The youngest of those presented in the ranking is the 25-year-old singer Lady Gaga, and the most elderly was the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II (85 years old) It is worth noting that there was no place for Russians in the list, while the Americans in it are more than half - 65 people. In addition, three Chinese women and three citizens of India fell into the rating of the most influential women of the planets.

The deputy general designer of the RSC Energia, the cosmonaut pilot Valery Ryumin believes that the quality of the work of the space industry enterprises worsened, as he said in an interview, published on the blog of journalist Timur Olevsky. “Quality, of course, worsens - this must be admitted. And this, in fact, so. Because, of course, the control has become much less thorough than it was in those distant Soviet times. Because then there was military acceptance except OTC.

The Moscow City Court postponed until August 26 a decision on the arrest of a suspect in the organization of the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovsky retired police lieutenant colonel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, RAPSI reports. Thus, the Basmanny Court granted the suspect defense of the suspect for additional delay in connection with the need to collect certificates of his health and family composition.

The status and curricula of Russian art schools will be changed from the new school year, the RIA Novosti website reports. It is expected that in this way the Ministry of Education and Culture will be able to return to the previous level the quality of education in this area, largely lost as a result of previously adopted laws.

The League of the Arab states recognized the national transition council of rebels by the legal authorities in Libya, reports Reuters . August 25 Secretary General League of Arab states Filled al -Arabi said that the Council of the rebels will be provided with a place of a permanent representative in the organization. Until now, the government of the rebels had only the status of an observer in the league.

The founder and head of Apple Steve Jobs officially leaves the post of head of the company. Instead, the main executive director of Apple will be Tim Cook, writes Wall Street Journal . On the Council of Directors on Wednesday, Jobs "strongly recommended" Cook's advice as his successor. Jobs was elected chairman of the council.

The Chinese Ministry of Culture has presented a list of 100 compositions that are prohibited from distributing on the Internet, Agency France-Press reports. The forbidden list included songs of such famous performers as Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Backstreet Boys. As explained in the ministry, these compositions "harm state culture." The record holder of the list is Lady Gaga - the four compositions of the singer (“The Edge of Glory”, “Hair”, “Marry the Night” and “Bloody Mary”) were banned.

Interfax reports that if the State Duma elections took place on the nearly Sunday, 54% of voters who determined preferences would have voted for the party in power, showed the Levada Center survey, which was conducted on August 19-23 among 1600 respondents in 130 settlements in 45 regions of the country. Studies of sociologists indicate that the rating of United Russia is stable, and the party can count on 64% of places in the Duma.

A homemade explosive device worked in one of the private houses in Nazran on Thursday during the operation to neutralize it, the RIA Novosti website reports. As a result of the incident, no one was injured. Earlier on Thursday, two homemade explosive devices were found in private houses in different areas of Nazran. So, in a residential building in Nasyr Korsky district of the city on Thursday, a homemade device was found like a capacity of 5-10 kilograms in TNT equivalent.

The collective of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra (GASO) named after Evgeny Svetlanov opposed his artistic director and chief conductor Mark Gorenstein, the Independent Gazeta reports. The musicians said the unwillingness to work under the current leadership in their letter to the Ministry of Culture. In total, 60 orchestrandants signed under the letter.

Highness of oxide fuel, which drove to the ISS , which fell on Altai, the Progress Coaching Commercial Complex, burned down in the atmosphere. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" as a source in the source in the rocket and space industry . This information was confirmed by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko. He stated that there were no traces of heptil in the water water in the area of ​​the fall in the rocket.

Colonel Gaddafi has already been written off from accounts. However, the battles in Tripoli are still ongoing and no one can say how much it will last. Like no one is able to say what the next government of Libya will be. Finally, the fate of Russian interests in the country under a big question. Colonel Gaddafi does not matter.

On the night of August 25, two citizens of Moldova were detained in the south of Moscow, who are suspected of setting fire to BMW X6 and Maserati cars on Lyusinovskaya Street, Izvestia writes. The attackers set fire to cars in a guarded parking lot at 53 Lyusinovskaya Street at about two in the morning. The parking lot security guards called the firefighters, but by the time they arrived, the flames had completely destroyed the BMW X6, and the Maserati's hood had burned out.

Apple head Steve Jobs turned to the board of directors with a letter in which he said that he immediately leaves the post of general director of the company. He did not write about the disease, he simply reported the fact: "I have always if the ever easer a day i cold no longer Meet my duties and expectations as apple's ceo, i wooldst to let you Know. Instead of Jobs, CEO Appl will be Tim Cook, which, in fact, Jobs proposed to this place in his letter.

The environment ministers of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg have opposed a proposal to retain some German nuclear power units as reserve capacity to maintain balance in the energy grid. Lucia Pattrich, Minister for the Environment of Hesse, where the Byblis B nuclear power plant is located, said she does not support the idea of ​​keeping the 1,300 MW power unit, which has been in operation for thirty-four years, in reserve.