The funeral ceremony of Michael Jackson, scheduled for his birthday - August 29 and transferred today on the last day of the month, was again moved to September 3, Skynews reports with reference to the representative of the singer's family. The reasons for the next delay in the burial is not reported. It is also indicated that the coffin with the body of Michael Jackson was exported from the territory of the Forest Lawn cemetery.

The Swiss Basketball Association warned a Muslim woman engaged in this sport that she could not play in the League in the scarf, the ISLAM.RU portal reports. According to the Jerusalem Post , 19-year-old Switzerland citizen Sura al-Shavk, who has Iraqi roots, should debut in the regional female basketball league-the season will begin next month. In this regard, her club "STV Luzern" requested permission for a surah scarf.

According to the “review of the banking sector of the Russian Federation” of the Bank of Russia, banks in the second quarter increased by a third of the share and organizational expenses, including personnel costs, from 1.33% to 1.73%. With the beginning of the active phase of the crisis in the fall of last year, banks reduced the number of staff, reminds Kommersant . Retail units came under reductions, in which the largest number of employees are traditionally occupied.

In Russian universities on Friday, the final lists of those who received according to the results of a single state exam (USE) were hung out, the results of which were first taken instead of entrance exams this year. The system revealed many serious disadvantages that allow specialists to talk about its complete failure . One of the consequences - for many universities, the shortage can threaten, writes Prime -Tass .

Egypt has translated hours to winter time today. In accordance with the decision of the government at midnight, all hours were transferred an hour ago, and until the last Thursday of April the pyramid countries will live in winter time. The transition to the winter season in August is due to the onset of the month of the month of the Ramadan month, which this year in most countries of the Arab region begins on August 22, ITAR-TASS reports.

The administration of the Swedish island of Gotland refused to support the construction of the North Stream gas pipeline (North European gas pipeline, Nord Stream), RIA Novosti reports. Representatives of the Swedish island are concerned about how construction will affect the environment, and also declare that this may delay the development of renewable energy sources.

The Pentagon carried out a successful flight test of the main component of the "laser gun" of air -based, which is planned to be used for missile defense. According to a common agency for the press report, the high-energy chemical laser of the megawatt class, which is installed on board the modified Boeing-747-400, which has to destroy the ballistic missiles (BR), was “shot”, ITAR-TASS reports.

Twitter plans to introduce paid "commercial" accounts this year already this year. Now the company is working on the first step in the release of commercial accounts - various companies can buy them, receiving additional services, for example, more detailed statistics and its analysis. The exact dates of the launch of new services on Twitter have not yet been named, reports CNews.ru with reference to the Digital Beat publication. "Twitter will continue to be free for everyone.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service after the second antitrust package of bills enters into force, that is, after August 23, it will be able to oblige oil monopolists to sell part of the fuel on the exchange, the head of the FAS Igor Artemyev said at a press conference. Until now, the head of the FAS added, actively sells fuel on exchanges only TNK -BP, and Rosneft - small volumes, recalls the Finmarket .

The American intelligence services, preparing for the murders of Al-Qaeda leaders, used the help of private contractors. In 2004, to hunt high -ranking CIA terrorists attracted employees of the infamous security company Blackwater, which operated in Iraq. The scandalous information was reported with reference to the current and former CIA employees a number of respected American media: The New York Times and The Washington Post , Associated Press.

The prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region opened a criminal case against a man who is suspected of regular rape of his adopted daughter. The pervert has committed crimes for four years. The investigation of the crime is underway in the Leninsky district of Astrakhan, where a 43-year-old local resident was detained, the official website of the investigation department at the prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region reports.

In the capital of the Chechen Republic Grozny on Friday, two explosions thundered at noon at noon. There are dead and victims, reports Reuters with reference to eyewitnesses. Four police officers were killed, three people were injured. At the same time, five terrorist attacks were originally reported, but this information was not confirmed. All terrorist attacks were committed by suicide bikes. Criminal cases have been instituted on the fact of explosions.

Convicted for organizing the explosion of the aircraft in the sky over the Scottish Locherbian Livitan Abdel Basit al-Migrahi, who was released from prison, is a political prisoner, and not a terrorist, the Jana 's official Libyan agency said, RIA Novosti reports. On the evening of August 20, Al-Migrahi returned to his homeland from Scotland, where he was serving a life sentence for organizing in 1988 an explosion on board the Boeing-747, which killed 270 people, mainly US citizens.

In Germany, the plumber nodded by home -made grenades of the dwellings of his debtors. The vengeful lender was a plumber from a town-on-Mayne located near Frankfurt-Maine. The man threw homemade explosive devices into the apartments of his debtors, and then barricaded at home. Only a day later, the criminal surrendered to the police, writes the German edition of Bild with reference to the press secretary of the police of Marcus Zabays. The story of the 44-year-old Jurgen K.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill set as an example to contemporaries the courage and the strength of the spirit of the prisoners of the Solovetsky camp of Stalin's times. "Our fathers and grandfathers suffered in these walls, but, finding himself in a situation of mortal danger, they remained faithful to Christ even to death. And there was no greater power than the power of faith and prayer that saved the prisoners," said Patriarch Kirill.