When an explosion at the Navy cruiser injured six people

Six people were injured on Saturday in an explosion in the fuel reservoir Navy cruiser "Lake Chempleyn" refers agency Associated Press.

One of the civil works firm-subpodryadchikov conducted regular work in a dry dock when the ignition of gas trapped inside the shell. Authorities are trying to determine what led to accumulation of gas and the subsequent explosion.

According to City Fire San Diego, near where the incident occurred, two of the victims received multiple burns and were in critical condition. Another two were hospitalized in a state of moderate, and the remaining two received first aid on the spot and went home.

The Agency did not specify whether the badly damaged vessel itself.

The largest mortgage company came under investigation USA

The Prosecutor's Office in New York interested leaders mortgage market activity USA-subsidized companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, reported Bloomberg News. In a nine-month investigation, the Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (Andrew Cuomo) intends to test in court documentation of these firms.

Mortgage Bonds to be checked, they have acquired from financial institutions, including the Bank of Washington Mutual Inc. Last week, Cuomo accused the Bank and American Corporation, real estate deals with the assessment, in a deliberate conspiracy to drive up the cost of housing.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in control of about 40 per cent mortgage market in the country. Total volume was estimated at 11.5 trillion dollars.

For the record, the housing market crisis in the United States increased during the spring of 2007 and is linked with the growth of non-payment mortgages. Only in the third quarter of this year were unable settlement for their homes 600 thousand borrowers.

In Austria, there was a clash between Turks and Kurds

VIENNA, October 29 - RIA Novosti, Taras Lariohin. In the Austrian city of Innsbruck (capital of Tyrol) happened on Sunday clash between Turks and Kurds, there are injuries, reports Austrian television.

In a massive brawl, using baseball bit was attended by about 100 people. According to preliminary data, it provoked Turks, who broke into the "Kurdish People's House" in the head.

The report notes that police special forces blocked the streets nearby and managed to separate the warring parties. Several scuffles detained, also confiscated gas pistols and baseball bits.

During the fight, two people were injured, several cars damaged.

Earlier on Sunday, in the past Innsbruke demonstration Turks in the name calling to stop the violence in Turkey. During the rally, which was attended by about 3,5 thousand people, no incidents have been recorded.

Turkey calls on Iraq to prohibit activities on its territory Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), to cease providing material and other support from the various structures and issue a separatist leaders. These requirements are the official head of the Ankara Turkish Foreign Ministry conveyed Dzhalyalyu Iraqi President Talabani on 22 October during his visit to Baghdad.

Turkish Premier Erdogan has repeatedly stated determination of Ankara to hold a military operation in northern Iraq to prevent Kurdish terrorists attacks.

The Chief of Staff of the Turkish armed forces, General Yashar Byuyukanyt army on Friday told reporters that the Turkish army will hold a cross-border operation against Kurdish militants if it will be such a task. He said that the military would wait for the outcome of the forthcoming visit to the United States Premier Recep Erdogan. on November 5, he will hold talks in Washington with the American President George Bush.

Turkish Parliament on Md. week gave the government the authority to engage in cross-border army operations in northern Iraq, where, according to the military, has about 3,5 thousands of Kurdish separatists.

Seven students were killed in a fire in the beach house in the USA

The fire in a residential home resort town Oushn-Ayl-Bich (State of North Carolina) caused the death of seven students. Six people have been injured to various degrees of severity, a student missing. Mayor Debbie Smith noted that the fire occurred in the early hours of Sunday on the coast at a beach houses.

All young people, postradavshi with fire, two university students were the state of South Carolina. The cause of the fire was never determined

Thatcher seemed to Americans' typical provincial matrons "

USA rassekretili documents in 1975, which contains the first characteristics of Margaret Thatcher after her election leader of the Conservative Party of Great Britain, reported the newspaper The Sunday Times. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reported that Thatcher - "typical provincial matrons" to the same "terribly English."

Diplomats have expressed doubts that it will ever be able to lead the British government. The document, entitled "Margaret Thatcher: first impressions" analyst U.S. embassy wrote that the Conservative leader is the true voice of "Bourgeois alarmed", but is unlikely to represent the British nation as a whole.

According to the analyst, Margaret "over the years has become the hallmark of the most human way of the secured portion of the middle class", which negatively affected its prospects as a national leader.

