Myanmar, an isolated country in Southeast Asia, under the rule of the military junta, could be interested in the development of nuclear weapons. In the near future, the Tana Swed dictator mode will not be able to acquire an atomic bomb, experts soothe, but rumors about the development of Myanmar contacts with North Korea are increasingly sounding, the Associated Press agency writes. In July, the North Korean ship Kang Nam with an unknown load on board tried to get to Myanmar (former Burma).

The size of the average old-age labor pension next year will exceed 8 thousand rubles, said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the main areas of budget policy. "In 2010, pensions should grow by 45.9%, the average old -age retirement will exceed the size of 8 thousand rubles," Interfax reports it.

The Honda’s luxury unit of the Japanese car company presents the first pictures and technical specifications of the serial version of the Acura ZDX crossover. The prototype of this model made his debut as part of the New York Autonomobile Show in April. Despite the fact that the novelty applies to the class of crossovers, in Acura it is called only a 4-door sportkup. It, in their opinion, not only looks representative, but is also practical, technologically advanced, Drom.ru reports.

On Monday, at a closed meeting of the sports arbitration court, another consideration of the case was held on statements by hockey players of CSKA Denis Parshin and Sergey Shirokov on the abolition of decisions of the disciplinary committee of ANO KHL. The court rejected the requirements of the players, and now they do not have the right to negotiate with any club except CSKA.

Classes in Russian schools from September 1 can be postponed if the number of new cases of A/H1N1 flu will grow rapidly. This was not excluded by the chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko, referred by RIA Novosti . "We received with satisfaction the position of the World Health Organization voiced today, that perhaps classes in schools will be postponed if events will develop according to a rapid scenario. Russia will support this measure," Onishchenko said.

The formation of rain drops occurs according to a much simpler mechanism than physicists could have imagined themselves before, and is determined by a simple division into parts of individual drops that initially formed in the thickness of the rain clouds, the authors of the study published in the journal Nature Physics are sure.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov on Tuesday held negotiations in Moscow with his South Korean colleague Lee San Hi. During the meeting, the ministers, in particular, agreed to establish a direct connection between the 11th Russian army of the Air Force and Air Defense (Far East) and the Center for the Office of the Air Force of the Republic of Korea, Interfax reports.

President of Poland Lech Kachinsky is panicky afraid of numbers 17, believing that she brings misfortune. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the authoritative Polish weekly magazine WPROST. According to the publication, Lech Kachinsky is afraid to make any decisions, sign decrees and orders on the 17th day of each month. The dislike of the President of Poland for the figure "17" is evidenced by the story that occurred during his last visit to Serbia.

The former neighbors of Michael Jackson, whose houses are next to Neverland Ranch, are trying to prevent the transformation of the dying pop star into a tourist Mecca: this, in their opinion, can violate a calm way of rural life, writes AP. So, on Monday, residents of the neighboring village of Santa Inez announced the creation of a special activist group called Never! ("Never!").

In the Trans -Baikal Territory, police staged a cruel “punitive raid” in order to identify criminals engaged in thefts of livestock. Law enforcement officers grabbed local residents and subjected them to savage torture, including rape with a club. The police, unprecedented in its cruelty, passed through the steppes at once two areas of Transbaikalia.

The ex-Prime Minister of Russia, the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union, Mikhail Kasyanov, first publicized the details of his conversation behind closed doors with Vladimir Putin, in which the then president, according to Kasyanov, admitted the political persecution of the former owner of the company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Despite the crisis and lack of funds to give a new appearance to the Russian armed forces, the Ministry of Defense decided to expand and modernize the material and technical service (MTO) of the Navy in the Syrian port of Tartus. How much the content of the Russian military base in Syria will cost is unknown. But it is clear that payment of its rental will go not only with money, but also discounts on Russian weapons supplied by Damascus, an independent newspaper writes on Tuesday.

The Worldcarfans website publishes spy photos of the updated Fiat Grande Punto hatchback. The car passed road tests in his homeland, in Italy, and is almost ready for serial production. The cost of the Grande Punto 2010 model year is unlikely to change. The premiere of the model may take place in September at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The car has changed somewhat since in winter the paparazzi photographed it during a test drive in Scandinavia. In the then pictures, a new grille was visible.

The head coach of Manchester United Alex Ferguson said that the eternal rivals of his Manchester derby team from City will not fight for the championship in the coming season, despite all the expensive acquisitions. Recall that the Argentinean legionnaire MU CARLOS TEVES turned to the "townspeople". “I do not consider them serious competitors such as Liverpool or Chelsea,” said Ferguson. “Yes, they bought several good players, but now they have 10 attackers. This is terribly a lot.

Six police officers died on Tuesday as a result of terrorist attacks of the Taliban in two cities in the east of Afghanistan, AP reports. In the city of Gardez, suicide bombers attacked the house of the head of the local administration, the intelligence service building and the police station. According to official figures, five terrorists were killed, five law enforcement officers of Afghanistan were also killed.