The Syrian television channel Al-Gi-Bariya said on Saturday that the militants abducted four employees of the television channel in the suburbs of AT-Bel north of Damascus. Journalists were captured on Friday evening, when they were on a mission in this area, where clashes between the government army and rebels regularly flare up. This is not the first attack on journalists of the prosperous media in Syria.

The candidate of US President from the Republican Party Mitt Romni chose vice president, in conjunction with whom he would fight for a chair in the White House with Barack Obama. The official announcement will occur at a special ceremony in the city of Norfolk Virginia. However, a number of American media, citing sources in the Republican of Paria, reported on Saturday morning that Romnie chose the young and energetic Ryan, known for the ambitious plan to save the US economy.

Russian Maria Savinova brought the country the fifth Golden Olympic medal per day, having won a confident victory in the final race of 800 meters. She managed to get ahead of the south -African Caster Semyon more than a second. Bronze was taken by another Russian woman Ekaterina Skstogova. - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions The last representative of the Russian Federation in the final of 800 m Elena Arzakova completed the sixth race.

About 50 people died and about 400 were injured on Saturday as a result of an earthquake in the northwest of Iran, AFP reports citing local authorities. The shocks were reported from Yerevan - but in Armenia and Azerbaijan, unlike Iran, there were no casualties . The Air Force correspondent in Iran said that the connection with the injured areas was interrupted - as a result of the earthquake, communication lines were damaged.

Once again, the Afghan military turned their weapons against their American colleagues, shooting six US troops, the American headquarters in Afghanistan reported on Saturday. The first incident occurred on Friday evening. The head of the district police in the province of Gilmend invited to join the dinner at the checkpoint of three American marines, after which he shot them.

The traffic police prepared the draft administrative regulations for receiving exams from future drivers and issuing rights. The procedure will last 3.5 hours instead of 5, while the exams themselves will become more complicated: the number of tests on the site will become larger, and errors in theory can be made less. It will not be possible to “pay” the exam in a driving school - they will be removed from the organization, Kommersant reports.

In Vladivostok, two new bridges were opened at once - through the Bay the Golden Horn and the Amur Bay. Both structures were built as part of the city’s preparation program for the APEC summit and marked by the scandal right on the eve of the opening: the traffic police stated that the movement on them is unsafe , did not correspond to the GOSTs and, as a result, would only add traffic jams to the city.

The women's Olympic Mountinbayka tournament in Cross Cantry was won by the Frenchwoman Julie Bress. The gold medalist was ahead of the German Sabina Spitz for a minute. The bronze medalist was the American Georgia Gold. - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions Two-time world champion, bronze medalist of games-2008 Russian woman Irina Kalentieva finished the fourth, losing the GULD of 33 seconds.

For the third time in a row , the American writer James Patterson headed the list of the highest paid writers on the planet according to Forbes magazine. From May 2011 to May 2012, he earned $ 94 million, publishing 14 new books. The 65-year-old Patterson is recognized as one of the most striking masters of such a genre as a thriller. His most famous bestsellers became books from the cycle about the American psychologist Alex Cross.

Russian athletes won six gold Olympic medals on Saturday, which made this day the most effective at the current London Olympiad. In general, in a day, rowers, fighters and athletes won 15 medals - no one won so much in one day. Anna Chicherova confidently took gold in height jumping , jumping a bar at a height of 2.05. Maria Savinova won an amazing acceleration on the finish line of 800 meters . Another Russian woman Ekaterina Skstogova became the third.

The resonant appointment of the innovator Kirill Serebrennikov, the Gogol Theater, provoked a conflict: on Saturday, the theater actors published an open letter on the President Putin, the mayor of Moscow, the Minister of Culture and the theater officials with a request to protect the theater from the Raidersky capture. Serebrennikov published a link to a letter on his Facebook page , writing in the comments: "It seems that this is straight ... Incredibly, prohibitively cool!

The Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko said that there were many episodes at the Olympic Games in London, in which there was an ambiguous referee. - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions The day before the end of the Olympic Games, the Russian team occupies the fourth line in the team standings.

At the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics tournament, Russians Evgeny Kanaeva won gold, becoming a two-time Olympic champion after the victory in Beijing 2008. She received in total four exercises in the final 116,900 points. Silver went to another representative of Russia Daria Dmitrieva (114,500), bronze - Belarusian Lyubov Charkashina (111,700). - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions Kanaeva was the leader in three types of exercises - with a hoop, a ball and maces.

The dream of the entire Brazilian people about the conquest of the Golden Medal of the Olympiad to the Golden Medal of the Olympiad crashed into pieces. In the final of the 2012 Games football tournament in London, the pentacons were bits with a modest Mexican team with a score of 1: 2. - Diary of games-2012.

Russian President Vladimir Putin amended the Regulation on the State Council of the Russian Federation. It included the heads of the chambers of the parliament, the Presidential Envoy, the leaders of the factions in the State Duma, ITAR-TASS reports.