Damage to the energy sector of the States of Louisian, Texas and Mississippi as a result of the consequences of the hurricanes "Gustav" and "AIK" in the first half of September amounted to 1 billion to 1.2 billion dollars. This was informed by Entergy's energy company, which owns six subsidiaries in these three southern states.

Iran refused to struggle for a place in the Council of Management of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in favor of his "friend and neighbor" - Syria. This was announced on Wednesday by one of the Arab television channels of the Permanent Representative of Iran at the IAEA Ali Asgar Solca. "The Islamic Republic officially abandons its right to become a candidate for the Council of Managing Agency in order to clear the road of Syria," AFP quotes his words.

In India, the police are investigating the rape and murder of a seventh grader, whose corpse was found in the male toilet of the educational institution. The school administration is suspected of a cruel crime. A terrible crime occurred in the Indian city of Berhampur in Oriss. The police are already interrogating the three suspects in the murder and rape of a school student located in the Ganyam area, NEWKERALA reports.

In the United States, on the eve of the November elections, they intensively calculate the chances of presidential candidates for the ability to maintain health and not die before two four years of stay at the post. The “forecasts” are disappointing for the 72-year-old Republican John McCain: the chances that he will not live until the end of the second term is one by four, reports AP.

The price of oil futures increased on October 1 and reached $ 102.24 per barrel, rising by 1.6%. Growth is caused by the hope that the US Congress will nevertheless approve the “salvation” of the American economy, Bloomberg said. The day before, the price of the November futures contract for WTI brand oil on the New York Model Exchange (NYMEX) increased by 4.4% to $ 100.64 per barrel.

On September 30, the Presidium chaired by his head of Anton Ivanov examined two large -scale cases at once, in which the Federal Property Management Agency disputed the results of privatization. The Presidium set an end to the four -year history on the nationalization of the Domodedovo airport terminal , owned by the structures of the Ist Line group.

The former ally of the head of the Ukrainian government Dmitry Chobit claims that the real family name of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko is Capiter farm.

In the UK, street hooligans scored to the death of a top manager of one of the world's largest bankers Barclays Wealth. The millionaire tried to intercede for the homeless emigrant from Lithuania. The police of the British city of Noridge have already arrested three suspects in the murder of 45-year-old financier Frank McGeechen. The banker died from a head injury, writes The Daily Mail .

By 35 years in prison, an American was sentenced to Chicago, who planned to blow up grenades in the Cherryvale shopping center in Illinois. The verdict against Derrick the Sharif was announced on Tuesday, when the defendant turned 24 years old. District Judge David Coer noted that the law allows the Sharif to sentenced to life imprisonment. In this case, the court considered a mitigating guilt to the repentance of the defendant.

TheS spacecraft was displayed by the Russian Circulation Rocket Dnipro launch vehicle in target orbit. “After the separation of the spacecraft from the Dnepr launch vehicle, he was transferred to the customer’s management,” said Alexander Serkin, representative of the Kosmotras company. The starter of the start is the Agency for Geoinformatics and the Development of Space Technologies of Thailand.

The Russian army will appear in the Russian army. The Ministry of Defense plans to carry out the formation of new forces in a short time. It is already known that they will be formed on the basis of airborne troops, units of the marine corps and special purpose, a source in the military department said on Wednesday .

DST ADVISORS, which runs the Digital Sky Technologies Foundation (owns shares in Mail.ru, Odnoklassniki, VKontakte), is close to buying a Czech SEZNAM search engine. The amount of the transaction may amount to $ 850 million. And if it takes place, then this will be the largest purchase of DST in the entire history of its existence, the newspaper Kommersant writes. Seznam is also claimed by the British direct investment fund Apax Partners and the American investment company Warburg Pincus.

Even if there is money from the buyer, the developer may refuse to sell the cottage in the premium village. As a rule, investors and people with a criminal past receive refusals. About this site cottage.ru was told by Elena Pervikova, head of the TWEED suburban real estate department. According to her, most refusals in buying a cottage are received by investors who do not plan to live in the village.

{pic_1} The German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz in the framework of the Parisian car dealership will conduct the world premiere of one of the fastest serial relatives in the world. We are talking about an open -top car built on the basis of the SLR McLaren Roadster with a 722 Edition Reference package, reports WorldCarfans . {pic_2} Open SLR McLaren 722 S will be released in a limited circulation? Only 150 cars. He will go on sale in January 2009.

At the end of September, the Crimean parliament allocated 14 acres of land in the suburban village of Yalta called Massandra to the People's Artist of Ukraine Sofia Rotaru. On this earth, the singer intends to engage in growing environmentally friendly vegetables and fruits for her restaurant at the Villa-Sophia Hotel, which the family of Rotaru rebuilt in the very center of Yalta, right on the embankment.