The index, reflecting changes in the volume of incomplete transactions for the sale of houses (Pending Home Sales) in the US secondary market, in July of this year decreased by 1.3% compared to June and amounted to 89.7 points, the report of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said. Analysts surveyed by the Dailyfx.com information and analytical Internet portal predicted a decrease in the indicator by 0.9% in monthly terms.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, they find out the reasons for the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter with officials who made an inspection trip to the objects of the tourist cluster in this mountainous area. Of the 13 people on board, five - two crew members and three passengers - were hospitalized, their condition is evaluated as satisfactory. What was without casualties, everyone considers a miracle. According to the survivors, they now have a second birthday.

In September, a bill will be submitted to the State Duma, which allows for life to deprive the driver's rights for drunk riding. This document was developed by the All -Russian Public Organization "Anti -Alcohol Front". However, it is not immediately proposed to deprive the rights, but only after the third detention, the Izvestia publication reports. “The first time was drunk - an accident, the second time is not a system, but the third is a malicious relapse.

Roscosmos is working simultaneously on the investigation of two major accidents: with the Progress M-12M truck and the Express-AM4 satellite. Due to the collapse of "Progress", the American aerospace agency NASA fears that the International Space Station runs the risk of being left without astronauts. In this case, you will have to manage the ISS operation in unmanned mode, which will increase the likelihood of breakdowns and accidents, reports Associated Press.

The Investigative Committee of Russia is alarmed by a sharp jump in the number of murders of children committed by mothers. In just a few months, the number of female childcents exceeded 60 people. This year, a nightmare record can set, since in six months only 64 criminal cases were instituted at mothers suspected of murders of minors, Russian newspaper writes. The leader in such crimes is the Central Federal District, where 20 criminal cases have been instituted against “black mothers”.

Members of the family of Muammar Gaddafi, who arrived in Algeria, left for another country. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Sky News TV channel. Which state they are directed to, is not specified. At the same time, according to AFP, which RIA Novosti refers to, the Libyans are still in Algeria.

On August 30, for the first time, the International Day of victims of violent extinction, established by the UN last year, is celebrated. UN experts in a special statement issued on this occasion indicate that in many countries arrests, detention and abduction are still practiced, often used as a way of combating the opposition within the country, the Air Force reports.

The holiday is celebrated after the end of the month of the Ramadan post, in Chechnya they will begin to celebrate a day later than in other regions. This was reported on Tuesday by the representative of the mufti of the republic on Tuesday .

The marginal maximum vacation prices for beef and pork in Belarus are increasing by 10%, the website of the country's Ministry of Economy reports. The agency notes that the increase in price is introduced in order to compensate for the rise in cost of the cost of meat raw materials, eliminate the disparity between the prices of the external and domestic market and saturate the republic’s market in the necessary volumes.

In the German city of Bonn, the authorities plan to replenish the treasury annually by 300 thousand euros due to the tax fee "for erotic services" from prostitutes. On one of the highways of the former capital of Germany, where it is allowed to engage in street prostitution, a special automatic machine has already been installed, writes The Local . Now, local confans, regardless of the number of customers per night, should officially “park” - take a ticket, or rather pay a tax of 6 euros.

The US Presidential Commission in the United States completed the investigation of the episode when in 1946-48, American doctors deliberately infected people in Guatemala with syphilis. Along the way, the commission reported that the practice of targeted infection of people with sexually transmitted diseases for research purposes existed in America itself, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Duma election campaign can start with personnel permutations in the government. On the eve of this prospect, the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov spoke. According to him, the nomination of ministers to the electoral lists of United Russia may be the beginning of changes in the government. An overview of the articles of the Russian press about the prospects of the election campaign was prepared by the Portal "Headings.ru" .

The quotas allocated by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation for 2011 to receive high -tech medical care by Russians by 80% by mid -August. As a result of the operation, 20 areas of medicine, including children, will be transferred for up to six months. Patients who need this kind of help urgently will have to be treated for their money, Kommersant newspaper found out.

In the 98th year of life, the People's Artist of Russia Alla Bayanova died, Interfax reports with reference to the relatives of the singer. According to them, Bayanova passed away in the first Moscow hospice. Alla Bayanova (real name Levitskaya) is a famous Romanian and Russian pop singer, performer of Russian songs and romances, author of music to many romances from his vast repertoire. She was born on May 18, 1914 in Chisinau (then the center of the Bessarabian province) in an artistic family.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation believes that one of the options for using income from the sale of films created before 1993 could become their transfer to the Film Fund, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy director of the Mincitum Cinema Department Igor Kallistov. Recall that now the rights to films created by all federal state film studios, mainly in Soviet times, is managed by the United State Film Collection (OGK).