The Columbia Police grabbed a criminal who escaped from prison with a cardboard holder for toilet paper. On Wednesday, police arrested a resident of New Franklin named Curtis Jones. The man escaped from the Khorvard district prison and managed to spend only two days, reports the Associated Press. Jones ran away early on Monday morning. According to the jailers, he used a mere trifle to escape - a cardboard holder for toilet paper.

The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Vladimir Litvin made the final decision to run for the presidency of the country in the upcoming elections . He said this in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant-Ukraine , published on Friday. “The official statement on this subject will be made the other day,” said the speaker. “I was prompted to make an important decision that I was convinced again - political heavyweights do not want to conduct a serious conversation and serious work.

The departure of Maria Sharapova at the stage of the second round of the Open Championship of Britain is a disaster for the Wimbledon tennis tournament and a blow throughout the female tennis. In addition to her, now no one can attract the attention of the public and sponsors, the observers of the influential British newspaper The Times believe. Details are reported by Inopressa.ru .

Canadian journalists discovered secret information about multimillion -dollar contracts between Northrop Grumman and Pentagon on a hard drive sold for $ 40 on the market in the Accra (Gana) market According to iteDay.ru with reference to The Register, journalists were shot by the documentary "Gana: Electronic landfill" about "Electronic garbage" from developed countries.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the deputy director of one of the lyceums, who organized the robbery of the cashier of his educational institution, was sentenced. At the same time, two people were killed. On Thursday, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced the deputy director of the Nizhnyturinsky professional lyceum, as well as his two accomplices who killed and robbed two employees of the same institution.

Understanding the attic of his own house, the Briton discovered a collection of paintings worth 100 thousand pounds (about 165 thousand dollars). As it turned out, 20 years ago they were hidden by the deceased mother of the owner of the house, reports The Telegraph . Chemist Max Blok decided to move from his old house in Liverpool after his wife Etta died last year. To facilitate the sale of the house, the man decided to first understand the attic.

The Los Angeles Police is looking for the personal doctor of Michael Jackson, who disappeared after the sudden death of the pop star, reports Skynews . The British television channel refers to the information of one of the websites, which said that the doctor Jackson, who lived in his house and did his injections, has not yet been found. According to this web site, the doctor made a pop star injection of Demerol, a synthetic drug, in his characteristics similar to morphine.

The remains found on June 23 in the area of ​​the fall of the A-330 aircraft Air France belong to man. This is stated in the report of the Federal Police of Brazil, which is referred by RIA Novosti , which was widespread on Friday. Thus, the number of detected victims of the plane crash increased to 51 out of 228 people on board the aircraft. Brazilian forensic experts identified 14 dead, including the bodies of the crew and steward commander, which were identified the day before.

“Inter RAO” on June 25 held the first public annual meeting of shareholders. The shareholders of the energy holding for 2008 will not receive anything: 95% of the profit - 1.071 billion rubles will be repaid to repay past losses. The shareholders did not want to pay a reward to the directors (they could receive seven of 11, the rest of the officials), write Vedomosti . Everyone is supposed to a salary of 1.4 million rubles a year, plus 10% for work in the committee, 15% as its chairman.

The manager of one of the Chinese hedge funds Zhao Danyan, for $ 2.11 million, who won the right to dine with the American financier Warren Buffet at $ 2.11 million, believes that he concluded a profitable deal, K2kapital reports with reference to the New York Daily News . “I asked a lot of questions,” said Zhao Danyan. “This is a good lesson for my whole life. This cannot be evaluated with money,” the Chinese businessman said.

The Court of the Central District of Sochi refused to the former candidate for the post of head of the city Boris Nemtsov in satisfaction of his application for the abolition of the mayor’s elections, held on April 26. Judge Anna Afonkina read out a resolutionary part of the decision. The court decision will enter into force after the announcement of the motivation part - June 29.

In Strasbourg on Friday, a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is closed, which may be the last for the Russian delegation. Already in autumn or winter, Russia can be deprived of the right to vote in this largest organization of Europe, said the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. Moscow has more than once threatened that in the case of introducing such a sanction, it was ready to leave the European Council at all.

Today, the godfather on motorcycles along the route Yaroslavl-Murom-Pereslavl will be launched today. Orthodox bikers will deliver an icon to the Yaroslavl land with particles of the relics of the Saints Peter and Fevronia of the Murom (patrons of marital love and fidelity), RIA Novosti reports. According to the portal of the Russian Orthodox Church , after Pereslavl, the shrine has to visit many more cities, villages and villages of the Yaroslavl region.

“Formula 1” is likely to face a new round of scandal, since the president of the International Motorsport Federation (FIA) Max Mosley said that the Fota association teams are deliberately trying to mislead the press, so he is going to revise his plans for the future. On Wednesday, Mosley agreed with the leaders of FOTA, the threat of a split and organizing an alternative series seemed to have passed. However, on Thursday, the head of FIA extremely irritably reacted to the comments made to him.

The rapid resonance in the Russian blogosphere caused the desire of Gazprom to bring internal gas prices to equalizable ones, that is, to those by which fuel is sold to foreign consumers. Gazprom expects that since 2011, domestic gas prices will be comparable to European ones , the deputy chairman of the board, the head of the financial and economic department of the company Andrei Kruglov said on the eve of a press conference.