Speaking of Thatcher, American diplomats acknowledged her honesty, candor and dedication to their convictions. As stated in the Department of archival documents, it has a vivid and profound mind, but was inclined to excessive rigidity and care about minor details. In addition, the securities mentioned in "perfect appearance, manners power, formal and partly feigned charm, and above all, the prominent voice for the future of British premiere.

In 1975, four years before the electoral victory of Thatcher, American diplomats questioned its commitment to alliance with the United States. In the State Department feared that European interests of the UK weaken its relationship with America. One suggested that Thatcher put relations with European countries above transatlantic cooperation.

Declassified documents show that in mid-1970 on Saturday more counted on the cooperation with France. Her government at the time was led by future President Jacques Chirac. He had the most widely feedback American diplomats "bright young politician" and "a brilliant young technocrat" who "charmed the United States."

California firefighters helicopters were inactive because of bureaucracy

Because of bureaucratic delays and imperfections of the legal framework more than twenty firefighters National Guard helicopters, Navy and the United States Coast Guard were unable to leave in time to extinguish forest fires in California, transmits Associated Press.

Moreover, two firefighting aircraft C-130 National Guard, which can carry about 11,360 liters of reagents, slowing the spread of fire and burning never went into the air.

By law, National Guard helicopters fire or air force must necessarily accompany the special firefighters' switch-board operators "that indicate in what should be a place reset reagents or water. But they arrived too late.

Reports of the first 15 forest fires have emerged on Saturday night October 20. On Sunday, 21 October, the Bureau of Emergency Situations California requested help from the National Guard. On the same day, 19 helicopters were ready for the departure.

Meanwhile navodchikam firefighters took 24 hours to prepare for the assignment. Almost the same time it took to form the crews of firefighters and National Guard. Helicopters rose in the air only Tuesday, 23 October.

Thus, as the representative of the Senate Commission believes California Dana Rorabacher (Dana Rohrabacher), the time for which it would be possible to eliminate fires, as they have not yet reached huge proportions, was missing. By Tuesday the fire had already spread to 390 square miles, the number of houses destroyed by flames rose from 34 to 700 and perevalilo.

Fire came out of control, and helicopters uzhu could not save the situation. However, the two firefighters C-130 aircraft, which can only weaken if not, then at least in halting the spread of fire, were unable to leave because they were not installed tanks for the transport of reactants.

Ten years ago, Congress decided to replace old tanks on aircraft for safety reasons. Older tanks have withdrawn, designers have developed new, but they do not come under the plane. The project transformed again and sent for approval to the Air Force and the National Agency for the Protection of Forests, but that the delayed "due to technical and design complexity."

For its part, the authorities in California rejected all accusations of bureaucracy and negligence, arguing that the use of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft have been impossible because of the strong wind.

"Anyone who complains about the lack of aircraft, just want to complain," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. - If there were planes from all over the world, they would not be able to fly out of a strong wind. "

Estonian politicians called on doctors not to drink in public

The Union called on doctors Estonian politicians to desist from the use of alcohol at public events in order to lead by example and help reduce youth drinking in the Baltic State, writes Postimees newspaper on Wednesday.

As remind doctors in a special statement, Estonia took a leading position among EU countries by the number of traumatic deaths and illnesses caused by alcohol abuse. "Estonia is the first place in Europe on alcohol per person. Our children are increasingly consume alcohol and are beginning to do so in an increasingly young age, "notes with alarm the doctors.

"Public interest must outweigh the rights of producers and sellers of alcohol," underscore doctors. In their view, it is necessary to prohibit the advertising of alcoholic beverages, especially television and radio, to concentrate the sale of such drinks in specialized stores and without exception punish traders, otpuskayuschie alcohol to minors.

"No doubt, and must change social attitudes towards alcohol, but in the current situation, the duty of the State to oppose samounichtozhayuschemu behavior of its citizens," conclude the Estonian doctors.

raq closes representation of the Kurdish Workers' Party on its territory

The government of Iraq on Tuesday, 23 October, decided to close down at the country offices of the Kurdistan Workers Party, promised in the near future to block its financial funds transfers Associated Press.

This is a step the government of Iraqi Premier Nuri al hopes to ease tension in relations with Turkey, which is preparing a large-scale military operation in northern Iraq to suppress Kurdish fighters there.

