Work at the Kashagan field in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian can be suspended due to violations by the project operator - the Eni Ecological Legislation of the Republic, the Minister of Environmental Protection of Kazakhstan Nurlan Iskakov said on August 21. “The work of the kashagan may even be suspended.

On Monday, August 20, the results of the first study were published, answering the question of how human color preferences depend on the floor. The study showed that women actually prefer pink shades to everyone else, while men often stop on blue and blue colors, Reuters reported. According to researchers, the differences in preferences are explained by evolution, namely, the evolutionary division of duties.

The American hedge fund VR Capital confirmed on August 20 The Financial Times , which can finance the acquisition of Yukos Finance. The right to buy a company was acquired by Promneftstroy , owned by another American investor - Stephen Lynch.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection of Israel proposes to allocate places for passengers in public transport who do not want to speak on a mobile phone during the trip, as well as the chatter of other passengers who are not ready to suffer, Newsru.israel reports. According to the employees of the ministry, it is necessary to highlight special seats on the bus and a car in a train for passengers who want to go in silence and tranquility.

The reason for the collapse of the AN-12 cargo aircraft , which broke up on August 1 in the Moscow Region in the vicinity of Domodedovo Airport, is two birds at once in the AN-12 power units. According to "News Time" , members of the State Commission for the Investigation believe that this is a "fatal and almost incredible combination of circumstances", as a result of which the crew did not remain to survive the chances of the crew. The picture of the plane crash is reproduced to details.

A resident of Australia is accused of a deliberate triple murder of his own sons as a result of a car accident. Thus, the man wanted to take revenge on his ex-spray. 38-year-old Robert Farkukharson in advance planned the murder of boys, choosing the so-called father's day for him, the ABC channel reports. It was possible to establish this during the investigation, because with his plans for the murder the offender shared with a friend.

Since the beginning of 2008, the president of this country Hugo Chavez proposed to create its own Venezuelan Time. According to The New York Times , the Latin American leader explained this extravagant step by a variety of reasons. This happened during the weekly television radio program "Hello, President!". Firstly, Hugo Chavez referred to research.

Citroen announced the release of his first model working on biofuel to the European market - Citroen C4 Bioflex hatchback. The novelty will be equipped with a 1.6-liter engine with a capacity of 112 liters. p., adapted for consumption of both ordinary gasoline with an octane number of 95 or 98, and E85, which is a mixture of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. In addition, the percentage of ethanol in the fuel mixture can vary, reports autonews.ru .

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the case was started on the owners of the bear, who bit off his 5-year-old girl. According to the prosecutor's office, the conditions for the detention of a wild animal did not ensure the safety of people. The prosecutor of the Khabarovsk district of the Khabarovsk Territory opened a criminal case on the attack of a bear in a five -year -old girl contained in captivity, reports REGNUM with reference to the regional prosecutor's office.

The prosecutor's office of the Southern District of Estonia sent a criminal case to the court on charges of the genocide of the Hero of the Soviet Union Arnold Mary. Note that Mary is also the cousin of the ex-president of Estonia, who died in 2006. According to Interfax, citing the press service of the State Prosecutor's Office of Estonia, Arnold Mary is accused of preparing the deportation of the inhabitants of the island of Hiyumaa in March 1949.

In the United States, an estate was sold at a record price in a beach California town del Mar near San Diego. A plot of 2.3 hectares was sold for $ 76 million, which is three times higher than its estimated value and more than three times - the price for which the former owners bought it in 2000, writes The Sun Diego Union -Traibune . At the same time, the house located on the site is not suitable for living.

The State Duma deputy of the Russian Federation and one of the leaders of the Great Russia party Dmitry Rogozin asked the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika to analyze the book of the famous Ingush writer Issa Kodzoev "Plaw" . The book "The collapse" was published in June of this year. He devoted his Roman Kodzoev to the memory of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, which the author writes about in the preface.

The metro in the Moscow district of Zhulebino may appear in early 2011, subject to financing the construction of the subway. This was announced on Tuesday at a meeting of the Moscow Government, the head of the Moscow Metropolitan GUP Dmitry Gaev. Meanwhile, the day before it was reported that the inhabitants of Zhulebin and Novokosin could remain with nothing , since the construction of the Pronskaya station, as well as Novokosino, did not hit the new program.

The problem of the safety of Chinese goods, which arose in connection with the "toy scandal" , also affected textiles on August 20: New Zealand said that she was going to check the reports that the children's clothing imported from China contains dangerous doses of formaldehyde.

The military tribunal refused to consider the two most serious articles against the American lieutenant colonel Stephen Jordan, accused of bullying Abu Graib in Iraqi prison. Such a decision was made, since the investigator admitted that he did not read his rights to the defendant, reports AP.