The world's most popular American tobacco products - Marlboro cigarettes - are also among the most unhealthy. This conclusion was reached by specialists of the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, based in Atlanta, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to materials published in the latest issue of the specialized journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

Anthrax was found in the carcass of a cow at a market in Odessa, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, the day before, employees of the sanitary and epidemiological station disinfected the territory of the market, the meat pavilion and inventory. The Ministry of Emergency Situations assures that the widespread spread of infection and the consumption of unfavorable meat for food is not allowed.

European Commission President Romano Prodi was pleased with how the Russia-EU summit went, AP reports. "I told Vladimir (Putin. - Ed.) that now we (Russia and the EU. - Ed.) are like vodka and caviar," Prodi told reporters after the summit.

On May 29, the chairman of the board of CB Prima-Bank, Pulat Usmanov, and the head of the board of directors of the said bank, Mukharbek Barkinkhoev, beat Viktor Kalygin, a member of the provisional administration of Prima-Bank, an employee of the Moscow GTU of the Bank of Russia.

On Saturday, Taiwanese authorities reported nine new cases of SARS on Saturday, Reuters reported. However, there are no new deaths so far, with the total still standing at 81. A total of 676 people are infected. According to the Ministry of Health of the country, 129 people have recovered.

Saparmurat Niyazov donated $100,000 to St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the press service of the President of Turkmenistan. On Saturday, Niyazov met in St. Petersburg with the faculty of the university, from which he graduated in 1967. The President of Turkmenistan emphasized the huge role that "study in St. Petersburg played in his development as a citizen and specialist".

At least four people were injured in a bomb explosion on a bus in southern Pakistan, reports Reuters. The explosion occurred 160 kilometers north of the port city of Karachi. According to a local police spokesman, an explosive device with a clockwork was planted under one of the bus seats. No terrorist organization has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. The police believe that this is the work of the Islamists.

At the end of the holiday on the Neva, the President of Russia and the heads of about 45 states, under volleys of guns, boarded the ship, which will take them to the suburbs of St. Petersburg - Peterhof, RIA Novosti reports. As expected, in the "Russian Versailles" distinguished guests will be present at the water-musical performance at the Grand Cascade of Fountains.

On Friday at 20.52 Moscow time, the crew of Expedition 7 to the International Space Station (ISS) successfully maneuvered the station away from a collision with the Italian communications satellite MegSat0 weighing 36 kg. As the coordinator of the Moscow representative office of NASA Sergey Puzanov told RBC, the correction of the orbit of the complex was carried out in such a way that the satellite passed outside the so-called "ISS security zone" on a scale of 50x50x4 km.

The leaders of three Lithuanian political parties - the Union of Liberals, the Union of the Center and the Modernist Christian Democratic Party - signed on Saturday a declaration to unite into one party - the Union of Liberals and the Center (SLC). According to Interfax, the chairman of the SLC was elected at the congress in Vilnius.

In the north of Moscow on Friday around 19.15 a fire broke out in trade pavilions, a representative of the capital's UGPS told RIA Novosti. The interlocutor of the agency clarified that the fire occurred in a network of one-story stores located at Leningradskoe shosse, 94 building 3. Currently, 80 square meters are covered by fire, 10 fire brigades are involved in extinguishing it. There were no reports of casualties.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called on the participants of the Russia-EU summit "to take urgent and concrete steps to ensure freedom of contacts between Russians and Europeans." "We believe that this requires quick and effective steps," he stressed during the Russia-EU summit in St. Petersburg on Saturday. Schroeder also supported French President Jacques Chirac's call for Russia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global climate problems as soon as possible, Interfax reports.

Speaking at the Russia-EU summit in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin said that the Chechen Republic would be granted the broadest autonomy within the framework of the constitutions of the Russian Federation and Chechnya.

Photo from Newsru.com Russia and the EU confirmed the readiness to introduce a visa -free regime in the future, RIA Novosti reports.

set to marry pop star Enrique Iglesias on Saturday Tennis player Anna Kournikova is . According to the newspaper, the wedding will take place in the Caribbean at sunset. Anna, 21, and Enrique, 28, have been dating for over a year. The newspaper reports that Enrique's father Julio Iglesias will not attend his son's wedding. Sun reports that Anna Kournikova married hockey star Sergei Fedorov two years ago, but the marriage was unsuccessful.