Madame Museum Tussaus introduced a new wax figure of Michael Jackson. The wax Jackson froze in a pose from the rehearsal of the last concert round of the singer, who, alas, was not destined to take place. The sculptors began to work on the figure of Jackson four months ago, planning to expose it at the same time as Michael's farewell round "This is - it". According to CNN , this is the 13th figure of Michael Jackson in the Madame Tussauch Museum.

The injured from a strong earthquake, which on Thursday occurred in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, became 336 people, more than 2.7 thousand buildings were damaged, the Xinhua agency reports. According to the agency, 56 wounded are in serious condition. The earthquake of magnitude 6.0 occurred at 19.19 local time (15.19 Moscow time).

Vladimir Putin expanded the list of cars transported by rail to the Far East for free The list of cars that can be transported by rail to the Far East during the year without paying for Russian railways (Russian Railways) services. Yesterday, changes signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were published in Decree No.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov read a poem of his own essay on the theatrical reconstruction of the Battle of Poltava in the Moscow Kolomensky, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Victory of the Russian Army over the Swedes. In a poem dedicated to the Battle of Poltava, the mayor glorified Russian weapons and noted its significance for the future of Russia.

In Perm, the director of the Arsenal oil company is killed 30-year-old Artem Kutsevalov. This was reported today by ITAR-TASS in the press service of the regional police department. According to the power department, the police detained a man who confessed to this crime. According to law enforcement agencies, the crime was committed on July 6 in the area of Bakharevka Airport.

The movement at the Paveletskaya-Radial station Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro was stopped to extract a person who has fallen on the rails, RIA Novosti was told in the metro information center. “The voltage was removed at 16.11 to extract a person from the rails,” the agency’s interlocutor said. Other details, including the state of a fallen person, she found it difficult to report.

The dollar can celebrate victory. Participants in the Big Eight summit decided to refuse to depreciate their own national currencies by concluding an agreement not to apply the “competitive devaluation of currencies”. The leaders of the big eight, as well as the leaders of the five developing countries, agreed to avoid the “competitive devaluation of the currencies”, which in practice means the depreciation of national money.

Canadian psychologists have refuted the widespread opinion that self -hypnosis can improve self -esteem. According to their conclusions, the popular technique of positive thinking only worsens the state of people with low self -esteem. A study conducted by specialists from the universities of Waterloo and New BrunSvik showed that the repetition of phrases like “everyone loves me” is not able to solve the problems of self-esteem.

The senator, who branded Michael Jackson with a “pervert” and “pedophile” declared war on the project of the resolution, which recognizes the singer “the legend of America and the musical idol”. He promised to do everything possible so that the project would not be approved. Member of the US Congress Shele Jackson Lee will not be easy to fulfill the promise that she made at a mourning concert in honor of Michael Jackson.

In the new film "Obstacked Hugs" with Penelope Cruz in the title role, director Pedro Almodovar quotes the classics of cinema and himself: the best quote from his own "women on the verge of nervous breakdown". “Witch ...” the brunette whispers, naked, with disheveled hair, lifting her face to the mirror, in his eyes - hatred and longing. Now she will leave the bathroom and return to bed to a man, from whom she literally feel sick.

The Kyiv court ordered Viktor Yushchenko to hold a referendum on the issue of Ukraine’s entry into NATO and a single economic space with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Experts believe that now the president will not be able to delay the terms of referendum, but will definitely try to do this.

The head of the British National Party Nick Griffin, recently included in the European Parliament, proposed to heal ships transporting illegal immigrants to Europe. On Thursday, the British newspaper The Guardian reports. Griffin called on Europe parliamentarians to take the most stringent measures in relation to the flow of illegal immigrants from Africa. “In the end, the only effective way to stop the wave of immigrants from Africa is to be adamantly gesture.

Russians are an arrangements of containers in the Cherkizov market create a trade union. They are trying to achieve their goods (each for $ 100-150 thousand), which is stored in the closed market. Before the closure of the New AST market, one of those that are part of the Cherkizovsky market, Russian entrepreneurs traded on it with the clothes of the factory of Tula, Pyatigorsk, the eagle and other cities of Russia, Turkish textiles, perfumery of Russian and foreign production and other goods.

The FAS opened a case against the Bank of Uralsib and Toyota Bank. The banks agreed that Uralsib should send Toyota to Toyota to Toyota Bank. Such an agreement between competitors is unique to the Russian market. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) opened a case against Banks Uralsib and Toyota Bank, the department said in a statement .

Dermatologist Michael Jackson Arnold Klein, whom the number of American media called the most likely biological father of two older children of the deceased singer, said that they, in his opinion, were not his descendants. According to The Daily Telegraph , last week one of the American magazines said that Debi Rowe, the mother of two children, Michael Jackson, who worked in a nurse in the clinic, was fertilized by the donor sperm of his chef - head physician Arnold Klein.