The reason for the fire of the Boeing-737 aircraft of the Taiwanese airline China Airlines, which burned down when landing on August 20 at the Japanese Airport of Nacha (all 157 passengers and eight crew members managed to evacuate) was a bolt on the aircraft, possibly weakened, due to the lack International Herald Tribune .

Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy (MDA) Deacon Andrei Kuraev expressed concern about the spread of ethnic marriages in Russia. "In fact, interethnic marriages are a form of the genocide of the Russian people! When our women marry the Caucasians, they enrich other nations with their genes. And the Russian nation weakens!" - Interfax quotes the opinion of the Orthodox missionary, expressed by him in an interview, published today in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda .

Great Britain honors the memory of Princess of Wales Diana who died exactly ten years ago by a special memorial service in a military chapel, art-nastals in the Kensington Palace and reconciliation of long-standing enemies, RIA Novosti reports. Diana died in a car accident on the night of August 30-31, 1997.

The mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, awarded the Moscow Prize in the field of literature and art for 2006. At the ceremony in the White Hall of the building of the capital of the capital on Tverskaya Luzhkov, he turned to laureates with greetings and congratulations. "For us and all Muscovites, it is very important that thanks to you our culture potential in the city is developing, new names, new interesting works in the field of literature and art are emerging," Luzhkov noted.

Judge of the district regiment (Iowa) Robert Hanson decided on Thursday that all homosexual couples of state could officially marry in his district, reports American . Less than two hours after the announcement of the decision, two men from de Moin filed an application for marriage registration. Gary Allen Seonko 51 years old wished to marry with 29-year-old David Curtis Retmayer. This is the first regiment in the history of the district from the newlyweds of the same gender.

The three -time Olympic figure skating champion Irina Rodnina may lose a driver’s license for a period of one and a half to two years, she is accused of drunk car. The traffic police inspector seized a driver’s license from her, issued her temporary and ordered her to appear in court. The skater herself has not yet given intelligible comments.

Deutsche Welle ("German Wave") announced the opening of the fourth international Bobs Blog Blogs contest - Best of the Blogs. Within four weeks (until September 30), Internet users around the world can put forward their favorite network diaries to participate in the competition in 15 categories on Thebobs.com. From this list, the international jury will choose the nominees of the competition, RIA Novosti reports.

The famous director, working in the Horror genre, Rob Zombie shot a rome by a 1978 classic horror film "Halloween". The tape will be the eighth attempt to rethink the picture of John Carpenter with Jamya Lee Curtis in the title role. Zombie, the author of the bloody hits "House of 1000 corpses" and "Expelled by the Devil", turned to the original story of the Carpenter about the maniac, Michael Mayers, who had cut off his entire family from a psychiatric hospital.

The media holding announced the opening of the fourth international blog contest "The Bobs - Best of the Blogs". Within four weeks (until September 30), Internet users around the world can put forward their favorite network diaries to participate in the competition in 15 categories on the website www.thebobs.com . From this list, the international jury will choose the nominees of the competition.

In the UK, two street raises were sentenced to 7 years in prison, found guilty of the deaths of people as a result of an accident. Toyota Celica Coupe and Porsche Cayenne decided to argue on the road, whose car is faster. As a result, cars accelerated in the city up to 160 km/h, instead of 64 km/h on that site. As a result, Porsche Cayenne, ruled by 42-year-old Adrian Kuti, crashed into a Proton micro-lines that had gone onto the road, where four people were sitting. Three pensioners died.

The Congress of British Trade Unions (TUC) made a statement in which he condemned the practice of large companies to restrict employees access to social networks. It is reported by AFP . TUC believes that it is unfair to deprive employees of the opportunity to communicate with friends for 5 minutes or make meetings with them after work.

Since the beginning of the year, the Government of Romania bought almost 14.5 thousand old cars as part of the campaign, the name of which can be translated as "Drandule operation", Radio Liberty reports. For each old car rented out before 1995, the government is ready to pay its owner about $ 1250, but this money can be spent exclusively on the purchase of a new car, less polluting the environment.

The human skull inlaid with diamonds, created by the scandalously famous artist Damien Hurst, was sold for $ 100 million to a group of anonymous investors. However, soon it turned out that Hurst himself participated in a record transaction, Bloomberg reports with reference to the press secretary of the London Gallery of White Cube. The skull of the 18th century, covered with 8601 diamonds, became the most expensive work of contemporary art in the world.

One of the leaders of the Russian Protestants, the head of the Russian Union of Christians of the Vera of the Evangelical (Roskhwe), member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky supported the idea of ​​introducing state scientific degrees of the candidate and doctor of theology in Russia. Below is the text of the letter, widespread by the press service of Roskhwe.

In St. Petersburg, on Thursday, at the 78th year of his life, an outstanding athlete Igor Novikov suddenly died-two-time champion of the XVI Olympic Games in Melbourne (1956) and the XVIII Games in Tokyo (1964) in the team event in modern pentathlon. This, according to RIA Novosti, said in the information message of the city committee on physical culture and sports.