The London police asked mobile operators to help track the numbers of prostitutes and drug addicts. Thus, the police hope to clean the streets of the city from criminal and semi -criminal elements on the eve of the Olympiad. It is not yet known whether the agreement will be reached between the parties, but representatives of Vodafone, Orange, O2, 3, Virgin and T-Mobile declared their readiness to hold a meeting with the city authorities in October 2009.

At the World Athletics Championship, which takes place in Berlin, Russian athlete Anna Fifth won the bronze medal in a triple jump. Another Russian woman Tatyana Lebedeva did not fall into the three winners, she took the sixth place in the overall standings. Gold was won by the Cuban jumping of Yargelis Savigne, her compatriot Mabel Gai took the second place. Recall that Tatyana Lebedeva is the 2007 world champion in a triple jump. At the 2008 Olympics, she won bronze in this discipline.

Canadian scientists engaged in modeling the spread of diseases have developed a model of an epidemic of zombies. It turned out that the whole thing is for the medicine that the virus can defeat - after all, all other methods, including the ban on sending groups of children to other countries and even strict quarantine, were led only to a delay in the pandemic. Zombie apocalypse is a favorite plot of horror films.

The computer game, with which everyone can try their hand in the fight against the influenza epidemic, developed and presented Dutch scientists on their website. The player, depending on his own security ideas, can distribute protective masks to everyone or close the airport. The Great Flu game offers those who wish to feel like a chief sanitary doctor in the world.

The economy Russia, despite the anti -crisis actions of the government, stubbornly does not want to recover. The Rector of ANCH under the Russian Economy of the GZT .ru will tell the rector of the Russian Federation at the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Mau about the features of the financial crisis in Russia and the activities of the Government Council to increase the sustainability of the Russian economy. Questions for the interview are accepted until August 27.

The hockey player signed a one -year contract with the team, the official website of the St. Petersburg club reports. There are now two more goalkeepers in the St. Petersburg club: 31-year-old Robert Ash and 35-year-old Dmitry Yachanov. Recall that the 37-year-old Sokolov won the Russian World Cup in 2002 in 2002. SKA Sokolov has been intermittently since 1990. He also played in Severstal and Vanguard, with whom he became the champion of Russia in 2004.

Tired after watching the Pavilions of the Max-2009 air show, the head of the Russian government, Vladimir Putin, decided to pamper himself sweet. He bought ice cream, which was advised to him by Sergey Chemezov. RIA Novosti tells about this on Tuesday. As it became known, the choice of Russian prime minister was awarded the Ice Cream "Maksibon". Putin laid out 70 rubles for him.

New trends in the field of fraud that appeared during the economic crisis, said Alexei Shishko, deputy head of the Department of Economic Security (Deb) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, speaking on Tuesday, August 18, at a briefing in the ministry. Fraudsters predicted in a crisis did not occur, but the fraudsters of the new wave work in a large way, trying to illegally seize apartments, land plots and assets of banks.

A multiple of the world record holder, a two -time Olympic champion and a two -time world jumping champion Elena Isinbaeva at the World Athletics Championship could not take a single height. Isinbaeva failed to take two heights: 4.75 m and 4.8 m. The gold medal was won by the representative of Poland Anna Rogovsk, who took a height of 4.74 m. The second line in the final protocol was taken by American Chelsea Johnson (4.65 m). Monica Puzure from Poland won bronze (4.65 m).

The editor of the "Megapolis" section on the website gzt.ru. Before that, he worked exclusively in newspapers, where he described mainly horrors and nasty things: wars, terrorist attacks, floods, murders and even elections in Belarus. Despite this, it remains an optimist who believes that there are more good people in the world than bad people. About 21 people died about the author (nine missing) as a result of a terrorist attack in Nazran.

British nutritionists are sure that obsession with proper nutrition poses a threat to the country's public health British nutritionists have expressed concern about the growth of the number of mental disorders and disorders associated with the cult of healthy nutrition.

In the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, an action movie was destroyed, accused of kidnapping the son of Rosneft Vice President Mikhail Stavsky. According to a source in the Russian special services, on August 6, three militants were discovered in one of the houses of the Kantyshevo village. They answered the proposal to give up with fire. During the ensuing shootout, law enforcement officers destroyed bandits. Two of them - the brothers Musu and Adam Khautiev - were identified immediately.

The leader of the criminal group in the structure of the Department of the City Order of the Capital Construction of Moscow was detained when receiving a bribe of 2 million rubles. A group of officials of the Moscow government who worked in the construction complex received bribes for 8 billion rubles in a year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs claims. The city authorities are convinced that we are talking about the old story, and they are perplexed why it was again pulled out.

Forces of the Navy of the Russian Federation on Tuesday in the Atlantic Ocean, 8 pirates were captured, which previously stole the Russian dry load Arctic Sea. Among the captured were citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Russia. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov. According to the head of the defense department, during the capture the sailors did not make a single shot.

The criminal case on the death of the Moscow social activist Lyudmila Melikova has not yet been instituted. Her relatives are looking for eyewitnesses to hit her during a picket at the building of the Moscow Bank under construction. The relatives of the recently deceased social activist Lyudmila Melikova met with the head of the Meshchanskoye Department of Internal Affairs: he could not explain why the police who came to the place of accident did not draw up a protocol.