An employee of a Japanese online clothing store vandalized the company's office after his boss ignored the employee's gift. A Japanese man, seeing that his boss did not even open the box of marmalade he received as a gift, smashed 22 office computers, reports Reuters. During the trial of the 31-year-old rowdy in Osaka, it became known that the defendant gave the company president a box of marmalade as a token of gratitude at the end of the summer season.

The German machinists' union GDL has called for a rush hour strike on October 5th. Drivers must stop work at 8 a.m. and resume at 11 a.m., AFP reported . Worker representatives say the rush hour protest will send a message to rail operator Deutsche Bahn, which has been unable to reach an agreement with its employees for months. The unions warned that if Deutsche Bahn did not change its position, they would be forced to stage a national strike.

In the United States, many states with the death penalty have temporarily suspended executions after the Supreme Court accepted a lawsuit by two Kentucky convicts who insisted that lethal injections are cruel and inhumane punishment, Reuters reports. Oklahoma's attorney general asked the state's Court of Criminal Appeals on Oct. 3 not to set any more death sentences until the Supreme Court rules on the injections.

At least three candidates are being considered for the post of general director of RSK MiG, the Kommersant newspaper writes , citing its sources in the Ministry of Industry and Energy. Let us recall that the position of general director of the aircraft corporation remained vacant due to the fact that Alexey Fedorov moved to the post of head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).

The Saudi authorities have decided to build five new airports, AFP reports . All five airports will cost the country five billion dollars. Companies from the Netherlands, Singapore, Turkey, Germany and France will compete for construction contracts. Who will become the main contractor will become known by mid-November 2007, and work on the construction of the airports will begin in early 2008. Construction is planned to be completed by December 2013.

The leader of the Miami Heat, one of the best centers in league history, Shaquille O'Neal, chose an unusual way to prepare for the new season in the National Basketball Association, which starts this month. According to the athlete, in the off-season he regularly participated in no-holds-barred fights against boxers, martial artists and wrestlers, Canada.com reports. "I fought without rules every day. In the appropriate equipment, I fought with those who challenged me.

The Bourne Co. publishing house, which owns the rights to the song When You Wish Upon A Star, has filed a lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox, reports the Associated Press. The song When You Wish Upon A Star (with altered lyrics and titled I Need a Jew) was featured in the When You Wish Upon Weinstein episode of the Twentieth Century Fox animated series Family Guy. In Russia this cartoon is known as "Family Guy". This episode of the cartoon itself caused controversy.

Employees of the Royal Mail of Great Britain (Royal Mail) began a general strike at 12.00 local time (15.00 Moscow time), Sky News reports. The company's management was unable to agree with the trade unions on the normal operation of the post office. Employee representatives say they will go on strike until their demands are met. They also asked the British to avoid sending letters in the coming days if possible. On October 4, 130,000 Royal Mail employees stopped working for 48 hours.

Myanmar's ruling military junta on Thursday invited the US charge d'affaires in that country for talks, France Presse reports . According to US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, Myanmar authorities have sent an invitation to Shari Villarosa to arrive in the country's administrative capital, Naypyidaw, on Friday for consultations with government members. Villarosa was not informed of the content of the negotiations, McCormack added.

The rescue operation to bring to the surface miners extracting gold in one of the mines in the north-east of South Africa has been completed, as reported by France Presse . In total, according to the country's Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy, almost 3,200 miners were removed from the mine. Most of the miners are suffering from exhaustion, but there have been no reports of deaths yet. The lift's electrical cable broke on Wednesday, October 3.

As a result of the An-26 plane crashing into a residential area of ​​the suburbs of the capital of Congo, Kinshasa, the crew of the airliner, consisting of five Russians, and 13 passengers were killed. about this by telephone. RIA Novosti Congolese Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Jean-Claude Muyambo told According to him, five burnt bodies have been found so far at the scene of the disaster, in the Kinnosani area. Rescuers are currently searching for the dead.

04.10.2007, 16:05:46 version Print | PDA/PDA Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Archival photo of the khodorkovsky.ru press center Liberal messiah Khodorkovsky can only believe The former head of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, convicted of financial fraud and serving a sentence in the Chita region, addressed the public with a text entitled “Morality and Justice,” published on the website of the All-Russian Civil Congress.

The captain of the Italian Roma, Francesco Totti, said that the leader of Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo, lied when he said that during the April match of the 1/4 finals of the Champions League, the Roma players, with the score 0:6, asked their opponents for mercy. Totti warned that on December 12, in the match between these teams in Rome, Ronaldo will face provocations, reports the online publication goal.com.

In Modena, the hometown of Luciano Pavarotti, the third will of the singer, who died on September 6, 2007, was made public. Previously, it was known about the existence of two texts of Pavarotti’s last will. According to The Telegraph, if the newly discovered document is recognized as the main will, then almost all of Pavarotti's fortune will be divided by his daughters, and his widow Nicoletta Mantovani will receive extremely modest funds.

Co-chairman of the All-Russian Civil Congress Georgy Satarov said that he has questions about the text of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s letter , the Ekho Moskvy radio station reports . The comments of the former head of Yukos on the discussion of economists, sociologists, politicians and human rights activists, held in July as part of the Khodorkov Readings, were published on the congress website.