The British Prince Charles proposed banning the network of snacks McDonald's. Such a statement, as the AR reports, the prince made during a visit to the United Arab Emirates and explained it with concern for a healthy diet. “What did this McDonald's lead to? And you have not tried to ban it: it will be a panacea,” Charles said in an interview with a specialist in the Diabetic Center of the London Imperial College in Abu Dhabi.

For the first half of 2006, the Bank of Russia earned $ 11.6 billion at the gold and foreign exchange reserves, Interfax reports with reference to the official message of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Thanks to the growth of the dollar, the euro and the British pound, the Central Bank earned $ 6.8 billion. Another 4.8 billion dollars of income brought operations with securities and interest payments, as well as trade in precious metals.

At a meeting of mayors of the four largest European capitals - Berlin, London, Moscow and Paris, the mayor of the Russian capital, Yuri Luzhkov, again voiced his implacable position in relation to sexual minorities, which caused disagreement from his European colleagues and invited as guests of the mayor of Beijing.

Syria intends to take part in the International Conference on Stabilization of the House in Iraq, Syrian news agency Sana reports citing official representatives of the country's Foreign Ministry. The convocation of the conference organized in Baghdad by the Iraq government was announced on the eve of the news agency. In addition to Iraq, five regular members of the UN Security Council were also invited to her, the United States has already given their consent.

The human rights organization Amnesty International has criticized the new edition of the Estonian Law "On Language" , ITAR-TASS reports. “Amendments to the Estonian language legislation entering into force on March 1,” says Iren Khan, General Secretary General of the human rights organization, Estonia Prime Minister Andrus Ansipa, “reduce the chances of representatives of linguistic minorities in the labor market.

According to the results of a second doping test, nine skiers were allowed to participate in the world skiing championship in Japan, including four Russians - bicomers Konstantin Voronin, Dmitry Matveev and riders Evgeny Dementyev and Nikolai Pankratov. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the statement of the International Federation of Sports (FIS).

The auction house Christie's will present in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow the canvas of Vasily Vereshchagin "The wall of Solomon". With this project, the Tretyakov Gallery and Christie`s announce a new cooperation program. From March 6 to 16, the picture will be exhibited in the gallery in the Vereshchagin hall near other works of the famous painter, RIA Novosti reports.

The next court session in the case of the former absolute worldwide champion in Supereshweight Mike Tyson will be held on April 12 of this year in the Marikopi district court (Arizona, USA). Last Monday, the next court session was held in the format of a telephone conference, RIA Novosti reports. Recall that Tyson did not plead guilty to storing drugs and devices for their use, as well as in driving a car in a state of drug intoxication.

The Shiite Group "Hizballah" will enter the war on the side of Iran only if the aggressive actions of the United States and its ally of Israel will cover the entire region and affect the Lebanon. This was stated by Deputy Secretary General "Hizballah" "Sheikh to the Kasem.

The mayor of Chicago Richard Dali will beat his father’s record in the position of mayor of Chicago - on Tuesday he was elected mayor for the sixth time, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, by the end of the sixth period, Dali will be in the position of mayor of 22 years. His father, who was also called Richard, ruled the city for 21 years and died as a mayor in 1976 at the age of 74. During his stay on the mayor of the 64-year-old Dali, a few scandalized the corruption in the city administration.

The Daimlerchrysler board confirmed plans to develop partnerships with the Chinese Chery Motor Company as part of the production of available small cars. Now this agreement will have to be approved by the Chinese government, and its final option is planned to be signed at the end of March. According to Leftlannews , Cherisler will produce cars under the CHRYSLER brand, and North America and Europe will produce cars under the brand of Chrysler.

Egyptologists were indignant at the publication in the Cairo of the textbook, in which the builders of the pyramids are named slaves-Jews, whose vigor's work was erected by the only "miracle of the world" preserved to this day. The training manual was prepared for the Cairo School of In -depth international training (Smart International School), and it also says that those who refused to participate in the construction of the "Egyptian Miracle of the Light" were tortured and executed.

On March 3, Russian followers of Hinduism will meet the Bengal New Year. This is the name of the Gaura-Purnim's great holiday. "Purnim" means "full moon", and "Gaura" - "gold". In fact, Gaura-Purnim is the day of the phenomenon of the famous Indian saint Sri Caitanya (1486-1534), which was called a Gauranga for the golden color of the body. Sri Caitanya was born on Earth of the historical region of Navadvipa ("Nine Islands"), on the territory of the present Western Bengal.

Independent Gazeta introduced the rating of the most influential Russian politicians . The list of a hundred surnames was compiled based on the results of a survey conducted by order of the publication by the Center for Research of Public Opinion "The Voice of the People" under the leadership of Alla Semchenko and Alexander Kinsbursky. Experts gave their assessment of the influence of political figures on the domestic and foreign policy of Russia on a 10-point scale.

In Yekaterinburg, a student of one of the city universities was convicted for a number of crimes in the field of computer information, a criminal case was instituted against two students suspected of selling pirate computer programs.