The singer was not allowed to become a foster mother Officials in East African Malawi demonstrated amazing respect for the law, as they did not dare to satisfy the desire of the famous American pop diva Madonna to become an adoptive mother for a one-year-old baby from this country. The nine-day charity tour of the singer, who this time performed exclusively as a good fairy for African orphanages, did not end with a happy ending at all.

An international forum of contemporary art will be held in Moscow until October 23 On the night of October 15, the opening of the TERRITORIA contemporary art festival took place at the Vorobyovy Gory metro station. The fact is that the metro is one of the symbols of this new festival, where interchange stations represent the intersection points of different arts. And the Moscow Metro is a sponsor of the festival.

The musical Mamma mia! now also in Russian 22 ABBA songs are connected by a simple plot, translated into Russian and perfectly sung - screenings of the musical Mamma mia! have begun in Moscow. The plot that holds together songs from different years and different intonations was invented by Katherine Johnson: on a Greek island, a woman named Donna owns a tavern and single-handedly raises her twenty-year-old daughter Sophie.

FOOTBALL. October 17--18. Champions League. Group stage. 3rd round . October 19. UEFA Cup. Group stage. 1st round. Russian Championship. Premier League. 23rd round. October 20. "Dynamo" - "Spartak" (Nch), "Shinnik" - "Luch-Energia". October 21. "Saturn" - "Rostov", "Amkar" - CSKA. October 22. "Torpedo" - "Spartak" (M), "Moscow" - "Rubin", "Zenit" - "Lokomotiv", "Tom" - "Wings of the Soviets".

The Nobel Committee awarded the "banker of the poor" The Nobel Peace Prize winner was 66-year-old Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his brainchild Grameen Bank. The Nobel Committee awarded them “for their contribution to the fight against poverty and for creating the foundations for social and economic development.” The $1.4 million bonus will be divided equally between the banker and the bank. Mr. Yunus himself, according to him, still cannot believe what happened.

Our garbage will live longer than palaces and roads Humanity is capable of rebuilding the entire planet, adapting it to its needs, but is not able to change it for a long time. This conclusion is made in the material of the American magazine New Scientist. Journalist Bob Holmes tried to imagine what traces people would leave behind if suddenly, at one moment, the entire population of our Earth disappeared from its face.

The CEO of a major defense company was arrested At the end of last week, the Moscow Meshchansky Court issued a warrant for the arrest of the general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “State Research and Production Enterprise (SNPP) Basalt” Vladimir Korenkov. The company he heads is one of the oldest and largest developers and manufacturers of ammunition in Russia, from aerial bombs to rounds for artillery systems.

American oceanologists have aged the Bering Strait: according to their data, this narrow strip of water between Eurasia and North America formed 11 thousand years ago, a thousand years earlier than previously thought. This conclusion was made after studying pits taken from the bottom of the Chukchi Sea shelf north and west of Alaska, Reuters reports. This territory, located next to the strait, was covered with water even earlier - about 20 thousand years ago.

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Dmitry Pumpyansky became the sole owner of TMK A large private company has appeared in Russia, owned by one person. Last Friday it became known that the head of the Pipe Metallurgical Company Dmitry Pumpyansky consolidated 100% of its shares by purchasing 33% of TMK shares from his partners Sergei Popov and Andrey Melnichenko from MDM Bank. The shares that came under the control of Mr. Pumpyansky are distributed among several offshore companies, of which he is the ultimate beneficiary.

New ghost buildings discovered in Moscow Muscovite Yuri Chiappari lives in a house that does not exist. That is, the 25-story building itself has existed, standing on the outskirts of Moscow, on Veernaya Street, for several years, but there are no documents for this house. But if there are no documents, its residents have no property rights. And neither Mr. Chiappari nor hundreds of his neighbors can, accordingly, rent out, sell, donate their housing, or dispose of it in any other way.

"Babi Yar" at the Dmitry Shostakovich festival At the festival for the 100th anniversary of Shostakovich, his Thirteenth Symphony “Babi Yar” to the poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko was performed by the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Fedoseev at the helm and Sergei Aleksashkin as a soloist.

CLUBS Compact. As part of the weekly joint project of the Ikra club and the reggae-hip-hop label “Levprazvuk”, DJ Kompakto will present his second album “Honeycombs”. He will be assisted by live instrumentalists and MCs. 21.00. CONCERTS Arto Tuncboyacyan and Armenian Navy Band. One of the most famous Armenian groups in the world playing world music - traditional Armenian motifs in modern jazz arrangements.

Vladimir Kramnik became the absolute world champion Russian Vladimir Kramnik won the unification match for the title of world chess champion against Veselin Topalov, deciding the outcome of the confrontation in a tiebreaker. After a dozen games played according to classical regulations, the score was equal - 6:6. In four additional duels with a shortened time control, Kramnik prevailed - 2.5:1.5, with the Russian gaining the upper hand in the last game with white pieces.

UN Security Council punishes North Korea through non-military means The international community managed to develop a united and fairly tough position towards North Korea, which carried out a nuclear test a week ago. This was expressed in the unanimous adoption by the UN Security Council on Saturday of resolution number 1718.