The only floating prison in the UK has already left the last prisoners, but the ship is still guarded - so that outsiders do not penetrate there. After eight years, during which this ship was the subject of political disputes, as well as a tourist attraction, a floating prison was closed, writes The Guardian (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

On the night of Friday to Saturday, the European part of Russia can be observed by meteorite rains - Perseids named after the constellation Perseus. If you are lucky with the weather, then in the August sky you can observe yellow-white trajectories of one hundred or more meteors. It should be noted that all inhabitants of the Earth will be able to observe the natural phenomenon.

In Krasnodar, a criminal, sentenced to 14 years in prison, escaped from a temporary detention center. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnodar Territory, the escape occurred on Thursday evening, when the convict was removed from the IVS premises.

In 13 out of 15 capitals of Western Europe, over the past 30 years, the temperature in the summer months increased by an average of one degree in Celsius. This was reported by the Belgian media with reference to a study conducted by the World Wildlife Protection Fund (WWF). The most significant increase in temperature in the summer is noted in Madrid - plus 2.2 degrees Celsius.

The press service of Bumizdelia CJSC informs that on August 12, 2005, from 16:00 in the building of the Soyu Commercial Bank (Tikhvinsky lane, 11 Cor. 2), Oleg Albertovich’s commercial director of Bumydelia CJSC, in order to extort his personal signature on the documents, is forcibly held on the 2nd floor. According to the press service, a message about this fact came from Kazantsev himself on a mobile phone to one of the employees of Bumydelia CJSC.

The speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov said that he did not support the idea of ​​the appointment of entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg to the post of head of the United Kamchatka region, voiced by the penaltyman of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Konstantin Pulikovsky. “Today in Koryakia there is a very smart young energetic leader.

The beer, which the monks boil in one of the monasteries of Belgium, was recognized as the best in the world during the Internet survey and instantly became the most scarce product among fans of foamy drink. In the Monastery of St. Sixta in West Belgium, 30 monks of the Cistercians and Trappists live. They lead a recluse life, pray, work and boil WestVleten beer.

In the upcoming parliamentary elections, Japanese Prime Minister Dzyunitiro Koizumi intends to bet on women-guards. According to Asahi’s newspaper, Koizumi instructed the General Secretary of the ruling liberal-democratic party (LDP) Tsutomu Takebe to urgently choose the maximum number of female candidates.

The Moscow City Prosecutor's Office extended until October 14, 2005 the investigation in the case of the collapse of the Transvaal Park dome . This was announced by lawyer Igor Trunov, representing the interests of the victims, Interfax reports. According to Trunov, he received an official notification from the prosecutor's office that at the end of the investigation, the victims have the right to get acquainted with the case materials in full.

The Central Bank of Brazil in a press message specified that 164.8 million reail (more than 71 million dollars), not 156 million reactions ($ 67 million), was stolen from the office in Fortalesis last weekend, as it was originally believed. On Thursday, the Brazilian police arrested two suspects in those involved in the robbery in Minas-Jirace. The robbers ruined their own greed. Having stole the money, they immediately rushed to spend it.

The theory of evolution does not reject the “need for God”, on the contrary, it helps believers to understand the creator’s attitude to the universe as the attitude of a caring father to his child, ”says the director of the Vatican observatory, priest George Koyn. These words are given today by the Blagovet-Info with reference to CNS .

In Lithuania, a dam was broken due to storm rains, in the area of ​​the city of Klaipeda a territory with an area of ​​about 1 thousand hectares is flooded. The pushing water sharply raised the level of the Dan River flowing through the city, ITAR-TASS reports on Friday with reference to the rescue department. There is a threat of flooding of the streets adjacent to her.

The survey showed that 65% of the Muslims of Great Britain would like to listen to sermons in mosques and Islamic centers in English, said Islam.ru . More than half of the British Muslims were born in this country and know English better than the language of the homeland of their parents.

In Moscow on Friday morning, as a result of a grenade explosion, one person died, another person was injured. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at 9:15 a signal of the explosion of a grenade in the apartment of house 8 on the Rossoshansky highway received a signal on the on -duty remote control.

Members of the rescued crew of the AS-28 bathyscaphe "Prize" are presented for awarding the orders of courage. This was stated on Friday by the temporary acting commander in chief of the Russian Navy Vladimir Masorin. "The seven submariners of the AS -28 submarine crew are presented for awarding by the Orders of Courage and the relevant documents will be signed in the near future," Masorin said.