07.10.2005, 18:34:56 version Print | PDA/PDA Shot from Channel One Brilliant Minds On October 10, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics On October 10, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce one or more winners of the Economics Prize. The names of the nominees are traditionally kept strictly secret for fifty years, and the selection process begins in September, about a year before the award is presented.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to the International Nuclear Energy Agency and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, BBC News reports. This was announced on October 7 by the Nobel Committee in Oslo. The award, which amounts to 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.29 million at current exchange rates), will be presented in December this year in the Norwegian capital. This year, a record 199 individuals and organizations were nominated for this award.

The new Formula 1 world champion, Spaniard Fernando Alonso, is being offered a three-fold increase in salary, German media report. The Toyota team is ready to pay Alonso $20 million annually if he agrees to leave the French Renault for the Japanese stable. McLaren has also entered the fight for the 24-year-old Spaniard, and is ready to offer him approximately the same amount.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued arrest warrants for five leaders of the rebel movement in Uganda, the so-called Lord's Resistance Army. The names of those whom the tribunal wants to arrest are not disclosed. However, the group's leader, John Coney, is believed to be among those wanted, BBC News reports.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Shak Chirac for the first time in a long time expressed their readiness to cooperate for the future of a united Europe. According to BBC News, at the end of informal talks in Paris, Chirac noted that France fully supports Britain, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union.

07.10.2005, 11:53:27 version Print | PDA/PDA Cessna 208, photo from flywestwind.com A plane with a cargo of viruses on board crashes in downtown Winnipeg. A small transport plane carrying samples of influenza and shingles viruses crashed onto railroad tracks in the center of the Canadian city of Winnipeg. The disaster occurred on Thursday, October 6, at 6 a.m. local time, ABC News reports. The Cessna 208, owned by Edmonton-based Morningstar Air Express, was chartered by FedEx.

A court has sentenced two young British residents to prison for spreading a computer virus globally in 2003, Sky News reported. Andrew Harvey, 24, received six months, while his accomplice, Jordan Bradley, 22, received three months in prison. They were arrested back in 2003 during an investigation into the global spread of a certain “worm” virus, the name of which was not given. The investigation was conducted jointly by UK and US law enforcement agencies.

Ford decided to develop its experience of cooperation with other brands in the field of creating new models. So, for example, to create three new models at once, Ford decided to involve Mazda and Fiat. Moreover, while Ford already has solid experience of working together with a Japanese company, Ford has never had the opportunity to work with Italians. The first joint new products should appear in a year or two.

Anti-antiviruses The digital “struggle between good and evil” reaches a new level Earlier this week, computer security specialist Alex Wheeler, on his resource rem0te.com, dedicated to the problems of this very security or, more simply put, hacking, reported on the results of his experiments with popular anti-virus products produced by the famous Russian software company Kaspersky Lab ".

The jury of the Booker Open Russia literary prize has announced the final list of candidates for the award for the best novel in Russian in 2005. The shortlist included seven novels by six authors, RIA Novosti notes . The nominees for the Booker 2005 were: “Without a Path or Trace” by Denis Gutsko (Moscow, “Friendship of Peoples” magazine, 2004, Nos. 11,12); “Romanchik” by Boris Evseev (Moscow, “October” magazine, 2005, No. 2); "Canvas" by Oleg Ermakov (Moscow, New World magazine, 2005, No.

Iraqi police found the bodies of 22 people near the Iranian border. The bodies were discovered near the city of Badra, located 69 miles southeast of Baghdad, Reuters reported. The hands of the dead were handcuffed, many had traces of gunshot wounds. The bodies were transported first to a local morgue and then to Baghdad, where many of those killed apparently lived. Some of the dead have already been identified by relatives and taken from the Baghdad morgue.

06.10.2005, 21:33:02 version Print | PDA/PDA Still from NTV channel, archive Image is nothing, thirst is everything The Ministry of Finance is going to allocate almost two billion rubles to the traffic police for unclear purposes Judging by some data, namely one September publication in MK-Mobile , the head of the Russian traffic police (DOBDD Ministry of Internal Affairs), General Kiryanov, was able to “knock out” 1800000000 rubles for “road safety”.

A manuscript has been discovered in Scotland claiming that French Emperor Bonaparte Napoleon died of cancer, reports Scotsman. The document, found by auction house Thomson, Roddick & Medcalf, was written by a doctor who examined Napoleon's body after his death on May 5, 1821. The paper was in items that were given to the auction house by a Briton living in a cottage in the south of Scotland.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to move from strategic partnership to allied relations between countries, PRIME-TASS reports . “Russia and Uzbekistan must reach not only the level of strategic partnership, there is an opportunity to reach allied relations, we need this,” Karimov said today at a meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg.

During large-scale searches conducted on October 5 and 6 by investigators from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office in structures associated with Yukos, on Thursday the offices of two lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Denis Dyatlev and Albert Mkrtychev, were searched, the Vremya Novostei newspaper reports . A day earlier, prosecutors visited the office of another Khodorkovsky lawyer, Anton Drel. According to Dyatlev, the search was carried out from 15 to 21 hours on Thursday.