The British government spent more than 39 billion pounds for seven weeks of Gordon Brown’s stay as prime minister, according to London Guardian on Tuesday. The new era on Downing Street, the newspaper writes, allowed the prime minister to remain the main character of the news, and its popularity among the population has grown sharply. Brown as a former Minister of Finance, says Guardian, “held” both money and political initiatives, while Tony Blair remained in power.

Toys manufacturer, American company Mattel Inc, calls out another batch of toys from the sale due to doubts about their safety. This happened two weeks after the 1.5 million toys made in China to children for babies and preschoolers were recognized as dangerous due to the high content of lead in dyes, writes Wall Street Journal . Which toys will be withdrawn and how many are not yet specified, it is only known that there are plastic machines covered with dangerous paint among them.

The orchestra of the New York Philharmonic received an official invitation to speak in the capital of North Korea - Pyongyang. The invitation came from the Ministry of Culture of the DPRK, reports ITAR-TASS. "We are grateful for any invitation to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and consider the possibility of a trip to the DPRK in the same way as we would do with any other invitation," said the representative of the Philharmonic Eric Latsky.

Six Palestinians were killed during the anti -terrorist operation conducted by the Israeli army in the villages of Karara and Abassan in the south of the Gaza sector. It is reported by Newsru Israel with reference to Reuters. According to Palestinian sources, three Hamas militants, one member of the Islamic Jihad, the mother of the terrorist and a passerby, were killed. Another 16 Palestinians were injured. It is noted that the Air Force supported Israeli soldiers from the air.

The American motorist Scott Dawson from the city of Houston, Texas, who had traveled by car without air conditioner for three years, eventually solved the problem of cooling the salon in a very original way. Having an engineering education, he decided not to pay $ 1,200 for installing a car air conditioner, but attached a regular household on the roof of his car. Taking the Samsung window conditioner as a basis, Dawson secured him over a specially cut opening in the roof.

Hot and dry weather, established in St. Petersburg, helps to set records and achieve new temperature maximums, Interfax reports. According to the Hydrometeorological Center of St. Petersburg, on Monday in the city the air temperature reached 31.4 degrees, blocked for a maximum of this day, observed in 1939, when the temperature reached plus 28.4 degrees.

In St. Petersburg, a large inscription with oil paint appeared on house 21 on the Odinar street - "Putin - the main terrorist." A passing by the police outfit reported this in the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Petrograd district. As a result, the police had to, climbing the ladder, scolding the inscription themselves. Police officers reported the inscription in the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, writes Gazeta.ru .

In the clinical road hospital of Russian Railways in St. Petersburg, as of Tuesday evening, there are 19 victims as a result of the collapse of the Nevsky Express train , Interfax reports. According to data from the hospital, three more people entered it on Tuesday. Talking about the improvement of the condition of the victims is most difficult so far prematurely.

The photographs of two men suspected of involvement in the undermining of the train Moscow-Petersburg near Malaya Vishera began to be heard law enforcement officers. Employees of the North-Western Internal Affairs Directorate said that on Wednesday morning these photobots would be sent to law enforcement agencies and other structures, for example, to the October Railway.

The head coach of the Russian national athletics team Valery Kulichenko, temporarily suspended from his duties by the Presidium of the All -Russian Athletics Federation, rejects charges against him. According to Kulichenko, he did not sell any sports nutrition of the world record holder in the throwing of the hammer Tatyana Lysenko and other Russians to Ekaterina. He is currently in the hospital in a pre -infarction state.

On Monday, the Supreme Court of Spain decided to take the Hoya Frida base from the Ministry of Defense, located on the island of Tenerife for the fact that the military department sold part of the territory of the base for the construction of housing for civilians, which violated the conditions of the gift under which the land was received.

The Pope Benedict XVI decided to appoint new cardinals - the "princes of the Church". The second consistory of the consistory is a special session, which called the new “purplers” during its pontificate, will be held in November of this year, and the list of chosen ones will be announced on October 24. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Italian newspaper Messaggero .

In Grozny, an attack on police officers was committed. As a result of the incident, one policeman died and one was wounded. According to sources in law enforcement agencies, in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny in a food store located on Pavel Musorov Street, an unknown man fired four times with a pistol in the OMON OMns of the ATS of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

The central scene of the next film about the secret agent James Bond takes place behind the famous Palio races in the Italian city of Siena. Filming on its central square - Del -Kampo begin on Thursday, said the British newspaper The Times . The new picture will be the 22nd series of the film epic about agent 007. So far it has no official name and is simply called Bond-22.

The government is developing a scheme for managing the preparation for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. The ambitious task of achieving the 2014 Winter Olympiad in Sochi managed to fulfill. Now the Russian authorities faced a more complicated and large -scale task - how to ensure that the money allocated for the construction of Olympic facilities is not massively stolen. It is supposed to create three structures whose names have not yet been approved.