In China, who is trying to catch up with the West, the strangest traditions pop up from the depths of centuries. And one of the strangest ones is, of course, Yin Hun, a afterlife marriage. When a man dies unmarried or his widow gets married again, the family’s family does everything possible to find a girlfriend for an afterlife. And simply put, get a corpse of a "free" woman.

In Tobolsk, the Tyumen region, deputy head of the city administration, the head of the city committee on property, Ivan Sharaykin, was killed. According to the acting city prosecutor Alexei Kuznetsov, the day before, a telephone message was received in the duty unit about the corpse of an unknown man in the wasteland behind the 7 "A" microdistrict. The clothes of the murdered lay next to the body. The operational-investigation group established the identity of the deceased.

The Royal Caroline Medical and Surgical Institute called on Monday the names of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for 2005. They became the Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, who opened the bacterium, which causes gastritis and stomach ulcer.

Sending the deputies of the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to the regions , the presidential administration, obviously, has some plans about the "capital site". The whole history of the existence of the current presidential team proves that it strengthened any state power almost exclusively by the St. Petersburg reserve. Now the time of the capital has come, since the main positions in the federal leadership of the Petersburg have already taken, writes New Gazeta .

In Russia, the operation of IL-96 aircraft has been resumed. The corresponding order on Monday was signed by the head of Rostransnadzor Alexander Neudko, the press service of the Ministry of Transport said. Earlier, the head of the Federal Property Management Office, Alexander Aleshin, informed reporters that, according to the results of the audit of the entire IL-96-300 aircraft, a list was compiled from 28 positions that must be performed to ensure further safe operation of the aircraft.

Crosses, lamps, icons, carved images of biblical scenes on mother of pearl and other religious objects collected by pilgrims to the Holy Land for sixteen centuries will present an exhibition from the Hermitage collection in Amsterdam. The exposition of the Hermitage-Amsterdam exhibition center has collected more than 230 works from IV to the beginning of the 20th century, associated with the pilgrimage movement in Jerusalem.

The main shareholder of the Yukos Group Menatep has not yet plans to initiate trials against Sibneft OJSC in connection with its sale Gazprom , the managing director of Group Menatep Tim Osborn told Interfax. Earlier, Osborne told the Observer London newspaper that the Gazprom transaction violates the terms of the previous agreement concluded between the shareholders of Sibneft and Yukos on the merger of the two companies.

People with symmetrical faces are successful with the opposite sex. But besides this, people with ideal proportions may also indicate the good health of their owners. Symmetry, apparently, is due to the fact that some men are more courageous, and some women are more feminine. As the study demonstrates, such faces suggest that this person is a product of a large number of genes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill to the State Duma, granting the right to submit his candidacy for the post of governor who win in regional elections, Viktor Grishin, head of the State Duma Committee on Monday, told reporters on Monday. The corresponding amendments were proposed to be made in two applicable laws - “On Political Parties”, as well as on the delimitation of powers between representative and executive bodies of state power, Interfax reports.

The government has returned to the idea of ​​a large -scale reduction in VAT - from the current 18% to 13%. This idea was once again voiced at a meeting of the Council for competitiveness and entrepreneurship, chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. The reduction in VAT should become the cornerstone of the medium-term program (for 2006-2008) of the government, the project of which is waiting in the White House on October 15.

In Primorye in a car disaster, the director of the Institute of Biology of the Sea of ​​the Far Eastern Branch (DVA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Vladimir Kasyanov died.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International attempted to draw attention to the Chechen problem on the eve of the Es-Russia London summit, hoping that the topic of human rights violation in Chechnya will be made at the summit. The bloodshed in Chechnya continues, and President Putin has no other plan of action to resolve the conflict, which has been going on in Chechnya for 10 years, except for military means.

The leader of the Anglican Nigeria threatens to break communication with the Church of England if she does not change her liberal attitude to homosexuals. In September, the mention of Kenterbury, the spiritual center of the church -mother of all Anglican churches, was removed from the Constitution of the denomination headed by him.

Russian Railways refuses Siemens high -speed trains. The new head of the Russian railways, Vladimir Yakunin, said that he did not want to “subsidize the“ German industry ”and is not interested in continuing to implement a billion project of“ high -speed Russian trains ”in full. Now Russian Railways is going to purchase not 60, but only six high -speed trains: a small series in return for the contract worth more than 1.5 billion euros.

In the UK, a 21-year-old university student was able to pay for his studies and earn money thanks to the original, but very simple idea. Student Alex Tom created on August 26 the website milliondollarhomepage.com . The essence of the project is simple: a grid of 10 thousand squares is placed on the main page. Each of them has a size of 100 pixels. Thus, on page 1 million pixels. Alex decided to sell a place in this grid for everyone.