The fire in the building where the office of the Ren-TV-Bryansk television company was located has been extinguished, Interfax reports, citing the press service of the central regional center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The fire was completely extinguished at 18:17 Moscow time. No one died as a result of the fire, but the television company's premises were completely burned out.

28.07.2008, 17:42:50 version Print | PDA/PDA Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003.

A resident of Warren, Rhode Island, has been charged in the United States after being arrested on suspicion of killing his parents with a hoe. According to the AP , the bodies of the Soares, 60-year-old James and 53-year-old Marian, were found in a drain in the backyard of the home they shared with their son, 24-year-old James Soares. -junior Police believe he was the one who killed the elderly couple with a garden tool and then buried the bodies in a well.

The consideration of the cassation appeal against the sentence of former internal troops officers Sergei Arakcheev and Evgeniy Khudyakov , convicted of killing Chechen civilians, has been postponed until August 28, Interfax reports . The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court granted the request of the military prosecutor's office to postpone the consideration of the complaint. The prosecution did not have time to familiarize itself with the additions to the complaints filed by the defense.

Jointech introduced the $99 JL7100 laptop, which became the cheapest laptop in the world, Engadget reports. Previously, the cheapest laptop in the world was considered the Chinese World's Cheapest Laptop, costing $130. The JL7100 is built on a Samsung chipset. Its RAM capacity is 64 megabytes. The same amount of memory is provided in the laptop for storing data. The latter can be expanded with an external USB drive with a capacity of up to 8 gigabytes.

A bottle of French dry champagne Veuve Cliquot, corked in 1893, was found in an ancient cupboard at Torosay Castle, located on the Isle of Mull (Inner Hebrides, Scotland). This is the oldest surviving example of this drink, and representatives of the company that now owns Veuve Clicquot found it difficult to guess how much a unique bottle might cost, The Telegraph reports. The rare bottle was found by the current owner of the castle, Chris James.

Representatives of the publishing house Atari have announced the approximate release date of the game Alone in the Dark for the PlayStation 3, writes Eurogamer. The new part of the famous horror film will go on sale in November of this year. Versions for Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Wii and PC have already hit store shelves at the end of June. Alone in the Dark is being developed for PS3 by Eden Studios, which also created versions of the game for Xbox 360 and PC.

Billionaire Nikolai Tsvetkov established the Glavkino company, which will manage the construction of a cinema complex in the Moscow region. Director Fyodor Bondarchuk and his partners received about 30 percent of Glavkino, and another 30 percent is pledged to VTB Bank, which will provide a loan for the project. newspaper writes about this The Kommersant .

Four lives and 37 years 15.05 18:53 Those accused of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market received life sentences Seven terrorist attacks in one evening 14.05 14:54 Another series of explosions occurred in India Internal threat 07.03 06:02 The terrorist attack in Jerusalem was carried out by a person with an Israeli passport

On July 25, oil prices fell again on the commodity markets. In New York, a barrel of WTI for September delivery began to cost $123.26, which is $2.23 less than the previous day. The trading was influenced by a possible slowdown in economic growth and, consequently, energy consumption, the K2kapital agency notes .

A group of American scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposed using Senegalese polypterus scales as a model for creating armor. Research shows that over 96 million years, this fish has naturally developed an effective multi-layered defense system. The work will be published in the journal Nature Materials . Several scale samples were taken from live fish for testing. The thickness of one flake is about 500 micrometers (500 millionths of a meter).

On the evening of July 27, in the city of Zelenokumsk in the Stavropol Territory, about forty thousand people were left without electricity due to heavy rain and strong winds, Interfax reports . Rain and hail began in Zelenokumsk around 18:30 Moscow time, and in half an hour more than forty millimeters of precipitation fell in the city. The downpour was accompanied by hurricane-force winds, the speed of which reached 28 meters per second.

In the village of Pargolovo in the north of St. Petersburg, on Monday, July 28, a hangar in which equipment for car repairs is stored caught fire, Interfax writes , citing the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire department received a signal about a fire in the hangar, located at 277 Shishkin Street, at about 14:30 Moscow time.

At the last meeting of the French government before the holidays, the president's wife Carla Bruni presented all French ministers with her album “As if Nothing Happened,” AFP reported on Monday, July 28. French Budget Minister Eric Werth, after meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace where the meeting was held, told reporters that Carla Bruni's album was "very good." The album's release in July caused widespread resonance in France.

Jonathan Nolan, brother of director Christopher Nolan, was the main screenwriter for Terminator Salvation, the first installment in a new trilogy. The director of the film, Joseph McGinty Nicola, announced this at the Comic-Con exhibition in San Diego, reports Slashfilm. Nolan wrote the screenplays for such films as Memento, The Prestige and The Dark Knight, the sequel to Christopher Nolan's Batman.