Not far from the office of the Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, a package with unknown white powder was discovered. In this regard, part of the employees of the government apparatus was urgently evacuated, and the building itself was numbered by the police, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to local media. According to the agency, law enforcement agencies conduct a thorough verification of all visitors, while the suspicious substance itself was sent for examination.

The famous human rights activist, president of the publicity protection fund Alexei Simonov believes that the more people like the former bishop of the Chukotka diomid in the Russian Orthodox Church will be better for her.

The former head of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates believes that, due to the rapid development of the Internet in the near future, a "software revolution" will occur. Gates spoke at a conference on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Asian representative office of the company, CNN reports. The essence of the Gates revolution is that users will be able to fully work even with the most “heavy” applications on no longer powerful computers.

As a result of hostilities, 175 people died on August 8 from the Georgian side, said Georgian Minister of Health Sandro Kvitashvili. “There are no final data on the dead and wounded, since we cannot yet enter the Georgian villages in the Tskhinvalsky region, controlled by Russian troops,” Interfax quotes the Minister.

The Chinese women's team confidently won gold medals in team gymnastics at the Beijing Olympic Games, for more than two points ahead of silver medalists from the United States. The victorious result of Fei Chen, Kasin He, Yuyuan Jiang, Shan Shan Li, or Yang, Linlin Dan - 188,900 points.

The first public reception in the Southern Federal District (Southern Federal District), the chairman of the All-Russian political party "United Russia", Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will open on Thursday in Volgograd. This was reported by the press service of the city administration, RIA Novosti reports.

In July, wholesale prices for goods in Germany rose by almost 10% compared to the same month of last year. There was no such sharp increase in prices for 27 years, according to Deutsche Welle with reference to the Federal Statistical Office. The last time a similar monthly growth of wholesale occurred in 1981. The reasons for such a sharp increase in prices is the rise in price of oil and oil products, which in July cost 30.8% more than a month earlier.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has not yet confirmed information about the death of journalists, including foreign ones, in the area of ​​the Georgian city of Gori. This was stated by Deputy Head of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Anatoly Nogovitsyn at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday. “I know, and I studied such information, but it requires verification.

The concert program of the Festival "Creation of the World" in Kazan, which is conceived as an action against ethnic wars, in support of tolerance and interfaith world, will open the Georgian-Ossetian duet, said the president of the festival, the famous musician Andrei Makarevich. “We are extremely glad that the famous jazz vocalists Eteri Beriashvili and Irina Tomaeva without hesitation accepted our proposal,” the musician said.

US President George Bush decided to send Secretary of State Condolisia Rice to Paris and Tbilisi. As he announced in the Pink Garden of the White House, this step is taken to demonstrate solidarity with Georgia. US Secretary of Defense Bob Gates is instructed to begin the operation to provide humanitarian assistance to the population of Georgia. The first plane is already flying.

In Beijing, at the Olympic Tournament on bullet shooting, competitions in accuracy ended with fire from a standard gun from a distance of 25 meters. Diary of the Olympiad-2008 The representative of Mongolia named the Gunddegmaa detachment did not allow their country to bring the first gold medal of the Olympiad by the ubiquitous mistress of the Games.

Parents of a mysteriously disappeared girl hired detectives from the United States to search for their child. Now the former employees of the American intelligence agencies are taken to the end of the impaired investigation. The name of the detective bureau, with the leadership of which Kate and Jerry McCan signed a 6-month contract in search of their daughter, is a secret, the newspaper The Daily Mail writes.

The two residents of Kazan and the resident of Moscow, who had previously lived in Kazan, confessed to the murder of the 12 -year -old founder and leader of one of the most bloody organized criminal groups of Kazan - “Living” (by the name of the “High School” microdistrict) Khaidar Zakirov nicknamed Hyder. The gang operated on the territory of Tatarstan and a number of other regions of the Russian Federation in the 1980s and 90s.

Georgia planned a massive invasion of Abkhazia. This was announced today by the deputy chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn.

The accident that happened last week in India can replenish the world list of the most expensive auto -accidents. At least in this country such expensive cars have not yet been broken. In the city of Mumbai, the driver of the bright-yellow exclusive Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 lost control at high speed. There is another version according to which the accident provoked another car that crashed into Lambo. Regardless of the causes of what happened, the car is not subject to restoration.