In Moscow, on the night of October 16, the manager of the affairs of the ITAR-TASS news agency Anatoly Voronin was killed.

The famous Spanish magician Carlos Santillana will fall into the coffin for the experiment and spend five days underground without water, food and air. "The coffin with a magician will be placed in an impromptu grave on the main square of Trukhillo on Monday at 20:30 local time (22:30 Moscow time).

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert turned to his Lebanese colleague Fuad Signor on Monday with the next proposal for a personal meeting. "I want to take this opportunity and call on Prime Minister Livan Fuad Signor to meet me face to face," Olmert said, speaking at the opening of the winter session of the parliament. The head of government expressed the hope that "direct negotiations will bring our world to the peoples," RIA Novosti reports.

In the Oryol region, a scandal is flared up associated with the publication in the local newspaper "Oryol news" of cartoons, which was the participant of which was Russian President Vladimir Putin. About this on Monday writes "New Gazeta" .

Deutsche Bank is negotiating the purchase of debt and the acquisition of a control package of Yukos shares, the Kommersant newspaper reports, referring to the words of the chairman of the board of directors of the company Viktor Gerashchenko. According to experts, the German bank acts in the interests of Gazprom, which seeks to get the assets of Yukos faster than Rosneft. The rivalry between the two state corporations continues.

On October 15, the skier from Syktyvkar Ivan Babikov, who chose the second homeland of Canada, returned home to perform in the Russian national team at the stages of the World Cup and, possibly, the World Cup. At the beginning of last season, his name did not appear among the possible participants in the Olympiad in Turin.

In the United States, a 22-year-old resident of the city of Bonaparte (Iowa) is accused of killing his parents and three adolescence sisters. Shono Bentler, who shot his entire family, will be charged with the worship of the murder of five people. He is currently in prison, a deposit of $ 2.5 million has been appointed for his release. The victims were discovered on Saturday morning.

The first day of the working week will begin with an invigorating frosty morning. In the "Peak hours" in the capital is expected about 2-4 degrees below zero, in regional cities - from 2 to 6 degrees of frost. According to Roshydromet, during the day the maximum air temperature in Moscow will not exceed 3-5 degrees of heat, in the suburbs-2-7 degrees. Partly cloudy will remain during the day, precipitation is not expected. The wind of variable directions, weak - 2-5 meters per second.

The largest electricity manufacturer in the UK company British Energy announced the closure of two nuclear power plants - in Hinkley in the west of England and in Hunters in Scotland - after the detection of cracks in the pipes of power plants. The company's released statement also notes that it is investigating a “significant leakage of water in the underground cooling system” at the NPP in Hartlpool in the north of England.

TOSHIBA is considering the possibility of filing a claim against Sony with a request to compensate for the damage caused by business reputation and compensate for losses related to the fall in sales. According to the injured side, the manufacturer of low -quality batteries for laptops - Sony should not only replace the defective part at its own expense, but also pay compensation.

Egyptian law enforcement agencies stopped an attempt to illegally sell the artifacts of the Faraons era in the amount of $ 2 million. This was reported by the Egyptian news agency Mena. On Sunday, employees of the Main Police of Combating Smuggling of Ancient Values ​​conducted an operation in the Egyptian capital, as a result of which five people were arrested to sell several figurines with the aim of their further export abroad.

The murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya may be associated with a video that showed the involvement of the 30-year-old Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in the abduction of two civilians. The shooting of poor quality, made using a mobile phone, appeared on the Internet this spring. On it, a person similar to Ramzan Kadyrov, leads a group of people in camouflage, who abduct a person at the market, possibly in Grozny, but is not excluded - and in Gudermes.

Since the beginning of the year, 32 police officers have fired from the beginning of the year, due to violation of the law from the internal affairs bodies. The policemen, against whom criminal cases have been instituted, suspect of sales of false money, receiving bribes, causing serious bodily harm and official negligence, which led to the loss of individual materials of the investigation, Forum reports.

Employees of the International Institute for Development and Environment of the American University of Tufts came to the conclusion that by the beginning of the next century, humanity will have to spend more than $ 20 trillion on the fight against global warming, which will be 7 - 8 % of the global gross product. True, this will happen if the world community continues to be equally careless about the upcoming environmental problems.

From a variety of "bird flu" H5N1 on weekends, two people died in Indonesia, and local doctors announced on Monday. We are talking about a 67-year-old woman who died on Sunday evening in the city of Bandung, and about an 11-year-old boy who died on Saturday in Jakarta, Interfax reports. Clinical tests confirmed that in both cases the cause of death really became a "bird flu". Thus, the number of victims of the H5N1 virus in Indonesia reached 54 people.