The British actor and writer Stephen Fry entered into marriage with his partner, herdap-comedian Elliot Spencer. This Fry reported on his Twitter . In a message with a photograph taken during the wedding ceremony, Fry wrote: God, Ellit Spencer and I entered the room like two different people, and already went out as a whole. Amazing.

More than a million people can take part in the protest against caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad, which will be held in Grozny on January 19, the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov announced this in his Instagram. “I urge everyone to enter the action on January 19. Initially, we expected to gather up to 500 thousand people. But according to the latest data, the number of demonstrators can exceed a million.

The coach of the American women's basketball team of the California school Arroo Valley was disqualified for two matches for a devastating victory over the team of rivals, BBC Sport reports. Michael Anderson led his wards to victory with a score of 161: 2. For such a crushing victory, he was accused of disrespect for rivals. The coach said that he himself did not expect such an outcome. Anderson's team managed to play one of two matches without his coach.

The delegation of US congressmen-democrats has arrived at Cuba as part of the restoration of diplomatic relations of the two countries. The visit will last three days, the Associated Press reports. The head of the delegation, Senator Patrick Lehi, stated that legislators want to study Cuba's capabilities and encourage Cuban officials to solve issues related to the American side. US politicians have high hopes for this diplomatic visit.

As part of the annual Berlin exhibition of agricultural achievements “Green Week”, thousands of Germans reached a rally against signing an agreement on free trade with the United States, Deutsche Welle reports. One of the basic requirements of the demonstrators is to prevent the signing of an agreement on transatlantic and investment partnership that allows the United States and Canada to freely trade with the European Union, including with Germany.

US President Barack Obama, in his annual message to Congress “On the Regulation of the Country”, intends to propose to increase taxes for the rich and cancel the benefit of fees for inherited securities. This was reported by representatives of the White House. According to the data provided, Obama will call Congress to increase income tax for families to 28%, the total annual income of which exceeds 500 thousand dollars. Currently, tax rate, also established by Obama, is 23.8%.

Ukrainian servicemen took out another 20 wounded and the bodies of two dead colleagues from the airport in Donetsk in Donetsk, Yuri Biryukov, adviser to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, said on his Facebook page. In the message, Biryukov wrote: “The summary of the DAPs, 07:00 - the night passed relatively calmly, although they did not sleep almost. At night it was possible to take out 20 wounded and two dead.

Maria Blokhina Mohammad Javad Zarif and John Kerry On Sunday, January 18, the next meeting of the “six” international intermediaries and Iran on the Iranian nuclear program was held in Geneva. It is indicated that the negotiations were difficult and did not lead to mutually acceptable wording of decisions.

Maxim Russo Quarantine pass to the flash zone of Ebola fever (Sierra-Leone) Wikimedia Commons Already in February in West Africa, large -scale clinical trials of vaccines directed against Ebola's fever will begin. This was announced on January 9 at a press conference in Geneva Mari Pol Kini , assistant general director of the World Health Organization. Testing two vaccines that are most ready for use are currently planned.

Two people died as a result of shooting that occurred in one of the private houses in the city of Columbia, Tennessee. Representatives of local law enforcement agencies report this. The police officers who arrived at the place found the bodies of two people. One of the dead was Sharon Cantrell, the former director of one of the primary schools of Colombia. The other dead was her relative. The details of the incident are unknown.

The American television channel Fox began negotiations with the creators of the cult series “Secret Materials” regarding the continuation of the filming of the picture, reports The Daily Mail . One of the basic requirements of the FOX leadership is to attract the actors of the original project - David Dukhovnia and Jilian Anderson. However, it is this requirement that can become the main obstacle to the shooting due to the dense schedule of both actors.

The Ukrainian military retain control over the Donetsk airport, where a few days ago the battles between the security forces and the armed forces of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic resumed. This was reported by the press service of the ATO. According to the Ukrainian military, from the evening of January 17, the separatists 28 times fired at the positions of the security forces. Now there is a relative lull at the airport, the evacuation of the wounded is carried out.

In one of the cottage villages of the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow Region, unknown people attacked the security guards and hijacked a carcan, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred on the night of January 17. Three unknown people beat two security guards, tied them with tape, after which they disappeared on the KamAZ autocrane worth 5.5 million rubles.

ISS Polit.ru offers your attention the five news of the day. The selection included the three most read news, one news selected by the editorial office, and the most unusual, in our opinion, news today. 1. Six drug couriers were executed in Indonesia Indonesia is executed by death sentences against six prisoners. The executed were convicted of drug smuggling. Of the six executed, five were citizens of other states: Brazil, Malawi, Nigeria, Vietnam and the Netherlands.

Israeli law enforcement agencies arrested seven fellow citizens of Arabic nationality suspected of trying to create the first cell of the Islamic State terrorist group in the country, representatives of the Israeli police report . “On Sunday, in the Haifa District Court, the detainees were charged with belonging to illegal unification, supporting a terrorist organization and an attempt to come into contact with a foreign agent,” the general security service said.