The roller of the elite brand of female underwear Agent Provocateur turned into a grandiose scandal. By its 10th anniversary, the company's management was hanging on the site of the musical video She Lost Control, which is very frivolously depicting US President George Bush. The video begins with the fact that the dining Bush is sitting in an oval office and waiting for his mistress. After some time, a woman appears in the office in frank clothes and with a whip in her hands.

The Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin said in an interview with Financial Times that the probable sale of the NC Yukos assets, from which the state requires the payment of additional taxes, will be transparently on the basis of market principles.

New York may be forced to withdraw his candidacy for the 2012 Olympic Games, if all the agreements necessary for the construction of the main stadium are not signed in the near future. This, according to Interfax, said the mayor of the largest city in the United States, Michael Bloomberg. For the Olympiad, the construction of a modern stadium worth $ 1.4 billion is planned.

In Yekaterinburg, a search is being conducted by two prisoners who escaped during the JPA. According to the press service of the regional police department, last Friday on Repin Street, when IUCO N1 to ITK N2, two criminals, born in 1981 and 1973, escaped from ITK N2. The criminals were convicted under Articles 126 and 161 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for robberies on parking lots and drivers. Throughout the Sverdlovsk region, a special search operation was immediately started.

In Saudi Arabia, three employees of the local border service were executed for smuggling in the country of drugs. This was reported on Sunday by the Kuwaitsky news agency Kun. According to the Kingdom of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, three employees were detained during the import of a large number of hashs into the country. The perpetrators worked on a checkpoint on the border with Iraq, RIA Novosti reports.

In Hamburg, the next annual meeting of the Baltic Development Forum was opened. It is also called "Northern Davos." In Hamburg, 400 representatives of the countries of the region gathered. Among them are the current and former leaders of the states and governments of the countries of the region, representatives of business and scientific circles.

The metropolitan prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case on the fact of the unlawful actions of the police against the Hero of Russia, retired Air Force Colonel Magomed Tolboev . "The Kuzminsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow opened a criminal case on this fact under article 286 part 3 paragraph" A " -" exceeding official powers, "the Moscow prosecutor’s office said to Monday.

In Moscow, unknowners robbed the apartment of the hockey player Pavel Bure - Tatyana Bure. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, the other day Tatyana Bure turned to the police and said that her apartment on Komsomolsky Prospekt was robbed. According to the woman, the thieves picked up the keys to the front door, after which they carried out two mink coats, wristwatch, jewelry and other valuable things from the apartment.

When the 12-year-old Faten Ben Debaib returned to school after the summer holidays, the girl was not easy to take: take off his huts to continue her studies at school or be deducted. For the Muslim diaspora in France, it was also necessary to solve something similar, but the center of events was 2500 miles from France, in Iraq.

The Mi-24 helicopter, the victim in Chechnya last Sunday, was shot down by militants from the ground, a source in the Commission for the investigation of this flight incident said on Monday of Interfax. "The helicopter was amazed from a grenade launcher at the moment when he performed a flight at an altitude of 10-15 meters. The Mi-24 was also fired from small arms," ​​said the representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The right ear of a person perceives speech better than the left one, but the left ear is more adapted for the perception of songs. This is stated in the latest study conducted by American scientists from the University of California. They came to this conclusion, inserting 3 thousand newborn special microscopic devices into the ears. Children were given to listen to sounds similar to human speech or music, Interfax reports.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II expressed condolences in connection with the tragic death of the blessed pope and the patriarch of the Alexandrian and all of Africa Peter VII and accompanying his persons as a result of the collapse of the helicopter.

28 children were injured during the maniac attack on the Children's Center in the East Chinese province of Jiangsu. According to official Chinese sources, the tragedy occurred on Saturday. A 41-year-old man armed with a knife, a capacity of gasoline and a home-made explosive device, burst into the center for the care of children in Suzhou.

The largest volcano of the world of Mauna Loa 4103 meters, located in Hawaii, has not shown any activity for 20 years. But soon he can wake up and begin to throw tons of lava again, scientists say. Since July of this year, more than 350 weak earthquakes have been recorded in the volcano area. Such a number of shocks in a short time does not have a precedent on the Hawaiian archipelago, and seismologists have every reason to fear that Mauna Loa is about to wake up.

On Monday, a alarm was announced at the Tokyo International Haneda Airport . According to the Ministry of State Land and Transport, the reason was the alleged fire of one of the aircraft. An employee of the ground control service noticed fire in the engine of the Liner of the largest Japanese ANA airline. The plane was preparing to take off, but was immediately stopped. Other details are not yet known, reports ITAR-TASS.