The tanker, in the reservoirs of which is located up to 1.7 thousand tons of chemicals used to improve the quality of gasoline, has suffered an accident in the Danube in the area of ​​the South German city of Straubing /Bavaria /. According to the police, the incident occurred during the passage of the gateway. When the water flood level decreases, the vessel's feed was hooked on the concrete support, and the vessel’s hull cracked.

In Russia, an acceleration of economic growth occurs. This is evidenced by the data of the State Statistics Committee , according to which industrial production in July increased by 6.2%. This is the highest growth since the beginning of 2002, ITAR-TASS indicates. Analysts, meanwhile, are in no hurry to review their forecasts for a year. Experts of the United Financial Group, for example, indicate that consumer demand was the main engine of growth of the Russian economy.

Oil prices for the first time in 15 months exceeded a psychologically important mark of $ 30. According to Reuters , according to the results of trading on Tuesday on the American Nymex exchange, the oil barrel with a supply in September cost $ 30.11, which reflected the fears of investors about the possibility of an armed conflict between the United States and Iraq and the interruptions of oil supplies from the Middle East.

On the night of August 21 in Tajikistan, unknown soldiers were killed by a soldier of the Russian 201th motorized rifle division, a sergeant of the contract service Safarali Zieev, Soyuz-Info reports. His body with a deadly gunshot wound was found in one of the residential microdistricts of Dushanbe. The headquarters of the Russian 201th motorized rifle division confirmed the fact of the death of their soldier, but so far they have refused to comment.

The National Hockey League refused to recognize the contracts of Center Former Bobby Holik and defender Darus Kasparaita, signed with the New York Rangers club. The discontent of functionaries was caused by the system of bonuses proposed by the team.

In the coming days, the nature of the weather in Moscow and the Moscow Region will not change. According to Roshydromet, on August 22, variable cloudy is expected in the capital, short-term rains in places, air temperature at night plus 8-10, in the region from 6 to 11 degrees of heat, in the afternoon 14-16, in the region from 12 to 17 degrees of heat, 4-9 meters per second.

No explosive device on the territory of the grocery market near the Kozhukhovskaya metro station was found. The "telephone terrorist" threatened to blow up the grocery market - the signal about the allegedly laid explosive device entered the remote control of the on -duty "02" at about 11:50. The Pechatniki district immediately left for the ambulance teams, employees of the UGO and emergency, a dog handler with a dog specially trained in search of explosives with a dog.

An investigation of a clash over the Bodensky lake in the south of the Germany of the Russian passenger aircraft Tu-154 and the cargo Boeing-757, which claimed the lives of 71 people, will take more time than expected, ITAR-TASS reports. This was stated by the prosecutor of the South German city of Konstantz (land of Baden-Württemberg) Franz Klaiber.

Today, from the closed city of Lesnaya in the north of the Sverdlovsk region, Denis Bragin soldier was deserted by the military service soldier. The soldier took the AK-74 Kalashnikov assault rifle with him and 40 rounds to him. Before the shoot, he wounded his colleague with a bayonet-knife, Izvestia.Ru reports. Law enforcement agencies announced the “Siren” plan.

Teachers of the Gomelev region in the new academic year will have to teach children to swim. Such a task was set by the head of the education department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Andrei Lukyanovich, reports the Belarusian Business Gazeta . At a meeting on the beginning of the new academic year, he cited the statistics data, which indicate that it was the children who are most often drowning. That is why they must be taught to swim.

The mainland of the Russian Far East was blocked by two Pacific typhoons from the sea, RIA Novosti reports. As reported on Wednesday in the Primorsky Hydrometeorological Center, the 13th Pacific Typhoon "Fanfon", having passed along the Japanese islands, raged on Sakhalin on August 20, and on August 21 went to the southern smokers. According to the Office for Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Sakhalin Region, on Sakhalin on August 20, from 20 to 40 mm of precipitation fell.

The authorities of the capital of Great Britain are completing the development of an emergency evacuation plan of key structures in the event of a London terrorists strike, ITAR-TASS reports. This was reported by informed sources. According to them, we are talking about moving many tens of thousands of people for several hours, including from the leading financial center of the world - London City.

The English Premier League half has already become a "foreign legion." These are no longer rumors or fears that British journalists always demonstrate. This is an already accomplished fact. In the first round of the English Premier League, a record number of legionnaires came out on the field. In the starters of the teams of 220 players, only 103 were British. 101 football players were legionnaires. 16 players represented Ireland, reports Sport-Info.

Boeing Corporation almost completed the modernization of the 747-400 transport aircraft to install the world's first war laser on it. This largest modernization project was carried out at the corporation in the city of Visit. Now the aircraft will have to fly to the US Air Force Base Edwards, where the laser system will be installed. The cost of the entire project, according to the head of the colonel Ellen Pavlikovsky, will amount to $ 1.7 billion. Laser tests should be completed in 2005.

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the death (August 21, 1997) of the Circus Artist Yuri Nikulin, RIA Novosti reports. Relatives and friends, friends and colleagues, as well as numerous admirers of the talent of Yuri Nikulin will gather today at 12:00 at the Novodevichy cemetery to celebrate the day of memory of the great artist. Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin was born on December 18, 1921 in the Smolensk province. In 1925, the Nikulin family moved to Moscow.