In Northern Ireland, the world record for eating oysters was broken, reports Ananova. Norwegian Rune Naeri was able to eat 187 oysters in three minutes. Prior to that, the record was 97 oysters in three minutes. Naeri's feat will be entered in the Guinness Book of Records. After the Norwegian set the world record, he washed down the oysters with several pints of Guinness beer, saying it was "a great antidote." He said he felt "great".

At the beginning of next week, a hydrographic vessel will head from Murmansk to the area where the K-159 nuclear submarine sank to monitor the radiation background at the crash site. According to Rosbalt, such a statement was made by Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Ivan Glumov. The meeting was attended by representatives of various departments and services related to radiation and environmental problems.

On Sunday, a fire broke out at the Harmony Hotel in one of the Indonesian resorts. As a result, 4 people died and 14 were injured. According to police representatives, a fire in a hotel on Batam Island started early in the morning and was localized within an hour. Among the dead were three Indonesians and one citizen of Singapore, according to Reuters. The cause of the fire is still unknown.

The Yabloko youth movement denied the information about their participation in the picket held on Saturday. According to the press service of the party, received by the editors of Graney.Ru, this information "does not correspond to reality." The press service confirms that a picket of the movement "Yabloko without Yavlinsky" was held before the start of the congress of the Yabloko party.

On Sunday, a congress of supporters of Viktor Pokhmelkin, united under the name "Liberal Russia", began its work in the Moscow region. They unanimously decided to create a single electoral bloc with the Republican Party and the Movement of Motorists of Russia (DAR).

Iraq will introduce a new national currency on October 15, said Faleh Salman, chairman of the country's Central Bank. According to him, the new money has already entered the vaults of the Central Bank and other Iraqi banks and will be transferred primarily to the accounts of government officials. Salman urged all Iraqis to open personal bank accounts to facilitate the transition to the new currency.

The Russian national football team played a draw with the Irish team in the qualifying match for EURO 2004, RIA Novosti reports. The final score of the meeting in Dublin is 1:1. The Irish scored first. In the 35th minute, forward Damien Duff scored the ball against the Russian team. Sergei Ignashevich equalized in the 42nd minute. Thus, after this draw, the Irish scored 11 points, and the Russians - 8.

Elections of local leaders are held in several regions of Russia on Sunday. In the Omsk region, the governor is elected. Five candidates are running for this post: the current head of the region Leonid Polezhaev, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Leonid Maevsky, pensioner Ivan Viktorov, deputy head of the regional department of natural resources Vyacheslav Shishkin and temporarily unemployed, former vice-governor of the region Alexander Korotkov.

Unidentified people fired at a rural television studio in the village of Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya. As reported to Interfax, cited by Gazeta.ru, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, at night the militants opened fire in the direction of the studio, the guards returned fire. During the skirmish, one of the attackers was wounded, traces of blood testify to this. Measures are being taken to identify the attackers and arrest them.

In Ramallah in the West Bank of the Jordan, a meeting of the Central Committee of Fatah, headed by Yasser Arafat, began to discuss candidates for the post of Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. One of the most likely candidates for this position is the current chairman of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Abu Alla, according to Cursor.

In Moscow, money and valuables worth 900,000 rubles were stolen from a priest, Ekho Moskvy reports. The priest himself contacted the police. Valery Gromovich said that after drinking alcohol with him, four unknown persons beat him, tied him with a telephone cord and stole gold jewelry, 25 thousand dollars, icons of the 18th and 19th centuries.

At the ninth congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Moscow on Sunday night, voting on party lists for the upcoming elections to the State Duma ended. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told reporters after the congress that the federal list included 270 names, and the list for single-member districts - 185 names.

Photo by James Nakhwick from Time magazine On Saturday, Michael Micher, who for six years, who served as Minister of Environmental Affairs in the Government of Great Britain and left this position three months ago, published his report in the Guardian newspaper, which states that the American government knew very well about the preparation of 2001 terrorist attacks.

"Salher". Photo from the site text.uuu.ru/antik/news/2003/05/12/ The kidnappers of the jewelry composition of the work of Benvenutto Cellini "Salher" from the Austrian Art Museum - Italians. This, as RIA Novosti reported on Sunday at a briefing in the Austrian Ministry of Internal Affairs, reports. According to representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we are talking about professional criminals who specialize in thefts of works of art.

A funeral service for the famous science fiction writer Kir Bulychev will be held on September 9 at 11.00 in the White Hall of the Cinema House, Interfax reports, citing the words of the writer's widow Kira Soshinskaya. Kir Bulychev (Igor Mozheiko) died at the age of 69 on September 5.