Today the visit of the Dalai Lama XIV to Mongolia has begun. This is the seventh visit of the spiritual leader of the Buddhists in Mongolia. In the Dalai Lama program - sermons, meetings with ministers of monasteries, believers, youth. He will leave the country on August 28, reports Interfax . Since the 1990s, with the beginning of democratic changes, many religious movements began to penetrate into Mongolia.

At the airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Tuesday, an emergency landing was a passenger aircraft Boeing 737-200, which performed a flight from Khabarovsk. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Sakhalin Region, the flaps that increased the wing area did not go out at the air liner belonging to the Sakhalin Air Force company, ITAR-TASS reports. All rescue equipment was ready at the airport, but the pilots managed to safely land the plane in the runway.

On the verge of disappearance was the form of a bug named after Adolf Hitler. The reason for this is the growth of its popularity as a collection subject among neo -Nazis. A small, brown, free-eyed beetle Anophthalmus Hitleri was opened in 1933 by Oscar Workel, a German amateur entomologist and an ardent fan of Hitler. It lives only in 15 caves in central Slovenia. At first, entomologists did not pay close attention to him, claiming that the insect does not represent much scientific interest.

"We must, as St. Bernard punished, protect ourselves from the dangers of immoderate work activity, regardless of our position, because excessive concerns often lead to hardening the heart and suffering of the spirit." With these words, the Pope Benedict XVI, who is currently in his summer residence in Castelgandolfo, warned Catholics against excessive working activity.

In the Dzerzhinsky district of Volgograd, there was an attack on two elderly women, one of the victims died. As Interfax was told in the law enforcement agencies of the region, the crime for the robbery was committed about one in the morning on Tuesday in a private house on Chirskaya Street, where two sisters lived, 81 and 71 years old. As established, the criminals attacked the old women with an ax, striking them on the head.

Against the backdrop of a reduction in demand and increase oil production by countries that are not part of OPEC, the price of Brent oil to the second quarter of 2007 may drop below $ 65 per barrel, Interfax reports with reference to the British Global Energy Oil Sector of the British Global Energy Center Studies, Cges). A seasonal decrease in prices in the near future is expected in the United States.

Persons of non-traditional sexual orientation are going to conduct a gay parade in Jerusalem, despite numerous protests from religious figures and ordinary believers. According to Interfax with reference to today's publication on the Gayrussia.ru website, an organization in support of the rights of sexual minorities "Jerusalem Open -door House for pride and tolerance" (Jerusalem Open House - John) made a decision on the gay parade in the Holy City on August 20.

The metropolitan prosecutor's office charged two detainees in the case of an explosion in the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow.

In Guinea , armed people captured the Russian Tanker "Roegorsk" (port of the postscript - find) with 19 citizens of the Russian Federation on board 55 miles from the capital of Guinea Konakri, said the head of the seafood security department Vladimir Pestatelev.

One militant voluntarily appeared in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya over the past day, three more were detained by law enforcement agencies. According to Interfax on Tuesday, a press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya Magomed Deniev, a resident of the village of Dzhalka Gudermes district in 1997-1999 served in the battalion of the so-called military commissariat of Ichkeria.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the verdict of the Irbita District Court entered into force against the 29-year-old Dmitry Purgin, who was accused of killing a dog and preparing a barbecue from it. As the press service of the regional prosecutor’s office told Interfax, the court found Purgin guilty under Article 161 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (robbery). In addition, the defendant had an inconsistent and not extinguished criminal record.

In Moscow, a procession and a rally were held on Tuesday, dedicated to the Day of the State Flag of Russia and the failure of the August Putch of 1991. About 500 people took part in the events. The organizers of the action were the "Union of Right Forces" and the public organization "detachment of Russia", which united participants in the events of 15 years ago. At first, the column of participants in the action passed from the humpbacked bridge near the Government House to the new Arbat.

The unique collection of red French wine was stolen last weekend from the Stockholm restaurant "Ulricksdals Wardsheus". This collection has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records for many years and included more than 600 bottles of wines produced in the XVIII century, from the six castles of the Grand Crucific Bordeaux. Its cost exceeds 3.5 million Swedish crowns (500 thousand US dollars).

In the city infectious diseases hospital of Irkutsk there are 42 children hospitalized with the diagnosis of enterovirus infection. Most of the doctors have a feverish state with signs of intestinal poisoning, however, which disturbs doctors, a quarter of patients is infected in the form of serous meningitis.

It took the 34-year-old German run by Ronald Prokaina from the North Germanic city of Rostok (the Land of Mecklenburg-Beating Pomerania) in order to run from the European part of Istanbul to the northern end of the continental Europe-Cape Norddkap in Norway. In mid -May, the athlete took a start in Istanbul and, accompanied by a television operator and his dog, overcame more than five thousand kilometers through the territory of 11 European countries.