The BBC conducted a survey by phone and via the Internet and as a result a list of the 10 greatest Britons of all time was determined. The list includes politicians, scientists and artists, and only three of them lived in the twentieth century. John Lennon is recognized as the greatest Briton, but not Paul McCartney, and Princess Diana, but not Prince Charles, according to BBC News. More than 30,000 people took part in the survey.

District Judge Ronald M. White adjourned the United States v. Elcomsoft trial because the United States Embassy in Moscow denied a visa to the accused company president Alexander Katalov and his fellow programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who is scheduled to testify at the trial. were scheduled for October 21. In the coming days, employees of the US Attorney's office will seek the issuance of visas.

Last Saturday, Turkmenistan marked the anniversary of the adoption of the "sacred book of the Turkmen people" Rukhnama "(" Tale of the Spirit "), written by the President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov.

The United States was skeptical of an unprecedented amnesty for all Iraqi prisoners, which was unexpectedly announced earlier on Sunday, BBC News reports. Iraqi television showed footage of joyful prisoners leaving the prisons. Many of them loudly expressed their gratitude to Saddam Hussein. Thus, the Iraqi authorities noted the absolute support of Saddam Hussein by the population in the recent presidential elections.

Over a hundred mobile phones were stolen by unknown people from the capital's mobile phone stores over the past weekend, RIA Novosti reports, citing sources in the Moscow police department. The day before, the deputy director of the Enerton-trade company turned to the police department. According to the victim, on the night of Saturday, unknown people broke open the window and entered the premises of a cellular communication salon located on Pyatnitskoye Highway.

Citizens of the Republic of Ireland, who took part in the referendum on Saturday, expressed their support for the enlargement of the European Union. According to official data, 67% of the Irish who came to the polling stations voted in favor, 37% against. A year ago, the Irish opposed the expansion of the organization, and a negative result in the current referendum could create serious obstacles to the accession of Eastern European countries to the EU.

An unknown sniper who committed a series of unmotivated murders in Washington and its environs was identified by cadets of the French Higher Military School. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. A police spokesman said Monday that cadets at a military academy in Coetkidan, in western France, recognized a former classmate who had a reputation as a "great marksman" from a sketch.

A gunman armed with multiple pistols opened fire at Monash University in the Australian city of Melbourne. This was reported by the local police, as AP reports. The shooter was an Asian man in his 30s. He entered the auditorium and began firing indiscriminately, killing two Asian students and injuring eight others. The students themselves detained the criminal, after which he was arrested by the arriving policemen. The motives of the shooter are not yet known.

TVS More than two thousand residents of Magadan took part on Monday in a rally of memory of the governor of the region Valentin Tsvetkov, who was killed on Friday in Moscow, Interfax reports. The rally in the square in front of the regional drama theater began at 10.00 local time (2.00 Moscow time), and people still do not diverge and carry fresh flowers to the portrait of the governor.

http://www.newsru.com/world/21oct2002/sniper2.html On Sunday, the Richmond Police (Virginia) detained 2 men in Henriko, who may be associated with the crimes of the Maryland Sniper, which already on the account of 9 murders. One of them parked his white Plymouth Voyager minivan at the telephone booth next to the gas station, after which he was detained, CNN reports, referring to the words of eyewitnesses.

The Arkhangelsk regional organization of the party "Liberal Russia" declares its disagreement with the decision to expel Boris Berezovsky from the party, adopted by the political council on October 9, 2002. This is stated in a statement received by the editors of Graney.Ru.

A bus explosion in northern Israel has killed at least 16 people and injured more than 40. According to AP, the attack occurred on the road between the cities of Hadera and Afula, near the town of Pardes Khanna. According to police, two suicide bombers sent a car loaded with explosives at the bus. The car allegedly came from the Jenin area, police officer Jacob Borofsky told Israeli radio. As a result of a collision with a car, the bus overturned and caught fire.

Two people were injured in a shooting opened by a security guard in a night bar in Novosibirsk, RIA Novosti reports. The incident took place on the night from Saturday to Sunday, when a security guard tried to take two visitors of the night bar out of the establishment, who were in a state of intoxication and, according to other visitors, "behaved defiantly." Drunk men attacked the guard and began to beat him. In response, the guard opened fire on the attackers.

Pilots are to blame for the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter on Thursday, October 17, on the territory of Chechnya. According to the Russian military, the version of the terrorist attack has completely disappeared, the NTV television company reports. Until today, it was believed that the helicopter was fired upon by militants. Basically, this version was built on the testimony of the pilot.

In the by-elections of the State Duma deputy from the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO) in constituency N 222, the leader of the local municipality of Urai, Alexander Safonov, is a member of the political council of the regional organization of the United Russia". As Interfax was told in the election committee of the KhMAO, according to preliminary data, about 54.6% of voters who took part in the elections voted for Safonov.