In the United States, a train that transported dangerous chemicals suffered an accident. The incident occurred last Sunday in the area of ​​the city of Baton-Rozh (Louisiana). 26 out of 76 wagons of the composition belonging to Union Pacific, they left the rails, as a result of which at least two wagons a chemical leak occurred.

In the district center of the Russian Polyana of the Omsk Region, the police detained a villain suspected of raping and killing a young child. The victim of the criminal was the girl whom he lured to his home, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports. The alleged pedophile-killer is a 32-year-old man who was judged for theft on the collective farm. He faces a life -long period of imprisonment.

The head of the "Russian railways" and the Andrei Fund of the First -Called Vladimir Yakunin refused to say how much it cost to bring the Cross of Andrew the First -Called to Russia, one of the Christian shrines. At the weekend, the cross, insured by 10 million euros, returned to Greece. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Yakunin preferred not to stop on the financial aspects. He only announced the articles on which it was possible to save.

The story with the beating of a journalist and municipal deputy Vera Kichanova and her friends in the capital's bar "Kamchatka" began to play with new colors: a victim began to write a certain Armen Harutyunyan, announcing that he participated in a brawl. His correspondence with Kichanova confirms her words that young people were beaten not only because they took them for gays - the attackers also hurt that they danced under the song American Boy, parodying Dmitry Medvedev's dance .

On Monday, the Nikulinsky court of Moscow found the guilty of Alexei Rusakov in the commission of an accident , as a result of which the famous actress Marina Golub and driver Dmitry Turkin died in the fall of 2012. In the absence of mitigating circumstances in the case, as well as given the accused’s refusal to admit his guilt, the court satisfied the petition of the state prosecution, which asked for Rusakov 6.5 years of the colony of general regime, Interfax reports.

The new actor in the science fiction series BBC “Doctor Who” (Docator Who) will be a Scottish actor, director and writer Peter Kapaldi. He will become the twelfth doctor and will replace Matt Smith, who leaves the series, reports the Russian BBC service . The series "Doctor Who", which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of this year, talks about an alien - a doctor, traveling in time and space on the Tardis spacecraft in the form of a police booth.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin did not agree with Roscosmos's report on the causes of the Proton-M missile accident, which collapsed immediately after launch from Baikonur. The space department blames the manufacturers of technology, they do not admit their guilt. Rogozin declares negligence and compares Russian experts with the heroes of the film "Armageddon". According to the official version, the incorrect installation of three angular velocity sensors led to the crash of Proton-M.

Those who plan to purchase housing in Europe, August can be devoted to views. And even in September and October, it is better to take a hurry with the purchase, analysts advise. However, this does not apply to elite housing. European real estate this month may rise in price by 10%. According to experts interviewed by Kommersant FM , this is due to the influx of tourists to popular resorts. The decline in housing prices in Europe, in their opinion, will begin only in the fall.

The United States is going to revise the President of Barack Obama President in the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, if his meeting with Vladimir Putin is canceled due to the provision of temporary asylum by the ex-CIA employee and the NSA Edward Snowden. According to American experts, in any case, Obama will be in a difficult situation, and serious damage has already been caused to the relations of the two countries, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

If the Panamanian boxer Guillermo Jones is disqualified for the use of doping, the world champion title according to the World Boxing Association (WBA) in the weight category up to 90.71 kg will not become vacant, but will go to the Russian Denis Lebedev. In an interview with ITAR-TASS , the former manager Lebedev Vladimir Khryunov stated this.

St. Petersburg artists Oleg Zayka, Evgeny Kozlov and Oleg Maslov sued Sergey “Africa” Bugaev after they discovered “Assa”: the last generation of the Leningrad avant -garde “more than two dozen of their works, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the legal representative of the artists Andrei Vasiliev. "The claim is that the ownership of Sergei Bugaev are works that legally belong to my principals. They are their authors and owners. They are illegally with Bugaev," Vasiliev said.

Almost every fourth resident of Russia this year was fined for violating traffic rules movement, the amount of penalties exceeded 12 billion rubles, reported the Main Road Safety Directorate (GUOBDD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs RF. How much of this amount went to the budget is not specified.

Sberbank mortgages on Sberbank mortgage loans can be reduced for a number of categories of borrowers when reducing inflation and with a normal liquidity situation. About this, according to RBC , said the chairman of the board of Sberbank German Gref at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Preliminary assessments of industrial production indicators in July indicate that the Russian economy from stagnation rolled into a recession. This fact first confirmed the study conducted by the Higher School of Economics, and then the PMI HSBC PMI index .

The Spanish striker Roberto Soldado successfully underwent a medical examination and signed a contract with the English football club Tottenham, spurs report on their official website . The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, however, according to the media, the transfer of the 28-year-old Spaniard will cost the British 30 million euros, which is a record for the London club.