Scientists have discovered proteins that remove plaques that cause Alzheimer's disease. It turned out that they act only until a person has grown old, and over time dies. This discovery explains why Alzheimer is the disease of older people, and also opens up new ways of treating the disease, reports Ar. The discovery about which Science magazine writes was made by specialists from the Institute of Biological Research. Sun in California in roundworms called C. Elegans.

Former American Stylawo Boxer Chuck Wepner, who played in the ring from 1964 to 1978 and gained fame with his stubborn fight with Mohammed Ali (in which he managed to send the legendary champion to the knockdown), stopped the trials against the famous actor and director Sylvester Stallone. Wepner's claims to Stallone were expressed in the fact that the payments of compensation for the use of the boxer's image in the film "Rocky" were not made to him.

The luxurious liner called The World is so far the only private multi -apartment ship in the world, and all apartments have already been sold out in it. The fact is that a 12-fold giant does not consist of ordinary cabins, but of 165 luxury apartments, some of which are exceeded in the area housing on land, Bild reports. These apartments at a price of 1 to 5 million euros were sold in property. With an area of ​​up to 300 square meters.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Pyatinza gave the order to expand the operation in the south of Lebanon. The head of the government made such a decision after the meeting with Minister of Defense Amir Peresa lasting several hours. According to government sources, Olmert expressed dissatisfaction with the previously discussed ceasefire agreement.

In the village of Gumarino, the Suoyarvsky district of Karelia, a 30-year-old local resident burned three private residential buildings. Currently, the man was detained, Interfax told on Friday in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "The incident occurred last Thursday. Fortunately, there were no human casualties. According to the arsonist, he had a conflict with the owners of the houses," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

Terrorists can attack two Indian cities during the celebration next week on August 15 of Indian Independence Day. This was warned on Friday the US Embassy in this country, Interfax reports. The representative of the embassy David Kennedy reported terrorist attacks can occur in two cities. "We urge American citizens to be more attentive. According to our information, foreign terrorists can conduct attacks in the New Delhi and Mumbai area," the representative of the embassy said.

The attacks on flights from the UK in the United States were scheduled for August 16, and the rehearsal was supposed to take place today, Friday, August 11. This was reported by the London evening newspaper Evening Standard . "The conspirators installed on August 16 as a date when they had to try to blow up 10 full passenger aircraft heading to the United States, bombs with liquid explosives based on hydrogen peroxide," the publication said.

In Nizhny Novgorod, as a result of the collapse of the ceilings of an unexplosed building, two people died, five were injured, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Volga-Ural Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies. The signal of the collapse entered the salvation service at 19:20 on Thursday. As established by employees of the Ministry of Emergencies, there was a collapse of ceilings of the 4th and 3rd floors of the building during repair work.

In the USA, the popularity of dwarf cows is growing among the population. Judy Dresser knows that more - this does not mean better, especially when it comes to livestock. Six miniature angus cows live on her ranch in Denville. The dresser began to grow and sell animals deduced in Australia for the sake of interest about two years ago and already considers his pets part of the family, reports Contracostatimes .

The director of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation, Roman Wilfand, believes that the appeal to the court for weather forecasters due to inaccurate weather forecast does not make common sense and will not lead to anything, Interfax reports. In principle, the “word was promised” not in the rules of weather forecasters. We do not promise, but calculate.

Two months after the start of the rental in Samara, the paintings of Ron Hovard "Code of Da Vinci" Samara Prosecutor's office obeyed the director of the Oblkinoptaka for his warning about the inadmissibility of the violation of the law "On freedom of conscience and religious associations," today the Blagovers-Info reports with reference to the National News Agency .

Interprombank Sergey Pugachev intends to radically reform the shipbuilding assets belonging to him in St. Petersburg, the Kommersant newspaper reports. Interprombank intends to close the Baltic Plant, giving its territory for the construction of housing and business centers, and concentrate shipbuilding production on the northern shipyard. The total project cost is over 22 billion rubles. They plan to implement the project in Interprombank, including at the expense of the investment fund.

The sons of the ex-Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, as an reserve officers, are mobilized into the army in the conflict zone on the Livano-Israeli border. Omri and Gilad, having received an urgent agenda, arrived at the disposal of the Israeli defense army, and were forced to interrupt the duty at the father of the father, the newspaper Maariv said on Friday.

The Bank of England froze assets on Friday and called the names 19 arrested on suspicion of preparing an unprecedented terrorist attack , which became known the day before. In addition, some additional details appeared in the media about how terrorists planned to carry on board the explosives and carry out the simultaneous undermining of the British British Airlines and three American airlines.

The official US dollar exchange rate in relation to the ruble declared the Bank of Russia since August 12 is 26.793 rubles per dollar, Interfax reports with reference to the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank. According to the results of the morning trading of a single trading session of the MICEX, the American currency has risen in price by more than 12 kopecks compared to the previous day.