Bacteriologists from the Paris Pasteur Institute have discovered the previously unknown strain of the pathogen of the bubonic plague. It is immune to most antibiotics, including those that are traditionally used to treat this disease. The strain was found in the body of the Madagascar teenager, who was ill with a plague in 95. The boy was saved thanks to the timely introduction of a powerful antibiotic - trimefoprome.

Only 4 percent of Russian privatized enterprises - out of 127 thousand - bought out their land plots, said Elvira Nabibullina, a nucleant of the Russian Minister of Economy at a meeting with the leaders of industrial pre -distribution of St. Petersburg. According to her. This situation restrains Western investors who do not want to invest in enterprises, which, as it were, "hang in the air." The private sector of Moscow already provides 700 thousand jobs more than the public sector.

On Wednesday, the Championship of the Russian Hockey Super League started. The first meeting of the new season took place in Yaroslavl, where the local Torpedo, the winner of the playoffs of the previous championship, won the Penza Dieselist - 3: 2. And in the Russian football championship there was a change of leader. After the victory in the match of the 26th round in Nizhny Novgorod over the local "locomotive" - 2: 1 - the Volgograd "rotor", which scored 53 points, headed the standings.

The star of the world opera scene Montserrat Kabalier arrived in Moscow . She intends to give two concerts in the Russian capital: on the fifth of September in the Great Hall of the Conservatory and September 8 at the Bolshoi Theater. Eleven finalists refused to participate in the Miss Europe contest, which should take place on September sixth at the Kiev Palace of Culture "Ukraine".

8 people were killed and more than a hundred were injured as a result of three powerful explosions that occurred today in the center of Jerusalem on a busy trading street. According to information agencies, among the dead - three self -assholes terrorists. The extremist group "Hamas" took responsibility for the terrorist attack. The Hamas statement also contains a request no later than September 14 to free all the militants of the group. Otherwise, new terrorist attacks will follow.