On March 4, at 19.20, near house 9 on Likhoborsky Bugry Street, employees of the criminal investigation department detained a young man born in 1984, who lives in apartment # 120 of the same house. As the investigation established, on March 3, 2003 at 2:40 pm, through the balcony of the fifth floor of building 100 "a" along Novomikhalkovskiy proezd, a young man entered apartment # 58, from where he stole an emerald of 6 carats, 850 euros and 1000 dollars.

North Korean long-range missile warhead found in Alaska It is reported by the Korea Times. This was announced by former Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama, referring to a document received from the United States. We are talking about the warhead of a missile launched during the tests. When the tests were carried out, when the warhead was found and what type of missile it belongs to, is not reported.

The insulating foam on the external fuel tank of the Columbia spacecraft, a piece of which fell off during takeoff and, according to experts, could hit the shuttle's wing and cause a disaster that claimed the lives of seven astronauts, did not meet NASA standards, RIA Novosti reports. The Miami Herald reported on Monday, citing a letter from former engineer John Ehlers written Feb. 4, three days after the tragedy, to executives at Lockheed Martin, an external fuel tank manufacturer.

Russian customs officers confiscated 19 parrots, 4 bear paws, more than 4 kg of jewelry and an old book from smugglers. As RIA Novosti was informed in the Russian State Customs Committee, employees of the Southern Customs Administration in Taganrog found and confiscated 19 parrots of various species from a citizen of Ukraine who was heading to Russia.

The pro-Islamic group Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility for the explosion that occurred the day before at the airport in the Philippine city of Davao. "It was we who prepared and carried out this terrorist attack," Hamiraj Sali, one of the leaders of the Islamists, told a local Philippine radio station on Wednesday. Abu Sayyaf is directly linked to Osama bin Laden's international terrorist organization al-Qaeda.

The decision to put into effect the order to suspend the economic activities of the chemical weapons destruction facility in the village of Gorny, Saratov Region, will be made on March 14. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.

In Latin America, traditional carnivals have ended. According to Interfax, more than 140 people died during the festivities, and only in Brazil 70 people became victims of the carnival. Most people die in car accidents caused by drunk drivers.

On the night of March 5, Dzhabrail Yamadayev, commander of a republican OMON company, was killed in Chechnya. This is one of the Yamadayev brothers, who in 1999 helped the federal forces take Gudermes without a fight. The eldest of the brothers, Khalid, is the deputy military commandant of Chechnya and the deputy head of the Chechen branch of the United Russia party. Yamadayev died in the explosion of a bomb planted in the house of Vedeno, where the fighters of the special company lived.

Deputy official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Yevgeny Voronin called the proposal put forward by the PACE legal commission to create an international tribunal to investigate war crimes in Chechnya absurd. This is reported by Interfax. "As for the call to create a tribunal for Chechnya on the Hague model, its absurdity should be obvious to the authors themselves - deputies of European legislative assemblies.

In France, in the city of Fougeres, a tourist bus, in which pensioners were traveling, overturned. According to AFP, as a result, 6 people were killed, 6 people were seriously injured, 12 were lightly injured. In total, there were 25 passengers on the bus, who were taken to Nantes airport before traveling to Germany. The accident happened at 7:30 am on Wednesday. The bus fell into a ditch and overturned.

The Azatlyk District Court in Ashgabat sentenced Farid Tukhbatullin, an activist of the Dashoguz Ecological Club, to 3 years in prison in a penal colony, PRIMA reports . Tukhbatullin was found guilty of failure to report on an especially serious crime being prepared (Article 210, part 1 of the Criminal Code of Turkmenistan; we are talking about failure to report on preparations for an assassination attempt on Turkmenbashi. - Ed.) and illegal crossing of the state border (214, Part 1, UK).

The UN is developing a secret plan for the reconstruction of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, the Times writes . The plan was developed by a group of experts at the special order of Louise Frechette, Canadian Deputy Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan. The piquancy of the situation lies in the fact that, while developing such a plan, the UN continues to consider Saddam as the legitimate head of the state of Iraq. In Iraq, the UN intends to follow the Afghan scenario.

In the coastal region of the Sea of ​​Azov, in the vicinity of the city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Territory, an operation was completed to rescue 53 fishermen from a detached ice floe. As Oleg Grekov, a representative of the command of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, told Interfax, on Tuesday evening the ice floe on which the fishermen were was torn off and began to be carried away to the open sea.

At one of the border outposts of the Amur Region, a conscript on guard shot his colleague and tried to escape with a machine gun, Interfax reports. The incident occurred on February 28 at the Bibikovo outpost of the Blagoveshchensk border detachment. During a joint patrol - from 17.00 to 19.15 - Private Salavat Mokhiyanov mortally wounded junior sergeant Konstantin Turpanov in the head from a Kalashnikov assault rifle and tried to escape, seizing a weapon and four magazines for it.

Due to the cyclone, air communication between Kamchatka and the mainland was disrupted, RIA Novosti reports. According to the dispatcher of the Yelizovo airport, due to weather conditions, registration for all flights from Kamchatka has been postponed for several hours. Aircraft that have already flown to the peninsula have been sent to alternate airfields, where they will wait out the bad weather. At present, the central part of the cyclone is located off the coast near Ust-Bolsheretsk.