"Life and Fate" - a huge, 900 -page novel about the Second World War almost to anyone in Britain in Britain, who died almost 50 years ago by the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman - headed this week a list of bestsellers of the British book market, BBC reports.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, speaking the day before at the 66th session of the UN General Assembly in the United States, once again fell upon Russia, accusing the country of organizing terrorist attacks on the international arena and blackmail of neighbors - Ukraine, Belarusian and Moldova. The exposure of Moscow was dedicated to most of the Saakashvili's speech from the UN rostrum.

The Russian stock market completed a week with the wound of indices to the levels of summer last year. As Interfax explains, this happened due to Western sales and mass forced closure of positions by players on the signals "Marzhin-Call"; The pace of price collapse reminded of the 2008 crisis.

In the coming years, the Earth awaits the whole "satellite". Following the wreckage of UARS American meteorological satellite, which should fall , according to some data, to the Indian Ocean, and according to others - to the north of Italy, the remains of the German spacecraft will fall on Earth, Interfax reports. Presumably, the German orbital telescope Rosat will fall around the end of October.

The next mass fight, arranged by the tireless tafgami of the Vityaz club near Moscow in the KHL regular season match against Magnitogorsk Metallurg, caused a negative reaction from the veteran of domestic hockey Sergey Fedorov. In the end of the meeting in Magnitogorsk, lost by the Chekhov team with a score of 0: 4, the player "Vityaz" Jeremy Yablonski, passing by the goalkeeper of Magnitogorsk George Gelashvili, hit him in the back with a club into an unprotected part of the leg.

The head coach of the Al-Vasl football club from the UAE, the legendary Diego Maradona fell into another scandal. The Argentinean specialist hit an annoying fan who prevented him from taking pictures against the background of a banner with words of support from his grandson. On a banner with the al-Vasla emblem there was an inscription in Spanish "Grandpa, I love and support you.

Catholic priests in the United States called on Barack President Obama to join the institution of marriage in the country in order to avoid a major conflict at the national level between the church and the state. This is stated on Friday in the publication on the pages of the newspaper Washington Post .

The American film academy agreed to accept an application for the nomination for the Oscar of the film by Nikita Mikhalkov, Citadel without the signature of the head of the Russian Oscar Committee Vladimir Menshov, who thus expressed his protest , the Izvestia newspaper writes. According to the publication, the Presidium of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia reached such an agreement with American colleagues.

The Israeli defense army on Friday raised the level of combat readiness of the troops to the maximum. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the message of the IDF press service, this is due to the information received about the impending terrorist attack on the Israeli-Egyptian border. According to the Israeli military, the Hamas Islamist group, which several years ago seized power in the gas sector, is preparing a terrorist act on the border of Israel and Egypt.

Judge of the Supreme Court of Kalmykia Mikhail Pugaev was injured as a result of an accident in which he got into in the Volgograd region. The accident occurred on Friday night on the Volgograd-Moscow highway. The foreign car driven by Pugaev was hit by a passenger car that flew into the oncoming lane after a collision with a truck. As a result of the incident, the judge received fractures to his leg and arm, and he was taken to a regional hospital in the Volgograd region.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation once again failed to agree with the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) on the terms of the tender for the supply of 11 Yak-130 training aircraft in the framework of the state defense order (GOZ) before the end of this year. The department, as before, did not suit the price.

The analytical agency Avtostat, based on the study of car sales statistics, called the most popular cars among Russians. The project was attended by 10 largest Russian cities. The taste preferences of most of their inhabitants are not too different. The studies included such cities as: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, Krasnodar, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan. Analysts calculated the number of cars sold, starting from January to July this year.

The elder of the Indian Dynasty of the Royal Family Travorkor 89-year-old vurifications Warma said the day before that he would fight for the inviolability of the last cache with treasures in the ancient temple of Padmanabhasvami in the capital of Keral Trivandrum. Earlier, the Supreme Court of India decided to open the last of the six rooms, where it is believed to rest the most valuable treasure.

Israel rejected the compromise proposal of France President Nicolas Sarkozy to recognize the state of Palestine and accept it as a united nation (UN) not as a member, but as an observer without applying for the security council, Interfax reports with reference to the Spanish agency EFE . "We do not oppose the creation of the Palestinian state. However, this state should appear as a result of negotiations.

The largest Russian Internet company "Yandex" on Friday, September 23, marks 14 years. In honor of this, the company posted on its main page a festive logo that imitates the design of the Russian passport. As explained by RIA Novosti, the press secretary of the company Ochir Mandzhikov, Yandex decided to celebrate their birthday in this way, since Russian citizens receive their first passport at the age of 14.