16:40 // 16.09.2008 The manufacturer of expensive sports cars and SUVs Porsche took control of the Volkswagen automobile concern, German news television channels report. Porsche participation in Volkswagen is now more than 35% of the shares, which is a control package. According to the media, Porsche has not yet planned to purchase a control package in another German car giant - Audi. Until now, Porsche had about 31% of Volkswagen shares, RIA Novosti notes.

14:25 // 16.09.2008 "The on -board recorders found at the scene of the incident (the registrar and the parameter registrar) were transferred to the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC) to read information, which is presumably required for at least a month," the representative of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin told RIA Novosti .

10:18 // 16.09.2008 The picture, created by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, left the hammer for $ 255 thousand. The painting "Moon Yare" was acquired by three Venezuelan entrepreneurs for $ 255 thousand, and its starting price was only 14 thousand. According to the one -party members of Hugo Chavez, notes RIA Novosti , the amount of the proceeds from the canvas surpassed all the expectations.

Members of the Public Chamber will disseminate information about the Republic of the Public Chamber (OP) intended to connect to the public to inform the public about the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. In the near future, at the initiative of the OP commission to investigate war crimes in South Ossetia and the help of the victim civilian population, the book "South Ossetia. Chronicle of the Order Murder" will be published.

12:40 // 09/16/2008 Unknown people in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow stole a Lexus LH-470 car from a pensioner, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . The pensioner living on Festivalnaya Street filed a statement on the theft of a foreign car in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Northern District of the capital. According to her, the unknown "from September 12 to September 15 made" the foreign car belonging to her worth 1.5 million rubles.

The next scandal occurred in the trial of Alexei Frenkel to the former head of the VIP Bank Alexei Frenkel, accused of organizing the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov, tried to appoint a state defender. This happened after his lawyers did not appear at the Moscow City Court yesterday. In this regard, the former defender of Frenkel Viktor Parshutkin, who participated in the first three meetings in the case in March this year, was invited to the court.

10:08 // 09/16/2008 Tunisia President Zin Al-Abydin Ben Ali sent a telegram to President Dmitry Medvedev with condolences in connection with the disaster of a passenger aircraft in Perm. “The head of state expresses his sincere condolences and deep feelings of compassion to his Russian colleague, as well as the families of the victims of the tragedy,” the message says, the text of which is published in local media. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . Source: gzt.ru

The reduction of staff will reduce the costs of Hewlett-Packard by $ 1.8 billion annually by the American company Hewlett-Packard (HP), one of the world's largest manufacturers of computers and office equipment, announced its intention to reduce about 25 thousand jobs over the next three years.

09:29 // 09/16/2008 Deputy Prime Minister Thailand Sakhas Bundydvkul resigned his authority, reports the Thai publication Bangkok Post. "The resignation statements were submitted on Monday and will enter into force on Tuesday. The reason for the resignation was called poor health," the report said. Sakhas also held the post of Foreign Minister Thailand, who previously resigned this month, having served in this position only 40 days.

15:18 // 16.09.2008 The Olympic Department of the Krasnodar Territory seized in the Imeret Valley for the construction of the Olympic facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games of 2014, 196 sites for 94% of the necessary territory. This was stated by RIA Novosti by the vice-governor of the region Yevgeny Muravyov at the first meeting of the working group on land and community relations.

General Petreus transferred from the Iraqi front to the Afghan American General David Petreus left the US Armed Forces in Iraq. He leaves his post at the zenith of glory: in his homeland it is with his name that the greatest successes of the American army in the Middle Eastern country are associated with his name. Success is meant a sharp decrease in US Armed Forces over the past six months.

Russia received the bodies of two pilots of the downed bomber today the body of two Russian pilots who died during hostilities in South Ossetia were transferred to the Russian side. The remains belong to two navigators of the Tu-22M3 long-range bomber, knocked down on the night of August 9. According to the deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the fate of the crew commander remains unknown.

At the budget auction of the Ministry of Finance, demand again exceeded the proposal of budget auctions of the Ministry of Finance gained unheard of popularity. Today, 20 credit organizations have submitted applications for the placement of budget funds on their deposits. As a result, the volume of applications by 24.8 billion rubles exceeded the set accommodation limit of 150 billion rubles.

19:32 // 09/16/2008 For the first time after a 26-year break, Syria authorities appointed their ambassador to Iraq, reports Reuters. Kunema Faris, who today took the oath in front of the country's president Bashar Assad, will represent the Syria authorities in Baghdad. Iraq two years ago restored diplomatic relations with Syria after a 24-year break, but has not yet appointed his ambassador to Damascus.

12:06 // 09/16/2008 The State Duma Committee on Industry will prepare proposals for amendments to legislative acts that ensure the security of the aircraft. This was reported to parliamentary journalists by the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee Valery Draganov. According to him, the domestic air park is now faced with three main problems: the moral and physical fatigue of the aircraft used, the use of old spare parts and high customs duties for components.