Journalists managed to find out the real reason for John Mark Carr's stay in Bangkok, FoxNews reports. From March to July, an American man arrested on suspicion of murdering a six-year-old beauty queen visited a cosmetic clinic in the Thai capital, where laser hair removal was used to permanently remove hair from his chin and cheeks. Carr did this in preparation for gender reassignment surgery, for which he had consulted at another hospital.

Unknown persons fired at the head of the construction department of the prefecture of the Northern Administrative District (NAD) of Moscow with a traumatic weapon, Interfax reports . The incident occurred on August 21 at 18:00 on Timiryazevskaya Street, near building 20, building 1. Law enforcement agencies assume that there were three attackers. They fired two shots at the victim and then fled.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has denied information that the personnel of the 275th artillery base, where a fire recently occurred, violated the rules for handling explosive objects, reports Proua.com . According to the ministry’s press service, members of the Ukrainian armed forces “did not and do not have access to the technical territory of the base” where ammunition is stored.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, said that GUBOP employee Roman Erokhin was killed and kidnapped by “a mixed gang of tax police officers, retired employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and criminal elements.” He noted that tax police officers and another person unrelated to the security forces have already been detained. They are accused of directly carrying out the crime, reports forUm .

In the United States, information has been published on the cost of aircraft currently being produced and modernized for the armed forces, reports Defenseindustrydaily . A table containing a list of airplanes, helicopters and drones with prices as of June 2006 was given in one of the Pentagon reports to the US Congress, presented in early August.

The investigation leading the case of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market did not initially consider the version of the terrorist attack as the main one, preferring to shift responsibility for the incident to certain criminal or commercial groups vying for influence in the market. However, by the evening of August 22, a rather unexpected version emerged regarding the motives of this crime, and the first suspects were detained, whose actions could well be regarded as terrorism.

On August 22, a Boeing 737-200 aircraft operating flight IE75 from Khabarovsk to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk made an emergency landing at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport. agency reports As the ITAR-TASS with reference to the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Sakhalin Region, the flaps of the airliner, owned by the Sakhalin Air Routes company, are jammed, which increase the wing area and are necessary for leveling the aircraft when landing.

The US authorities intend, in cooperation with their European partners, to develop new mechanisms for monitoring information about air passengers, according to the website of The NY Times.

Very indecent United Russia now has its own Red Guards What should have happened happened - on Tuesday, Kommersant reported that the leadership of the Young Guard - the youth wing of United Russia - set a new large-scale task for movement activists: they were ordered to begin searching for corrupt officials among officials and politicians who are members of the " United Russia". The Young Guards received information about their high destiny during a campaign in Tuva.

In Crimea, scammers embezzled $60,000 by downloading photographs from the Internet instead of taking aerial photographs of Simferopol, Interfax reports . Currently, law enforcement agencies have opened a criminal case against entrepreneurs for fraud.

Kidnappers freed a group of foreign tourists, including 21 Italian citizens, a few hours after they were captured on the Niger-Chad border, AFP reports , citing a report from the Italian Foreign Ministry. According to them, no tourists were injured, and the purpose of the abduction is believed to have been robbery. The kidnapping became known thanks to a tourist from Germany who managed to escape from the attackers and report what happened.

A Pakistani hacker hiding under the pseudonym FBH hacked four websites of Kevin Mitnick, who has a reputation as “the most dangerous computer criminal in US history,” who is responsible for hacking the networks of the world’s largest companies, including Motorola, Nokia and Sun Microsystems, as well as an attempt to penetrate the Pentagon computer network. At the same time, Mitnik’s sites were hacked by a pimply young man to his name who does not have a single major hack .

Two of the three detainees in the case of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market - Ilya Tikhomirov and Oleg Kostyrev - were charged with “the deliberate murder of two or more persons in a generally dangerous manner based on ethnic and religious hatred,” RIA Novosti reports , citing Moscow Prosecutor Yuri Semin. According to him, the three detainees in connection with the explosion do not belong to extremist groups.

In the archives of Biarritz, documents were found that describe how the Frenchman saved the life of the future German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the Guardian reports. In 1862, Bismarck (then still the Prussian ambassador in Paris) was vacationing on the coast with his mistress Katharina Orloff. One day, while swimming, a wave dragged the couple far out to sea, from where they began to call for help.

The celebration of the National Flag Day of the Russian Federation began with a small scuffle that took place between SPS activists and a member of an unnamed youth association at the beginning of a rally dedicated to the holiday near the Government House of the Russian Federation. The conflict arose after a young man ran several meters over a huge Russian flag that members of the Union of Right Forces brought with them, RIA Novosti reports .