The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, for the first time in history, signed an order on the introduction of a state of emergency in the city in connection with the unusually strong heat that covered the central regions of the United States, Interfax reports. About 380 round -the -clock centers are already opened in the city, where poor and elderly residents can hide from the heat. The hours of work of public libraries, municipal parks and pools are significantly extended.

The spiritual leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday approved the actions of Hizballlah and promised that Iran would support Lebanon in the struggle against Israel. "Iran ... will support all the oppressed nations, especially the people of Lebanon and the fighting Palestinians," he said on the air of Iranian state television.

On Wednesday in Moscow, the grand opening of the new museum will be held - as part of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin. The official name of the new cultural institution is a gallery of art of Europe and America of the XIX -XX centuries.

In the USA, Vanity Fair magazine 67th time announced a list of the most well-dressed stars. The first place was the model Kate Moss. The magazine placed it on the cover of the September number, reports UPI . On the cover of Vanity Fair, Kate Moss appeared in a white fur hat, long white gloves and high dark boots. This is the second appearance of Moss on the cover of Vanity Fair after last year's cocaine scandal .

In the city of Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad region on Wednesday night, unknown vandals doused the installed recently memorial plaque to Emperor Hapoleon. “This is a very strange act of vandalism, since the opening of the board in the last days of July was numerous and solemn.

The legendary film by George Danelia "Kin-dza-dza" will appear an animated version. The author of the idea became the author of the idea. Famous Russian animators have been involved in the work. The director of the cartoon was Tatyana Ilyina, who shot the Nutcracker. Popular Russian actors will voice the main characters of the film. Casting is underway now. The film is designed for 1 hour 40 minutes of screen time.

In one of the apartments of a residential building in the south of Moscow, a moonshine apparatus exploded on Wednesday. The incident occurred at about 14:00 in a 17-storey building at 12 Borisovsky passage, 12. "The owner of the apartment was injured on the 16th floor," ITAR-TASS reported in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. There is no more accurate data on the state of health of the moonshine. There was a fire of alcohol.

A resident of Chelyabinsk Jeanne Sutter, suspected of killing his four -month -old daughter, is recognized as insane. These are the results of a medical report, made in the framework of one of the most high -profile criminal cases of 2006. The tragedy occurred in April when a 30-year-old woman appealed to the police with a statement about the disappearance of an infant. According to the woman, the girl was kidnapped from a parked car while her mother was in the store.

Moldova President Vladimir Voronin signed on Wednesday the law adopted by the Parliament on the complete abolition of the death penalty in the country. "Voronin promoted the laws on ratification of protocol 13 to the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

The special commission of Rosbrazculture on Wednesday will begin in the state Hermitage verification of the state of accounting and the safety of the collection. The check will be carried out in connection with the discovered loss of 221 exhibits from the Russian department of the museum. According to RIA Novosti in Rososh security culture, the commission will include representatives of the service, the territorial department in St. Petersburg, the city committee on culture.

At once, seven people in Indonesia are hospitalized on Wednesday with symptoms of "bird flu". According to the authorities, the incident occurred on the island of Sumatra. Among patients - three children. All of them were taken to the hospital from the village, where, as doctors suspect, the H5N1 virus is rapidly spreading among the poultry. The Ministry of Health of Indonesia today also announced the outbreak of this disease on the resort island of Bali.

Two Russian peacekeepers died in Abkhazia at an armed attack by unknown people. "On Wednesday, a bandit attack was made on a bus, transporting the salary of peacekeeping forces in the Georgian -Abkhaz conflict zone, and the escort car. It happened on the road between Gagra and Guduta on the central highway in the trout economy," the Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia Otar Khizia told Interfax.

Most of all, Russians are afraid of diseases, losses of loved ones and attempts on property - the same fears pursue the inhabitants of European cities. But unlike Europeans, the degree of fears of Russians is alarming and not always adequate to the real state of things. This conclusion was reached by the authors of research, who for several months representative groups of the population of 15 Russian cities, write on Wednesday Izvestia .

Several sources in Western investment banks and the company itself report that the head and owner of Severstal plans to hold a foreign IPO of its company, newspapers Vedomosti and The Financial Times report. Up to 10-30% of the company’s shares for which will be received from 1.5 billion to 3 billion dollars can be sold. Most likely, the money received will go to an attempt to conduct a new merger by a non -metallurgical market.

The symbolic sword of Ilya Muromets, the defender of the Russian land, was consecrated today by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II during the celebrations in honor of the 910th anniversary of the Transfiguration Monastery of Murom . The Patriarch handed the sword to the chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin - the head of the Board of Trustees to restore the monastery - with a request to hand him to Vladimir Putin.