55-year-old Valentin Simachenko, who worked for several years in law enforcement agencies in the then Leningrad, became the main character of the London carnival after helping the law enforcement officers catch a criminal who arranged a stabbing at the festival. The incident occurred on Monday evening, when the festive events were already coming to an end. Seeing how a teenager with a knife escapes after the attack, Simachenko instinctively put him a bandwagon, writes The Daily Telegraph .

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trading Session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day takes place, decreased by 3.67 kopecks and amounted to 28.8911 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 fell by 29.75 kopecks - up to 41,4739 rubles.

The Honda Pilot crossover underwent restyling, after which it retained the same technical content, but received a modernized design of the front part of the body and a modified interior. The new model has already gone on sale in the United States, Motor.ru reports. The updated Pilot differs from the pre-restyling version by headlights with a modified internal structure, a new front bumper, a modernized radiator grille, and new design wheels, which will be available in sizes of 17 or 18 inches.

The Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow on Wednesday dismissed a civil case regarding the recovery of more than 230 thousand rubles from “Time Machine” guitarist Evgeniy Margulis for an apartment that was flooded due to the musician’s fault, the RAPSI agency reports. According to the case file, on August 20 last year, as a result of a rupture of a flexible hose installed in the mixer in Margulis’s apartment, the apartment of his neighbor Leonardo Faraoni was flooded.

120 cadets of the Baltic State Academy of the Fisheries Fleet and Kaliningrad Naval College, making a sea campaign at the Kruzenshttern sailboat, the crew of the illustrious barcone, as well as a delegation of 50 fans of the Amber Territory will support the Russian team in a match with the Georgian national team in basketball, reports ITAR-TASS . The meeting starts at 19:00 Moscow time. Until this moment, the Russians and Georgians did not play among themselves.

Another large scandal is flared up in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Two law enforcement officers, which recently underwent reform, and all employees were re -certified, are suspected of kidnapping and extortion, Life News reports.

Conflicting data is received about the number of victims as a result of a bromine leak from the railway composition in Chelyabinsk. According to local authorities, the number of people who have been negatively exposed to this toxic substance has already exceeded 140 people. Previously, only 100 victims were reported. According to other information, there are several times less such people. Dozens of people are hospitalized. Their condition is evaluated as satisfactory.

The world's largest tobacco campaign is trying to access confidential information about British adolescents, Inopressa.ru writes, providing an investigation into the British newspaper Independent . It turned out that Philip Morris International is trying to force British Steering University to publish all the details of the research, including confidential surveys of thousands of children 11-16 years old about their attitude to smoking and design of cigarette packs.

More than 13 million Russian schoolchildren will sit at their desks in the new 2011-2012 academic year, of which almost one and a half million first -graders, who are 33 thousand more than in the past. The reverse trend is observed at universities: this year more than 7 million students will study at the universities of the Russian Federation, this is half a million less than in 2010-2011, RIA Novosti reports.

An elderly resident of the American state Florida miraculously survived as a result of an attack by an alligator. The three-meter predator attacked the 90-year-old Margaret Webb when she was heading for her house in the Copplend area, Iar-Tass reports with reference to the Florida Wildlife protection commission. The animal grabbed the woman by the leg and tried to drag the canal into the nearby, but she fought off with all her might.

The brawl ended on the road in Belarus, the conflict between employees of the local traffic police and Russian citizens, whom they detained in the car, presumably for driving drunken form. The YouTube video that appeared recently shows that the inspectors tried to apply for a protocol for the BMW driver with the numbers of the Moscow region, she tried to avoid it in all possible ways. The conflict began with the fact that the girl refused to get out of the car. “This is my personal car.

In the second half of September, the social network Facebook can submit its own music service, rumors about which have been going on for a long time, reports the computational with reference to Reuters. “Informed sources” told the agency that the Facebook musical service will be an open media platform in the same way as in the case of applications and games for the social network.

The overthrown Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi tried to achieve a telephone conversation with the president of Algeria to ask for asylum in his country, the Algerian press claims. However, the head of state Abdelaziz Butflik refused to communicate with the colonel, writes the local newspaper El Watan . "One of the presidential advisers told the Libyan leader that Buteflik could not talk to him," a source close to the Algerian leader told the publication.

The new Palace of the Mayan empire was discovered on the territory of the Southern Mexican state of Cheyapas archaeologists of this country, ITAR-TASS reports. According to representatives of the National Institute of Anthropology and the History of Mexico, the ancient city in whose territory the palace was discovered was created about 2 thousand years ago.

Several hundred people were forced to leave their homes due to strong forest fires raging in the American states of Texas and Oklahom. Currently, about 1.5 thousand hectares of forest are covered by fire. More than seven thousand houses were left without electricity as a result of the fact that fire destroyed power lines, ITAR-TASS reports. The emergence of forest fires was facilitated by record heat, which stood in the central regions of the country all summer.