The Russian government is preparing proposals for the creation of an aviation board. Its main task should be the coordination of the activities of federal executive bodies on the functioning of the aviation industry and aviation.

US President George Bush warned North Korea’s leadership that the Nuclear testing test would have serious consequences. "In response to their actions, we work with our partners in this region and in the UN Security Council so that it has serious consequences for the Pyongyansky regime," he said on Wednesday at a press conference in the White House.

The laureate of the prestigious Literary Buker Prize for 2006 was the novel "The Heritage of Loss" (The Inheritance of Loss), the native of India Kiran Desai. The winner was declared during the ceremony the night before, which was broadcast on the air of the British television and radio broadcasting corporation BBC.

The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Miroslav Topolyanek, representing the right civilian democratic party (GDP), resigned after last week his government could not enlist the support of Czech parliamentarians. Then, 96 parliamentarians voted in support of the Topolyanka cabinet, and 99 against it.

The State Duma adopted the law "On Autonomous Institutions" in the third reading. The document was supported by 319 deputies, 113 spoke out against, one abstained. Its main goal is to provide state and municipal institutions with more independence and freedom at the disposal of property and in the implementation of the tasks assigned to them.

On Wednesday, in St. Petersburg, before the performance of the famous Great Drama Theater named after Tovstonogov, an action was directed against the anti-Georgian campaign deployed in Russia.

The conflict of Moscow and Tbilisi affects the supply of criminal news in the Russian media, new news writes. On Tuesday, one of the main news was an accident, the culprit of which was the adviser to Georgia ambassador in Moscow. At the same time, notes the publication, in the city on this day 697 traffic accidents were committed. In parallel, the theme of "Georgian-Presidances" was actively exaggerated in criminal television.

In New York, on the afternoon of October 11, a small private plane crashed into the 20th floor of a 50-story residential building on the east 72nd street. This was reported by American television channels. According to the latest data, 4 people were killed in the result of the incident, among them the aircraft pilot. According to Skynews , the plane was controlled by the Pither (supplier) of the baseball team New York Yankees Corey Lidl.

A citizen of Great Britain was arrested in Greece, who pushed his friend from the hotel balcony. According to the Athenian News Agency on Wednesday, the incident occurred the day before on the island of Crete, in the resort town of Stalid. As the investigation established, the 40-year-old Briton, while in a state of strong intoxication, quarreled in a hotel room with his 34-year-old girlfriend. The quarrel ended with the man pushed his friend from the balcony.

The official awarding ceremony of the European Prize of Culture took place last Tuesday in the Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of the Mother of God). Every year, the Pro Europa Foundation awards honorary awards and cash prizes to initiators of cultural projects and outstanding personalities for their contribution to the European cultural heritage. This year, the Russian Orthodox Church and the evangelical church in Germany were awarded for the development of relations between the two prizes.

In Chile in the city of Rankagua from the local circus "Agilas Umanas" 3 lions fled. But the 75-year-old resident of this town Olga Bustante could not have imagined that she would face one of them literally nose to nose in her own toilet, ITAR-TASS reports. “I was looking for my dog ​​everywhere, and decided to check if she had hidden in the toilet. I open the door, try to find the switch and then I stumble on something soft,” Olga said.

An absolutely unexpected visitor came to the British embassy in Ethiopia - a leopard. According to ITAR-TASS, on the territory of a diplomatic mission of 35 hectares, an unusually large spotted predator lived for two days. Apparently, the leopard extremely liked the lands of the embassy, ​​reminiscent of a wild forest from the side. How he was able to get there is incomprehensible.

According to the project of the Ministry of Transport, in the construction of a paid section of the Leningradskoye Shosse from the intersection from MKAD to 58 km - the city of Solnechnogorsk - private companies should be accepted on a par.

It became known the name of the director, which will put in the Bolshoi Theater "Peak lady". The head of the center named after Meyerhold and Hudruck of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg Valery Fokin. The musical director of the play will be the conductor, pianist and composer Mikhail Pletnev.

On the third day of search work at the site of a partial collapse of a residential building in Vyborg, rescuers removed the woman’s body from the rubble. Thus, the total number of victims of the tragedy that occurred on Monday on Monday on Zheleznodorozhnaya Street reached seven people, ITAR-TASS reported in the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. Previously, during the analysis of the rubble, the bodies of four men, women and baby were found .