A family from the American state Ohio won Jack-Pot $ 314 million in the lottery. On Monday, father, 65 -year -old pensioner David Koterel and his two adult children - the son and daughter stated that they intend to get their winning at once in cash. This significantly reduced the amount, but the successful family is still due to almost $ 146 million, ITAR-TASS reports.

The City Hall of Kyiv intends to rename 131 Street Street, the names of which are connected "with the totalitarian period in the history of Ukraine," said Sergey Rudyk, deputy head of the Kyiv city administration. According to him, the list of streets was approved at a meeting of the commission on the renaming of the streets, the installation of commemorative signs and memorial boards of the Kiev city administration on Tuesday, Interfax reports.

The state budget of Russia will allocate 4.3 billion rubles to the 2007 parliamentary elections, the chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov said on Tuesday in St. Petersburg. Speaking to the students of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions, Churov extremely popularly explained how small the costs of taxpayers would be.

The famous Hans Otto Theater in the German city of Potsdam will show a performance dedicated to the memory of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, which was killed a year ago . In a staging called "Putin's birthday", which will be released just on the president’s birthday, the role of Anna Politkovskaya is played by actress Rita Feldmeier, and actor Andreas Herrmann will play Putin.

The Laureate of the Nobel Prize in the 2007 Literature, British writer Doris Lessing said that the 9/11 terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of more than 2700 people, "not so terrible" compared to the terrorist attack of the so -called army of the Republic of Ireland (Ira). "Some Americans are sure that I am crazy ... However, this (September 11th attack) was not as terrible and unexpected as they think," Lessing said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

The Harrod's London department store went on extraordinary measures in security matters, having instructed the Egyptian cobra as a security for its product. The poisonous reptiles all day patrolled the counter with sandals worth 120 thousand dollars, FactNews reports citing AFP. Sellers believe that for potential thieves, the temptation is too great to try to steal Rene Caovilla shoes from the store, which are inlaid with rubies, sapphires and diamonds.

The Hollywood star and first wife of the ex-president of the United States Ronald Reagan Jane Wyman died at the age of 93 in her house in Palm Springs (California). The actress was nominated four times on Oscar, but received the coveted figurine only once for the role of the victim of the rapist in the 1948 Johnny Belinda tape, BBC reports. Wyman married Reagan in 1940, when the future president was still an actor and worked at the Warner Bros studio.

The Federation Council will take care of the law on monetization of benefits. About this, according to Interfax , promised his speaker Sergey Mironov, who met with veterans of the Armed Forces and military personnel of the Airborne Forces in Smolensk. The execution of the current version of the law is categorically dissatisfied. Mironov himself admits that in 2004 he himself voted in support of the 122nd law, and now he is "regretted" about this.

Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation flew to China to search for missing Russian tourists, said the official representative of the department, Viktor Beltsov. "The IL -76 transport aircraft flew out of the Ramenskoye airfield at 1:40 Moscow time. There are 17 rescuers of the Central Spas detachment and members of the Ministry of Emergencies’s operational group on board.

The European Union decided to abandon attempts to ban the use of the imperial system of measures and weights in the UK. As a result, pounds, feet, miles, yards and pints will remain in the United Kingdom. As the Commissioner for the Industry of the European Commission Gunter Verkhugen said on Tuesday, the EU leaves the British government the issue of the country's transfer to the metric system, ITAR-TASS reports. “Brussels will no longer insist on this,” the commissioner emphasized.

The search and rescue operation, organized by the Chinese authorities at the request of the Russian side, is of large-scale nature, about 1.5 thousand people, a military helicopter participate in it, specialists of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies who flew to Urumchi (the administrative center of the Xinjiang-Uigursky Autonomous Region (Suar) are involved in it, ITAR-TASS reports. However, the weather complicates the weather conditions. Search activities .

Most Iraqis - 60% - consider the attacks of militants on American troops justified. Moreover, among the Sunnis, this opinion is supported by 93%, and among Shiites - 50%. This is evidenced by the data from a public opinion survey conducted in Iraq by order of the British Corporation BBC, the American ABC and the Japanese NHK, ITAR-TASS reports. An increase in the number of American military contingent in Iraq is not approved by 70% of respondents.

Laboratory tests confirmed the outbreak of a deadly disease - Ebola fever - in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This was announced with reference to the Laboratory of the United States and Gabona was announced by the Minister of Health of the country McVvenge Kaput, AP reports. Since late August, more than 100 people have died from hemorrhagic fever. The minister did not specify whether it was possible to restrain the spread of the disease.

According to the special services of Ingushetia, the organization of the latest explosions, shelling and murders, the emissaries of al-Qaeda that appeared in the Republic are guided by. It was these militants (their call sign have not yet been disclosed) took up the chipping of new combat groups, campaigning primarily local youth.

The Russian team in basketball on a victorious note completed its performance at the group stage of the European Championship in Spain. On Tuesday, in the match of the final, third round, our team prevailed over the Croats. The meeting in Madrid ended with the victory of the wards of David Blatt with a score of 83:70. The first half of the game was held in a tense, equal struggle.