French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a judicial persecution. The prosecutor's office of the city, Nanter, is studying the circumstances of his purchase of a ten -year ago, NTV reports. We are talking about the apartment, which Sarkozy acquired in 1997, as mayor of the city of Neui-Sur-Sen. The police suspect that the French leader took advantage of the official position and received an impressive discount. Real estate allegedly bought for the announced amount?

Admiral William Fallon, head of the Central Command of the US Army and the chief of troops in the Middle East and Central Asia, is trying to convince the leaders of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf to rally around the United States for rebuff to Iran. For this purpose, he went on a 10-day tour of the Arab countries, reports Newsru Israel .

Nikita Mikhalkov’s film “12”, who received a special prize at the Venice Film Festival , “Golden Leo” for the film in the aggregate and for a career as a whole, is released in Russian rental. "12" - a recipient of the classic tape of Sydney Lyumet "Twelve angry men" (1957).

In the Japanese city of Nagoya, the world's first museum of robots closes. The reason was that the museum is attended by too small a number of people, and thus its profitability is not ensured. The unique exposition of the museum contains robots from all over the world, from children's toys to industrial giants. The museum was opened in October 2006 The museum was announced about the decision to “temporarily stop working” by its creators, ITAR-TASS reports.

The first skyscraper in North Ossetia in the Caucasus will appear, the press service of the head of the republic Alan Dev told RIA Novosti . He clarified that the height of the high -rise building will be 55 floors, and the area is 69 thousand square meters. "An investment contract for the construction of a skyscraper will be signed by the Government of North Ossetia at the VI International Investment Forum" Sochi 2007 ", which will open on September 20," Doev said.

In the center of Nazran, a spontaneous rally continues in Wednesday morning, which gathered over 1000 people by the evening. People demand to stop the abduction of people. We are talking about two Aushev brothers. According to eyewitnesses, they were stolen the day before in Grozny and taken to Ingushetia.

By the end of this century, half of the languages ​​of the world will disappear, linguists established. Every two weeks, another tongue dies, writes The Independent . According to scientists, the threat of disappearance hung about 40% of the languages ​​of the world. For example, Nivkh. Nivhi - people from Eastern Siberia - use different numerals, depending on what they are talking about - skiing, about boats or bonds of dried fish. Actually, twenty -six different numeral complexes.

The Supreme Court of Khakassia decided to pay the former prisoner 1 million rubles of compensation for 4 years conducted by him in prison by mistake. Thus, the highest court records the norm in which the year of prison is estimated at 250 thousand rubles.

In the United States, the ex-star of American football about Jay Simpson, who was arrested for an armed attack last weekend, threatens up to 30 years in prison. The former player of the US National Football League will be against the trial on charges of eight crimes, including robbery and abduction, reports factnews with reference to Breitbart.com . Together with Simpson, three more people will be on the bench.

Sales of a new version of the popular SUV began today in Japan, reports Autocnsalting . The car is assembled on a completely new platform with a load -bearing frame. In addition, the new car is noticeably larger than the predecessor - 4950 mm in length and 1856-1910 mm in height (depending on the suspension settings). At the same time, the wheelbase remains the same? 2850 mm. The new Land Cruiser is equipped with a 4.5-liter diesel V8 D-4D and a 6-speed automatic gearbox.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov submitted proposals to the President of Russia on the structure and personnel composition of the government, the acting Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov submitted a resignation report to the head of state , given the prime minister. "I brought proposals on the structure and personal composition of the Cabinet of Ministers. I handed them to the president.

Former state protection major Nikolai Melnichenko again threatened to transfer materials to the media that compromise the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and politics Yulia Tymoshenko. At the press conference, which Melnichenko held on Wednesday in Kiev, he demonstrated an excerpt from the audio recordings, which, Melnichenko claims, contains Kuchma’s conversation with the then head of the National Bank Viktor Yushchenko, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

Typhoon "Vipa" on Wednesday night fell on the southern coast of China. AFP with reference to the official agency Xinhua reports one victim. 2 million people were evacuated. An unknown man died from an electric shock when he came into the water, where an advertising sign fell. The first to hit the elements was the city of Wenzhou on the coast of the East Chinese province of Zhejiang. At night and in the early morning, the wind force here was 45 meters per second, RIA Novosti reports.

In the United States, two students regularly forced a 7-year-old boy to give them a blowjob on a school bus. The police learned about the crime by accident only after the victim’s father found him for oral sex with his younger brother. Grouping of a child is 9 and 11 years old, both are pupils of primary school Howwell (a little more than 70 km northwest of Detroit, Michigan).

Vesti Moscow reports that the construction of a new flyover in the Korolev region, which Moscow and Moscow Region Motorists, is looking forward to the completion of the construction of a new flyover. According to designers, with the advent of this building, the road situation on the Yaroslavl highway will improve significantly and multi -kilometer traffic jams will disappear.