“Let me tell you about rich, very rich people,” wrote Francis Scott Fitzgerald, “they are very different from you and me.” But these inhabitants represent the differences absolutely incorrectly, says Daily Telegraph . The study showed that the rich love to bargain, even if we are talking about a pair of pence, collect various coupons with discounts that other people simply throw away, and can buy anything if the sale is announced. Most of them behave like petty miser and tiny.

The administration of the Imereti district (Central Georgia) decided to assign the name of the new Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger to the nameless peak.

"A mixture of speech on the anniversary and performances in the civilian panachis" called one of the founders of NTV Igor Malashenko an atmosphere around the 10th anniversary of the television channel.

Scientists have found that our universe is finite, very compact, and in shape resembles a football ball, that is, a sphere consisting of pentagons. The scientific name for this form is the dodecahedron of Poincare. The analysis of the astronomical data obtained in the Paris Observatory was carried out by Jeffrey Wix and MacArthur Fellow from New York with the assistance of his French colleagues. The results of the study are published in the authoritative journal Nature on Wednesday.

In Germany, the pensioner was so angry that the place on the bus he claimed was occupied by a young woman that attacked her with a cane and beat her to blood. Bohum police said that the 76-year-old bully began to make a claim to a 33-year-old woman who, as it turned out later, had just undergone the operation, saying that she was sitting on the place for elderly and disabled people. When the woman objected that she also had the right to sit there, the man began to beat her with a cane.

In 2004, it is planned to resolve the issue of reducing the amount to which an individual can duty -free to enter goods into the territory of Russia. This was announced on Thursday by reporters in the Government House, the head of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation Mikhail Vanin. "The GTK does not mind the proposal of the Ministry of Economic Development to reduce this amount, which is now $ 2 thousand," Vanin said.

In Italy, they shoot a series of cartoons about Gianni Sorrizo, “James Bond in a wheelchair”, who has no arms and legs, but the soul of a little prince and the author’s face - a 14 -year -old Francesco Channel suffering from a phocoel (hypoplastic development vice, consisting in the absence of parts of the limbs and the corresponding joints). The boy draws, holding a pencil or brush in his mouth. He creates fantastic stories where heroic men save charming women.

The world famous neurotic, the creator of brilliant films and actor Woody Allen is going to expose the soul in an autobiography. However, he told the publishers that this would happen only if they also did not remain in debt to him and pay enough money for his literary work. Agents of 67-year-old Allen organize auctions for the purchase of a director’s memoirs at an international book fair in Frankfurt in the hope of finding those who want to pay millions of dollars.

The Government of the Russian Federation at today's meeting decided to transfer the functions of the Ministry of Finance to regulate the audit and button accordion to self-regulatory organizations, Boris Aleshin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said on Thursday. The decision was made based on the results of the report of the government commission, which was engaged in the identification of excess and duplicate functions among ministries.

The European Parliament said that Israel should immediately stop the construction of the security wall, reports Reuters. In the gloomy report, which was made by the EU Coordinator Javier Solan, it is said that in the light of the strike of the Israeli Air Force on Syria, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can out of local development into the regional one. “We should not deceive ourselves. Every day the situation in the Middle East is becoming more and more complicated,” said Solan.

Thousands of people evicted from the Chagos archipelago located in the Indian Ocean lost the last court for compensation from the British government. A group of residents of the Chagos archipelago achieves compensation and the right to return to the islands from which they were illegally evicted by Great Britain more than 30 years ago.

In Kamchatka, the flight activities of three of the four helicopter airlines were stopped. This was announced by the head of the transport department of the regional administration, Mikhail Stodeev.

The famous actor Roger Moore on Thursday, October 9, will be dedicated to the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth the second in the knight of the British Empire. According to the press service of the royal court, the solemn ceremony of the official complaint to the actor of the knightly title will be held in the Buckingham Palace.

A strong fire is raging in the area of ​​London Station Paddington. According to the British Skynews television channel, about 50 vehicles are covered by fire, including tanks with combustible substances. Currently, all four railways leading from the station have been blocked, RIA Novosti reports. The fire department from different regions of London is pulled to the scene. According to firefighters, this incident will cause serious difficulties in railway traffic from this station.

In the USA on Thursday, October 9, a new "color" 20-dollar bill is introduced into circulation. After the first announcements in Russia, it began to be called "pink", but it turned out that it was not only pink. The new bill will retain the same size, on its front side there will be a portrait of the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, although it has changed significantly and more resembles its own bust. On the back - the image of the White House.