The Protestant pastor from the city of Blantyr (Malawi, East Africa) Augustine Mgala believes that the first description of the beauty contest was given in the Bible , and therefore Christian leaders who criticize such events are wrong. The pastor of Mgala gives as an example the episode described in Esther's book, when the Persian king chose a bride. Many beautiful girls were held in front of the monarch, from whom, as a result, he chose a Jew of Esther.

Employees of the metropolitan police revealed the brutal murder of an 18-year-old student of Moscow State University Anna Borisova. The girl’s corpse was discovered on the morning of June 17 in the area of ​​house number 12 on Trofimov Street in the Southeast District of Moscow. Experts came to the conclusion that asphyxia, that is, strangulation, became the cause of the death of the deceased. A strangulation groove was discovered on the neck of the victim.

In Rome, horses drawn into carts, in which everyone is invited to take a walk around the eternal city, will have to wear something like pants in order to guarantee cleanliness in the city. Such a measure is prescribed by the new law adopted by the municipality of the city, writes the newspaper El Mundo (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

For the first time in the history of treasures, basilica St. Nicholas in Bari are exhibited at the State Historical Museum. At the exhibition dedicated to the history and art of basilica, sixty -four works of art from the treasures of the basilica of St. Nikolai in Bari, where the relics of the saint of Mirr Lycian are located, according to a press release that entered the editorial office of Newsru.com. Basilica St.

In the process against Nurpashi Kulaev , who is considered the only surviving terrorist of the participants in the hostage capture at the Beslan school, it came to the scandal. According to the German newspaper Die Welt , when one of the witnesses appeared in front of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia in Vladikavkaz, he admitted that he was put pressure on him, and therefore he gave obviously false indications. Relatives of the victims in protest left the courtroom .

Heavy rain, which fell on Thursday to the capital of France, led to significant violations in the work of transport. About 50 centimeters of precipitation fell in Paris in Paris. As a result, many premises of the metro stations turned out to be flooded, the water rushed down the stairs to the platforms. The Parisian transport department had to urgently turn off the power supply of trains and close a number of central stations.

Summer to the metropolitan region returned, however, for just a few days. According to Roshydromet, during the day the air warms up in Moscow to 17-20 degrees, in the region-up to 20-22 above zero. Although it will still be cool at night - in the city 7-9 degrees, in its environs - plus 5-10. According to weather forecasters, the weather will please the inhabitants of the Moscow region tired of constant rains, sunlight.

The Georgian Ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhenya believes that it was time to return his historical name to his homeland - George. In this regard, he asks all the Israelites to stop calling his country to Georgia and accept a new "old" name. He has already changed the name of the country on the official forms and in the documents of the embassy and intends to contact the Hebrew Academy, so that they adopt the official name there, reports MIGNEWS.com .

In Saratov in the Smirnovsky gorge, part of the wall of the house, located in the landslide zone, hit. As a result, two people died under the wreckage. The dead are the collectors of the scrap metal. As Interfax was informed in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Saratov region, the collapse occurred in a two-story brick non-residential house in the 4th Komsomol passage, which was empty after the fire.

The head of the administration of the head of North Ossetia, Sergei Takoev, was again headed by the Alania football club (Vladikavkaz). This was reported to the ITAR-TASS agency on Thursday in the press service of FC "Alania". On the eve of a long break, the club’s official website resumed its work.

In the Stavropol, people lived 500 thousand years ago. Scientists of the St. Petersburg Institute of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences come to this conclusion, who have completed the next season of archaeological excavations at Mount Kinagl in the Mineralovodsky district of Kavminvod. According to Vasily Lyubin, who heads the doctor of historical sciences, the 150 stone tools of the Ashel era (early Paleolit) found here this season have an age of about 400-500 thousand years.

Under Volgograd on Thursday morning, one of the arrested, who made an escape from the insulator of the investigative department of the prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region on Wednesday evening. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Volgograd region, the 26-year-old Eduard Kulemasov, repeatedly convicted of theft, robberies and robberies, was detained in the village of New Rogachik of the Gorodishchensky district of the Volgograd region.

The best player of the finished championship of Ukraine was the Brazilian midfielder of Shakhtar Francelino Matuzalem. He became the winner of the journalistic competition following the results of the 2004/05 season and the first laureate representing the Donetsk Shakhtar. Previously, the title of best player went only to the Kyiv Dynamo.

On Thursday in London, the meeting of the Quartet ended on the Middle Eastern settlement. Negotiations in which representatives of Russia, the USA, the European Union and the UN took part, took place in the residence of the American ambassador to the UK. Their main theme was the course of preparation for Israel from the Gaza Strip and from the northern part of the western bank of the Jordan River, RIA Novosti reports.

The Belarusian prosecutor's office resumed the investigation in the case of the murder of ORT ORT Dmitry Zavadsky. This was announced at a press conference on Thursday in Minsk in Minsk Deputy Prosecutor General of Belarus Boris Tarletsky. According to him, "the case of the murder of Dmitry Zavadsky is resumed," Interfax reports. “Investigative groups have been created and work, operational investigative measures are being held,” he added.