In the USA, in the district of Harris (Texas), a 10-year-old boy mortally wounded his father, who came to take him to his weekend. 41-year-old Rick James Lokhctron received several bullets while driving his SUV. As it turned out, the boy from his mother’s pistol opened the shooting from the rear seat of the car in his father, and then got out of the car, continuing to shoot. Lochstron, Doctor of University of Texas Medical Branch, died on the way to the hospital, CNN reports.

Athletes from the countries of the former USSR won 162 medals at the Olympics in Athens, including 45 gold, 52 silver and 65 bronze. The lion's share of this amount fell on the Russian team, which graduated from the 2004 Games in second place in the total number of awards and in the third - in gold medals. In total, Russian Olympians in Athens won 92 medals (27+27+38).

In Miami on Sunday, the 21st annual presentation ceremony of the awards MTV Video Music Awards was held, AP reports. As expected, the leader of the winners list was the Jay-Z rapper with a clip of the song "99 Problems". The video clip of the singer of six nominations received four awards, which is a figure of an American astronaut on the surface of the moon: “Best rap video”, “Best Director”, “Best Installation” and “Best Operations Work”.

The Federal Communications Agency (FAS) responded to the dissatisfaction of Vimpelcom, related to the difficulties arising when trying to increase the license plate of Bi Line. According to the FAS leadership, all problems of Vimpelcom are caused by ineffective company management work, RIA Novosti reports.

The 30-year-old British pop-diva Victoria Beckham announced on Sunday evening to the whole world that she was pregnant with a third child, whose birth is expected in March next year. “This is fantastic news. We are both absolutely admiring,” said the happy father, captain of the England football team David Beckham, adding that Victoria plans to give birth to a child in Spain.

Maxim Kashulinsky, who previously held the post of chief editor of the magazine, was appointed chief editor of the magazine Russian Forbes. This is stated in the official message of the Axel Springer Russia Publishing House, transferred on Monday "Interfax". “Kashulinsky is an experienced business journalist who knows business from the inside and has strong intuition.

In Surgut on Monday at 00:39 local time, the Tu-154 aircraft belonging to the Kolavia company, which was following the Volgograd-Surgut flight, made an emergency landing. None of the 166 passengers of the flight and eight crew members were injured, Interfax was told in the Civil Defense and Emergencies of Surgut. During the flight, due to the metal of the metal engine, the crew was forced to turn it off. As a result, the plane flew 2 hours before planting on two out of three engines.

When you are in good physical shape and excited by the Olympic Games, you need sex, writes today The Mirror (translation on the website of Inopressa ). Demonstrating a biceps that is firm, like a rock, biceps, takes his drink from the bar and goes back to the teammates in the corner of VIP sections. But the road is blocked by pretty women who demand his attention and fight for him.

On Monday, the press service of two Russian hockey clubs - Magnitogorsk Metallurg and the capital's CSKA - reported on the signing of the so -called safety contracts with Russian hockey players, who spoke last season for clubs of the National Hockey League. Magnitogorsk residents entered into an agreement with a native of neighboring Chelyabinsk Sergey Gonchar. The eminent defender has behind his own more than 700 matches for the NHL clubs “Washington Capithels” and “Boston Bruins”.

The strongest showers caused vast floods in the Filipino Islands, sat down and landslides. 32 people became victims of natural disaster, and up to 1 million inhabitants of the northern and central provinces were forced to leave flooded houses and temporarily move to refugees camps deployed by the Filipino Society of the Red Cross, ITAR-TASS reports citing civil defense headquarters.

On August 27, the Operation "Pedestrian" with the participation of all employees of the State traffic inspectorate took place in Togliatti. And on August 28, on the Orthodox holiday of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , even clergymen made their feasible contribution to work with pedestrians.

The British heavyweight Danny Williams, who began this year with a loss of a very mediocre boxer Michael consummarks, is sure that he will complete him in the rank of world champion, Allboxing reports with reference to secondsout.com . Williams agreed to a ridiculously low fee for the battle with Mike Tyson precisely because he really believed in the victory over the ex-champion.

Since yesterday, New York has remained an arena of confrontation between supporters and opponents of George Bush. This week, it will be most to attract the attention of the American media, writes Liberation in the material, the translation of which is published by Inopressa.ru . On Monday , the National Congress of the Republican Party of the United States opens in New York.

A resident of Japan set fire to his father’s house, trying to get rid of an annoying insect. According to the police, the house burned down to the ground as a result of the actions of Tatsuo Onishi. Tatsuo Onisi, a resident of the city of Matsuyama, decided to take a nap in his car, parked near the house, when an annoying mosquito flew and began to annoy him.

The crash of aircraft that flew out of the Moscow Domodedovo airport was the first major terrorist attack in the air since September 11, 2001. According to the FSB of the Russian Federation, traces of explosive were discovered on the wreckage of both aircraft. Explosives of the same type were used in some previous terrorist attacks, which were accused of Chechen separatists, notes The Washington Times in the material, which is published by Inopressa.ru .