One of the largest wine companies of Great Britain Hardys invited students-designers to fantasize on how the wine bottle will look in 150 years. The competition was won by two students of the college of St. Martina Martin Linkvist and Brian Golding, who created a project of a self -cooled bottle with a built -in liquid crystalline display.

The President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev expressed regret that the arrival of Pope John Paul II to Russia is faced with certain difficulties. "Some in Russia do not want to come to Russia and, in particular, to Kazan, the pope," M. Shaimiev said in an interview with Interfax in St. Petersburg today. M. Shaimiev recalled that John Paul II proposed to personally bring to Kazan and give the icon of the Kazan Mother of God. "However, certain forces in our country opposed this," said M. Shaimiev.

In Kursk, as a result of a collision of a Gazelle minibus with a Volga car, six people died. The incident occurred last Sunday at about 16:00, reports regions.ru . Four of people who died as a result of the accident are passengers of a minibus. The remaining two are the Volga passengers. A few more people received serious injuries and were taken to the local hospital. According to preliminary data, the culprit of the accident was a driver of a car.

The German traveler broke into a 100-meter abyss in the Tyrol alps, but survived. The incident occurred on Sunday morning. The 52-year-old traveler and climbing from the city of Nuremberg spent a vacation in the Tyrol Alps. Being at an altitude of 3300 m in the Tashahhaus region near the city of IMST (Austrian federal land Tyrol), he slipped and fell into the abyss, flying more than 100 meters.

In Vladivostok, a large businessman, founder of two construction companies Sergey Bratchikov, was killed on Monday. According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory, he was shot at 11 a.m. local time near the doors of his office. A 52-year-old businessman left the office when a killer approached him and shot a pistol several times. The entrepreneur died on the spot. The offender could not be detained.

Saparmurat Niyazov considers the materials of the Russian media about the situation related to the abolition of dual citizenship, "discrediting the policy of Turkmenistan." According to the State Information Service of Turkmenistan - TDH, on Monday at the next meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, the President of the country Saparmurat Niyazov said that "recently it has to be faced with frank attempts to discredit the policy of Turkmenistan, and in the most obscene form incompatible with the

On Monday, another civilian car exploded in the northwestern suburb of Baghdad, reports Reuters. As a result of this explosion, according to eyewitnesses, a woman and a little girl died. It is not yet clear what caused the explosion. The incident occurred at the intersection, at which American troops were checked half an hour before the explosion. The Volkswagen Passat car, red, was destroyed as a result of the explosion.

The PARTY -MIX - Pivnaya cocktail experiment, undertaken by the St. Petersburg Baltic, turned out to be unsuccessful. In the near future, the release of cocktails will be completely stopped. It turned out that the Russians are ready to interfere with beer only with vodka, and the traditional drink with an exotic flavor of orange, lemon or black currants did not take root, the Vedomosti notes.

Moody's International rating agency lowered the General Motors credit ratings and its financial unit General Motors Acceptance Corp. (GMAC). Reducing the long -term credit rating of GM to VAA1, and the GMAC rating - to "A3" reflects the intensified competition in the North American markets and significant pension costs and medical programs for retirement employees, Moody's reports in his report. The forecast of both ratings remains negative, Interfax reports.

The Im PALP Corporation concluded agreements with the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Forestry of Forestry of the Russian Federation and the Irkutsk Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Forest Indications, the company’s press release said. This is the first such comprehensive agreement in the field of social protection in the Russian forestry complex.

In the Orenburg region, the bully blew a grenade - as a result, three people were injured. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the explosion thundered the day before in the village of Pokrovka, Krasnogvardeisky district of the region. The unemployed 39-year-old man, while intoxicated, blew up the RGD-5 grenade on the street. Three local residents were injured. With fragmentation wounds of varying severity, they are sent to the hospital.

In the center of the Georgian capital, the police detained a taxi in which containers with radioactive substances - cesium and stroncia. As reported on Monday at the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, to whom the dangerous cargo was intended and where it got into Georgia is not yet known.

Three people were seriously injured today as a result of a collision of a route Gazelle with a foreign car in the south of Moscow. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the capital's traffic police. The accident occurred at 9:45 on the 6th Radial Street (in the Tsaritsyno metro area). According to preliminary data, the driver of the car accident was a minibus driver who, at high speed, "cut" a parallel to a moving foreign car.

The Board of Directors of the Moscow "Spartak" held a special closed meeting of the football club dedicated to the events that took place in the team on the eve of the Russian Cup final .

A resident of California became the first American to win the process against the American Airlines , which he accused of damage his yacht with pieces of frozen sewage, dropped from one of its liners. A certain Ray Erickson, a resident of Santa Cruz, filed a lawsuit in the civilian Civil Court in the amount of almost 4 thousand dollars against the American Airlines, accusing the latter of damage to his yacht.