Turkey has previously rejected the representatives of the Kurdish Workers' Party on a cease-fire, making it clear that it was not going to negotiate with terrorists, and continued to build up military presence in the border areas with Iraq.

Turkish Parliament approved a bill on 17 October, which gives the military the right to conduct transactions at any time during the year. The scale, intensity and duration of the military operations themselves can determine.

For its part, Iraq, the United States and Turkey, NATO allies are insisting on a peaceful, political solution to the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish separatists.

Turkey does not intend to rush to the start of the operation, but Iraqi authorities requires concrete steps against the Kurdish fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan, where they commit attacks on Turkish territory.

Over the last weekend, 20 and 21 October, between the army and the Kurdistan Workers' Party guerrillas have been a number of armed clashes, in which 12 Turkish soldiers were killed, 16 wounded and another eight are missing. According to some sources, they hit a prisoner to the militants. Turkey had responded shelling Kurdish positions, destroying some data on more than 30 militants.

RUTUBE.RU NOTES FIRST DAY OF BIRTH

on 15 October the Russian video-portal Rutube.ru notes the first year since its foundation. In connection with this team of developers site stock of the work and produced a number of surprises to its users.

During the first year of a young Russian site without the support of major players has been able to achieve very much alone:

Users were given the opportunity to form their own virtual TV channels for onlayn-translyatsy from various remote locations and with the most interesting events for the convenience of the broadcasters were sold online interaction mechanisms and spectators onlayn-redaktirovaniya recording broadcast system for instant creation and publication finished on the basis of material ether (This convenient service has enjoyed dozens of professional TV and radio stations, as well as ordinary individual authors);

the first time in history was used video-hostinga free navigation system for video without the need for pre-download the entire video, as well as its own service record and send video-otkrytok through normal webcams;

from the beginning the project was open to possible partners, convenient and powerful carefully documented every second API allows hundreds of sites with content dynamically share Rutube.ru without having to download their own capacity for storing video;

for the year were forged close relations of key events in the State Duma of Russian Federation, the Public Chamber, political parties, clubs and concert sites, exhibitions, festivals, publishing houses and the APA;

in feature films have been implemented activities to support predpremernoy films and qualifying rounds of film festivals;

it was a lot better competitions finished different themes, played dozens of valuable prizes, hundreds of talented authors gained access to a wide audience of television and the Internet;

together with news partners were held onlayn-video-konferentsii to which became known people like Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitri Kovtun, Bari and Alexander Pryanikov Alibasov, Vasily Utkin, Sergei Stillavin and others;

while the concept of TV 2.0 were concluded partnership agreements with a number of TV channels for the selection of custom content for the formation of ether telecasts, including pryamoefirnoy daily program "Extra" that goes on every day in the DTV channel primetime;

during the development of partnerships video-portalom interested parties leading media entered into negotiations with the owners of the service on a possible partnership Rutube.ru participation in the development, the largest proposal made public, was to assess the possible purchase of a large part of the structure of the site for a major gas corporation 5-10 million dollars;

this fall Rutube.ru began deploying its own federal backbone network nodes in order to simplify user access to its content and cheaper for local traffic communications providers.

On the occasion of the celebration of the birth of Rutube.ru announced two weeks gifts for their users. The first innovation was the opening of the possibility to download video to their computer.

Next:

- own Uploader utility that allows the user to display and edit paketno Rutube.ru to an unlimited number of spots at once;

download a clip-on Rutube.ru become much easier -- you can simply enter the URL box downloads already deployed in the Internet video;

- and, finally, to pool their video recordings with other videohostingov at its ekkaunte RuTube.

Mikhail Paulkin (Co-founder Rutube.ru): "We are grateful to all our customers and partners who have been with us this year. Without their help we would not for that coped with the set at the very beginning challenge is to become the most popular video-portalom RuNet and offer users a convenient service and the most interesting content. We hope that you are not disappointed, and we are ready for the new year all pleased surprise even more, with Russian video as a worthy competitor in the world market. "

Oleg Volobuyev (Co-founder Rutube.ru): Rutube.ru "is not just a few clusters of servers, megabytes of program development, and hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded. Rutyub is a united team of professionals ranging profile around the clock responsive to the vibrating life multi Community and the most advanced users neposedlivyh, sponsors, spectators. Continuing stay at the forefront of technology trends, and it is very difficult, but crappy interesting and least privilege. We hope that obtained from the new media-sreda our efforts will be large and cozy home for all talented, creative and curious Internet users. " Rutube.ru
The Russian online service for sharing, display and broadcast video. At the moment, every day is a video to 200 thousand Internet users and produces more than 30 million video month. Provides broadcast on the Internet for several television channels and radio stations, as well as provide its users with the opportunity to establish and manage their own virtual video-blogov and television channels. It has its own affiliate network that allows a case to show the video at any sayte-partnere.

