Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev expressed interest in buying assets of News of the World of a large scandal of the newspaper, Interfax reports. “I would like to, but I don’t know if this will allow the current depth of my pocket. If I could sell part of my business in Aeroflot or in the banking sector, I would be very, very interested. I would say that I would have managed to start News of the World under a different brand,” Lebedev said in an interview Bloomberg agency.

The victims of the earthquake of the magnitude of 6.5-7.0, which occurred on the night of a Wednesday of 235 km from Tashkent, became 13 residents of Uzbekistan. 86 people were injured, and 35 of them needed hospitalization. This was reported in the Ministry of Emergencies of the republic, reports ITAR-TASS. The earthquake occurred at 23:35 Moscow time on Tuesday.

The State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov will not take part in the primaries of the "All -Russian Popular Front" to the place in the list of candidates for deputies from "United Russia". In the State Duma, he will probably not be advanced from St. Petersburg. The selection of candidates ended on Tuesday, Gryzlova is not in any regional list, writes Gazeta.Ru . The day before it was reported that Gryzlov was included in the St. Petersburg list.

The scandalous work of the ex-head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of Dominic Stross-Kana is overgrown with more and more piquant details from the personal life of the French elite.

The share of refusals to issue American entry visas is about 23 percent. This is evidenced by the new official statistics of the US government. According to data that cover the 2010 financial year, in total, during this period, the US authorities received 9,074,958 appeals for obtaining various types of American entry visas - both non -immigrant and immigration. The refusal of the petitioners was responded in 2,170 154 cases.

The repeated doping of the Russian bicycle worker Alexander Kolobnev gave a positive result. If the Katyusha athlete is not able to prove his innocence, he faces a two -year disqualification and a fine of five annual salaries, L'Equipe reports. A few days earlier after a positive test, “A”, one of the leaders of the Russian cycling team was forced to withdraw from the most prestigious multi-day “Tour de France”, in the general classification of which at that time occupied 69th place.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the law on state regulation of production and ethyl alcohol turnover, Finmarket reports with reference to the Kremlin press service. The new law was adopted within the framework of the anti -alcohol campaign expanded by the executive branch. In particular, the document determines places in which the retail sale of alcohol is not allowed, and also establishes a list of public places where drinking alcoholic beverages is not allowed.

579 people who consider themselves victims of sexual violence and require financial compensation turned to the conference of the Catholic bishops of Germany. In 560 cases, a special commission, which includes psychologists, lawyers and theologians, has already approved the issuance of compensation money within 5,000 euros. In some cases, on the basis of special conclusions, the commission is recommended several greater payments, reports the Sedmitsa.Ru portal with reference to the KNA agency.

On Wednesday, mobile phones and e -mail representatives of the Taliban terrorist Islamist movement were hacked by hackers and sent false reports about the death of the spiritual leader of the Taliban Mullah Mohammad Omar. They said that the founder of the movement died, "may Allah bless his soul." The one -eyed recluse Omar is one of the most wanted criminals in the world.

The American authorities accused two Pakistanis of illegal work for the Pakistan government in the United States. This was reported by the Ministry of Justice of the United States. One of the defendants - a 62 -year -old resident of one of Washington’s suburbs Said Nabi Fai, has already been arrested. 63-year-old US citizen Zahir Ahmad, as reported, "is free, presumably in Pakistan." Both faces a imprisonment for a period of five years, ITAR-TASS reports.

Deputy Head of the Department of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Colonel Natalya Vinogradova, who took part in the investigation of the case of a lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Investment Fund Sergey Magnitsky , may be involved in a bribe of 40 thousand dollars for the resumption of a terminated criminal case, says the chairman of the National Anti -Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov in a statement sent to a statement sent The name of

Due to disputes with Turkey and tension in relations with ENI, the Kremlin will probably postpone the South Stream project for an indefinite time, but will not refuse it completely, inopressa.ru writes with reference to the article in the Italian newspaper il sole 24 Ore . The Kremlin considers the possibility of freezing the implementation of the Italian-Russian maxi-project "South Stream", according to which 63 billion cubic meters of Siberian gas should be entered in many European countries.

The National Court of Spain sentenced to the "owner of the laundry Russian Mafia" Leon Lanna, who was extradited from Russia in May 2011. A deadly ill -ill criminal authority is found guilty of laundering money for a thief in the Law of Zakharia Kalashov nicknamed Shakro young. Lann was sentenced to five years in prison and a fine of 7 million euros, Rosbalt reports.

Former Bishop Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, known for the critical performances against the Chinese authorities, called the current relationship between the Vatican and Beijing the "war". Following the excommunication from the church, the Chinese priest Joan Bingjan, ordained without a papal mandate to the bishops of the city of Shantow, the Chinese authorities reported the new bishopric palmistry, the Sedmitsa.Ru portal reports.

The 38-year-old resident of the Sverdlovsk region for the first time asked to apply a new punishment for pedophiles in the form of castration. The Yekaterinburzher is suspected of a series of rape of adolescents, whom he "leased" for the weekend from the orphanage. All this was done quite officially and with the knowledge of the management of the institution and guardianship authorities. In one of the interrogations, the arrested sexual maniac asked him to castrate him, the New Region reports.