In the capital of Thailand Bangkok, the world's first beauty contest among transvestites and transsexuals was held. The event was attended by 24 participants/participants. Some contestants have already undergone sex on a change of sex, while others are only dressed in women's clothing. The competition for citizens with non -traditional life beliefs was held according to all the rules of the standard beauty contest.

A soldier of the Russian border border in Tajikistan, Senior Lieutenant Alexander Konstantinov died on Wednesday during a battle with a group of armed Afghans who broke out of Afghanistan on a section of the Moscow border detachment. This incident was announced by ITAR-TASS, the head of the press service of the FSB of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan. According to the representative of the border command, the incident occurred on the mountain area of ​​the Sarigor outpost.

In Los Angeles on Tuesday, the police were forced to open fire in a person who took hostage to a pregnant woman at the Mexican Consulate. The criminal was wounded. The hostage was not injured and was released. The criminal, who, according to preliminary information, was injured in the head, was hospitalized and in critical condition.

The presidential candidate of Ukraine, the current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is ready to take part in television battles with his competitor in the second round of the presidential election, the leader of the Our Ukraine Bloc Viktor Yushchenko. Yanukovych told reporters about this on Wednesday evening, reports Interfax.

The next earthquake by force of 5.1 points on the Richter scale occurred in the Niigat Prefecture of the main Japanese island of Honsu to the northwest of Tokyo, RIA Novosti reports. According to the country's meteorological department, the shocks were recorded on Wednesday at 03:43 local time (21:43 Moscow time). The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the Tyuetsu region on the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan.

As it became today known to the Interfax agency from diplomatic sources, in Moscow they are concerned about the "unhealthy hype" around the private visit of the Dalai Lama XIV to the capital of Kalmykia Elista with religious goals. This, according to sources, can question the very possibility of a pastoral trip.

The new data of the UN question the predictions that the human race can bring itself to the disappearance due to overpopulation. According to new data, in 300 years the necessary balance will be achieved when people in poor countries will come to the realization of the need for a smaller family. About the UN report writes on Wednesday the English newspaper The Guardian .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) "jointly care about the moral health of our society, the prevention of crimes, ensuring security, strengthening peace and consent." This was announced today by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , who sent a greeting to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev on the occasion of the Police Day.

The Olympic champion in the competition of Irish Kian O'Connor will be deprived of a gold medal of the 2004 games. Repeated doping test of his horse named Waterford Cristel gave a positive result. In addition, the rider himself admitted that in preparation for competitions, sedatives and other prohibited medications were added to the food of the horse.

Nineteen people died on Wednesday in Brazil as a result of a collision of a truck with a bus. According to the road police, the tragedy occurred in the central state of GOISA near the city of Mauriland. The truck transporting gas cylinders suddenly drove into the oncoming lane and the “forehead in the forehead” collided with the bus. As a result of the disaster, a car with workers who were heading to work in a neighboring city fell into a ditch.

The world's largest book is written about the leader of one of the smallest countries. The author of the biography of the former president of Croatia Franjo Tudzhman Khrei Sosich claims that this is a new world record for books and for biographies of world politicians. The giant volume has 3,604 pages and weighs 12 kilograms, Ananova.com reports. Sosich proudly said that no one wrote such monumental creations about any leader in the world.

Alberto Gonzalez was appointed Minister of Justice, US Prosecutor General. This was announced by CNN. In the past, a military pilot and judge of the Supreme Court of Texas during the governorship of George Bush, Gonzalez is considered a close associate of the US President, RIA Novosti reports. The post of head of the Ministry of Justice became vacant after the resignation of John Eshcroft. Many associate the resignation of the Minister of Justice of Eshcroft with the state of his health.

In the UK, a hijacker, who received severe injuries after the accident in which he fell, pursued by the police, requires compensation for the damage caused to his health. Former 28-year-old drug addict Tony Coaser filed a lawsuit for 100 thousand pounds. Coacher claims that the police forced him to crash into the side of the bus at a speed of more than 120 km per hour. It should be noted that at the time of the incident, the hijacker was intoxicated. Coacher was in a coma for four months.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, who won Wimbledon this season, said she was unhappy with the official WTA-tour balls: according to the tennis player, they are too heavy and can cause serious chest or shoulder injury. In connection with the discomfort caused, Maria asked not to use Tretorn balls at the final WTA Championships tournament, which starts on Wednesday, reports Soviet Sport with reference to Reuters .

Yasir Arafat was refused by the kidneys and the liver, the Foreign Minister of the Palestinian autonomy said Nabil Shaat. In an interview with CNN, Shaat said: "Arafat is in critical condition. His heart and lungs work, but his kidneys and liver refused." On Tuesday, the Foreign Minister Pa and a number of other Palestinian figures visited the Persian hospital in a suburbs of Paris, where Arafat is located.