Russia: Authorities vs simple people: turn and came to Tyumen?

Tyumen may be made to the list of cities where power actually show its attitude towards the people. 5 October at 13:00 at a pedestrian crossing on the streets of Lenin Ford Mondeo car with blue license signs were nailed woman.

As described 72.ru correspondent Denis, one of the witnesses happened, the driver of the car, moving astern on Lenin Street toward Pervomaiskaya Street, not even looking back. "We handed him makhallya rear mankind! But he did not start ... He reacted bumper several people, a woman dropped. He stopped only when the woman lying under his rear bumper, "explains Dennis.

But the strange thing is that the driver tried to continue on the path after a woman rose from the ground. He stopped the man, or just a bystander, or a female friend. "Porazilo most that neither the driver nor the passenger-car people with big stars in the pursuit, not even left the car! The driver wait for a woman to rise and come to it, and then began to talk with her, simply deleting a window, "Denis indignant.

Denis tried to take a woman (in photo), her phone number, but it is only holding hands, crying, said that she did neither of whom do not need "and requested an ambulance." "I hope that it has not received serious injuries, although it prihramyvala and complained of pain in his hand," says Dennis.

In Russia with appalling speed increasing number of accidents involving representatives of the authorities and ordinary citizens. In most such cases, "zaminaetsya case," even though the broad public interest. Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Tyumen now ... Move to unilaterally reversing the street in the middle of the working day, only in our country can be seen in, but hopefully that will be the first city of Tyumen, where all will be under the law.

Already at various Internet Tyumen in the midst of this discussion of the incident, the views of ordinary motorists are all united again "zamnetsya." In conclusion I would like to quote one of the participants of the forum: "We in Russia, in the MIA RF persons involved in any act, which caused damage to health, or worse, the death of a civilian, is strangely laid off for the day were to accident. And, all shows that this practice is gaining turnover. It remains an open question: how and in what manner to the laid-off employee has been Scheduled pistol, rifle, machine service? "

Skype will issue its own mobile phone

EBay company, owns Skype service, intends to produce its own mobile phone market. This device will allow to save money on cellular communications, reports Reuters.

Skype Phone will be sold in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Sweden and the UK, and work on the network operator 3.

Currently, there are numerous cellular, who can use the services of the network Skype. In addition, there are applications, such as for Communicators, which allows a program to run Skype and thus communicate.

Telephone from the Skype will be much easier, say its developers. The office will be confined to the implementation of multimedia applications and high-speed surfing on the Internet.

Skype is a program for VoIP that provides free voice and video communications through the Internet between computers, as well as paid services to subscribers with fixed telephone network.

Citizen's Platform "intends to withdraw the Polish troops from Iraq

The party Citizen's Platform, which won the elections in the Polish parliament, intends to seek the withdrawal of Polish troops from Iraq before the end of 2008 and the revision of the accommodation component of the country's missile defense dollars. This, reported Reuters, on the night of Monday, said representatives of the party leadership.

"Our military has successfully fulfilled its mission in Iraq in 2008 and leave the country," said a senior representative of "Civil Platform", adding that the Polish military can return home as early as next year. At the moment in Iraq are about 900 troops from Poland.

On the issue of deployment of missile defense components Poland, the parties have indicated that negotiations with the United States would continue. However, Citizen's Platform, which is a leader Donald Tusk, Washington intends to propose stricter conditions under which Poland could appear in the American radar.

Citizen's Platform "in the near future will be to form a new Cabinet of Ministers of Poland, who will take over the government Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose party" Law and Justice "lost the election. It is expected that the new Prime Minister of Poland will be Donald Tusk. Twin brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Lech Kaczynski, retain the post of the President of Poland.

