A convertible Plymouth Hemi Cuda, released in 1970 in the amount of only 14 cars, is put up for the famous EBAY Internet auction. Under the hood of this rare car is a 7.0-liter V8 motor, known as 426 Hemi. The power of this unit, declared by the manufacturer is 425 hp, but he is really able to develop 500 "horses".

15 tons of ownerless pesticides were found in the Lazovsky district of the Primorsky Territory. According to the press service of the Primorsky Directorate of Rosselkhoznadzor on Wednesday, a warehouse with pesticides prohibited for use in Russia was discovered 150 meters from the village of Sokolchi of the Lazovsky district. The premises of the warehouse are in disrepair, the roof and walls are partially destroyed. The pesticides lie in bulk in a mixed and cubby state, ITAR-TASS reports.

The chairman of the capital of Tajikistan - Dushanbe and the speaker of the upper house of the Tajik parliament turned to all employees of institutions, enterprises and companies, regardless of ownership, transfer 50% of the monthly wage during May and June to the billing Rogun hydroelectric station. This was reported to the REGNUM IA correspondent in the city of Dushanbe.

An additional contingent of the collective forces of the CIS to maintain peace in the conflict zone was introduced into Abkhazia on Wednesday. This information, as Interfax reports, was confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Unrecognized Republic Sergey Shamba. According to Shamba, the number of peacekeepers does not exceed the quotas provided for by the Moscow agreement on the ceasefire and the separation of forces of May 14, 1994.

Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia create a community of Rice exporters Organising of Rice Exporting Countries - OREK, according to the International Oil Cartel. The creation of a new cartel is caused by the rapid increase in rice prices due to the rise in price of fuel, drought and increase in world demand. Now prices are about $ 1,000 per ton, while a year ago they did not exceed 500, reports AFP. Thailand is the largest exporter of rice in the world.

The flight to Afghanistan, in the zone of hostilities, completed his training as a pilot of the Royal Air Force British Crown Prince William. This was reported by the BBC radio company. According to her, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, as part of the operational task, made a flight from one of the bases of Great Britain to Kandahar last Sunday. He was part of the way behind the storm of the Air Force transport aircraft.

In the United States, the number of "crimes of hatred" against the homeless is growing. According to ITAR-TASS, such conclusions are contained in a report that two specialized public organizations published in Washington. In 2007, 160 people became victims of such attacks against the 142nd year earlier. In 28 cases, American homeless people were scored to death; In 2006, such cases were exactly 20.

Scientists managed to identify the interdependence of food addictions and the mental state of a person. So, lovers of chocolate deep down are lonely and unhappy people, in the life of which there is a lack of love, pity, attention, the newspaper RBC Daily writes. And according to the psychotherapist, the associate professor of the Department of Psychosomatology, RUDNN, Vladimir Esaulov, addiction to dairy products issues the need for care and affection.

The popular German magazine Focus has compiled a list of cars whose safety level is the highest. The basis for this rating was the results of a series of crash tests conducted by the EuroNCAP organization, whose methodology is currently the most objective in assessing the passive safety of new cars. The presented list includes only those models that received the highest scores in the tests, that is, they earned five stars in all respects.

Before I had time to appear in Yekaterinburg Boris Yeltsin Street, scandals are already rattling on it. The owner of the history monument "The house where the writer Arkady Gaidar lived, pensioner Anatoly Pestov fears for the fate of his tiny structure, writes Ura.ru. Businessman Mars Sharafulin built near the community of his business center Demidov.

Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Amur Region Guzalia Minkin and Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services of the region Andrei Belov temporarily suspended by the court from office.

The mass power outage occurred in Venezuela. According to the President of the National Energy Corporation IPolito Skierdo, from 40% to 50% of the country are located without light. There is no electricity for most Karakas, the capital of the 27-millionth state. On the streets of the city, multi-kilometer traffic jams formed due to non-working traffic lights, metro trains stopped, and mobile communications did not work.

After 12 years, a personnel deficit in Russia can grow from 8 to 22 million people. This forecast was made by the deputy head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Alexander Safonov, who is quoted by the "Independent Gazeta" . The rapid increase in salaries can cause mass closure of enterprises due to growth in costs. Russia will not be able to reduce labor deficiency - stimulating the birth rate, migration and healthcare efficiency can no longer change the situation.

On Wednesday, the United States called on the Belarusian authorities to facilitate the conditions of detention of American Emmanuel Zeltser, who was in the pre -trial detention center of the State Security Committee of Belarus, and who became ill the day before. "The United States is seriously concerned about the deterioration of the health status of an American citizen Emmanuel Zeltser, detained in Belarus," the US Embassy in Minsk said.

The other day, a strange advertising video appeared on the Russian Internet, the portal km.ru reports. On a coffee -colored background, the following phrases decorated in the Arabic style decorated with an Arab -style ornament, “one of the legends about coffee says ... when the Prophet Magomed (with the letter“ D ”at the end. - approx. Ed. ) Died, Archangel Gabriel brought him a vessel with a dark elixir ... Due to the divine power of the drink of magic At the end.