Vladimir Putin will address the General Assembly of the United Nations. The President of Russia sent a message to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, in which he confirmed his intention to speak from the rostrum of the 58th session of the UN General Assembly, the Kremlin's press service told RIA Novosti. "The need for solidarity support from the leaders of the UN member states of the only universal Organization is more relevant than ever," Vladimir Putin stressed.

Photo by ar 22-year-old resident of the English city of Sanderland Charlotte Kelly gave birth to twins. Girls named Ruth and Emily are one -eating twins. It is noteworthy that the eldest daughters of Ms. Kelly, Jennifer and Jane born four years ago, also one-eating twins. Such a combination of circumstances is extremely rare, experts say.

An emergency situation has been declared in Yakutia due to the catastrophic shallowing of the Lena River. The President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Vyacheslav Shtyrov told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. He took part in the work of the coordinating council of the heads of the executive authorities of the Far Eastern Federal District, which was held on Tuesday in Khabarovsk. Among other issues, the council discussed the state of the northern delivery of goods to hard-to-reach areas of the north.

A woman and a police officer were killed in the south of the capital. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the Moscow police department. "At about 12.45 Moscow time on Tuesday, at the entrance of house 4, building 3 on Kashirskoye Highway, an unknown criminal stabbed a woman, from which she died," the source said. This was witnessed by N.V. Litovkin, an operational duty officer of the traffic police department of the city of Moscow, who at that moment was not on duty.

Next year, construction of Russia's first toll highway 47.8 km long "MKAD-Noginsk" will begin in the Moscow region. The corresponding resolution was adopted on Tuesday at a meeting of the government of the Moscow region. The route will bypass Reutov, Balashikha, Zheleznodorozhny, Lyubertsy. The road coincides with the direction of the international highway #2 Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod.

From the site www.rusart.nm.ru State Duma deputy Tatyana Astrakhankin appealed to the Minister of Press Mikhail Lesin with a request to "take the necessary measures that stop the spread of blasphemous advertising" of the deodorant Rexona. The letter of Ms. Astrakhankin, placed with the preservation of the author's spelling on the website of the Ministry of Printing , says: Dear Mikhail Yuryevich!

Aiman ​​Az-Zavakhri. Photo by ar The CIA confirmed that the vote on the film, transferred on the air of the Al-Arabiya television channel on Sunday, really belongs to the closest assistant to Osama Ben Laden Aiman ​​Az-Zavakhri. In his speech, Az-Zavakhri warned the United States against actions against prisoners contained on the basis of Guantanamo in Cuba. "America will pay a high price for any harm caused to any of the Muslim Prisoners," the speech said.

Yuri Levada. Photo from the site www.old.echo.msk.ru The All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion will be transformed from a state enterprise into a joint -stock company, the board of directors of which will appoint a new head of the VTsome instead of the 15 years of Yuri Levada. This, as Gazeta.ru reports, Yuri Levada said at a press conference in Moscow. The change of leadership will most likely entail the departure of most of the team.

Mahmud Abass and Ariel Sharon. Grani.ru collage On the night of Monday on Tuesday, the press service of the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon announced that the meeting between him and Palestine Prime Minister Mahmud Abass, who was outlined on Wednesday, will not take place, reports Haaretz. The reason for the cancellation of the negotiations was a night shootout near the Har-Gilo settlement, in which four Israeli were injured.

Photo from Newsru.com Crime police officers detained two people suspected of committing a series of murders. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The murders were committed in the Zaraysky district of the Moscow region from June 10 to July 24 this year. According to the press service, on Monday, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Boris Gryzlov, heard a report on the course of disclosure of these crimes.

Over the past 24 hours, American troops have carried out more than twenty dozen raids in the vicinity of Tikrit over the past day, CNN reports. During the operation to capture the ex-dictator, 46 people were detained, including the leader of local guerrillas and two middle-level officials of the former Iraqi government. The purpose of the operation was also to seize weapons from the population.

Photo AFP Portugal Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durau Barros announced the entire territory of the country with a distress zone, BBC reports. The fact is that all Portugal is covered by unprecedented forest fires. The decision of the Portuguese government on the recognition of the country's territory with the distress zone simplifies the procedure for obtaining material compensation by citizens by citizens. Thousands of firefighters are unable to cope with fire.

Alexander Yakovlev. Photo from the site www.yabloko.ru In Russia, there is a fascist of society. So believes the ideologist and organizer of the restructuring of the late 1980s, president of the Democracy Foundation Alexander Yakovlev. In an interview with the Moscow News, he calls the sipmtomas of this phenomenon: "The growth of crime, anti -Semitism.

Agent of Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko Klaus-Peter Kohl said that heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis refused to take part in the rematch scheduled for December this year. It was assumed that the match could take place in New York's Madison Square Garden on December 6th. According to Kohl, representatives of Lewis said that they were not satisfied with the date of the match, since their client would not have time to prepare for the fight before that time.

Five people were killed and one injured in a helicopter crash in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, ND TV reported, cited by RIA Novosti. The BEL-407 helicopter carrying the pilgrims crashed on Tuesday morning near the Gund valley. According to the TV channel, four people, including the helicopter pilot, died on the spot, two more were injured. Later, one of the victims died on the way to the hospital.