Saudi Prince Al-Valid Bin Talal al-Saud intends to sell 5% of his shares in Kingdom Holding to his people, Bloomberg reports. Kingdom owns 4% Citigroup, 22% Four Seasons Hotels, 3.75% News Corp. Ruperta mayordok, as well as 17.3% of the European branch of Disney. The cost of the company is estimated at $ 17.6 billion. Promotions will be sold at a price of about $ 2.73 apiece. If they are in demand among the population, the offer can be expanded to 15% of the company.

On Wednesday, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg will make a ninth attempt to elect the Commissioner for Human Rights. For the past 9 years, the deputies have not been able to choose an ombudsman due to the fact that none of the candidates received 26 votes.

In the Tyumen region, the Berdyuzhsky District Court sentenced the minor accused under Part 1 of Article 105 (murder), part 1 of Article 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hijacking). As the investigation established, a teenager, so as not to pay for travel, shot a taxi driver, after which he stole his car. On March 14, 2007, in the evening, a teenager called a taxi for a trip to the village of Vorobyevo, where his familiar girl lived.

In Orenburg, police officers detained one of the suspects of the murder of a 16-year-old graduate of the 68th city school. As it became known to the Orenburg shopping center , the suspect was detained right on the train, on which he was heading for service in the army. In addition, in the framework of this case, two more local residents were detained. All three, according to investigators, are involved in this cruel crime. All detainees are about 20 years old.

Since 2009, the final tournament of the Association of Professional tennis players has been changing the residence permit - moves from Shanghai to London, and will be held in the British metropolis within four years. The tournament will also be renamed the ATP World Tour Final. Leading players in a single and paired discharges will play a total prize fund of $ 4.5 million. These competitions are usually held in November.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted on July 4 in the second reading the block of amendments to Russian legislation "in connection with the improvement of public administration in the field of counteracting extremism." In this law, the State Duma retained the right for law enforcement agencies to listen to the phones of suspects in terrorism without sanction.

In Vladimir, a new way of increasing places in kindergartens is being mastered: in order to “unload” kindergarten groups, six-year-old babies are sent to schools on a voluntary and compulsory manner, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . “In the kindergarten, we were warned that all the children who were six and a half years old will be at school on September 1 should go to school,” the mother of six -year -old Denis Julia Romanova told RG.

The Ministry of Culture of Thailand is concerned: parents, who traditionally give their children nicknames, increasingly borrow them from the English language. The department believes that this undermines the foundations of the national identity of the local population, ITAR-TASS reports. So the Asian Kingdom fell under the influence of "all the Western." “Now more and more the Thai residents give their children English names,” said the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Rooppodnarate.

The mayor Yuri Luzhkov at a meeting of the government of the capital on Tuesday sent a draft of the Urban Planning Code of Moscow for refinement. “I propose not to accept this work, although it is done carefully and quite responsibly,” Luzhkov said at a meeting.

In St. Petersburg, the next scandal is flared up around the construction of the 396-meter office of Gazprom, which the monopoly, together with the city authorities, intends to build opposite the Smolny Monastery. Yesterday, representatives of the St. Petersburg Union of architects actually accused the city authorities of falsifying the results of the public examination of the project.

Stolen by the Taliban and converted to Islam, the Englishwoman Ivonn Ridley becomes the star of the new Iranian TV. About this on Wednesday writes the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera (full text on the website inopressa.ru ). The publication writes that the first plot of Ridley on the TV Iran was material about the military budget of Pakistan.

The Ambassador of Great Britain to Russia Sir Tony Brenton in an interview with Interfax to the question of the possibility of Russia's use of Veto expressed the hope that the parties will be able to avoid such a development of events. “I really hope that Russia does not have to apply the right of a veto,” he said. "The independence of Kosovo can be announced unilaterally if the UN Security Council does not accept the corresponding resolution," he said.

The College of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation left an unremark for the verdict of the Novgorod Regional Court in relation to the 27-year-old Vladimir Mitrofanov. The criminal was found guilty of sexual actions with the use of violence combined with the threat of murder, in three rape, two murders, one case of robbery and two thefts. As the investigation established, all crimes were committed by a maniac in Veliky Novgorod from August 2005 to January 2006.

This year, on July seventh, "Day of Three Seven" (07/07/07), caused a wedding boom around the world. A record number of steam in many countries, including Russia, the USA and New Zealand, decided to be combined on this day. In Moscow, more than 1,700 marriages are expected on this day, which is twice as much as usual.

In Moscow, a student of the Moscow State Construction University (MGSU) Maxim Martsinkevich, who is accused of arousing interethnic growth, was detained, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told Interfax.