The pilot "Williams" Russian Sergei Sirotkin unexpectedly entered the voting leaders for the title of the best racer of the season in Formula 1 on the authoritative English portal Sky Sports . A few days before the finish of the voting, which will end at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Sirotkin is almost 20 thousand votes ahead of the world champion Lewis Hamilton from the Mercedes, and this gap is growing.

On the Husky Energy platform, the largest shelf oil spill in the history of Canadian Newfoundland occurred. Experts calculated that the leakage volume was 250 cubic meters (250 thousand liters). This was reported by the Canadian Press portal. Oil spill occurred on November 16 due to the strongest storm. People working on the platform reported a sharp decrease in pressure in the underwater pipeline. All platforms on the shelf were closed for unscheduled inspections.

Miami Heat guard Josh Richardson has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for throwing a sneaker into the stands, according to the organization's official website . In the fourth quarter of a home game against the Los Angeles Lakers, in which his club lost with a score of 97:113, Josh failed to throw the ball into the hoop from above. In a game episode, Richardson, when he was moving under the opponent’s shield, had his heel stepped on and he found himself without a sneaker.

As a result of the shooting that the man arranged in one of the Chicago hospitals, three people were killed - a policeman, a doctor and a pharmacist. The attacker also died, but so far it is not yet known from the response of law enforcement officers or committed suicide. The shootout occurred around 15:30 local time on November 19 (00:30 in Moscow on November 20), CNN reports.

The United States still intends to remain a reliable partner of Saudi Arabia, although issues related to the degree of involvement of the leadership of the Arab state remain in the case of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. These questions may never have an answer, the US President Donald Trump said in the statement of President of the United States on Tuesday. “The crime committed against Jamal Khashoggi was terrible, and our country cannot forgive this.

On the evening of November 19, representatives of the PIK construction company met with activists protesting against the construction of a high -rise building in the courtyard of houses on Ivan Franko Street in the Moscow district of Kuntsevo.

After the international scandal of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Istanbul Consulate General of Saudi Arabia, some members of the ruling royal family of the Arab state intend to prevent the heard prince Muhammad Ben Salman Al Saudu become king. To date, he is the heir to 82-year-old Salman Ben Abdul-Aziz Al Sauda-during his lifetime, something will be changed, but his family members have the support of the United States.

The head of Karelia, Arthur Parfenchikov, refused to solve the problem of kindergartens in the Karelian village of Suoeoka, which the local resident Anna Vlasova asked him. She said that she was going to go to work, and she had no one to leave children for one and a half and five years, while in the village they recently closed school and kindergarten, reports the 7x7 Internet magazine.

The federal judge in San Francisco blocked the implementation of the Decree of the President of the United States Donald Trump, who orders to refuse to provide asylum to migrants, illegally crossing the border with Mexico, AP reports.

Applicants for the post of Governor of Primorye - self -nominated Andrei Ishchenko , nominated by the Green Party Oleg Mitvol and two more politicians - did not gain the due number of signatures of municipal deputies. The decision on registration or refusal to participate in the elections will be made on November 24. “Today, at a meeting of the election commission, the incompleteness of information presented by candidates, including Ischenko, was considered.

Aeroflot annulled bonus miles and closed the score in the Aeroflot Bonus system, the chairman of the Council of the Charitable Fund needs help and the director of the portal "Such cases" Miteta Aleshkovsky after he published a post with criticism of the head of the airline. As stated in a letter, whose screenshot Aleshkovsky published on his Facebook page, sanctions were adopted due to negative statements to the company.

The second game of the final match of the World Chess Championship between Chinese Ju Wenjun and Russian Ekaterina Lagno took place in Khanty-Mansiysk. Catherine had white pieces. The opponents played the Catalan opening, where queens were swapped early in the game. White temporarily sacrificed a pawn, but in return received the advantage of two bishops.

“The totalitarian regime needs not only the image of a“ big brother ”, he is also a leader and a national leader, but also a myth of the main, terrible and insidious enemy. Financier Brauder, stubbornly seeking the punishment for the murderers of his lawyer Magnitsky, apparently, they want to appoint a new Trotsky or Orwell Gold -Strine,” a sociologist on Facebook writes.

“Now I read the news that the deputies, give them a god of health, offer in Russia the saint to finish the unemployed for the fact that they are unemployed,” writes the artist and blogger on his Facebook page.

A participant in the scandalous "Racing on Gelandewagen" in Moscow in 2016, Tajik citizen Abduvahob Majidov is expelled outside Russia due to the fact that he was recognized as a real threat to the public order and the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation, the Moscow News Agency reports.