The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation continues to take steps to strengthen the combat readiness of the created United Strategic Command (OSK) South. The modernization of the military units included in the command, military equipment and the new organizational structure will help to reflect a new possible aggression by Georgia.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov proposed changing the official name of the post of head of the republic, because, in his opinion, "in Russia only one statesman has the right to be called the president." With his proposal, Kadyrov turned to the parliament of the republic before going on vacation, reports citing the press service of the President and the Government of the Chechen Republic. He noted that the term will accept any term, except the president.

The famous American Center Shakil O`nn, continues to surprise his many fans. Recently, the athlete opened his own television show in which he competes with other athletes in their usual sports. On the eve of the basketball player met in boxing ring with the former world champion in the welterweight of Shane Mosley, Sportcom reports.

The largest auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's put up works of art from the corporate collection of Lehman Brothers Bank, whose ruin, as is commonly believed, entailed the 2008 crisis, RIA Novosti reports with reference to auctions sites. The section of works of art between the main competitors in the art market was as follows: Sotheby's in New York sells things in American offices, and Christie's in London-from the European offices Lehman Brothers.

The midfielder of the Italian Juventus and the Danish national team Christian Powlesen officially became the player of the English Liverpool, reports Sportbox.ru with reference to the official website of the "old Signora". The transfer amount amounted to seven million dollars. In addition, Turin can get another one and a half million if the player achieves certain sports achievements in Liverpool, which are not disclosed.

Two unknown people on Thursday shot a guard at a security guard at the Mc'Donalds diner in the west of Moscow. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. According to the source, the incident occurred in a restaurant located at the address: Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya, 10, where two men quarreled with the administration of the institution. "During the quarrel, one of the unknown snatches and shot a restaurant at the employee.

Parisian musicians, opera singer Natalia Leontyeva and pianist Yaakov Aivaz, who performed in academic halls, opera theaters and musical salons throughout Europe, give a series of concerts in Israel. Concerts will be held in Jewish settlements of Judea and Samaria (West Bank of the Jordan River), Newsru Israel reports. The musicians of the forefront come to Israel.

The Government of Belarus has placed Eurobonds by another $ 400 million, which was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Finance of the country Vladimir Amarin. The debut placement of Eurobonds in the amount of 600 million Belarus produced on July 26. The Ministry of Trade, in turn, prepared a list of goods that are not enough in the Belarusian market. Experts suggest that this will follow the restriction on their imports.

The Russian Foreign Ministry considers the court’s decision in Washington to return to the American movement “Khabad Lyubavich” of historical books and documents known as the Schneerson collection, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. The statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasizes that "Schneerson's library never belonged to the American organization" Habad ".

In the Sverdlovsk region, discord in the family of a collective farmer in retirement led to a bloody drama. A large man killed his wife when he found out that he had stopped satisfying her sexually. Currently, a 62-year-old resident of the village of Novopyshminsk Sukhozhmsky district, Mikhailov Zovgachev, has been released on a recognizance not to leave, Life News reports. He is suspected of killing his own wife, with whom he lived together for more than 40 years and survived nine children.

In Moscow, the head of a robbery with an intimate background was the head of one of the companies, who regularly used the services of confused, nicknamed Margot. In the end, the "night butterfly" brought a whole gang of robbers to his house. A robbery of the 48-year-old general director of a company engaged in railway cargo transportation was committed on Tuesday, the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper writes.

Scientists revealed the true origin of humor, writes the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph . According to American researchers, humor is a benign violation of the order of things that have developed in the world. Comedians, actors, writers and psychoanalysts raised their heads for a long time over why some things seem ridiculous to us.

The ancestors of a person began to use stone tools to freshly meat 3.4 million years ago - 800 thousand years earlier than thought, archaeologists found out. Thus, not Homo habilis began to work with stones, but an even more distant ancestor of a person: Australopithhecus aparensis. The remains of the females of one of them, called Lucy, were first found in Ethiopia in 1976.

The US Federal Reserve has announced its intention to buy out obligations on government debt worth 18 billion dollars in order to force the process of restoring the national economy, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. The first of the nine redemption operations will be carried out on the next Monday, the final one on September 13.

The Khabble space telescope photographed the constellations of the Centaurus of the NGC 4696 constellation Galaxy, in which the “interrogative sign” from the dust is visible, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the European Space Agency (ESA). NGC 4696 belongs to the class of elliptical galaxies. They most likely arise in a collision of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, and are usually considered "shapeless sets of aging stars," the message says.