Italian and American scientists managed to piece together fragments of the marble map of Rome. Attempts to solve this gigantic puzzle were made back in the Renaissance, but the final solution was obtained only with the help of computers, reports the BBC. Emperor Septimius Severus ordered a map of Rome to be made so that all the streets and houses were visible on it.

The investigation was unable to establish the cause of death of the Krasnoyarsk schoolchildren who disappeared in mid-April 2005. As the RIA Novosti news agency was told by the press service of the department of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Siberian Federal District, the Prosecutor General's Office will use the help of foreign experts in establishing the causes of death of children.

Among the exhibits of the air show at the Monino airfield near Moscow, a unique training fighter DIT will be presented, RIA Novosti reports . Exactly the same machine was once assembled for Vasily Stalin. The two-seat biplane DIT was created in 1938 on the basis of the I-15 bis fighter. As noted on the Corner of the Sky website, the DIT did not differ in its flight characteristics from the I-15 bis and was an ideal training aircraft for future fighter pilots.

Traditional healer Maksharip Belkharoev was killed in Ingushetia. According to the RIA Novosti news agency , Belkharoev was shot dead in his house in the village of Alkhasty, Sunzhensky district of the republic on the night of September 27. The attackers also wounded the healer's daughter, Zalina. Girl in the hospital. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, the attack on Belkharoev’s house was carried out at approximately one in the morning.

The Discovery shuttle hit a bird during takeoff, NASA's official website reports. In the photo taken in the first seconds after the launch, you can see the moment of its collision with the external fuel tank. NASA says similar incidents may have happened before, but now a new video surveillance system allows them to be tracked in time.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will not attend the upcoming inauguration of the new Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if Bishkek returns Andijan refugees to Uzbekistan. The Washington Post reported this on Wednesday with reference to officials from the George W. Bush administration. Let us remind you that the inauguration of the new Kyrgyz president elected on July 10 is scheduled for August 14.

Mikhail Kasyanov did not acquire five hectares of forest near the prestigious village of Nikolina Gora. According to RIA Novosti , this was stated by his press secretary Tatyana Razbash, commenting on statements by deputy Alexander Khinshtein about the alleged deal.

The Nizhny Novgorod regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation intends to submit a request to the Prosecutor General's Office demanding a legal assessment of the actions of President Putin and his plenipotentiary representative in the Volga Federal District, Kiriyenko. According to the daily newspaper Kommersant, the regional committee intends to do this on July 27.

For information about the organizers and perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye, you can get a large reward, claims the online publication " Caucasian Knot ". According to his source in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya, employees of the regional police department of the Nadterechny district of Chechnya came up with the corresponding initiative.

British police have detained one of five terrorists who carried out a series of low-power explosions in the London Underground on July 21, BBC News reports. A journalist's source said that early on Wednesday morning, during an anti-terrorist operation in Birmingham, Yasin Hasan Omar, suspected of organizing the explosion at Warren Street station, was detained.

On the morning of July 27, the euro exchange rate was 1.2001 euros per dollar. The yen continued to decline and amounted to 112.65 yen per dollar. American indices ended July 26 differently. Thus, the value of the Dow Jones index decreased by 16.71 points (-0.16 percent) and amounted to 10,579.77 points. The Nasdaq rose 9.25 points (+0.43 percent) to 2,175.99. The S&P 500 rose and reached a value of 1231.16 points.

On Wednesday, terrorist Ahmed Ressam, accused of the so-called "Millennium Plot" to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in 1999, was sentenced to 22 years in prison, BBC News reports. An Algerian man was detained while trying to cross the Canada-US border on a ferry. Customs officers found nitroglycerin in the trunk of his car, which, according to the arrestee, was intended to blow up the international airport in Los Angeles on the eve of the new millennium.

Industrial revolution Moscow style City authorities will reduce the area of ​​industrial zones by 25 percent As you know, economics is the science of distribution of a product that is not enough for everyone. Thus, oil prices are rising because it is a finite resource, but they are not charging for air yet because there is still plenty of it.

In the coming years, the birth rate in Moscow will increase, and the number of deaths, on the contrary, will decrease. However, one should not expect fundamental demographic shifts - mortality will continue to exceed birth rates. This, as reported by RIA Novosti , is stated in the forecast of the socio-economic development of the capital for 2006-2008. The natural population decline in Moscow will be 40 thousand people per year.

Olympics in Sochi: Idea fixe, or Another PR campaign Why does Sochi need the Winter Olympics? On July 26, at the Russian Olympic Meeting, a unanimous decision was made to nominate Sochi for the right to host the XXII Winter Olympic Games in 2014. The official application to the IOC was sent on July 27. The delegates agreed with extraordinary ease that investing 6 billion dollars in the development of a seaside resort city, the budget of which is 6 billion rubles, is a piece of cake.