The high court of London on Tuesday begins to consider the appeal of the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange to a decision on his extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of a number of sexual crimes. Hearing will last two days. If, according to their results, the appeal is rejected, then Assange will have another unused resource in stock - appeal to the recently created Supreme Court of Great Britain, Echo of Moscow reports.

Residents of the German city of Bexbach were deprived of the opportunity to visit the local supermarket for three days. On Friday, in the midst of the day, the work of the store paralyzed the “invasion” of the exotic Brazilian wandering spider, whose bite is considered extremely poisonous, reports The Local . The animal was in one of the boxes with bananas and jumped out of there when one of the workers unloaded the products.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Washington made several statements on the topic of Russian-American relations. They were devoted to the visa regime , the construction of anti -missile defense and military operations against Libya.

The driver of the boat, who rolled over and sank on Monday evening on Lake Taurus in the Altai Republic, was drunk, Igor Sizov told Interfax Igor Sizov. Thus, the department confirmed the previously expressed assumption that the sailor Yuri Kazantsev ruled the vessel in a detergent form.

The Pentagon concluded a contract with Komania Engineering and Technology Corporation (SET), the "daughter" of the SAIC Science concern, to provide army units with Counterbomber devices, which are supposed to be implemented by June 2014. The amount of the contract is 48.2 million dollars, the Computer reports with reference to Wired .

In the Ufa Garrison Military Court of Bashkiria, on Tuesday, the process began in the case of the head of the rear support of the military unit of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Bogushevich, who is accused of on September 2010 in his car to death two soldiers, the military prosecutor's office of Bashkiria reported.

The Fund, created by the founder of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates, began research in the field of processing and disposal of human life waste, Vesti.ru reports with reference to the German newspaper Die Welt . Developments are aimed at solving the problems of sanitation in third world countries. Scientists of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are hoping to develop a technology for obtaining electricity from excrement, and from processed urine - drinking water.

The metropolitan law enforcement agencies are looking for four unknown in the Infiniti car, who attacked the Lada driver and took more than 1 million rubles from the victim’s car, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Tuesday. The incident occurred on the Warsaw highway near the house N 142. Four men, following the Infiniti car, blocked the Zhiguli car under the control of the non -working one.

A group of deputies from the LDPR, led by the leader of the faction, Igor Lebedev, introduced a bill to the State Duma to Russians the right to carry short -barreled firearms with bullet cartridges for self -defense, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the apparatus of the lower house of the parliament. According to the bill, Russians will be able to acquire a domestic rifled short -barreled weapon with muzzle energy of no more than 300 joules.

250 thousand companies did not transfer to the budget of Russia not a penny in 2010, follows from the data of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which is published by RBC Daily . At the same time, 66 thousand of them reached 1 million rubles or more over the past year. Thus, according to the statistics of the Central Bank, 12% of payments last year passed by the treasury.

The government is discussing the possibility of selling part of the shares of Rusnano OJSC as part of the privatization program in 2012-2016, Vedomosti writes on Tuesday. On Friday, such a proposal of Rusnano CEO Anatoly Chubais and the Ministry of Economic Development was discussed at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and was generally supported, federal officials told the publication.

The City Court of Tuvinsky Kyzyl sentenced the 26-year-old resident of the village of Kaa-Hem Vitaly Fefelov, who last year on his Nine, crushed four teachers to death . The man will spend four years in a colony-settlement. In addition, Fefelov will lose the driver’s license for three years, Interfax reports. Speaking in court with the last word, the man pleaded his guilt and apologized to the relatives of the victims.

Sales of the French Automobile Conceived PSA Peugeot Citroen increased by 0.2%in January-June, noticeably back on the growth rate of the world car market, Bloomberg reports. The PSA supply volume reached 1.86 million cars and small -tonnage trucks compared with 1.856 million for the same period in 2010. The global car market in six months grew by approximately 6%.

The radio operator of the sunken motor ship "Bulgaria" failed to give a distress signal, since the ship was already de -energized. Other crew members at the time of the disaster grabbed passengers and threw them overboard to save from death, the media reported. The radio operator Rinat Gabitdinov noted that he could not send SOS due to problems with power supply. “When it was necessary to do this (give a distress signal), the ship was de -energized.

There is an exotic tradition on Taiwan Island for about 30 years-the dead are escorted to the last journey of the wagon-wrappers. For a modest fee, these artists speak at the commemoration, exposing completely, writes The Daily Mail newspaper. A researcher from the University of South Carolina (USA) Mark Muscovitz made a whole film about them, but when filming they were not completely exposed, knowing that they were shot on a video camera.