- The new Russian bankruptcy law, having passed both chambers of the parliament, stumbled upon the veto of the president. - Cars and duties. In the section "Panorama" - about state policy in automobile markets: Germany, Poland, Italy, Ukraine. - A review of the publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist".

The British crow Betty learned to use garden wire to make a hook and use it to get vasty foods. According to researchers from Oxford University, holding this device in its beak, she pulled out a bucket with pieces of meat from a vertically set pipe. According to scientists, this is probably the first case known to science when the bird made a tool designed to perform a specific task.

The court in Germany today refused to free the former head of one of the Nazi concentration camps from prison - Joseph Schwamberger, who is serving a lifelong opinion. This decision was made taking into account the severity of the crimes of the former SS. Schwamberger asked for liberation, referring to his advanced age - 90 years - and poor health. In 1992, he was found guilty of the death of several hundred Jews during the Second World War.

The number of flood victims near Novorossiysk continues to grow. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, at least 24 people and more than a hundred were missing. The most difficult situation developed in the settlements of Abrau-Durso, a wide beam and dry gap. The authorities cannot evacuate about 700 people from there-due to the breakthrough of the dam by the village of Abrau-Durso.

Evgeny Bovkun , Bonn: the prosecutor of the land court in Dresden read for more than an hour the charge, which was charged to seven members of the prohibited law -schedule group "Skinheda of Saxon Switzerland". Brut -headed accused with runic emblems on jackets and pulver, listened to him, grinning, and their lawyer tried to interrupt the prosecutor, for which he received a strict remark of the judge.

The Spanish police revealed a criminal group that forced women from Eastern Europe to prostitution. In addition to Spain, criminals acted in France and Italy. Three leaders of the group were detained - citizens of Bulgaria. The arrests were produced after two women who managed to escape contacted the police. The criminals lured their victims with promises to provide highly paid work in the West. Some were simply abducted.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the bodies of the five dead were discovered today, presumably as a result of a tornado held on Thursday. The bodies were found at sea in the area of the resort village of Dzhugba of the Tuapse district. The identities of the dead have not yet been established. A storm warning was announced throughout the Black Sea coast of Russia in connection with the threat of further tornadoes and cyclones.

The program is the program Peter Weil. Correspondents of Radio Freedom Karen Agamirov, Lyubov Chizhova, Mumin Shakirov participate; Academician Adolf Mishuev, deputy of the State Duma Sergey Ivanenko and chairman of the "For Human Rights" movement Lev Ponomarev. Peter Vail: Today it was two years since the explosion in the underground crossing near Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. At the site of the tragedy, the opening ceremony of the memorial sign in memory of the dead took place.

Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Tajikistan Nikolai Kim was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in prison for drug smuggling. As the investigation established, in 1999, Kim sent a military helicopter from Dushanbe to the north of Tajikistan, on board of which 86 kilograms of raw opium were located. By agreement with the drug dealerships, the OPIs should have been implemented in the Republic of the Republic.

Senior representatives of the US State Department and the Ministry of Defense are found today in Washington with a group of leaders of the Iraq civil opposition. The meeting is attended, in particular, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) Ahmed Khalabi and representatives of the Kurdish groups. The main topic of negotiations is the coordination of efforts to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime.

Yuri Zhigalkin , New York: in the 90s, military experts persistently predicted a decrease in military exports and a semi-slaughter existence to most military exporters who lost the clientele with the end of the Cold War. In part, these forecasts were justified, the ranks of the leading military concerns thinned greatly. Until the 97th rows were reduced. But after this, for three years, the volume of military exports sharply went up due to the appetites of the third world countries.

South Korea President Kim De Jun nominated for the post of new Prime Minister Chan De Khan, the head of one of the leading economic newspapers, Mail Business. His candidacy should now approve the parliament. A few days ago, legislators rejected the candidacy of Chan San proposed by the President, which could become the first woman in the history of the country - Prime Minister.

The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office made an official accusation to the former Russian soldier David Gazashvili in the murder of Colonel Igor Zaitsev. According to the main version of the investigation, Gazashvili killed his former colleague on household grounds - for a debt of $ 140. Igor Zaitsev, a representative of the Russian government and the command of the Armed Forces of Russia in the group of troops in Transcaucasia, was stolen on July 27.

President of Turkmenistan Saparmurad Niyazov abandoned the titles of the life president, the “great writer” and the three degrees of the Order of the “Golden Age”. The decision - to proclaim Niyazov by a lifelong president - was adopted yesterday unanimously by the delegates of the People’s Council. Today, at a meeting of the Council, Niyazov refused the title, saying that in 2008, the presidential election could be held in Turkmenistan.

In the Kharagaul district of Georgia, 9 people died as a result of the disaster of a passenger minibus. The bus, in which in addition to the driver there were 16 more people, collided with the oncoming car at the exit from the tunnel on the Rikotsky pass and fell into a 30-meter abyss. The victims were taken to the hospital, the condition of two children is estimated as very serious.