Madrid “Real” replenished its British colony by buying one of the best defenders of the country of Jonathan Woodgate. On Friday, the former Newcasl player passed a medical examination and signed a contract. His transition, according to the Air Force , cost the Spaniards 13.4 million pounds (almost $ 25 million). Prior to this, fears were expressed that the 24-year-old central defender, who had not played since April due to an injury, would not undergo a physical examination.

In the gym, one of the universities of Moscow set a world record. Nine -year -old Muscovite Pasha Huseynov pressed up continuously for 6.5 hours. During this time, he managed to bend his hands 9263 times. This record was listed in the Guinness Book of Records, MK reports. The previous record also belonged to a nine -year -old boy from North Ossetia. But now everything was more serious - with international refereeing and masseurs who kneaded pashins of fists during each stop.

Russian conquers won a gold medal in the team standings at the Olympic Games in Athens. On Friday, the Russians won in the final match against the German team with a score - 34:28. This is the fifth gold medal of the Russian national team at the Olympics in Athens. Our girls, the Olympic champion of Sydney 2000, managed to get gold medals and at least somehow brighten up the joyless picture of the performance of Russian fencers in Athens.

Russian woman Lyubov Galkina reached the final of shooting competitions from an arbitrary pneumatic rifle from 50 meters from three positions at the Olympics in Athens. In the qualification round, the Russian athlete showed the second result, gaining 587 points. The first place was taken by Olga Dovgan from Kazakhstan. Its result exceeded the result of the Russian woman by only one point and amounted to 588 points. The final series in this rifle discipline will begin at 13:30 Moscow time.

In Moscow, a car belonging to the US Embassy was stolen, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. “On the eve of the Izmailovsky highway, house 69, the unknown, stole the car of the Ford brand, which belongs to the US Embassy in Moscow,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, a citizen of Italy traveled by proxy, who works at the maid embassy, ​​drove by proxy. The damage is 100 thousand rubles, the source added. Links on the topic

In the city of Raduzhny Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the GAZ-31029 car, who had left the roadway to the roadway, shot down eight people awaiting transport. Interfax with reference to the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrugovis of the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug reports that the Volga driver was intoxicated and, unable to cope with the management, went beyond the roadway. As a result of the incident, eight people were injured of varying severity and were taken to the city hospital.

The street robber on Friday night, fleeing the police chase, jumped into the Schneell pond in the center of Tallinn and drowned. As the police press secretary told the BNS agency, the police patrol found two men in the park near the Schneell Park, who, threatening with a knife, tried to rob a foreign tourist. The police began to pursue robbers, but they rushed into the pond. One of the criminals crossed the reservoir and disappeared.

Assistant to the US President for National Security of Condoliza Rice and Zapremier of the State Council of the PRC U and headed the list of the hundred most powerful women of the planet, first compiled by the international financial magazine Forbes. In the first ten - four representatives of Asia.

The American highway N80 in Voyming turned into a burning dump of cars as a result of a terrible accident. 33 cars collided on the road. As a result of the accident, one person died, another 34 were seriously injured. Three wounded are in critical condition. “We believe that the driver was the driver who was driving in an exceeding the speed along a slippery road in a strong fog,” said Sergeant Steve Towned, representative of the police. The accident paralyzed the movement in both directions.

The champions of the Olympic Games in the teams of archers were the athletes of South Korea, who outplayed the Chinese national team in the final with a difference of only one point - 241: 240. In the match for the “bronze” of Taiwan, Taiwan’s archers were quite convincingly won by French women with a score of 242: 228. The Russian team dropped out in the first round, losing to the German team.

Russian waterproofers suffered the first defeat at the Olympics in Athens. In their third match in group B, the wards of Alexander Kleimenov lost to the US team with a score of 4: 8. The two previous matches played by the national team at the group stage ended with the victory of the Russians - on August 16 they beat Canadians (8: 6), and on August 18 they surpassed the wenger (9: 8).

On Thursday, in the District Federal Court of Manhattan, the first preliminary meeting was held in the case of criminal conspiracy to extort , against the native of Voronezh, the impresario Lev Trakhtenberg.

In Moscow, the dried policeman who did not obey the traffic police officer provoked a pursuit of shooting. "To use a hundredth weapons for a forced stop of a vehicle, the driver of which did not obey the request to stop and tried to hide, had a traffic police officer of the capital the day before," RIA Novosti said on Friday law enforcement agencies of the capital.

The income of Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern manufacturers growing due to high oil prices gave rise to a new consumer boom in the region: increased demand for gold, reports The Guardian , which is published by Inopressa . While in New York, oil prices reached a new record mark of $ 47.96 per barrel, the World Golden Council reported an increase of 11% of the volume of demand for its product (25% in dollar equivalent) for the second quarter of this year.

Employees of the coastal protection of the Arctic Regional Administration of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation detained the Norwegian Amaranth Tanker, which violated the boundaries of the territorial waters of Russia. The tanker's crew is Polish citizens. According to the department, the ship was detained during the shipment of fuel by the Russian fishing vessel.