A large traffic accident occurred in Japan. In the center of the main Japanese island of Honsu, on a high -speed road in the prefecture of Nagano near the city of Itimura, more than 20 cars collided, including freights. According to the main police department, the first accident occurred approximately 01:30 Thursday of local time. The incident occurred in the rain in conditions of poor visibility, RIA Novosti reports.

The Association of Russian Banks created the Assistance Fund in the investigation of the murder of the deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov.

The Institute of Religious Research at the University of Texas in his report came to curious conclusions - the political preferences of the Americans directly depend on how they imagine God. At the same time, there are four opinions about the Almighty - "Authoritarian God", "Great -Listen God", "Disstated God" and "Critical God".

Almost a third of the Brazilian Congress is suspected of involvement in the commission of crimes. Of the 594 members of the National Parliament 179 are under the supervision of the prosecutor's office or participated in criminal trials, the Portuguese television channel SIC said. "Most of the accusations relate to crimes related to corruption, using their official position, money laundering and other administrative violations," RIA Novosti reports with reference to the television channel.

In Moscow, the famous actor Albert Filozov is beaten and robbed. The incident occurred the night before, when Filozov returned home from the theater "School of the Modern Play". This was told on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow Theater, the theater, Iosif Raichelgauz. As stated in a press release from the theater, distributed on Thursday, on September 13, at about 22:00 after the play “Anton Chekhov.

In St. Petersburg there is a fetishization of everything that was affected by the hand of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Enterprising tourist figures are already conducting excursions in Putin's places in St. Petersburg. From Russian citizens, for the opportunity to look at these places, they take 500 rubles, and from foreigners - $ 100, writes the magazine "Spark" . The journey is built according to the simple scheme "Stages of the Great Way".

Employees of the Preschool Education Department of the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church at the beginning of the new school year actively began to introduce additional, Orthodox, education in kindergartens of the regional center. According to Interfax with reference to the information of the catechist department of the diocese, about 50 groups operate in the city’s kindergartens, in which Orthodox education is being conducted.

The 19-year-old corporal Gilan, captured by terrorists, is alive. This was announced by a source close to negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians about the return of Gida Shalit. The source added that the steps to release Shalit are successful, and at the moment the situation is the best from the moment of its abduction at the end of June.

The Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko appealed to the Public Chamber (OP) with a request to evaluate the possibility of teaching the course "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture". The head of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science , a week ago at the Interregional Meeting based on the results of preparation for the new school year, reported his intention.

Most NATO member countries are not at all eager to expand their participation in a dangerous Afghan mission. This is evidenced by the results of the meeting of NATO member countries in the Belgian city of Mons, dedicated to the issue of increasing the military contingent of the alliance in Afghanistan by 2.5 thousand people. So far, only a few countries agreed to allocate additional troops for sending to Afghanistan, Kommersant writes.

In Israel, two people were arrested for dangerous driving: while the driver was asleep, the passenger drove a car. Road police officers in Herzli received a message about a car that threaten an accident on the streets of the city. When the law enforcement officers saw a car that was traveling a zigzag, and caught up with it, they saw that the driver was sleeping, holding the gas pedal, and the passenger sitting next to him was holding the steering wheel.

Buses in the British capital will be able to use cheaper fuel thanks to the supply of Venezuelan diesel fuel at a reduced price. The agreement on this was reached in May, during a visit to London, President Venezuela Hugo Chavez and his meetings with the mayor of the capital Ken Livingston, ITAR-TASS reports.

The place of the NTV television channel of the leading Aset Vatsueva will take Lilia Gildeeva - it will be a couple - the host of the program "Today at 22:00" Alexei Pivovarov. This was written on Thursday by the Izvestia newspaper. The newspaper newspaper confirmed that Gildeev has already been credited to the state of the channel. Recall that Aset Vatsueva suddenly left NTV in August without explanation: she wrote a statement about leaving and left for Chechnya.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Amursk, Khabarovsk Territory, transferred a criminal case to the court against the deputy chairman of the Assembly of Deputies of the Amur Municipal District Vladimir Dudarev, who is accused under Article 119 and part 1 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat of murder and intentional destruction of other people's property).

A terrible and wild story occurred in the city of Lipetsk: a tenth grader Misha Fedotov actually abducted the military and sent to serve in Chechnya. When his mother Natalya Fedotova turned to the police for help and in the media, at first they simply did not believe her. But after the schoolboy called home and said: "I am in the formidable", the words of the mother ceased to perceive as nonsense, the newspaper "Interlocutor" writes.