The US Embassy in Yemen, which was subjected to terrorist attack on the eve, as a result of which 16 people died, work as usual. “I'm sitting at the embassy now,” the American diplomat in Yemen said to Reuters by phone. He added that the embassy is closed to visitors, since Thursday is an unacceptable day, and the attack has nothing to do with it.

The Senate of the US Congress adopted a bill on military needs in 2009, which begins in the country on October 1, in the amount of $ 612.5 billion. "For" at the same time 88 votes were presented, "against" - only eight. The document provides, in particular, an increase by 3.9% of the amount of monetary allowance of American military personnel is 0.5% more than the White House proposed, and at first many representatives of the ruling Republican Party resolutely objected.

Any type of tanning for ultraviolet irradiation - both in the sun and in the solarium, harms health and can provoke a wide range of diseases from premature skin aging to cancer, American scientists in the series of articles that will be published in the October issue of the Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research magazine.

According to the positions of the current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, two more blows were struck by the current members of the Cabinet of Ministers. At first, the Minister of Business, Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Reform John Hatton refused to condemn the group of Labor Parliamentarians who finish the shift of Brown from the post of leader of the ruling party and the head of government. Then the Minister of Labor and Pensions James Pernell indirectly joined in Khatton.

It was believed that New York real estate is not influenced by a mortgage crisis that overwhelmed other cities of the United States. Such immunity can only be preserved thanks to foreign customers, in particular from Russia, the Associated Press believes. On Manhattan, where the average cost of the house is 1 million dollars, prices in the second quarter of this year rose by 14% compared to the same period of the previous year.

The mysterious abduction of the Ingush in Moscow may be a revenge for a tragedy in Beslan, when 330 people died as a result of the school terrorists, including 180 children. According to the former hostage Magomed Khamkhoev, in the house in the Silver Bor, where he was kept, he saw the corpse of a man. The kidnappers, showing him the body with traces of torture, said: “You will be the same. This is for Beslan,” writes Kommersant .

The Ministry of Health and Social Development has developed a draft concept of state policy to reduce the scale of alcoholization in the Russian Federation. This was announced today by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko at the opening of the All -Russian forum "Health of the nation - the basis of Russia's prosperity," ITAR -TASS reports. “We have prepared the concept of stateliness to reduce the scale of alcoholization in the Russian Federation.

The Georgian authorities evict the Ossetian population from the Ossetian villages of the Karelian district of Georgia. This was reported in the press service of the Government of South Ossetia, reports cominf.org .

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said that the Russian-Georgian war caused an imbalance in the field of security in the Black Sea region. According to him, such an imbalance can be adjusted by further expansion of NATO east. However, he denied the fears that his country is vulnerable to Moscow’s military aggression even if it would not accept it into the Western Alliance.

The decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court to recover from Arbat and Ko LLC (subsidiary of Arbat Prestige OJSC) in the amount of 38 million 977 thousand 144.96 rubles in favor of concern OJSC Kalina entered into legal force, Interfax reports with reference to the Kalina press service.

The Russian Railway Monopoly of Russian Railways creates a new subsidiary, which will engage in a resort complex, the decision on this was made by the Board of Russian Railways on September 16, the company said. The composition of "Daughter" should include 69 sanatorium-resort Russian Railways with a total capacity of 8.5 thousand seats, RIA Novosti said.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said that, at the invitation of the Russian leadership, he would visit Moscow in the middle of next week. Chavez explained that after the planned visit to the PRC will make a stop in the Russian capital, ITAR-TASS reports.

Russian woman Maria Kirilenko was recognized as readers of the British publication The Sun of the most sexy tennis player in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). She took first place according to the results of a survey conducted for six six weeks and gathered about 7 thousand votes. The second place in this "hot ten" is occupied by another representative of our country, who was originally considered a favorite - Maria Sharapova.

The Minister of Ethics of Uganda Nsaba Buturo introduced a ban on wearing a mini -cube - women wearing them distract drivers and cause traffic accidents. Nsaba Buturo told reporters in the capital of Uganda Campale that wearing a mini-skirt is like walking along Nagishu Street. "What is wrong with a mini -yoke? You can create an emergency case, because some of our men have weaknesses to female legs," the minister said.

One of the most famous British composers and producers Andrew Lloyd -Vebber, the author of such famous works as Jesus Christ - Superzovezd, The Ghost of the Opera and Cats, initiated a charitable campaign for all victims as a result of the economic crisis, BBC reports. The composer’s company offers all employees who have lost their jobs during the current financial crisis , exchange notices of dismissal for two free tickets for one of the two musicals.