Somali pirates on Wednesday attacked a container ship under the flag of Antigua in the Gulf of Aden, on board of which there were two Russians. The crew of the German container line Magellan Star managed to hide in the shelter. He currently expects assistance from the military, reports the "Marine Bulletin" . As of the end of July, the crew consisted of 11 people, including two Russian citizens, one citizen of Bulgaria, six Filipinists, one Pole, and one citizen of Ukraine.

By the end of this year, compulsory motor vehicle liability insurance will rise in price by about a third. Experts predict such an increase in tariffs due to the fact that on September 1, new rules for assessing the wear and tear of auto parts came into effect in the Russian Federation. According to the new rules, when calculating insurance payments, the wear and tear coefficient will not be applied to a number of spare parts that affect the safety of the car.

The Serbian court rejected the request of the family of the former army commander of the Bosnian Serbs Ratko Mladic, put on the international wanted list, to recognize him as dead . According to court representatives, the refusal is dictated by "procedural reasons", writes RBC . The fate of Mladic is currently unknown: it is possible that he is still alive and hidden somewhere in Serbia. Mladich is the most wanted "war criminal" in the former Yugoslavia.

An hour before the celebration of Rosh Ha -Shan - the Jewish New Year - an explosion sounded in the Bishkek synagogue. As a result of undermining the wounded and killed bombs, there are no killed. The courtyard of the synagogue was only slightly injured, reports REGNUM . According to sources, unknown people threw a non -wrestling explosive device stuffed with nails through the fence into the courtyard.

Three ships at once were attacked by Somali pirates over the past day, one of them was captured. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the organization "Ecoterra Interneeshnl", which is based in Nairobi, which is monitored by the situation with piracy off Somali.

Hockey players of the Kazan "Ak Bars", the current champions of the Continental Hockey League, in the first match of the new season lost the OKK Dynamo. The meeting on the ice "Tatneft Arena" in Kazan ended with the victory of guests from Moscow with a score of 3: 1 . The author of the first puck of the championship at the 16th minute of the meeting was defender Mikhail Balandin. The Muscovites also distinguished Yurai Kolnik and Dominic Granak.

The tuned VAZ-2108 showed a record time at the competition in the drag-racing in Ukraine. The distance of 402 meters in Nikolaev, under the direction of Kharkov, Sergey Rudenko, overcame only in 11.575 seconds. For comparison: a similar result (slightly less than 11 seconds) at the same competitions was shown by the tuned Porsche 911 Turbo, which performs in a more powerful class of cars.

September gave inflation in Russia a new acceleration. Contrary to the season, vegetables and fruits have ceased to be cheaper, the increase in buckwheat prices accelerated again, and the prices of eggs jumped by 13.7%in a week, they write Vedomosti . The increase in prices for a week on September 6 amounted to 0.2%, Rosstat said. At this level, weekly inflation has been held since the end of July, in the last week of August, slowing down to 0.1% due to a decrease in fruits and vegetable prices.

A special aviation commission of the Federal Air Transport Agency began to work in Komi, which has to establish the causes of emergency landing of the Tu-154M aircraft in the taiga. Now the crew commander of the liner, Evgeny Novoselov, the second pilot Andrei Lamapov and the navigator Sergey Talalaev, are in Ukhta - give evidence of the commission that conducts its audit.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation has started a case in which the Ministry of Internal Affairs and developer of the AIPS Tyr company "Business Consultant" appears as defendants as defendants, CNews.ru reports. We are talking about a system in charge of the issuance of permits for the possession of weapons to individuals and legal entities, and a part of the public order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) should find an opportunity to encourage teams that adhere to an attacking style. Perhaps this will be expressed in the new concept of additional time, said FIFA President Joseph Blatter in an interview with the official website of this organization. According to Blatter, football has become a strategic game in which the team is a single whole. "The times of simple tactics, when someone attacked, and someone was defending, passed.

On Thursday, the Auction House Sotheby's announced an auction at which valuable lots from the collection of books, manuscripts and letters of Lord Heskett, who died 55 years ago, will be sold. In particular, a copy of the most expensive book from among the auction ever sold at the auction will be put up for the auction - the “birds of America” by the American ornithologist and artist John James Odubon, sold in 2000 at the Christie's $ 8.8 million, writes The Telegraph .

The captain of the Russian national team Andrei Arshavin brought relations between the players of the national team and the leadership of domestic football to a new level. According to Life Sports , he stood that each player of the national team signed an individual agreement with the Russian football union. According to the source, each football player separately discussed the size of his premium with the leaders of the RFU.

The first semi -finalists of the World Basketball Championship were teams of Serbia and Turkey. The wards of Dushan Ivkovich beat the current world and European champions with a score of 92:89, and the owners of the championship unexpectedly largely won Slovenia - 95:68. The most productive players in the team of Serbia were Nemanya Velichkovich and Marco Keshel, who scored 17 points each. The captain of the Spaniards Juan Carlos Navarro brought 27 points to his team.

China’s authorities should speed up the process of strengthening the yuan to the dollar in order to demonstrate the country's trading partners to fulfill his obligations previously taken, the US Timothy Gaitner Treasury Secretary said, RIA Novosti said.