The founder of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates is ready to pay 120 million euros for the private island of Scorpios in Greece, the owner of which was the famous billionaire Aristotle Onassis, the husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, Prian.ru writes. After the death of Onassis, the island inherited his daughter Christina, who, in turn, bequeathed him to her daughter Atina. A billionaire, Christina and his son Alexander are buried at Scorpios.

In Dagestan, the correspondent of the Republican Avar newspaper Khakikat ("Truth") Malik Akhmedilov was killed. The journalist was found dead in the VAZ-21012 car on the territory of the Country Society on the outskirts of Makhachkala, ITAR-TASS reports. Akhmedilov died from wound in the stomach. The operational-investigation brigade works on the spot. The investigation establishes the details of the incident, as well as the motives of the murder.

Russian cinema networks are closing more and more cinemas in the regions. The fault is too high rental rates when falling fees by almost 40%. So, in the first 6 months of 2009, 43 cinemas were closed in 20 cinemas. Of these, 30 screens are good, the rest - for repair or modernization, writes the Kommersant newspaper with reference to the data of the Research company "Nevafilm Research". So, on July 1 of this year, there were 755 cinemas, or 1943 halls in Russia.

In the international airport of the Egyptian resort of the Hurghada with suspected infection of the influenza virus A/H1N1 on Tuesday, representatives of the quarantine service detained a tourist from Russia. According to ITAR-TASS, during the check with the help of a thermal imager it turned out that the 22-year-old Russian woman increased the temperature. The tourist was sent to the hospital for a medical examination.

The American aerospace management of NASA intends to allocate $ 50 million to private companies that are ready to develop manned spacecraft. Within 45 days, applicants will have to submit applications. The winners who receive state aid will be determined by the end of September according to the results of the competition, reports Reuters. On Thursday in Houston, a seminar will be held for representatives of companies interested in the development of a “space taxi”.

A resident of Belarus died, falling from the monument to Lenin, which he climbed, while drunk. A tragic incident occurred in the town of Uvarovichi Gomel region, the local police said. 21-year-old Uvarovichi sat in a gazebo in the company of friends in the courtyard of high school. Then he climbed into the five-meter statue of the founder of the Soviet state standing near the school, which was installed there in 1939, ITAR-TASS reports.

In St. Petersburg, a person died on a bread base as a result of an accident, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Northern capital. "At 15:16, a message was received on the remote control" 01 "that on the territory of the N28 Bakery N28, 62 Believers, a man failed and died," the report said.

Futurologists continue to build forecasts about how humanity can evolve. According to one version, in the distant future, people of both sexes will be hairless, and in men a beard will stop growing. Despite the obvious loss in aesthetics, people will win in saving water resources, scientists say - after all, water will no longer be spent on the current scale on the hair on their heads and shaving.

One of the leading enterprises of the Ukrainian chemical industry, Rivneazot, is preparing for sale, the Ukrainian publication Focus said with reference to a source in Naftogaz of Ukraine. According to him, the structures of the Russian Gazprom may act as possible the buyer of the plant. In 2007, due to a sharp increase in gas prices, Dmitry Firtash was already planning to sell an enterprise.

US Finance Minister Timothy Gaitner turned to Congress with a request to increase the upper limit of the state debt so that the country escapes the technical default. Now this limit is set at 12.1 trillion dollars and, as expected, will be overcome in October. If the congress does not satisfy this request, the United States will not be able to serve its government bonds, in which other countries and large financial corporations are stored.

On August 10, in Moscow, in the small sports arena of the Lokomotiv stadium, an open training of the Russian women's team was held, which was attended by the head coach of the Gus Khiddink male national team, Interfax reports. “I saw in training that the team is very serious, very ambitious, charged to fight and show a good game at the championship,” said Hus Hiddink. Only twice, before the start of training and at its end, the eminent coach talked with athletes.

The Tom football club, which was on the verge of bankruptcy this year, signed agreements with Siber, Transneft and Inter RAO UES. “It remains to sign the last of the seven agreements - with the IDC holding. The documents will be signed with it on August 26,” said Yuri Stepanov, general director of Tomi. Recall that before this sponsorship agreement was concluded with the companies: Rosneft, Alliance and Gazprom Neft.

During the crisis, the total amount of loans in retail retail chains was reduced by more than 30%, to 60 billion rubles, although previously the average annual level of sales on credit was almost 28% of the total sales. So, in the network of “Svyaznoy” stores , the volume of sales of the GSM standard on credit fell in the first half of 2009 relative to the first half of 2008 in ruble terms by 13% and made up 17.86% from the total sales.

According to the latest data, almost 70 people were injured as a result of a powerful earthquake in Japan, the most lively motorway was stopped. In addition, for security purposes, two blocks at the Hamaok NPP had to be stopped 160 kilometers from Tokyo. The earthquake of magnitude 6.6 points on the Richter scale occurred on Tuesday morning at 05:07 local time (00:07 in Moscow) in the area of ​​the Suruga Gulf, 150 km southwest of Tokyo, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Primorsky Territory, a preliminary investigation of a criminal case was completed against four member of the gang of neo -Nazis. They not only killed foreigners, but also raped their peers for refusing to replenish their ranks.