The famous Mexican director Guillermo del Toro in the near future does not threaten to remain without work. The creator of the Labyrinth Faun signed a contract with the largest Hollywood film studio Universal until 2017. During this time, the director intends to shoot at least four new paintings, reports The Guardian . Del Toro plans to start from the remakes of "Frankenstein", "Dr. Jectera and Mr. Haid", as well as "Brillny number five".

This disaster is suffered by residents of the three southern regions of Chile. About 23 thousand people suffered here from a powerful cyclone. According to the official authorities, four people died as a result of accidents that occurred due to the not -stoping for several days of heavy rains and the floods caused by them. The most strongly from the cyclone suffered the Aracania area, located about 700 km south of Santiago.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nicaragua, whose President Daniel Ortega the day before announced the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, began preparing documents on the official recognition of the independence of these republics, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Manuel Coronel Kauts.

The middle son of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsnne was detained at the Tbilisi airport. According to Interfax in the conservative party of Georgia, Gamsakhurdia was detained the day before and transferred to the building of the constitutional security department. “At the moment, lawyers are not allowed to be,” the party noted. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the fact of the detention of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia was confirmed.

The Olympic Committee of Georgia asked the president of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge to reconsider the issue of holding the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The letter to the chief sports official says that this issue should be revised in connection with the "aggression" of Russia against Georgia. On this issue, on September 3, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that decisions on the venue of the Olympic Games are made exclusively by MOC members.

In Nizhny Novgorod, police detained a homeless couple, which is suspected of massacres of housewives of garden plots. Only vegetables grown in the gardens became the profitable merciless murders. The suspects were detained on Thursday morning. This is a man and a woman who is already over 40 years old, reports Interfax with reference to a source in the prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Another American ship arrived in Sevastopol. On Thursday, the ship of the Center for Marine Transportation of the US Naval Forces Pathfinder went to the port of Sevastopol with an informal visit. According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, the ship will be in the Sevastopol port from September 4 to 6 and from September 15 to 17.

The Public Commission for the Investigation of Military Crimes in South Ossetia and the assistance of the victim civilian population published on its official website a list of residents of South Ossetia who died during the conflict in this region. As noted in the message, this list is not final.

The Prime Minister of Thailand Samak Suntaravet said in a radio show to the nation that he would not leave his post and not dissolve the parliament, despite the opposition organized by the riots in the country, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, the army commander Thailand Paochand invited the prime minister to resign in order to stop the escalation of tension in the country, but the outlet said last Saturday that he would not leave his post.

The Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika considers it necessary to change the criminal policy in the field of legal proceedings in order to improve the situation in places of deprivation of liberty. “I believe that it is necessary to change the criminal policy, since in the last period the roll in the direction of repressive practice was outlined,” Chaika said, answering questions from journalists after visiting the investigative insulator in Noginsk near Moscow.

The Immigration Research Center has proposed a new way to combat global warming: for this, immigration in the United States should be limited, Washington Profile reports. The logic here is as follows: for the most part, in the United States, residents of the “poor” countries of the world are moving in the USA, which in their homeland threw a relatively small number of “greenhouse” gases into their atmosphere.

The State Duma deputy of the Russian Federation, the director of the Institute of Political Research of Sergei Markov on Thursday, was not allowed to the territory of Ukraine. He had to return to Moscow. Markov flew to the conference at the invitation of Ukrainian historians. The incident occurred at the Borispol airport. “Now I am sitting on an airplane, and in the near future I will cure Moscow.

The Security Service of Ukraine, which, by law, submits to President Viktor Yushchenko, sent to the Prosecutor General a part of the verification materials in relation to the "traitors of the Motherland" in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko, Interfax reports. "This check is the first part of it - according to the law, completed. Materials are sent to the GPU for legal assessment," said the acting The heads of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko to reporters on Thursday in Kyiv.

In response to the request of Russia, Israel suspended the supply of Georgian weapons shortly before the conflict around South Ossetia, Anna Azari’s ambassador said to the Russian Federation, expressing the hope that relations between the Russian Federation and Israel will not be spoiled due to events in the Caucasus, Interfax reports. "Earlier, Israel sold Georgia weapons only a defensive nature and always led a very sharp policy in this area with Tbilisi," the diplomat says.

Ratings in Russia for a week from August 18 to August 24 An event of a sightseeing week should be recognized as the premiere on the First Channel of the film "White Strela" (rating - 9.6%, share - 32.8%). The picture of the director Alexander Burtsev not only headed the rating of the film, but also the rating of all the programs of the sightseeing week, even ahead of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing.