Experience group. Photo from the site www.chez.com Their music does not look like what you expect to hear from a resident of Toulouse. Neither you drunkenness, nor you women. Everything is very serious. Famous in certain circles, the artist and musician Michelle Klop brings his Experience group to Moscow. They will perform on April 10 in the club "16 tons" as part of the project "French Alternative Spring in Moscow".

Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat is personally involved in negotiations on the release of two residents of East Jerusalem captured in Iraq. It is reported by Reuters. "President Arafat has already made contact with our brothers in Iraq and with various international organizations and is trying to facilitate the release of Nabil George Razuk and Ahmed Yassin Tikati," Arafat's press office said in a statement.

NASA officials announced that the agency has decided to extend the mission of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers for another five months, reports Reuters. Previously, it was assumed that the rovers would work on the surface of the Red Planet for three months. Recall that in the course of studies conducted on the surface of Mars, it was found that conditions suitable for life could previously exist on the planet.

Moscow will host a joint meeting of the Russian government and the European Commission on April 22, said Vincent Piket, deputy head of the European Commission's office in Moscow. "Such a meeting will be held in Moscow for the first time," he said, answering questions from RIA Novosti. He recalled that in 2002 a similar meeting was already held in Brussels, which was attended by Russian ministers in charge of cooperation between Russia and the EU, as well as ministers of the European Commission.

A freight train derailed in the Chelyabinsk region on Friday, RIA Novosti reports. There are no victims. As specified in the press service of the regional department of civil defense and emergency situations, the incident occurred at about 8.30 local time at the Chelyabinsk-Gruzovoi station. The train was transporting wood and butane - in two tanks. 5 wagons derailed. There was no depressurization of the tanks, so the rescuers were not involved.

The prosecutor's office of the Voronezh region has charged a participant in the murder of a student from Guinea-Bissau with an attack on another African. This was reported to ITAR-TASS on Friday by Galina Gorshkova, senior assistant to the regional prosecutor.

The first deputy general director of NTV, Vadim Zhivov, is leaving the television company. As it became known to Kommersant, formally from Monday he will be on vacation, but most likely he will not return to the channel. The departure of Vadim Zhivov coincided with a sharp drop in NTV's ratings and, as a result, a weakening of NTV's position in the television market.

The spiritual leader of the radical Shiite group Al-Mahdi Army, Moqtada Al-Sadr, addressed the Americans with a statement, Sky News reports. The appeal was read by one of his assistants in the main mosque of Kufa. "I appeal to my enemy Bush. Now the whole nation is fighting against you - from south to north, from east to west, and our advice to you is: withdraw your troops from Iraq." Otherwise, the imam promised to arrange a revolution.

Spanish police have found a threatening video in the ruins of a house where suspected terrorists blew up last week. The video shows armed Arab militants threatening war if Spanish troops do not withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, Reuters reported. The house where the suspected terrorists lived was investigated as part of the investigation of the March 11 attacks in Madrid.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Natalya Timakova head of the Press Service and Information Office of the President of the Russian Federation by decree, press secretary of the president Alexei Gromov told RIA Novosti. By the same decree, the president released Timakova from the post of head of the press service of the head of state.

According to updated data, in St. Petersburg, in one of the apartments of a residential building where repairs were made, a suspended ceiling collapsed, a representative of the press service of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of the city said. "The worker, who was engaged in repairs, received a severe spinal injury. At the moment he is hospitalized," the source said.

Burial with a cat. Photo by ar In Cyprus, archaeologists found in a burial dated from 7500 to 7000 BC, next to the remains of a man’s skeleton, AFP reports with reference to publication in Science. There is no doubt that this cat was a domestic animal of the deceased. It was previously believed that the Egyptians tamed the cats about 2 thousand years BC. The bones of cats, still found in Cyprus, were at least a thousand years “younger”, many of them wear traces of human teeth.

On the Kremenchug-Moscow train, customs officers found and confiscated a batch of marijuana in jars of jam from the conductors, ITAR-TASS reports. The inspection was carried out by Bryansk customs officers at the border station Suzemka. A parcel for a Muscovite with several jars of jam found in the conductor's compartment surprised the employees of the State Customs Committee, who know that there are no problems with sweets in the capital.

Power engineers of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky suspended the reduction of heat supply to residential buildings in the city, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the administration of the Kamchatka region. At Friday's meeting of Kamchatskenergo's management with Anatoly Shalev, Acting Mayor of Petropavlovsk, the intentions of power engineers to suspend the reduction of coolant parameters in the city districts receiving heating from Kamchatskenergo's thermal power plants were confirmed.

Two corpses were found yesterday on the territory of the Podvodrechstroy plant along Bolshaya Filevskaya Street in Moscow, reports IA REGNUM . Both deceased - an elderly man and a woman - have not yet been identified. It is assumed that these are homeless people who have chosen the territory of the plant. The man died 3-4 days ago, and the woman about four months before. Her body was gnawed by rodents.