At least seven miners were killed and 40 were injured in an explosion at a gold mining mine in the south of Ecuador, local authorities reported this. All victims are hospitalized, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. According to the fire service, about 20 more miners are under the rubble, a rescue operation is underway. The explosion, the cause of which could be a short circuit, occurred at the mine in the village of Pontache Enrices 370 kilometers southeast of Kito.

Today, the traffic police of St. Petersburg received at their disposal the Porsche 911 sports car. Until they report who it will get, but it became known for what purposes the car will be used: the press service of the traffic police said that this high-speed car will be especially in demand in the capture of criminals.

The American publication Business Week has published a rating of the most expensive cars in 2007. The list includes the 15 most expensive cars that exist in the world that were sold this year. All 15 places of this rating took retro cars. This was reported by the site Avto@mail.ru . So, the most expensive car in 2007 was Ferrari 330 TRI/LM in 1962. Its price amounted to $ 9.3 million. In second place in the ranking is also a representative of the Italian brand - Ferrari 340/375 MM of 1953.

The most expensive apartments worth $ 36 million were sold in Hong Kong. The two-level penthouse, located on the 52nd and 53rd floors in a new elite house, has a spacious terrace with a kindergarten and a private pool, reports Newsru.ua with reference to the Vesti TV channel. The owner of a luxurious apartment with an area of ​​more than 2 thousand 300 square meters. meters will be able to enjoy the panoramic view of the center of the metropolis and Harbor Victoria.

The entire Russian police are in full combat readiness on the eve of the State Duma elections, scheduled for December 2, 2007. Directly on the day of election for law enforcement, 450 thousand police officers will be interconnected. This was announced on Tuesday by the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Chekalin.

For several months, representatives of the Daimler and Fiat were negotiated about possible cooperation. Companies planned to jointly produce several models under the brands of Alfa Romeo and Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz was going to develop new compact city cars A- and B-class together with the Italian Fiat . However, negotiations did not bring results, and companies are no longer interested in partnership, since the benefits that it could bring to them are too insignificant.

The President of the International Federation of Football Associations, Joseph Blatter, does not exclude that when determining the venue of the World Cup in 2018, it will be necessary to correctly adjust the selection system. The basis for such reasoning was that the organization of the 2014 World Cup, ultimately, was only one contender - Brazil, since Argentina and Colombia shortly before the finish abandoned the idea of ​​holding the largest football forum.

On Monday, the Ford plant workers in Vsevolozhsk began a new unlimited strike. Its main requirements, as before, are a hanging wage up to 28,000 rubles and reducing the duration of the night shift to seven hours. According to the administration of the plant, about 300 people from 2016 workers at the enterprise take part in the new strike. As said the leader of the workers' trade union Alexei Etmanov, striking?

This fall, Denis Simachev was one of the most popular fashion designers in Russia, offering a coat with a sickle and a hammer on buttons, gold jewelry in the form of Soviet cents and shirts decorated with the coat of arms of the USSR with embroidered ears of wheat, writes The New York Times .

Disabled people who lost their limbs have found a new hope for a return to a normal life. American doctors created for a woman who served in the American Marine Corps, a “bionic hand” is a prosthesis controlled by the power of thought and capable of feeling a touch, writes The Telegraph (full text on the Inopressa website). Now scientists and designers are working, trying to help other disabled people.

Any sign placed in a square over the name of the political party in the ballot balloon is valid, said the Secretary of the CEC of Russia Nikolai Konkin. On Tuesday in Moscow, a selector meeting was held with the participation of election commissions of Russian regions, territorial election commissions, as well as a number of federal departments.

Russians are constantly faced with the facts of abuse in the field of registration of real estate rights, shared housing and summer amnesty. Reason? gaps in the legislation. This opinion was expressed yesterday by the representative of the Federal Registration Service Olga Zhdanova at the conference in the Russian Academy of Justice on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the law on registration of real estate rights.

The deputies from the opposition are attacking prosecutors, police and unknown bandits. Last week, the chairman of the Social Revolutionaries Sergei Mironov said that provocations were being prepared against the party - one of the candidates may arrest. A few days later - on Monday - it became known about the initiation of a criminal case against the mayor of Stavropol, a candidate for deputies of the State Duma from "Fair Russia" Dmitry Kuzmin.

Two General Motors cars were awarded the highest awards at the Michelin Challenge Bibendum Shanghai Auto Show. According to REGNUM , the prospects for the development of transport were discussed at this exhibition, and both existing and promising automobile technologies were demonstrated. The Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell electric car was recognized as the best in the “Prototypes of city cars” for zero toxicity and zero level of carbon dioxide emission.

The Russian Football Union is currently maintaining a negotiation process aimed at prolonging a contract with the head coach of the Russian national team Gus Khiddink. In this regard, the RFU considers the exit of the article in one of the sports newspapers, which actually stated that the football union is not interested in extending the contract with the Dutch specialist.