One resident of Taiwan died and more than 20 received various injuries as a result of a powerful Talim typhoon. The element crossed the island from east to west and on Thursday morning in Moscow entered the Taiwan Strait towards Medical China, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to Hong Kong Radio. Typhoon paralyzed the normal life of almost the entire territory of the largest Chinese island.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order of Russia's intention not to become a participant in two border issues signed with Estonia.

It is possible that the coast of Louisiana was so badly damaged by the hurricane due to the fact that artificial engineering structures in the delta led to erosion of natural barriers, the American society of civilian engineers said.

The United States decided to accept the help that foreign states offer them to eliminate the consequences of the Hurricane Katrina. Such a decision, after consultations with the White House, was made by US Secretary of State Condolas Rice. This was announced today by the official representative of the US Foreign Ministry, Sean McCormak. "All help that can help alleviate the difficult, tragic position of people in the regions that suffered from Hurricane Katrina will be accepted," McCormak said.

The first day of autumn will bring the residents of the capital and the Moscow Region short -term rains. According to Roshydromet, on Thursday in the afternoon the thermometer columns in Moscow will rise to marks of 13-15 degrees above zero, in the region-to plus 12-17 degrees. The north wind is expected, in the evening, it is possible to form a fog in the lowlands and in the lowlands of Moscow and its environs, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Pentagon intends to conduct a comprehensive audit of enterprises of the US military-industrial complex for their protection from possible encroachments by terrorists. Based on the results of the audit, the leading contractors of the military department will be proposed to eliminate any omissions and weaknesses that can be identified.

Trading in the Russian foreign exchange market on the first day of autumn began with the fall of the dollar by 10 kopecks and the “take -off” of the euro above the mark of 35 rubles, which was the result of the dynamics of the world Forex market, where the American currency weakened the positions against the backdrop of the negative consequences of the Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane "Katrina" will have huge consequences for the United States. Basically - economically, but politics will be affected, the Swiss Le Temps believes. "The disaster struck oil refineries, which a quarter of all the oil consumed by the economy consumed in the world arrives. And this happens at the moment when the price for the barrel reached the highest mark, and the discontent of the unpredictability of the energy policy of the White House is much more than ever," the publication says.

The Investigative Department at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow opened a criminal case on the fact of a mass fight last Monday , a source in the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate told Interfax on Thursday.

Former police lieutenant colonel Alexander Khibchenko, who was put on the federal wanted list as the leader of the criminal group who committed custom -made murders in the Kemerovo Region, voluntarily appeared in the regional prosecutor's office on Thursday morning.

The attempt of a resident of Germany to get rid of spiders in a family garage using an aerosol for hair styling and lighter turned out catastrophically. The garage and the house adjacent to it were completely burned, there are no injured, reports Reuters. The accident occurred in the city of Zulpich, the Earth North Rhine-Westphalia. The picture of the incident was restored to the police.

On Monday evening, representatives of left -wing youth movements were beaten in Moscow. The attackers acted using baseball bats and traumatic pistols. Four people were in the hospital, somewhat injured of varying severity. The police managed to detain the attackers, but after a few hours they were all released. The beating of left -wing activists caused a wide resonance.

In the Voronezh region , a brutal murder of a family of three is revealed. According to the regional prosecutor's office, the investigation found that a resident of a neighboring village cut out the family of immigrants from Dagestan. As previously reported, in the village of Troitskoye, Semiluksky district on the night of August 11, a family of three people was killed in a private house.

In anticipation of the election televisionealus scheduled for September 4, Gerhard Schreder and the head of the opposition, the angel Merkel, the wife of Chancellor Doris Schroeder-Kepf, "struck" her husband in the upcoming Bundestag elections. In an interview with the Die Zeit newspaper, the spouse Schrief "bit" a competitor from the CDU/CSS for the absence of children and a misunderstanding of representatives of their own sex.

The main users of the detailed images of the earth's earth surface Google Earth will become international terrorists, according to one of the Russian special services. Thus, Google, which is engaged in the distribution of photographs made from the space with a resolution of up to 2 meters, was commented there. "In the pictures of the American company, terrorists can see everything that they need to commit terrorist attacks in any countries of the world," said ITAR -TASS interlocutor.