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.

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.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Photo from the site www. Media.ping-ua.com The three leaders of the federal list of candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia were pre-identified, RIA Novosti reports.

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.

At 16.00 on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow there will be another flash mob under the motto "It's hard without television", Ekho Moskvy reports. As conceived by the initiators, everyone at the specified time should come to a large electronic billboard, which stands on the square. The main condition is to have a remote control with you. Exactly at 16.00 flash mob participants will start pressing the remote control buttons and reading the TV program. You can shout out "One more ad!".

"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.

The spiritual leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, said on Saturday after the failed attempt on his life that Israel and, in particular, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will pay a high price for what they have done, according to Haaretz.

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.

The capital of Georgia, which, due to untimely payments, cut off the supply of natural gas to Itera on September 2, was completely left without fuel on Sunday morning. Tengiz Abshilava, technical director of JSC Tbilgaz, told Interfax that over the past few days, Tbilisi's needs for 180,000 cubic meters of gas have been covered by a Georgian gas transportation company. However, "today it has run out of fuel," he said.