The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation published its statistics on the crime level for the first half of 2009. Despite the crisis, police officers recorded a decrease in criminal activity by more than 7%.

A resident of Beijing, lying for 13 years in a coma, suddenly came into consciousness. The first that the man who came to himself was saying was the name of his wife - Jan Liin. All these years, the wife looked after him, says China Daily . The Chinese, whose name is not called, fell into whom after gas poisoning as a result of an accident. “I never thought to give up, because we are a husband and wife,” says 51 -year -old Jan Lin.

The former President of the Grokster file exchange network Wayne Rosso, who immediately hastened to share his vision of the further development of the notorious Pirate Bay, joined the company Global Gaming Factories X, which intended to purchase a torrent tracker of the Pirate Bay. According to Mr.

In Latvia, as a result of strong winds and a downpour with a thunderstorm on Sunday evening, about 20 thousand people were left without electricity. Of these, 3 thousand inhabitants are still without light, the head of the Latvenergo public relations department Andris Sixnis told reporters. The company continues to eliminate problems in the supply of electricity. As a result of the rampant, the rescuers had 10 times more work.

Sochi mayor Anatoly Pakhomov on Friday walked along the embankments and the streets of Sochi to make sure the streets that had finished cleanliness in the midst of the holiday season. The mayor hoped that in a month and a half that have passed since the competition for the cleaning and improvement of the city, the winning management companies were able to clean the streets. But the mayor did not experience satisfaction from the walk. At each turn, another bunch of dirt was waiting for him.

The Omsk prosecutor's office sent a criminal case to the court, who is accused of beating two patients with disabilities. As it turned out, the doctor of the state healthcare institution of the Omsk Region "Regional Children's Clinical Hospital" caused beatings to two young children with disabilities who were aimed at reception, RIA Novosti reports.

On Monday, the Moscow City Court recognized the verdict, who appointed conditional punishment to the investigator who knocked down a woman, driving a car in a state of intoxication. Thus, the court rejected the cassation submission of the prosecutor's office for this sentence.

In New York, at the age of 78, the Irish writer Frank Makkurt died, who became known thanks to the Angelian Autobiographical novel, awarded the Pulitzer's Prize in the field of literature, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The New York Times. According to the writer’s brother, McCurt died of cancer. For the past two weeks, he suffered from the strongest meningitis, from which the writer's condition worsened even more.

The Federal Road Agency Rosavtodor and the consortium of Main Road OJSC signed an agreement on the construction and operation on a toll basis of the “New exit to the Moscow Ring Road from the M-1 Belarus Moscow-Minsk federal highway.” The agreement was signed for a period of 30 years, the total cost of construction of the road is 25.7 billion rubles. REGNUM.ru reports this. As Vedomosti writes, the estimated cost of travel along the section will be about 91 rubles (4.9 rubles per km).

In Yekaterinburg, an agreement was signed on the cooperation of the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church with Gazprom Space Systems OJSC, a profile structure that provides technical conditions for satellite broadcasting, Blagovet -Info reports with reference to the Yekaterinburg Diocese of the Yekaterinburg Diocese.

The second gold medal of the Roman championship for the Russian national team was won by Julia Pakhalina, confidently defeating two Chinese women in individual jumps from the meter -high springboard. The 32-year-old athlete became a three-time world champion. The Olympic champion of Sydney 2000 Julia Pakhalina last won the world championships back in 1998, bringing two gold from the Australian Perth (3 m-individually and synchron).

At the World Sports Water Sports Championships, Russian woman Natalya Ishchenko won gold in a soloists in synchronous swimming in a technical program, scoring 98.667 points. This success was for Ishchenko the sixth in his career. The closest competitor of the Russian woman was the Spaniard Jamma Mengual - she took second place (97,833). The Canadian Brand-Ganyon became the bronze medalist of the competition (96,000), the all sport sports information agency reports.

On Sunday evening, on the highway in Germany connecting the cities of Berlin and Hanover, a car accident occurred with the participation of 259 cars: all of them, according to the chain reaction, collided with each other, RIA Novosti reports. That evening on the highway A2, on the segment between the village of Hamerwald and the city of Lerte, it was raining heavy. After one accident, other cars began to drive into the highway one after another, some of which left the autobahn.

In Ufa, a serviceman was detained who is suspected of killing the saleswoman of a children's store. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the media relations of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for Bashkiria Svetlana Abramova. At the same time, she did not specify the date of detention.

The US celebrates the anniversary of man's landing on the moon - this happened on July 20, 1969. The ship NASA Apollo -11 with the crew consisting of three astronauts - the commander Neil Armstrong, the pilot of the lunar module Edwin Oldrin and the pilot of the command module Michael Collins - reached the moon. In the anniversary in the earth's orbit there are more space and astronauts than ever in history- 13 people.