Catastrophe | Gold and death The biggest mining tragedy in recent times has happened in Russia. Last Thursday, 12 miners died as a result of a fire at the Tsentralnaya mine of the Darasun gold mine (Chita region). At the time of signing the issue, there were 21 more people underground, and the chances of their salvation were estimated as minimal.

On the summer veranda of one of the Moscow cafes is crowded. Three middle -aged women drink tea with fresh buns. A student company is noisy and cannot decide on the order. Two strong men, covered with the same green blanks on the most stained collars, peacefully sip coffee. One concentratedly picks with a fork green peas from an omelet. The second, postponing the newspaper and thinking about something, occasionally glances at the watch. Time is for the morning.

On Sunday evening, at London's newly built Emirates Stadium, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov felt at home, with businessman Viktor Vekselberg to his right and Yury Fedotov, Russia's ambassador to Britain, to his left. Only Russian speech sounded around. A couple of minutes before the start of the Argentina-Brazil match, everyone was discussing the latest football news.

The manifestation of the purest altruism in nature can only be seen under a microscope. Hundreds of thousands of hungry amoebas gather in one place and begin to build the "Tower of Babel" - a huge, by the standards of this world, fungus-like growth. His hat consists of those who survive - fly away in the form of spores, the leg - of those who are destined to die, holding their fellows on their "shoulders".

Last Thursday, the al-Jazira channel transmitted a record with the first appeal of the heir Abu Moussab al-Zarkavi-the main Iraqi terrorist, killed by the Americans this summer. The new representative of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the emir of all local Sunni militants are called Abu Hamz al-Muhajir (according to some information, his real name is Au Ayub al-Masri).

The great goalkeeper of the national team of the USSR Vladislav Tretyaku is a very mask of an official. But he does not use bureaucratic speech turnover as virtuoso as once a trap. “We had a constructive dialogue today ...” - Vladislav Tretyak began his press conference in June, reporting that he had just dispersed the professional hockey league (a commercial structure engaged in the organization of the Russian Championship).

Fifty meters from the central square of the city of Tiraspol, there is a memorial plate. She is almost forty years old, but the metal has not even blackened. The plate reads: "The generation of the Tiraspolchanes who will meet the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution." And below, the signature: “The message of the working people in honor of the 50th anniversary of the revolution. Open on November 7, 2017.

Religion | But Winnie the Pooh - never In Turkey, Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and all three Musketeers "converted to Islam": they changed the text of classic children's books in local school anthologies, making all the heroes devout Muslims. So, for example, Aramis from the novel by Dumas refuses to communicate with d'Artagnan until he converts to Islam.

Here and in Germany, in the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland and Austria, on September 14, “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” will be released - the long-awaited film adaptation of “Perfumer” by Patrick Suskind (the American premiere is expected only in December). What a sensation! The point is not only that the novel by the Swiss German Suskind, published in 1985 and first published here in the early 1990s, continues to remain super fashionable - even despite its cleverness.