The name of the person and the color of his car affect how often the driver turns to pay auto insurance. This conclusion was reached by British insurers who advise us to be vigilant of women named Natasha and avoid men named Lloyd. About this writes The Times in the material, the translation of which is published by Inopressa.ru .

Google, which owns the searches of the same name on the Internet, announced on Wednesday evening that the price of the initial placement of its shares is 85 dollars per share. This is the lower boundary of the reduced price range for Google shares, and it is a quarter less than the preliminary assessment of the company.

The price of an oil barrel on the New York raw material exchange on Thursday for the first time in history exceeded $ 48 and reached a level of $ 48 20 cents. The previous record set on the same day was $ 47.96.

In Vladivostok, the rape and murder of an 11-year-old teenager is revealed. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the body of a deceased child with traces of rape and strangulation was found in a forest belt on the outskirts of Vladivostok on the morning of August 19. As it turned out, the day before, the child’s mother submitted a statement about his loss to the police.

The German Troebork Bettina Hoy on the horse Ringwood Kokatu won the second gold of the Olympic Games in Athens. On Wednesday, after the competition in the final discipline on Troeoborye - the Detachment - the Horseman won the personal championship. And in the previous days of the competition, the German confidently went through the field tests, and also showed the best result in the areas.

Diana Igali won a second gold medal for Hungary at the Olympiad in Athens in the Stream shooting competitions. On Thursday, in the final, Hungarian scored the most points - 98, RIA Novosti reports. It was not possible to determine the owner of silver and bronze medals in the main final.

The trainer from the famous circus dynasty Valery Zapashny was found by a circus hotel in the city of Kursk hanging in the room. No traces of violence were found. According to preliminary information, the artist himself took the scores of life.

The famous traveler Fedor Konyukhov became a professional writer. On Thursday, in the Union of Writers of Russia, Konyukhov and his wife Irina, in a festive atmosphere, were awarded tickets of members of this creative organization. As a traveler, Konyukhov made more than 50 expeditions, including three circles. Alone, he passed more than 100 thousand naval miles, sail 12 times, crossed the Atlantic Ocean. As a writer of Konyukhov is not so widely known.

The Russians Dmitry Lykin and Alexander Blinov won medals of bullet shooting competitions from a pneumatic rifle on moving targets from 10 meters at games in Athens. In qualification, Lykin showed the second result - 584 points, Blinov with two other athletes divided fourth place (578 points), and the German Manfred Curzer became the leader, who set the new world record - 590 points.

Physicists from the University of Vienna managed to teleport the particles of light to a distance of 600 meters - from one shore of the Danube to another. The results of a unique experiment to transmit the properties of photons at a distance are published in the last issue of Nature magazine. In fantastic novels, teleportation is described as an instant movement of objects in space over huge distances.

The Novgorod pensioner Nikolai Varudov erected a monument to potatoes. According to RIA Novosti , the memorial sign is installed near the House of Vyazardiv in the village of Ilmen. On an approximately two -meter metal pipe, the pensioner piled a large boulder, in color and in shape similar to the potatoes.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District on Thursday upheld the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court of the first and appeal instances on invalidating the issuance and registration of the Dopamy of the Yukos , which were used to exchange Sibneft as part of the merger of the two companies, Interfax reports.

The court, as always, began shortly before noon. Two billionaires were inserted into an iron cage, where the accused sit on hard benches. The prosecutor entered the blue uniform of a military model, with three stars on the uniform. Three judges, young women in black mantles, slipped into their leather chairs. The prosecutor demanded the 14-18th volume of testimony, opened the first folder and began to read aloud. Read. Read. Every day of the last month was tracing paper from the previous one.

A group of international lawyers turned to the head of the Russian government with a request to promote the resolution of the issue of an independent medical examination to the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev. The juristers sent a letter to the name of Mikhail Fradkov, the text of which entered the editorial office of Newsru.com. An open letter to the chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation M.E.

The Seedgist Oleg Perephenov brought Russia the next, already tenth bronze medal of the Athenian Games, taking third place at the Olympic Weightlifting Tournament in the weight category up to 77 kilograms. On Thursday, in the sum of two exercises, the army weightlifter took 365 kg weight. In a jerk, Pereophenov lifted 170 kg, and in a push - 195 kg. The Golden Award was won by the Turks Taner Sagir (375 kg), Silver went to the Kazakh weightlifting Sergey Filimonov (372.5 kg).