American astronomers discovered in the neighborhood with the solar system a record cold star, the temperature of which does not exceed indoor and below the temperature of the human body - only 25 degrees Celsius, reports NASA . The star, which received the designation Wise 1828+2650, belongs to the class of "failed stars" or brown dwarfs. Their mass is less than 7% of the mass of the sun (about 70 masses of Jupiter).

Engineers Tom Krupenkin and Ashley Taylor from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA) suggested paying attention to the electricity effect, in which the conductor fluid “sticks” to the water-repellent surface, if current is carried out. {pic_1 c} They were convinced that this process also works “in the opposite direction”, and when driving drops of the conductor on the surface of the thin films repulsing water, electricity is produced.

The efforts of the young architectural company Gesamtkonzept near the Turkish consulate in Hanover, Germany, a new mobile police station appeared. He replaced the old police minibus Volkswagen, which was constantly at this place to protect the consulate, they write Archinovo.ru . The police minibus constantly located in sight did not really decorate the area near the consulate, which is why the idea was put forward to replace it with something more attractive.

The Russian national football team rose to five positions and took 13th place in the ranking of the International Football Federation (FIFA), the organization’s official website reports. In the July rating, the Dick's team of a lawyer was located in 18th place . The Russians on August 10 in Moscow beat the Serbs with a score of 1: 0 (the victorious ball in the second half was scored by Pavel Pogrebnyak).

The Bab El-Azias quarter in Tripoli no longer exists. He is erased from the face of the earth with 64 NATO air strikes. This was stated today by the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, speaking to the nation on the air of the local radio station. Gaddafi’s appeal was also transmitted by the Syrian television channel Al-Uruba, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Estonia, the fifth international festival of traditional Orthodox culture of the Old Believers "Papus" ended the day before, during which concerts of Old Believer spiritual singing were held. The festival took place as part of the program "Tallinn - Cultural Capital of Europe 2011". Papus is the name of Lake Peipsi on the historical maps of Estonia of the period of German and Swedish rule.

The Ministry of Finance proposes to change the rules for compulsory civil liability insurance of vehicles (OSAGO) in connection with a change in the technical inspection of cars and the participation of insurers in it, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in connection with the 60th birthday of the first president of the Republic, Akhmat Kadyrov gave an interview to the Chechen media, in which he expressed an opinion on corruption , unemployment, Islam and the development of the region.

The agency approved the development program, according to which the share of families that have the opportunity to purchase housing with their own and borrowed funds should grow to 30% in 2015 and up to 50% in 2020. The issuance of mortgage loans by all market participants should increase almost three times.

In Primorye, where last week, the cerebral sharks crippled two vacationers, amateur fishermen caught a two-meter shark. The sea predator was caught in the Mirror Bay on Monday. "The size of the shark is 2.2 meters. The three of them were barely dragged into the boat," the signature of the photographs published by the Primorye -24 news agency said.

Inflation in Vietnam increased in August to 23% in annual calculus, this is the highest rate in Asia, BBC British television and radio corporation reports. According to the country's statistical management, the cost of food and drinks increased by 34%. However, some economists believe that inflation most likely reached the maximum this month and will decline because of government measures taken to curb prices.

After the rebels took control of part of the triple, including the fortified government residence of Bab-al-Azias , the world media continue to find out the whereabouts of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Local radio stations and television channels convey its fresh audio figures. In one of the last, Caddafi said that he made a secret trip to the capital. “I examined Tripoli a bit, remaining noticed by people.

The fallen fragments of the M-12M progress cargo spacecraft were found at three points in the Altai Republic, including in the Lake Taurus, as well as on one of the mountain peaks, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the rescue services of the region. According to him, as a result of the fall of debris, according to preliminary data, no one was injured. “There should not have been people in those places,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft, launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome, could not be taken to target orbit, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the space industry. Apparently, the ship gained a great height, after which it began to decline sharply, fell apart and almost completely burned in the dense layers of the atmosphere.

The Moody's International rating agency reduced the rating of the long -term sovereign debt of Japan, pointing out the threatening size of the budget deficit and debt of the country of the rising sun. The rating was reduced from AA3 to AA2, but Moody's indicated that the forecast is stable, the Air Force reports.