Deja vu A new oil platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico On September 2, a fire occurred on the Vermillion 380-A oil platform, owned by the American company Mariner Energy. According to the latest information, the accident did not lead to the death of workers or an oil spill. At the same time, the location of the action - the Gulf of Mexico - attracted increased attention to the incident from journalists, politicians and environmentalists.

At Ryazan school number 1, as part of a mourning meeting in memory of the terrorist attack in Beslan, a dramatization of the events of September 1, 2004 was shown. reports this RZN.info .

03.09.2010, 09:40:18 version Print | PDA/PDA Tony Blair. Photo ©AFP Tales from Downing Street Tony Blair's memoirs tipped to become bestseller The memoirs of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which went on sale on Wednesday, September 1, are called “A Journey: My Political Life”. But journalists have already noticed that the former head of the cabinet of ministers was lying. The book deals not only with his own life, and not only with his political life.

In Ukraine they are going to ban the import of second-hand goods in order to support the country's light industry. Such a proposal, as the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper writes , was made by the head of the State Committee for Entrepreneurship, Mikhail Brodsky. According to him, two kilograms of used clothing per person are imported into the country every year. If we ban the import of second-hand goods, Ukraine will be able to increase its own clothing market to 22 billion hryvnia.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill planned an assassination attempt on the leader of Fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini. This assumption, as reported by The Daily Telegraph , was made by the French historian Pierre Milza in his book “The Last Days of Mussolini” (Les Derniers Jours de Mussolini).

Russia's Maria Sharapova beat Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova 6:1, 6:2 on Thursday to reach the third round of the US Open. This is reported on the tournament website. Sharapova, who is seeded 14th at the tournament, will face 18-year-old American Beatrice Capra in the third round. Earlier, Maria Kirilenko, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Elena Dementieva reached the third round. Kirilenko defeated Austrian Yvonne Meusburger with a score of 4:6, 7:5, 6:0.

Take-Two's profit for the quarter from May to July 2010 amounted to $5.9 million, according to the GameSpot website, citing a financial report provided by the company. During the same period in 2009, the company suffered losses of $56.5 million. The company's revenue from game sales more than tripled compared to last year, from $94.9 million to $354.1 million. Take-Two's success is partly due to the popularity of the western Red Dead Redemption.

The company "Eurocement Trade" (part of the holding company "Eurocement Group" of Filaret Galchev) through the Moscow Arbitration Court demanded that the group of companies (GC) "SU-155" be declared bankrupt. This was reported on the website of the Moscow Arbitration Court. The date for the first court hearing has not yet been set.

The Pakistani cell of the Taliban movement (Tehreek-e-Taliban) has promised to carry out a number of attacks on the United States and Europe in the near future. This was reported by AFP with reference to a statement made by telephone by one of the field commanders of the Pakistani Taliban, Qari Hussain. He noted that the attacks would be retaliation for regular air strikes by American drones. " Obama and his allies are our enemies - they are afraid of us," Hussein emphasized.

Artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov received the Cartier Prize for the best artistic project of the year, Artchronika reports. The jury of the award, established by the jewelry company, noted the work “Ship of Tolerance” (aka The Wind of Tolerance). For the project, the Kabakovs invited children from different countries to draw what they think about the world. From these pictures they sewed a sail that was raised above the real ship.

Specialists from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine went out three times in one day, September 2, to clear wartime ammunition found in Kiev, UNIAN reports . First, builders found a 76-mm artillery shell during excavation work in the Pechersky district of the Ukrainian capital. A few hours later, a similar call came from the same area: builders found 16 more shells. Another 76-mm shell was found in the Goloseevsky district of Kyiv.

In August, 6,530 transactions for the purchase and sale of housing were registered in Moscow, which is 17.18 percent less than in July 2010. This is evidenced by data from the Moscow department of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr). According to Rosreestr, in August 1,523 mortgage transactions were registered in the capital (the decrease was 11.55 percent).

In the center of Moscow, a building from the turn of the 19th-20th centuries in the Art Nouveau style is being demolished, Interfax reports , citing the coordinator of the Arkhnadzor movement, Yuri Egorov. The building is located next to the Smolenskaya metro station at 7th Rostovsky Lane, 6. “In Moscow, another historical building is being demolished, again with violations, without documentation, and again our favorite construction company Satori.

A villa in Jerusalem that previously belonged to the family of Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, is up for sale. As writes , the current owner of the mansion, lawyer Muayanu Khouri, put forward the only condition - only the “number one terrorist” himself can buy the property. the Maariv newspaper The two-storey villa is located in the elite Arab quarter of Shuafat (eastern Jerusalem).

website Oleg Bebenin was found dead in Belarus Opposition journalist and founder of the Charter'97 . According to the resource, Bebenin’s body was found on September 3 at his dacha near Minsk. The causes and circumstances of the journalist's death are still unknown. Oleg Bebenin previously worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the Belarusian newspaper "Imya". He has been involved in the opposition website "Charter'97" since 1998.