On the Sungari River in the Chinese northeastern province of Haylongjiang, he turned over and sank a passenger steam, the number of victims is not known, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Sinhua agency. According to local authorities, the incident occurred at 7:50 local time (03:50 in Moscow) in the area of ​​the administrative center of the province of the city of Harbin.

A elderly hotelier appeared before the court of Great Britain, who turned out to be a sexy pervert. The insidious maniac-Woinerist exposed the vigilant confusion, who accidentally discovered that the hotel was literally stuffed with video surveillance cameras.

US President Barack Obama is a Christian by religion and makes prayers daily. The official representative of the White House Bill Burton made such a statement on Thursday. He had to comment on the data of a new survey of public opinion conducted by the research center, according to which 18% of Americans consider Obama a Muslim. Meanwhile, according to the survey, 43% of Americans do not know at all what religion the president professes. Obama’s grandfather and father professed Islam.

Japan needs to immediately "apologize for more than 40-year occupation of Korea and compensate for the damage." This is stated in a statement by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, distributed through the channels of the Korea information agency in connection with the 100th anniversary of the annexation of Korea according to the agreements fabricated in Tokyo.

Today at the Moscow Cinema "35 mm" will present its program of the International Channate Festival of Videos - the most striking short work of this festival, which has been held in the Siberian city of Kansk, will be shown, ITAR -TASS reports. "Many, hearing the phrase, are sure that we are talking about the famous show on the azure coast of France.

Russia will seek the return of its citizen Viktor Buta , whom the Thai court decided to extradite to the United States , where he is accused of illegal weapons trade. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He called the "unlawful" and "political" decision of the Thai court on the extradition of the Russian entrepreneur and expressed regret on this subject.

With the help of a new method, astronomers finally determined the fate of the universe - it will expand endlessly and will ultimately turn into a cold and dead wasteland with a temperature close to "absolute zero". The gigantic “galactic lens” helped scientists to draw such a conclusion - one of the largest galaxies known to humanity in the constellation Virgin, BBC reports.

Important functions of the Gmail mail service - video and voice chat - began to work on computers with the Linux operating system, reports hacker.ru . Ubuntu and other Linux distributions based on Debian can work with this now, RPM support will appear in the very near future.

According to Forbes magazine, the first ten "profitable" writers are headed by an American writer, author of thrillers James Patterson, author of vampire novels Stefani Mayer and the famous writer Stephen King. The author of "and the spider came" and "kissing the girls" James Patterson earned $ 70 million on them at the end of the year.

The US Antiques from the USA Rick Kohl put up for sale at the EBAY Internet AUCOSSIA, belonging to the writer Jerom David Salinger. The starting price of the lot is 1 million dollars. At the same time, the seller is ready to consider all "reasonable proposals". The seller emphasizes that the writer not only owned this subject, but also used it, reports News Observer . The results of the auction will be summed up on September 4. The seller does not explain how he got this subject.

In the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, four militants were destroyed during the special operation, the united group of troops in the North Caucasus said. "Law enforcement officers at about 23:00 Moscow time Thursday discovered two cars in the vicinity of the village of the village. In response to the requirement to stop for checking documents from cars from the security forces, fire was opened.

The Committee for the Preparation of England’s application for the 2018 World Cup was hired by the Osminog Paul, who became famous for his unmistakable forecasts at the last World Cup to South Africa, as an official ambassador of the project, the committee said.

The administration of the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg purchases 85 shower booths to install them in the apartments of poor residents of the district. The starting price of one cabin in a tender is 92 thousand rubles, writes "Business Petersburg . As explained in the administration, in the Petrograd district there were still apartments that were not connected to hot water supply networks. And the state order on the booths is an attempt to finally solve this old problem.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday changed the head of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, his deputy Viktor Maslyakov was appointed to the place of the former head of the department of Alexei Savinov, who, in the recent past, occupied the posts of mayor of Petrozavodsk and referent of the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov, RIA Novosti said.

Russian tennis player Daria Gavrilova became the champion of the first youth of the Olympic Games to be held in Singapore. On Friday, a 16-year-old Muscovite in the final duel won a strong-willed victory over Chinese woman Zhen Saysai with a score of 2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 0. Bronze in the assets of the Slovaks Yana Chepelova. Later Gavrilova, together with compatriot Julia Putintseva, will have to hold a "bronze" match in a paired tournament.