Residents of Singapore are engaged in gymnastics. Photo: Edgar Su / Reuters Singapore is customary to set as an example when it comes to state care about the health of citizens. In a recent rating for the development of the Lancet magazine, the country took first place. In the rating of the effectiveness of healthcare, compiled by WHO in the early 2000s, was on the honorable sixth, ahead of many developed countries.

The Nobel Prize in physics became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technological Institute Rainer Weiss and a professor of the California Institute of Technology Kip Thorne and Barry Barish. This was reported on the Prize website.

In the dissertation of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky there was no plagiarism. The Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilieva said this in an interview with RIA Novosti. “A very important point is the lack of plagiarism in work. Well, the fact that the author introduced his vision of history, this is just the very polemic story that should be, ”she said.

The Ministry of Economic Development ordered sociologists a study of "household" corruption, in which scientists will evaluate the volume of the bribes market in Russia. According to Kommersant, the winner of the competition announced by the ministry, is ready to conduct a study for 2 million rubles, while almost 7 million rubles were ready to pay the Ministry of Economic Development.

Photo: Sydney Perry / Unsplash.com Inventions and discoveries often seem to the lot of rare geniuses like Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci, but today simple mortals fall on their list. It is precisely built in various ways that the collaboration of “ordinary” people gradually replace the ideas of individuals. Faced with new tasks both in everyday life and at work, they are increasingly offering innovative solutions for local and global problems.

This is an adapted translation of the Bloomberg article. Other materials of the publication can be read at the link . The creator of the most popular video game of recent years Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Irish Brendan Green did not develop a career for a long time. He learned to be a photographer and a graphic designer, but did not achieve noticeable success in these areas.

CBS Vice President Haley Giftman-Gold was dismissed from the channel for offensive comments on the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas. About this writes The Washington Post. On her Facebook, Heftman-Gold wrote that the dead in Las Vegas did not deserve sympathy, since most of them were most likely Republicans-"lovers of trunks." The leadership of CBS called her words “absolutely unacceptable” (now her comment on the social network has been deleted).

American securities and exchanges commission. Photo: Andrew Harnik / Ap / Tass The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the first time in history opened the case of fraud at ICO (Initial Coin Offering, the primary placement of cryptocurrency). On September 29, the regulator charged the native of Ukraine Maxim Zaslavsky and two companies by him Recoin and Diamond Reserv Club. What did the company's investors promise?

In Kiev, a new state land cadastre was presented, which will begin to work on the basis of blockchain technology, Bloomberg reports . The transfer of land registration to blockchain is part of the land reform, which takes place in Ukraine at the request of the IMF. The use of blockchain for registration of agricultural sections will increase confidence in the registry, said Maxim Martynyuk, the first deputy minister of agricultural policy and food.

Who in March 2018 will become the next president of Russia is understandable now. Much less clarity with what policy he will pursue. And if the socio-economic agenda of the future presidency is still somehow being discussed, then there is no certainty about the external policy.

The activist and founder of the “God's will” movement Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo) was removed from the organization’s activities. About this on Facebook was written by Lyudmila Odegova, who calls herself the new sole leader of "God's will." “Tsorionov, to public repentance in sacrilege, in which he took part during the action near the Ministry of Justice, etc., is removed from all the affairs of the movement.

The agreement with the OPEC on the reduction of oil production brought to the budget of Russia additional revenues in the amount of 700 billion to 1 trillion rubles. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Energy Alexander Novak, Prime reports. The minister explained that the income was received due to an increase in oil prices by about 30% compared to the beginning of 2016 after reaching agreements with OPEC. Russian oilmen also won the transaction.

The rock musician Tom Petty died at the age of 66 as a result of a heart attack. It is reported by Reuters with reference to his manager Tony Dimitriades. Petty was found unconscious in his house in Malibu and hospitalized at the Medical Center of the University of California at the Ronald Reagan Los Angeles. The doctors failed to save him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov, who left his position of his own free will. This was reported on the Kremlin website. At the same time, Putin appointed the temporary leader of the region of the State Duma, the head of the United Russia faction Vladimir Vasiliev.

Photo: Sputnik Photo Agency / Reuters Almost immediately after a single vote day, the Kremlin returned to updating the governor's corps. Since the beginning of 2017, a wave of resignations and appointments has so far touched the Nizhny Novgorod and Samara regions, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Republic of Dagestan. In a number of regions, resignation decisions have been adopted, but successors have not yet been finally approved.