70-year-old travel agency employee Regina Murmura and her 69-year-old husband were shot at in their own car because the Waze navigator they were using was not directed to the tourist town of Niteroi, where they wanted to be, but to the slum area of ​​the same name. . The reasons for the attack, during which 20 bullets were fired at the car, are unknown, but authorities note that drug gangs are active in the area.

abc7.com 12-year-old Caitlin Thornley from Texas has been suffering from sneezing attacks since mid-September: “My stomach and legs hurt from weakness because I can hardly eat. It's not funny". Doctors do not know what causes the disease; the girl does not sneeze only in her sleep, when she is relaxed. She had to stop going to school and pause her clarinet lessons.

tass.ru Thomas Lindahl, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Linköping in Sweden, accepted congratulations for several hours on being awarded the Nobel Prize, after which it turned out that it had in fact been awarded to Thomas Lindahl from Great Britain. The mistake was made by the public relations officer of the local municipality.

On October 7, Vladimir Putin celebrates his birthday. By tradition, Runet met the holiday with jokes, initiations and criticism of the head of the Russian Federation. One of the most discussed “gifts” for the president was the video of the rapper Timati, shot in the very center of Moscow for a song “My best friend is President Putin”. To shoot the video, I even had to temporarily block approaches to Red Square.

A number of VKontakte users complained about the blocking of their personal pages on the social network with the wording “Suspicious activity.” As the VKontakte press service told TJ, the glitch affected 7 thousand users, but was fixed in less than an hour. Blocked users saw the same message about moderators detecting “suspicious activity.” To resolve the problem, it was suggested to contact VKontakte support.

Polish photographer Arkadiusz Podniesiński visited the exclusion zone near the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant and published on his website photographs taken on abandoned streets and in buildings that were hastily abandoned in 2011. On October 7, the popular British publication Daily Mail drew attention to his work.

The Kotaku blog, which in addition to computer games specializes in the culture of Asian countries, talked about a popular Japanese meme called “You are on the Internet - you are in reality.” Jokes on this topic make fun of netizens who feel and appear more confident in online communication than in reality. Most often, to create a popular picture of this format, you need to successfully select two photos.

For the second night in a row, the northern lights appear in the sky over some areas of St. Petersburg. Leading researcher at the Pulkovo Observatory Georgy Goncharov, commenting on the phenomenon for the Russian News Service, explained it by the powerful activity of the sun in the last tens of hours. The aurora was especially clearly visible over the northern regions of the city and in the Leningrad region.

On October 7, netizens noticed that Microsoft, during a presentation at which the Surface Book laptop, Surface Pro 4 tablet and new Lumia smartphones were presented, briefly showed a smartphone running on an operating system with iOS interface elements. In the last presentation, Microsoft managed to put the iOS interface into their smartphone. pic.twitter.com/ornWeBfEbR — yoLegi (@yolegi) October 6, 2015 Heh, @Microsoft is being trolled by its own employees.

On the evening of October 7, the first snowfall of this season began in several areas of Moscow. Social media feeds were immediately filled with dozens of photos. The first snow in the capital this year fell 10 days earlier than in 2014. The Hydrometeorological Center warns that temperatures in Moscow will continue to drop in the coming days. @oliva2017 @_denizzio_ @marfutka_i @irinagal @vadimakk @lexsandr @marusyaka80 @zoloto_girl @gospel29

In the Yuntai Geological Park in the Chinese province of Henan, one of the sections of the new glass bridge, located at an altitude of about 1080 meters, cracked. The cracks appeared on the evening of October 5 and greatly frightened tourists, reports Mashable . One of the park visitors named Lee Dong Hai witnessed the incident. On social media platform Weibo, he said he heard a strange sound and felt his leg shake before noticing that the glass had cracked.

One of the world's most famous aircraft manufacturers, Airbus, received a patent on October 1 for a system for “placing passenger seats in transport,” the key feature of which is bunk seats that tighten seating arrangements and increase cabin capacity. reports Quartz .

tass.ru It was reported that he was suspected of making an illegal payment to FIFA Vice-President Michel Platini, who is a candidate for the presidency of the organization, in the amount of 2 million Swiss francs from FIFA funds, which was allegedly made for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002. and was carried out in February 2011.

Ten film distribution networks, occupying 30% of the domestic market, agreed to allocate a twenty percent quota to Russian films. reports this RIA Novosti . As the head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky explained, we are talking about a “cartel agreement”, according to which cinema chains promise to give at least 20% of their screen time to films produced in Russia in 2016. This is a voluntary quota, so if the requirement is not met, no measures will be taken against the exhibitors.

The owner of the Instagram account Sadtopographies posts screenshots of maps showing the saddest place names, like Depreciation Pond in Dover, New York, or Grumpy Dog Rd in Libby, Montana. Blog owner Damien Rudd told Mashable that he has always had an interest in place names. He noted that although "depressing" names may seem funny today, their origins often hide sad and tragic stories, often not preserved to this day.