A typist who worked for the British Air Force received 484 thousand pounds sterling in compensation from the British Ministry of Defense for an injury to her thumb, which is eight times more compensation for the loss of a limb due to a British soldier, writes The Daily Mail. A young woman entering data into a computer suffered a thumb injury due to repetitive small movements. She sued the Department of Defense, claiming the injury left her unable to work and caused her depression.

LucasArts and TT Games have officially announced the LEGO Indiana Jones game, according to the Shacknews website. The computer adventure will include episodes from all three existing Indiana Jones films. The game will be developed by the team that took part in the creation of LEGO Star Wars. LEGO Indiana Jones will be available in summer 2008. It has not yet been announced which platforms the game will appear on.

In Iraq, the tomb of the prophet Daniel, mentioned in the Old Testament, located in the city of Baquba north of Baghdad, was destroyed, reports the German news agency dpa. According to local authorities, on Sunday afternoon several dozen militants arrived in the Baakuba area where the tomb was located and mined the structure with large quantities of explosives. The explosion, local authorities said, was so powerful that the building was completely leveled.

On the night of July 30, a strong explosion occurred at a hazelnut processing plant located in the Georgian region of Samegrelo in the west of the republic, Interfax reports with reference to the Georgian TV channel Rustavi-2. According to the source, the plant building was completely destroyed, and glass in nearby buildings was blown out. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. At the scene of the explosion, police reportedly found traces of TNT.

Rosprirodnadzor appealed to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation with a request to allocate additional funding in the amount of 22.45 million rubles to eliminate the consequences of a mudflow in the Kamchatka Valley of Geysers, according to the website of the Ministry of Natural Resources. Planned activities include the restoration of the ecological trail and the construction of two new helipads.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has opened the 11th criminal case against businessman Boris Berezovsky . Russian investigative authorities are demanding that he be arrested in absentia in the case of embezzlement of money from SBS-Agro, RIA Novosti reports citing Moscow City Court press secretary Anna Usacheva. The Basmanny District Court received materials from the case regarding the election of a preventive measure for an entrepreneur who is accused of embezzling $13 million.

The Knesset Finance Committee voted unanimously to cancel most benefits for former presidents and prime ministers convicted of moral crimes, Ha'aretz reported. Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav will also be subject to this measure if he is found guilty of indecent assault, sexual harassment and intimidation of a witness. Initially, upon retirement, Katsav would have cost the state about a million shekels annually.

The Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Theoctistus I, died on Monday at the age of 92, AFP reports . The patriarch died of a heart attack after undergoing a prostate examination at the Bucharest Fundeni Hospital. Feoktist was elected to the patriarchal throne in November 1986.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori failed to become a member of the Japanese Parliament, AFP reports . Fujimori, 69, under house arrest in Chile on corruption and human rights charges brought against him by Peruvian authorities, was running for a seat in Japan's upper house of parliament on behalf of the conservative People's New Party.

The Irkutsk Region Prosecutor's Office has charged 14 of 16 people arrested on suspicion of attacking an environmentalists' tent camp in Angarsk, RIA Novosti reports , citing First Assistant Regional Prosecutor Alexander Semenov. “Perhaps this is not the final figure - the investigation continues to work,” he emphasized.

The Russian government approved the development of a draft program for the development of the external border of the Union State of Russia and Belarus for 2007-2011. As the press service of the Russian cabinet told PRIME-TASS, the project will be developed by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, which will also act as the state customer and coordinator of the program from Russia.

Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, members of the group Status Quo, will star in a new comedy film, reports NME. The events of the film, called Care Factor Zero, will develop in Thailand. According to the plot, the musicians will have to face bikers and members of criminal gangs, and everything will end with a “triumphant concert in Bangkok.” The film is being produced by Status Quo Films, which is owned by the group itself. Filming will begin in early 2008.

The head of Epic Games, Mark Rein, announced that the version of the shooter Gears of War for personal computers will be 20 percent larger than the original, which appeared on the Xbox 360 console in the fall of 2006, according to Eurogamer. The content of the first five acts that made up the console GoW will remain unchanged. The developers promise to add five completely new chapters, which in total duration will correspond to one act.

The federal election headquarters of A Just Russia has decided to hold primaries in the regions, based on the results of which lists of candidates for State Duma deputies in the upcoming parliamentary elections will be formed, the Kommersant newspaper writes . According to the head of the party's press service, Alexander Morozov, a draft decision was adopted, and the lists of candidates should be approved by the leader of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov , in the first ten days of August .

Right winger Oleg Saprykin, who played for the NHL club Ottawa Senators in the 2006/07 season and reached the Stanley Cup final, signed a contract with CSKA. The agreement is for three years. The 27-year-old hockey player, who will wear number 91 in Russia, has already joined the team, the official CSKA website reports. Saprykin, a graduate of the CSKA school, left for North America in 1999.