The ancient wine of Pompeii, once praised by Pliny, has been recreated for the first time since the city was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. A red wine with a rich bouquet, but quite a lot of tannin, named Villa dei Misteri in honor of one of the main attractions of Pompeii, is the result of a 25-year project, writes Daily Telegraph . Translation of the article leads InoPressa .

In Southern California, a police officer found 90 dead tigers in a private house, reports Reuters. The owner of the house John Winehart, considering himself an animal lover, 35 years ago opened a "shelter for retired tigers", who, due to their age, can no longer perform in circus shows. His neighbors reported to the police that he kept one tiger and two alligators without the proper permits and certificates.

Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov has dismissed Chary Babayev, Ambassador of Turkmenistan to the UK. He is deprived of the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. As RIA Novosti was informed in the presidential press service, Niyazov signed a corresponding decree.

About 20 Green Party activists picketed on Friday the building of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, Interfax reports. Thus, environmentalists honored the memory of the victims of the disaster and paid tribute to the liquidators of the accident, who, according to the Greens, numbered 600,000 people.

The Military Prosecutor's Office of Georgia opened a criminal case against five former heads of the Ministry of State Security (MGB) of Georgia, including ex-minister Vakhtang Kutateladze, his deputy Simon Nozadze and the head of the anti-terrorist center Levan Kenchadze. According to Interfax, all of them are accused of abuse of power.

A 14-year-old student at a school in the small American town of Red Lyon, Pennsylvania, wounded Principal Gene Segro, who later died in hospital, with a gunshot. After the teenager, armed with at least two pistols, was surrounded by other students of the school, he shot himself. According to Reuters, the motives for the murder are still unclear. "As far as we know now," a local police spokesman said, "there was nothing that could have provoked the incident.

12 children from high school #1948 with in-depth study of Chinese are placed under house arrest. A group of students from this school have just returned from a language practice in China. The Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Control of the Southwestern District, for mysterious reasons, allowed children to attend school. The county's department of education does not. Parents are in a panic, and in the city SES they learned about the situation from Izvestia.

In the center of Riga, a minibus belonging to the US Embassy hit a woman, Interfax reports citing the newspaper Vakara Zinas. The victim was taken to the hospital. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon. According to the newspaper, before the police arrived at the scene, guards from the American embassy showed up and told the driver of the minibus, a Latvian, not to say anything to law enforcement officers.

State Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin made a statement that as a result of an accident at the Kurchatov Institute, a release of radiation occurred. According to "Gazeta.Ru", after clarifications, the deputy admitted his statement was erroneous. At the Kurchatov Institute, all telephones are blocked, and the correspondent of Graney.Ru was unable to obtain first-hand information.

The State Commission on Friday morning at the Baikonur Cosmodrome approved the main and backup crews of the seventh main expedition to the International Space Station. According to Interfax, the main crew of the seventh ISS Expedition has been approved as part of the commander, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and flight engineer, NASA astronaut Edward Lu. The backup crew is approved as part of Commander Alexander Kaleri and Flight Engineer Michael Foul.

A young man died as a result of a shell explosion at a military training ground near Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Region. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Sverdlovsk region, a 73-mm shell from an infantry fighting vehicle, carelessly left at the training ground after the exercises, exploded the night before. According to preliminary data, the dead man was not a soldier, his identity has not yet been established.

On Friday, a Mi-17 military helicopter crashed in the mountains of northern Pakistan. As a result, all 13 people on board were killed. This was announced by an army representative, reports Reuters. The helicopter that crashed into the rock was making an ordinary flight, brigade commander Saulyat Raza said. Among the dead were several Pakistani officers and the crew of the vehicle.

In Israel, four men have said they were sexually harassed by Rabbi Yona Metzger, who was elected last week as the country's chief rabbi. Their testimonies were published on Friday by the newspaper Ma'ariv, to which Kursor.Ru refers. We are talking about events that took place several years ago, at different times and in different places. The earliest evidence of a rabbi's misbehavior dates back to the late 1980s.

An explosion at a courthouse in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir killed three people and injured 34, AP reported. The police believe that a bomb was planted in the building, but it is possible that it was thrown there. The incident occurred in the city of Pattan, 25 km north of Srinagar.

The DPRK Foreign Ministry said that on the eve of the talks in China, the United States was made a "bold new proposal", but nothing new was said in response to the Koreans. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the North Korean official agency KCNA. According to Pyongyang, the United States retreated to its old positions and avoided discussing important issues.