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.

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 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.

The deputies of the Perm Territory came up with the initiative to increase the childcare period, which has been included in the insurance experience, from the current three years for another one and a half years. The proposal on amendments to the Law "On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation" parliamentarians were submitted to the State Duma on Tuesday.

The German court sentenced the 91-year-old Nazi criminal Joseph Shoingraber to a life imprisonment for a mass murder committed during the Second World War. On June 26, 1944, the Wehrmacht officer ordered to destroy civilians of one of the Italian villages, avenging the murder of two German soldiers, AP reports. The Munich court found Shoingraber guilty of the murder of 10 residents of the village of Faltsano di Corton in longing.

From September 1, the rate of export fee on Russian oil on September 1 can increase to $ 237-241 per ton from $ 222 per ton installed on August 1, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the Deputy Head of the Department of Customs Payments of the Ministry of Finance Alexander Sakovich. According to Sakovich, the average oil price during this period (without four trading days before the end of the monthly monitoring on August 14) took place at 68.55 dollars per barrel.

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 Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office for the Kaliningrad Region opened a criminal case against the leadership of the air carrier "KD Avia", suspecting him of intentional non -payment of wages for several months, RIA Novosti reported “The criminal case under part 1 of Article 145.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (non -payment of wages) was opened on August 11 by the Guryevsky inter -district investigative department of the regional administration.

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.

The passenger plane disappeared on Tuesday in Papua - New Guinea - island state in the southern part of the Pacific. There are 13 people on board - 11 passengers and two crew members, reports Reuters. The Twin Otter two-engine aircraft was heading from the capital of Port Morsby to a small village of Cocodu, popular among Australian tourists. According to unconfirmed data, eight out of 11 passengers are citizens of Australia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania called the Russian ambassador Vladimir Chkhikvadze for an audience. The Foreign Ministry wants to receive clarifications about the "discriminatory" actions of Russian customs officers against Lithuanian car carriers. According to the Republic of Foreign Department of the Republic, Rolandas Kachinskas, Chkhikvadze should appear at the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry at 11:00 local time, Interfax reports.

The frontman of the RADIOHEAD rock band said that from now on the group refuses to work on new albums, since the recording in the studio turned out to be a heavy “burden” for all musicians, BBC reports. York admitted to an interview with the popular American magazine The Believer that the recording of the new album will kill the participants of Radiohead. Yes, and the musicians decided to create their last “in rainbows” disk only because they clearly imagined what new material should be.

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 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.