Expenses for events at the APEC summit in Vladivostok increased from 5 to 6.3 billion rubles. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated September 3 The Vedomosti , citing sources in the presidential administration. According to the publication, the funds have already been allocated, distributed and partially spent.

Messiah from the Slums Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon dies In South Korea, the founder of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, died on the night of September 3 at the age of 92. The cause of death of the Korean billionaire, who called himself the messiah, was an exacerbation of pneumonia.

Psychologists from the University of Bristol have found that the shape of a beer glass affects the rate of alcohol consumption. The scientists' article appeared in the journal PLoS ONE , and ScienceNOW provides a summary of it . The motivation for the study was that in recent years there has been an increase in the number of offenses committed while intoxicated among British youth.

Vice Speaker of the State Duma of Russia Igor Lebedev , who received nine votes in the first round of elections for the head of the Russian Football Union (RFU), withdrew his candidacy in favor of the President of the Russian Football Premier League Sergei Pryadkin. reports this RIA Novosti . On September 3, an extraordinary reporting and election conference of the RFU is being held in Moscow, at which a new head of the organization is to be elected.

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The US administration, through European intermediaries, conveyed to the Iranian leadership information that it would not help Israel if the latter decided to attack the Islamic Republic, Yediot Ahronot writes.

In North Carolina, there are at least 30,000 dead citizens on the voting rolls. An independent group of observers provided such data to state authorities on Friday, August 31, reports the Charlotte Observer. The Voter Integrity Project, which is a nonprofit and not controlled by any political party, compared the voter rolls with statewide death toll data provided by the health department over the past ten years.

Flight attendants at German airline Lufthansa will stage another strike in an attempt to push for better working conditions. Reuters reports this. The protest is scheduled for Tuesday, September 4. The previous strike by Lufthansa workers took place on August 31 in Frankfurt and lasted for one working day (eight hours). As a result of the action, the airline was forced to cancel a quarter of its flights from Frankfurt Airport - both domestic and international.

Former State Duma deputy Alexander Lebedev decided to resign from the post of president of the National Reserve Bank, writes Kommersant. According to the newspaper's sources, this step is being taken "as part of a general reduction in bank expenses." Lebedev himself said that from now on he will work for free and thereby clearly demonstrate the bank’s policy of cutting salaries. At the same time, he did not name the amount planned to be saved.

Poland will join the eurozone only after the latter resolves its debt problems. This was stated by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, reports Agence France-Presse . “We will join only when we can announce to our people that joining the eurozone will be safe,” the minister emphasized. Sikorski added that Europeans can hardly blame Poland for refusing to join the monetary union at a time when it is experiencing an acute debt crisis. Poland joined the European Union in 2004.

Four candidates will compete for the post of governor of the Belgorod region. On Monday, September 3, the last of the contenders, LDPR member Irina Gorkova, submitted the signatures of municipal deputies to the CEC, ITAR-TASS reports .

Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was borrowed in 1934, has returned to the Chicago library, reports Reuters . The book was brought by Harleen Hoffman Vision, who discovered the novel in her home library. Harleen Hoffman Vision said she saw a public library stamp in the book and decided to return the novel.

The game Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will be multi-platform and will be released on current generation consoles, reports the Videogamer portal. At the same time, the game could become a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5. Information that the new MGS will appear on both PS3 and Xbox 360 previously appeared on the official PlayStation blog, where wrote Sony official Sid Shuman about it.

Indian bloggers have accused Samsung of blackmailing them into advertising their products. This was reported by The Next Web portal. Samsung launched its global blogger outreach program called Mobilers in India and invited several tech reviewers to travel to the IFA 2012 consumer electronics show in Berlin at its expense.

The Viking Press publishing house together with the TradeMobile company will release a mobile application dedicated to Anne Frank, The Daily Telegraph reports. The program will include excerpts from Anna's diary, voiced by British actress Helena Bonham Carter.