On Monday, a light single-engine aircraft chartered for aerial advertising crashed at Rotterdam Airport. According to eyewitnesses, the 26-year-old pilot was injured. According to the ANP agency, cited by RIA Novosti, the plane crashed onto the runway when the pilot tried to hook an advertising poster from the ground after takeoff. In the Netherlands, aerial advertising of various goods is popular, which during public events is carried over crowds of people by light single-seat aircraft.

Photo from Newsru.com In Ingushetia, a man was detained, who, as the investigation believes, is an accomplice in preparing a terrorist attack in Tushin on July 5. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the phone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. According to him, a citizen Alikhadzhiev, who was detained a week ago, is an active participant in illegal armed groups.

Not a single company has yet submitted an application to the Ministry of Finance for participation in the competition for the selection of management companies for investing pension savings of citizens, AKM reports with reference to Deputy Finance Minister Bella Zlatkis. According to Zlatkis, the Ministry of Finance sees no reason to worry about the lack of applications.

Grani.ru collage The programmer who told the corporation’s clients about the presence of a hole in the postal system that they use for sixteen months in jail, writes Securityfocus. Bret McDinel, a former Tornado Development Corporation Employee, providing customers with webcam services, found a hole in the webcam system that allows the attacker to intercept users and thus gain access to their correspondence.

During excavations in Veliky Novgorod, archaeologists found a carved overlay depicting, presumably, the biblical king David, who, according to legend, defeated the giant Goliath. As RIA Novosti was informed at the Novgorod Center for Organization and Provision of Archaeological Research, a carved bone overlay depicting a man sitting under a tree was discovered on Friday at the Nikitinsky excavation site on the Sofia side in Veliky Novgorod in the 14th century layer.

Belarusian police detained four residents of Minsk last weekend, who stole a trolleybus from Romanovskaya Sloboda Street. As Rosbalt was told in the information and public relations department of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee, a trolleybus belonging to the Minskgorelectrotrans unitary enterprise attracted the attention of policemen after the hijackers crashed into a traffic light. The criminals tried to escape, but were detained.

Russia expects to get a share in the reconstruction of Iraq, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said on Tuesday. According to RIA Novosti, Russia may receive this share in connection with the lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq. According to Kasyanov, the lifting of sanctions is an expected measure. "Now Russia automatically removes restrictions on the export of its goods to the country, and we expect that Russian companies will restore their contracts in this country," Kasyanov stressed.

Another American soldier died in Iraq. According to AP, he was injured in an explosion in Baghdad on Monday and later died in hospital. It is known that the deceased served in the 1st Armored Division. Other details are not reported.

The Russian company "Vertical-T" intends to sue the Sudanese authorities, who detained on July 21 the Mi-26T helicopter belonging to the company, more than half a million dollars.

Andrew Luster, great-grandson of American cosmetics magnate Max Factor, sentenced to 124 years in prison for 87 rapes, must pay $19 million to one of his victims, 23-year-old California resident Shauna Doe. Six years ago, Andrew slipped gamma-hydroxybiturate (a drug that causes unconsciousness) into her wine and raped her, filming the whole process on video. The girl herself learned about the rape only three years later, after watching a videotape seized at Laster's villa.

Russian Minister of Justice Yuri Chaika has been elected co-chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Guild of Investigative Journalism. According to a RIA Novosti correspondent, the leaders of the guild voted unanimously for his candidacy for this post. "For the first time, a public organization is being created on the basis of the common interests of the executive branch and media representatives," Chaika said.

France's chief health officer resigned on Monday after the country's government acknowledged that the recent heat wave could have claimed the lives of 5,000 people. "Lucien Abeneim, on his own initiative, submitted my resignation to me ... I accepted it," French Health Minister Jean-Francois Mattei said in a statement, Reuters reported. The sanitary service estimated last Friday that the heat had caused the death of 3,000 French people.

Taliban militants killed 10 Afghan policemen, including the police chief of Logar province, Abdul Khaliq. It is reported by Reuters. The militants attacked the police on Monday. According to the military commander of Logar, the policemen were returning from the funeral of two members of the family of one of the officers who died in the explosion of a rocket fired by Taliban fighters.

Osama Bin Laden. Grani.ru collage "Abu Hafsa Brigades" related to al-Qaeda took responsibility for turning off electricity in the USA and Canada. This was reported by the Internet tripa tribune.com . The statement originally appeared in Arabic in Yahoo.com on behalf of the Islamic media center. It says that on the "Earth of the Tiran of the New Generation" an operation "Fast lightning" was carried out. The whole message is called the "third communique" Brigades.

The Ministry of Justice believes that Boris Gryzlov has the right to simultaneously hold the post of minister and be one of the leaders of United Russia. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement was made on Tuesday by Russian Justice Minister Yuri Chaika. "We believe that Gryzlov has the right to hold the position of minister and be one of the leaders of United Russia, because he is not a member of any party bodies and is not an official in it," the minister said.