Rapper T.I. Arrested in Atlanta

Rapper T.I., whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr., was arrested this afternoon in Atlanta. The ATF executed a search warrant at his home, and according to Atlanta's FOX 5 News, T.I., remains in custody.

The agencies at the scene of the federal search warrant include: The ATF, U.S. Marshalls: Fugitive Task Force, Fulton County SWAT, Fulton County PD, Dekalb County PD, and the ATF/Atlanta PD Violent Crime Impact Team.

The U.S. Attorney's office will neither confirm nor deny anything about the investigation.

T.I. currently has a number of projects, including a movie with Denzel Washington set for November release, and he was slated to perform at tonight's BET Hip-Hop Awards, scheduled to air October 17. The rapper has nine nominations, more than any other artist at the event.

TMZ contacted T.I.'s rep, who had no statement at the time.

Bertoletti captures 'world grits' title

The top seven eaters split $10,000 in prize money.

BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Yankees beat out Southerners for the top spots in what was billed as the first World Grits Eating Championship at Louisiana Downs on Saturday.

Pat Bertoletti, a mohawk-sporting chef from Chicago, gulped down 21 pounds of buttery, goopy blandness in 10 minutes to win $4,000.

Bertoletti, in a statement, said the competition "tested our stomach capacity like no other."

The grits were presented in 2-pound trays, each about 8 inches by 6 inches and 1½ inches deep, said Ryan Nerz, a spokesman for Major League Eating. He said he half expected to see Bertoletti, one of the top gobblers on the competitive eating circuit, topple over.

The buzz going in was that a lot of grits would go down because they are so easy to eat, Nerz said. There were nine contestants, and the top three ate 60 pounds.

Tim "Eater X" Janus of New York was second, with 20 pounds. Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., who this summer ate a record-breaking 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes to become world hot dog-eating champion, finished third, polishing off 19 pounds.

Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va. was fourth at 18½ pounds, Hall Hunt of Jacksonville, Fla., fifth at 15 pounds, and Patrick Van Dam of Dallas sixth at 13½ pounds.

Van Dam "was sort of a surprise. ... I think he probably weighed 130 pounds," Nerz said.

Grainy grits — dried, ground corn that is then cooked back into mush or the soupy consistency used for the championship — are a Southern staple. They are often eaten for breakfast with butter or even sugar; sometimes chilled and then fried in slices; and, for more substantial meals, fortified with stronger-tasting foods such as cheese, bacon, shrimp.

This is believed to be the first year the food has made the Major League Eating circuit, Nerz said, and it had "firmly established" its place among top-flight competitive eaters.

He estimated several hundred people showed up to watch.

The biggest contestant — one of the track's more usual contestants — finished last.

"A horse named Big Mo started eating grits, but quickly decided it wasn't his flavor," Nerz said.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

No Sex Toys on the Corporate Card Please

Nothing shocks us anymore. Or so we thought, until news of a woman expensing a vibrator hit the web this week.

Many employees abuse their expense accounts this is a fact. There have been stories of a 3 year-old’s $20,000 birthday party and a $5,000 casket for a relative’s funeral paid for with company money. Headlines noting the too common tale of executives expensing strippers don’t surprise most of us—even Barron’s, a corporate cousin of FiLife, has made the headlines.

We’ve heard the outlandish explanations of some of these purchases before: Strippers make clients happy, and when clients are happy they are more likely to part with their money. But a vibrator? How do you explain that one? She must have really needed it. She must have also really needed to expense her electricity bills, phone bills, an iPod, jewelry, and her credit-card payments.

Her inflated report probably set off alarm bells, but don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you can get away with something more subtle. According to the American Express 2006 Expense Management Benchmark Survey, about two-thirds of the 250 companies polled said that they were looking at expense reports more carefully than in past years. Padding can result in job terminations, fines, legal action and, of course, you’ll probably have to pay the money back (the vibrator chick owed $15,000 for her myriad of purchases).

Every company’s policy is different, so if you’re not sure about a purchase, ask your boss. But vibrators are not part of the deal, even if they make you perform better at work.

In case this is confusing for anyone, the rules here are fairly simple: Expense accounts are for job-related expenses only, like taking a client to lunch or paying for a plane ticket when you need to travel for work. Sometimes you can expense business clothing or charge books for research.