In the Sicilian city of Corleone, who became famous thanks to the novel by Mario Puzo and the film by Francis Ford Coppola, a museum of the mafia was created. His discovery was timed to the UN conference to combat organized crime, which took place in Palermo. The museum is located in a palace built 400 years ago. There used to be a shelter for orphans.

Undoubtedly, the lawsuit of the tax inspectorate in the arbitration court (with a recognition of the liquidation) of a number of companies of the Media Most holding, including the NTV television company and the Seven Days publishing house can be considered as the next episode of the Kremlin’s struggle with the rebellious information corporation.

Who to start Big Ben After the whole year of silence, 73-year-old Gabriel Garcia Marquez gave an interview with the Colombian newspaper Tiempo. According to the writer, all this time he intensively worked on a three -volume of memoirs (in connection with the lipoma, which was found more than a year ago, Marquez had a fear that he would not have time to complete everything conceived).

In America, they decided to cross the popular game “Monopoly” with the characters of the famous animated series “Simpsons”. Who carefully monitors the ups and downs of this cartoon, and at the same time do not mind ruining a dozen or two competitors in the “monopoly” at leisure, will be able to evaluate how complicated this task is.

One of the oldest watch companies in the world, British Thwaits and Reed, is put up for sale. The company, founded in 1740, its current owner Melvin Lee estimates at 500 thousand pounds (about 720 thousand dollars). It is known for the fact that she has the responsibilities of monitoring the work of various important watch mechanisms around the world, and above all the hours of the famous London tower of Big Ben.

For simply It is useful to plunge for a short time in a foreign life, if only because suddenly you have time to read the foreign newspaper. Here I am going in an electric train from the Tokyo airport "Narita" and turn over the newspapers. And on the very first page of each of them, I am surprised to find that the country is shaking a terrible scandal: the archaeologist Fujimur Siniti turned out to be dishonest, and his epoch -making paleolithic finds are ordinary fake.

The Chancellor Schröder decided on what they had not done in Germany for half a century: he initiated the ban on one of the parties - the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPG). There are only about six thousand members in it, there are no representatives in the parliament, in the local organs it does not play a practical role, although it has existed for almost forty years. So why did this problem excited all of Germany? Journalists call NPG neo -Nazi party. If so, then it is really a ban.

“In the president’s life every day is a test,” Leonid Kuchma stated with sadness last week. So far, this is the only comment that journalists have been able to get from the Ukrainian president about the “Gongadze case”. Meanwhile, this scandal threatens Leonid Kuchme with a serious political crisis. On September 16, in Kyiv, on the way home, the editor -in -chief of the opposition “Ukrainian Pravda” Georgy Gongadze, known for his anti -presidential publications, disappeared.

"Illegal arrest" The war that Vladimir Putin wages against an independent civil society spread beyond Russia. Yesterday, the Spanish police, acting on the basis of a warrant from Moscow, transferred through Interpol, arrested Vladimir Gusinsky, the founder of the only private television network in Russia. Mr. Gusinsky left Russia a few months ago, after the Putin government deployed a campaign directed against the remaining independent media, the main of which is the NTV television company.

Powerful Vladimir Resin, the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government, about his wife Anatoly Lukyanov about the approval of the coat of arms and the flag of Russia, the MDSS sound system and supported by magnificent acoustics, charms you when listening to CD.

The newlyweds and happy parents Michael Douglas and Katherine Zeta-Jones (demonstrating their family happiness on the pages of all the tabloids of the planet) and are now filmed together. At the end of the year, a picture of Stephen Sodaberg Traffic is published, in which the new “sweet couple” of Hollywood plays key roles. Director Soderberg once shot films for the Sinefils (“Sex, Lies and Video”), but now he switched to social dramas.

They fly over Cyprus from cold Europe to warm Africa. And every year, many of them end their path not on the banks of the Nile, but in the stomachs of Cyprus gourmets. The fact is that raspberries are a favorite dish of Cypriots, and they are served in any tavern. However, this year the government decided to adopt a law under which their capture will be considered a crime.

The International Commission for last week came close to the development of a quota for export-import of sturgeon caviar in the world. The reason for this is the unprecedented scale of poaching in the Caspian. If things go further, after 2 to 3 years of sturgeon the fate of dinosaurs will befall. While the Primorsov is baked with sturgeon caviar pies, in the west, say, in England, the price of a 30-gram jar of this delicacy has already reached 100 pounds (about 160 dollars).

We are being bought Standing, then the instrument of writing - the Gusy feather - remained unchanged through the centuries and centuries. Only chalk was competition for him, but you can’t get it with chalk on paper. Shepherds who have grazed their herds around the lake Verkhny Borwoodil in the English county of Kumberland noticed. that the wool of their sheep becomes black if they rub on local cliffs.

If things are opened, then someone needs it. And if they close it too. That is how one could determine the meaning of the latest body movements of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The detention in Spain Vladimir Gusinsky almost coincided with a statement by the senior investigator of the Prosecutor General of Ruslan Tamaev on the closure of a criminal case known as the Mabeteks case.