Members of the Iraqi ruling Ba'ath Party will be able to take part in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq. According to the BBC, such a statement was made by British Defense Secretary Jeff Hoon. "They have an administrative system that can continue to work," Hong said.

Residents of Baghdad came out on Sunday for a demonstration, ITAR-TASS reports. The demonstrators believe that the US is doing nothing to restore normal life and order in the Iraqi capital.

Russian Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko, who left Baghdad, will return to Moscow on Monday, April 14. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Russian Embassy in Syria. Now Vladimir Titorenko is in Damascus. The driver of the Russian embassy in Iraq, Vladimir Arkhipov, who was wounded during the shelling of a Russian diplomatic convoy near Baghdad, will continue his treatment in Damascus.

On Saturday evening, the mayor of the Sakhalin city of Dolinsk, Vasily Bondarchuk, got into a car accident, Interfax reports. This happened 30 kilometers north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Together with Bondarchuk, three people were driving in his Nissan car. Behind the wheel was a friend of the mayor. It was his fault that the accident happened. He overtook the car in front in the oncoming lane and crashed into a Toyota car traveling in this lane.

Baghdad looters ransacked one of Saddam's palaces in Baghdad on Saturday, ABC News reports. As-Salam Palace is located on the western bank of the Tigris. Everything was taken out from there - from the finest porcelain to bathtubs, washstands and fish from the palace pond. The fish were stunned with grenades and carried away in plastic bags. Marble tiles are torn off the walls and floor, someone even tried to drag away the heavy carved gilded door.

On Saturday, two Turkish journalists were wounded in northern Iraq, AP reports. The car in which they were traveling was shot at in Mosul, not far from the local hospital. Journalists did a report about this hospital. According to doctors, their injuries are not serious, there is no danger to life.

In Moscow, on the 4th Grazhdanskaya Street, a covered parking lot is on fire, RIA Novosti reports. The fire started around 11:00 am, according to the fire department. The car park occupies part of the building of a former furniture factory. The open burning area is more than 500 square meters. The fire is extinguished by 17 fire brigades. There are no reports of casualties yet.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he was ready to make land concessions to the Palestinians in exchange for a peace agreement and firm security guarantees for future generations of Israelis.

In Baghdad, unknown armed men kidnapped three journalists from Malaysia, betrays Reuters, citing the Malaysian news agency Bernama. This is a correspondent for the Sun newspaper, a photographer for the New Straits Times and a cameraman for Malaysia's national television company RTM. According to AP, after some time the reporters were released, none of them were injured. Who kidnapped them and for what purpose it was done is unknown.

A passenger ferry sank in northern Bangladesh, AP reported. This happened the day before, but 100 people are still considered missing. There were about 200 passengers on the ferry, and, according to witnesses, just under half of them were rescued by fishermen or swam ashore on their own. The bodies of three ferry passengers have already been found.

The US Patent and Trademark Office has received several applications at once to use the name "Shock and Awe" for various products, reports Fox News. For example, businessman Michael Knight of Irving, Texas, is asking for the rights to the name for a particular variety of pesticides and herbicides. "I interviewed my family, friends and complete strangers and they all told me this would be a great name for a product like this," Knight said.

The North Korean Foreign Ministry says that a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue "depends only on the true intentions of the United States." According to RIA Novosti with reference to the DPRK embassy in Moscow, the official statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry made on Saturday says that "for a peaceful solution of the nuclear issue, direct negotiations should be held between the interested parties - the DPRK and the United States." Meanwhile, the US is pushing for multilateral talks

On Sunday, a factory for the production of paints and varnishes exploded near Naples, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Italian television. During the fire at the factory, four workers died.

Photo AP Map of hostilities In the afternoon on Sunday in the south of Tikrit, the American sea infantry entered the battle with the defenders of the city. This was reported by the Air Force with reference to the correspondent of the Canadian newspaper National Post, accompanying the troops. Americans use tanks, Cobra helicopters and F-18s fighters. The AFP correspondent confirms that the sounds of an intensive shootout and explosions are heard from Tikrit.

US Central Command chief Tommy Franks on Sunday said the Pentagon has a DNA sample of Saddam Hussein. According to Reuters, the DNA sample will be used in the search for Saddam. "He is either dead or hiding somewhere. He will be considered alive until I can confirm the fact of his death," General Tommy Franks said. According to him, "the right people" are searching all the places where Saddam might be hiding.