Users around the world report interruptions in the work of the Skype service. Messages about failures appear on social networks. Meanwhile, the Skype website says that users may have problems with access to Skype. In addition, users may experience difficulties in online visibility. Initially, it was said that the malfunction applies only to the inability to change the status. Some users complain that their subscribers are reflected as located in offline and cannot call through the service.

Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro, speaking on the eve of the Libertador air base in Aragua at a mourning ceremony in memory of the two pilots of the Su-30 fighter on September 17, announced his intention to acquire at least 12 new SU aircraft, TASS reports. According to Maduro, these aircraft will be at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Venezuela.

Donald Trump is a number of number one electoral race for the chair of the US President-2016. A possible competitor in the degree of sensation is a candidate registered under the name DIZ NAS (approximately “these eggs” - with all the corresponding semantic connotations) and managed to become the third most popular in several states - before it turned out that this is a 15 -year -old schoolboy from the American capacity, who, out of boredom, decided to play the Internet policy.

In Moscow, a fire of the Gazelle car occurred, and therefore had to block the north-west tunnel. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the metropolitan traffic police. Currently, the tunnel is completely blocked. It is noted that the flared “Gazelle” rode towards the region. Now firefighters left for the place of fire in the area of ​​Marshal Zhukov Avenue.

A new Kotelniki station appeared on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line of the Moscow Metro. Her official opening took place today, September 21, with the participation of the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin. The Kotelniki became the 15th metro station opened over the past five years, and the second in a row on the territory of the Moscow region recalls the website of the Moscow district of Tekstilshchiki. - This is the second station in the Moscow region in recent years.

The Yakutsk court found the Tajik citizen living there guilty of financing the Taliban terrorists and sentenced to five years in prison, Interfax reports. According to the Republican Office of the FSB in the republic, the man was accused under Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code (“Promoting terrorist activities”). The special services tracked his correspondence by e -mail with a friend participating in the activities of the Taliban in Pakistan.

Paleontologists have found that fish from the class of Lapaster ( Sarcoptygii ), who lived in the seas of the Earth from 400 to 65 million years ago, in addition to the gills , were lungs . However, Latimeria - one of the few representatives of the spasts, survived to this day - lost the lungs, as they changed their habitat. Latimeria was caught in 1938 off the southern shores of Africa and became a zoological sensation. Scientists have recognized in it a representative of a long -extinct group.

German archaeologists continue excavations of the Roman fortress in Gernsheim, the discovery of which we talked about last fall. Then they managed to find evidence of the existence of a camp in which a legion of about 500 people was located. The camp was used from 70-80 to 110-120 AD.

The winners were announced at the closing ceremony of the film festival. In the Telefilms competition, the first prize was received by the painting “Vacation in the summer”, dir. Artem Nasbulin. The second prize is “hug me”, dir. Maxim Demchenko. The third prize is “Fairy Tales of the stepmother”, dir. Yu. Pavlov. The diploma received the series "Homeland" by Pavel Lungin. The producer of the "Motherland" said that the series will have the second season.

David Cameron Photo: UKTI/Flickr.com 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. Skype called the reasons for the failure in the service Skype stopped working around the world at about 11:00 Moscow time. All user contacts received the status of “not on the network”.

Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin will take part in the final plenary meeting 100+ Forum Russia. This is the largest international congress and an exhibition dedicated to the design, construction, financing and operation of high -rise and unique structures of any purpose. Congressmen will gather from September 23 to 25 at the Yekaterinburg-Expo MVC.

The Federation Council prepares amendments to the legislation that will oblige operators of communication to be invariably the numbers of SMS senders, write Iztvoy I. The purpose of the innovations is to improve the mechanism for identifying customers of SMS mailing and developing liability measures against mobile spammers, Senator Lyudmila Bokova told the publication.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered a bill on the regulation of prostitution and the activities of sex leaders. In the explanatory note, it means that with the development of the country as a European state, there is a need for legal regulation in this area. At the same time, it is noted that in most developed countries of the European Union, prostitution is legalized. As an example, the Netherlands, Latvia and Greece are given.

The representative of the Anti -Diler. Krasnoyarsk movement, Maxim Suratov, told RIA Novosti that the famous Russian rapper Guf (Alexei Dolmatov) was detained on September 20 by police officers after his concert in the Krasnoyarsk night club Circus. The artist is suspected of drug use. The information that the rapper could be under the influence of narcotic substances was transmitted by the police by activists of the Anti -Digor. Krasnoyarsk movement.

On September 19, the Pope Francis arrived with a pastoral visit to Cuba. September 22, Francis will come to the United States. On this occasion, commentators in the media are discussing the meaning of this visit and generally the meaning of the Francis figure for America for the whole and for the United States in particular. They write about visiting Cuba, first of all, in the context of international relations.