Six railway wagons loaded with coal went and knocked on the embankment on Monday at about 5:00 Moscow time near Minusinsk station in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the press service of the Krasnoyarsk railway said. The reasons for the incident have not yet been established. There are no victims. According to the press service, due to what happened on this section of the road, a passenger train number 158 was detained, which followed the cargo.

Doctors of the Cardiological Center of the Columbia University in New York completed the operation of the aorto-hunkering by the ex-US President Bill Clinton. According to the wife of the former head of the White House, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband feels normally, RIA Novosti reports. The 58-year-old Clinton was hospitalized at the Cardiocenter of Columbia University last Friday.

On Monday, more than 100 dead hostages are buried in Beslan. This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania Vladislav Totrov. "Today, more than 100 people will be buried in the Beslan cemetery, including six teachers, two of whom died with their children," Totrov said. According to him, among them is the 74 -year -old physical education teacher Yannis Canidis , who was shot from a pistol.

The highest award of France - the Order of the Honorary Legion - was presented on Sunday by President Jacques Shirak to the famous American director Stevens Spielberg. Characterizing his work, the head of the French state identified the film "Schindler's List".

The Moscow City Court will take the selection of a jury in the criminal case of the head of one of the security departments of the company Yukos Alexei Pichugin. This was announced by the lawyer of the defendant Georgy Kaganer. According to the lawyer, out of 60 candidates for people's judges, 12 jury and 2 spares will be selected. In addition, the lawyer said, the defense will apply for the election of a larger number of spare jurors.

Last weekend in Vladivostok, the builder from the DPRK was brutally killed. As reported by REGNUM in the Vladivostok Internal Affairs Directorate, the incident occurred on Sadovaya Street. As the investigation established, several short -haired young people attacked a worker and inflicted about a dozen stab wounds. The victim died at the scene. The witnesses of this incident were the compatriots of the murdered. At the moment, the search for suspects is underway.

Mikhail Saakashvili sent a letter to Vladimir Putin on Monday with a request for the release of Georgian journalists detained in Beslan - Rostavi -2 filming group. This was announced by the head of the President of Georgia, Irakli Chubinishvili. “In his letter, Mikhail Saakashvili calls on Vladimir Putin to personally intervene in the case of the detention of journalists and take measures to release them,” the News -Georgia agency quoted the head of the Georgian presidential administration.

In Milan, the annual inter -religious meeting “People and Religions” was opened, organized by the Catholic peacekeeping organization “The Community of St. Aigidium”. According to Interfax agency in the Moscow Patriarchate , at the opening ceremony of the forum, which gathered more than two thousand participants and guests, the first word was provided to the bishop of the Stavropol and Vladikavkaz Theophanes - the ruling bishop of the North Caucasus.

The organization "Catholics against Kerry" conducts election campaign in the United States. The presidential candidate from the Democratic Party John Kerry is Catholic himself, so he hopes that he will be supported by brothers by faith in the election.

In the Sunzhensk ridge, in the area of ​​the village of Karabulag, fragments of the Mi-8 MI-8 helicopter of the Russian Federation, which flew on Sunday from Chechnya to Ingushetia, were discovered. At the crash site, the bodies of two crew members were found, another helicopter with severe wounds was taken to the Vladikavkaz hospital. This was reported in the coordination center of the Federal Aviation and Space Office and Rescue of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Russian woman Elena Dementieva reached the quarterfinals of the US Open Championship in tennis, defeating her compatriot Vera Zvonarev with a score of 1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3 on Sunday on Sunday on Sunday in the fourth -round match. In the 1/4 finals of Dementiev, he will meet with the second number of sowing French by the Frenchman Amelie Mororemo, who beat the Italian Francesca Schiavona on Sunday.

WBC champion Vitaly Klitschko, who is now in Los Angeles, until he himself knows exactly who will become his opponent in the next battle, Allboxing reports with reference to Eastsideboxing.com . “We are negotiating with several fighters,” Klitschko noted. “Danny Williams is one of the possible rivals. After the victory over the Tyson, his shares grew strongly, and I would love to meet him this year. But I want to emphasize that we are negotiating with other boxers.

The winner of the last year’s Russian hockey championship among the teams of the Super League Omsk Avangrad in the third round of the country's starting championship suffered its first defeat in the new season. In Novokuznetsk, Omichi lost to the local Metallurg with a score of 1: 3.

In the North Caucasus, the Mi-8 helicopter disappeared. This was announced on Monday by a representative of the group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the North Caucasus. According to him, on the eve of 18:30 Moscow time from Grozny (North Airport), Mi-8 helicopter flew out. At 19:00 with the side, a connection disappeared. In search of a helicopter, five aircraft are currently involved, ITAR-TASS reports. On board the helicopter was a crew containing three people.

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Elijah II sent letters of condolences to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , in which he condemned the terrorist attack in Beslan, which led to the death of innocent children, ITAR-TASS reports. In the message of the Primate of the Georgian Orthodox Church , in particular, it is noted that "this pain in Georgia is perceived as its own.