandov , by 24 years in a strict regime colony, the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports.

Three children died at the Stavropol Territory from rat poisoning, two more were injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the regional administration of the RF IC. The tragedy occurred in the village of Tikhiy Budennovsky district. The first child - a two -year -old girl - died on September 30, four more were hospitalized.