The American tennis player Vinus Williams set a female presentation record at the Tokyo tournament, ESPN reports. Having completed the supply of 209 km/h during the match with the Canadian Eugene, she broke her own record installed on US Open-2007, 207.6 km/h. Some American media reports 209.2 km/h, which also belongs to her.

The envoy of the Government of the Russian Federation in the highest courts Mikhail Barshchevsky proposed to consolidate the legislative norm, according to which judges can only be rejected from office through impeachment by the State Duma, RIA Novosti reports.

The export of Syrian chemical weapons to Russia is impossible. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov, reports RIA Novosti . “There can be no doubt that we will not do this,” said the deputy minister. At the same time, Ryabkov added that Russia will participate in the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons in the territory of this country.

The Baumertner family will be able to freely come to him in Minsk, on Thursday the lawyer of the Uralkali general director Dmitry Goryachko said, RIA Novosti reports. The defender explained that the relatives of Vladislav Baumertner could come to the Minsk apartment, where the director is under house arrest and live with him. “They do not need to receive permits for this,” the defender emphasized. Now, together with Baumertner, his mother is already located.

It is traditionally believed that before the Vikings era, that is, until the 9th century, the Faroe Islands remained deserted, but the article by Makl J. Church and Simun V. Arge , published in Quaternary Science Reviews , refutes this statement and dates the appearance of the fourteen of IV-VI centuries for centuries of our era.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said that the transition to the winter time during the Olympic Games in Sochi is not possible, RBC reports. The official spoke about this as part of the visit of the Coordinating Commission of the International Olympic Committee in Sochi. In his opinion, the transfer of the watch was possible until February 2013, and now contracts have already been concluded between the organizers of the Olympiad and companies for the right to broadcast games.

In the Rostov region, an assistant to the engineer of a commodity train for the distribution of children's pornography on the Internet was detained, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region. As it turned out, a 44-year-old man distributed pornographic materials on foreign resources with the participation of a girl born in 2005, who was his niece.

In Moscow, a man was detained, who, according to investigators, leased the premises of the Kyrgyz embassy in Bolshaya Ordynka, reports m24.ru. The entrepreneur concluded a contract with a certain commercial company for 4 million rubles for renting premises, received money from them and disappeared. Until the last moment, tenants were sure that everything was in order with the contract, and were very surprised when they appeared at the embassy demanding to provide them with premises.

The capital’s authorities will hold tenders among private security measures to ensure the safety of pedestrian zones in the center of the capital, Izvestia was told by the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov. According to Kapkov, tenders will be announced in 2014, and on September 16, a pilot tender was played to protect Arbat - now it is patrolled by the EURO -AlANANCE organization.

The Lenin Court of Murmansk arrested for two months the captain of the Arctic Sunrise of the US citizen Peter Wilcox, Twitter Greenpeace reports. Wilcox was the captain of Rainbow Warrior, who was sunk in the New Zealand bay with French intelligence agents on July 10, 1985.

The information that the permanent members of the UN Security Council came to an agreement on the Syrian resolution does not correspond to reality, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the Russian delegation. The diplomat explained that in the Russian delegation they were extremely surprised by this information. As Reuters explained in the White House, negotiations on this issue are moving, but the decision has not yet been made.

The Union TMA-10M spacecraft was attached to the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) with the crew, Interfax reports with reference to the flight management center. The opening of transitional hatches should occur after leveling the pressure between the ship and the station and checking the docking for tightness. The crew of the spacecraft includes Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov (commander) and Sergey Ryazansky, as well as the American astronaut Michael Hopkins.

The column “Against all candidates” may return to the ballots in the nearest large elections. In any case, such an idea was put forward by the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. According to the chief senator, the return of the “candidate“ against all ”” will more clearly separate the opposition supporters from citizens who simply came to the elections to pour out their hatred of the current system.

The militants of the Islamist Somali group al-Shabab attacked two cities on the border of Kenya and Somalia, reports the Associated Press . As a result of the attack, at least three people died. The day before, the leader of Al-Shabab, responsible for the terrorist attack in the Nyrobi shopping center, said that his group would wage a bloody war with Kenia until the local authorities withdraw troops from Somali.

The United States National Security Agency spied the leader for the rights of dark -skinned Martin Luther King, boxer Mohammed Ali and other people famous in the USA in the midst of protests against the Vietnam War, on Thursday BBC reports . The television and radio company refers to declassified documents published by George Washington American University.