The striker of the England national team Michael Owen agreed to sign a four-year contract with the Newcasl United Premier League Club, Reuters reports. On Tuesday, the 25-year-old striker will undergo a medical examination. His transition from Madrid Real Madrid should set the Newcasl transference record, exceeding 15 million pounds ($ 21.11 million).

A full -fledged dialogue of the authorities and civil society should become the main “recipe for the fight against the rudiments of the Orange Revolution” in Russia, says Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP).

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Rashid Nurgaliev, signed an order on a new tax audit procedure committed by the police department.

On the eve of the City Day, the sculptor Alexander Burganov gave Moscow about 100 of his works. This happened the day before at the opening ceremony of the Burganov exhibition in the arena. Speaking before the signing of the Gift Act, the first deputy mayor in the Moscow government Lyudmila Shvetsova noted: "It is very good that Alexander Burganov and his students presented their understanding of our city in the updated arena.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Tuesday satisfied the application of the Yukos NK to reduce the amount of the claim for the recovery of losses incurred as a result of the auction for the sale of shares of Yuganskneftegaz OJSC - from the previous 398.8 to 388.32 billion rubles.

Former prisoners of the American prison of Guantanamo RF RF Ayrat Vakhitov and Rustam Akhmyarov are in the pre-trial detention center of Naberezhnye Chelny, the chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia Heydar Dzhemal said at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday. "There is evidence that they are both now in the pre -trial detention center of Naberezhnye Chelny.

At least 30 people were killed and tens of thousands were injured in Mexico from severe floods caused by storm rains. As the National Meteorological Service said on Tuesday, rains collapsed in the last days mainly to the southern and central regions of the country. Verakrus was most affected by the element, where 11 people claimed lives, ITAR-TASS reports. 6 people were killed in Michoan, there they left the banks of the river, flooding many settlements and destroying agricultural lands.

After four and a half years - by 2010, all educational institutions will be equipped with a video surveillance system and "anxious buttons". “It is very difficult to implement this program, since about 400 million rubles per year are allocated from the state budget for schools and universities, and about 14 billion rubles will be required to equip all educational institutions,” Grigory Balykhin said at a press conference.

The media of North Ossetia today published the appeal of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II to the residents of Beslan, Interfax reports.

The Lebanese security forces, as part of the investigation of the murder of the former Prime Minister of the country, Rafi Hariri, arrested on Tuesday all former chiefs of the special services and former General Prosecutor Adnna Addema, ITAR-TASS reports.

On the ThinkGeek website, visitors are invited to purchase a device called Mind Molester for $ 25, which, according to the manufacturer, will drive anyone crazy. It is enough to connect it to the 9-volt battery and hide it in a secluded place. Every three minutes it makes a sound lasting one second. Due to the short duration of sound, its frequency and characteristics, it is very difficult to determine where it comes from.

The rubber boat, presumably belonging to the missing deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Yuri Gergletsky, was found on Tuesday. “One of the local residents found the boat in the Oka River,” Interfax told the region’s Central Executive Committee. The search for the missing deputy has not yet given the results, noted in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

Former member of the police units of the Bosnian Serbs, Dragan Zelenovich, accused by the international tribunal in the former Yugoslavia, was detained in Khanty-Mansiysk, a source in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) said. According to him, Zelenovich was detained on August 25 by decision of the Hague tribunal for war crimes committed during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), Interfax reports.

The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the possibility of canceling an acquittal in the case of special forces captain Eduard Ulman, who was accused of killing civilians in Chechnya. The court will consider the cassation appeal of the victims in the case, who are asked to cancel the acquittal.

From the New Orleans, which took on Monday the blow of the hurricane Katrina , reports of dozens of cases of looting. Last weekend, a state of emergency was introduced in New Orleans and announced the mandatory evacuation of residents. The city has a commandant hour. The state governor of Louisian Halei Barbur gave the patrol and the National Guard to mercilessly treat the looters. “We will not tolerate looting, and actions to combat it will be as rigid as the law allows,” she said.