For the second month in a row, residents of the Chinese city of Chunchitsin observe an unusual sight on the Yangtzi embankment: a man and a woman are swimming next to each other, and a 2-meter boaver slides a little at a distance, ITAR-TASS reports. Terrible in appearance of boaver is a pet, and daily "water procedures" is the only way to save him from the destructive influence of the summer heat. Van Zihai and his wife from Kunsyun bought a boa constrictor in June 2006.

Six people were killed as a result of a shootout in the West German city of Duysburg. As the investigation established, all of them belonged to one of the clans of the Italian mafia. Five bodies were found by the police in the salons of two cars near the railway station, and the sixth victim of the crime died in an ambulance carriage, AP reports with reference to the German-secretary of German-Joseph Helmikh. All six killed had firearms of their heads, added a policeman.

Prana LLC, which won the auction for the sale of Yukos assets in the 13th lot, as follows from the quarterly report "Rosneft", is its debtor. The total amount of Prana’s receivables to Rosneft is 26.015 billion rubles. As explained in the press service of Rosneft, by the time the report was drawn up, the company did not have documents on the transfer of property ownership.

The world boxing champion in the heavy weight category according to the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Russian Sultan Ibragimov returned to the United States to start preparing to protect his title in battle with the former four -time world champion American Evander Holifield on October 13 at Khodynka.

Traffic along Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow in the direction of the center is very difficult due to a large car accident. Around 12:30, three cars collided near the triumphal arch - Lexus, Volga and VAZ -2109. As a result of the collision, the foreign car rolled over and blocked three lanes of the highway. As a result of the incident, three people were injured, one of them - the Lexus driver - was hospitalized, RIA Novosti was told in the capital's traffic police.

In the case of peace between South Korea and the DPRK, the Korean Peninsula can become a new economic center, says President of the Republic of Korea but Mu Hyun. "The Korean peninsula will turn into the economic node of North -Eastern Asia, if the truce turns into a permanent peace treaty and inter -Korean economic cooperation will be further developed, " RIA Novosti reports with reference to the South Korean agency Renhap.

The Senator from the state of New York Hillary Clinton released her first election video. He was filmed in Ayov, the most difficult state for Hillary: there her championship is disputed by other applicants for the White House from the Democratic Party - Barack Obama and John Edwards. Immediately after the premiere of the plot on the screens of supermarkets in Iowa, accusations of racism and political illiteracy rained down on Klinton.

Wealthy Russians who have chosen a small Tuscan town of Forte Marmi, once often visited by artists and writers, inflated the prices for local real estate to the highest in the country. A large -scale influx of money led to a sharp increase in prices for goods and services. Most local residents sold their homes and bought new ones in the mountains next door, writes The Daily Telegraph (full text - on the website inopressa.ru ).

As a result of the explosion of ground mines in the suburbs of Kabul, three citizens of Germany were killed - law enforcement officers. The informant occurred on the eastern outskirts of the Afghan capital, where Bundeswehr has been patrolling for a long time. Responsibility for the explosion was taken by the Taliban movement. Directly close to the barracks, where ISAF units were stationed, a military convoy of peacekeepers was blown up on a mine.

A key role in determining the attractiveness of men for women play the size of a part of a face located between the mouth and eyebrows. British paleontologists came to such a conclusion, as The Daily Telegraph writes. Therefore, a penetrating look, a charming smile and expensive means after shaving - all this is not necessary, and the secret of male attractiveness is reduced to simple calculations, the publication notes (the full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

The premiere of the new version of the famous American rock opera "Jesus Christ - Superstar" in the production of British director Stephen Rain will be held in September in Madrid. “This version of the musical tells that it can happen to such a person as Jesus, if he turns out to be in our time in the Middle East,” Raine said, noting that “there are many coincidences” between the period when the Messiah lived and the events that unfold these days in this region.

On the evening of Tuesday, August 14, the NASA official website said that, according to flight managers who studied the images of damaged areas of Endeavour shuttle, cracks in thermal insulation tiles cannot cause problems for the crew and cannot be a reason for changing or not fulfilling the flight task.

Women who absorb low-grade food (the so-called junk food) during pregnancy, perhaps, will say their child for the same nutrition when he is born. At least, as the Air Force reports, this is indicated by the results of experiments with animals. Researchers of the British Royal Veterinary College fed pregnant rats with cakes, chips and sweets, after which their cubs were also prone to such high -calorie, but having low nutritional value to products.

The ambulance doctor from the Mytishchi, Moscow Region, to the psychiatric hospital of his two neighbors, pensioners, who were objectionable to the other residents of his entrance. According to Interfax, the Golovinsky District Court sentenced Dmitry Mukhin to the age of four conditionally for the illegal forced premises in the psychiatric hospital of two people using their official position.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said at a meeting of the metropolitan government on Tuesday that housing in Moscow must be completed in 2008-2014. About 42 billion rubles are provided for this in the budget. Luzhkov promised to provide 2008 with design documentation for the overhaul of residential buildings of typical series of construction of the 60-70s of the twentieth century.