In Tyumen, children's goods stores seized Chinese toys made of plastisol, which can be hazardous to health, for laboratory analysis. According to RIA "Novosti" in the city center of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision, according to preliminary data from laboratory analysis of samples of toys "fish", "lizun-spider", "baby doll", "ball jumper" we can talk about the excess content of phenol in them.

Unknown people have kidnapped a British journalist in Iraqi Basra and are threatening to kill him if the coalition forces do not stop the assault on An-Najaf within 24 hours, in the center of which the formations of the radical Shiite mullah Muqtada As-Sadr are entrenched. This, according to Reuters, is evidenced by footage of a video circulated in the city, and eyewitnesses speak. They say that they saw how the militants seized the journalist in the hotel.

Police. Photo from the site www.novayagazeta.ru On the night of Friday in the Ruza boarding house in the Moscow region, employees of the local police department detained five vacationers of Muscovites. According to Lenta.ru, the basis was the charge of the absence of registration in the suburbs. The detainees are employees of the newspaper Ruzsky Courier Alexei Sukhov, Dmitry Pshenitsyn, Yuri Grishkin, Olga Kuzan and Alexander Ovinov.

More than ten residents of Novosibirsk, whose children fell ill with serous meningitis while staying in children's health institutions in the region, plan to file a lawsuit against the summer camp management. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Friday by Anna Yaroslavtseva, a lawyer-consultant of the Legal Society public organization, where the parents of the injured children applied for legal assistance.

Mausoleum in En-Udzhaf. Photo from the site www.bayynat.org For a week now, in Iraq, the battles have been going on between the rebellious "Mahdi Army", headed by the radical Shiite sheikh Muktada al-Sadr, and the units of the American Marine Corps acting with the Iraqi National Guard. The main military operations unfolded in the Holy City of En-Sadzhaf, in the center of which is the Al-Haidaria mosque and the grave of the First Shiite Imam Ali.

Captain Eduard Ulman. Photo from the site www.ng.ru On August 26, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court will consider the possibility of canceling the verdict in the Ulman case, RIA Novosti was told in court. According to the representative of the court, the corresponding cassation appeal to the higher authority was filed by the victims - relatives of the dead residents of Chechnya.

Yuri Orlov. Photo from the site '' Right of Human in Russia '' On Friday, the well -known human rights activist, one of the founders and the head of the Moscow Helsinki group, Yuri Orlov, is 80 years old. Yuri Orlov took up social activities in 1973 under the influence of the campaign against Andrei Sakharov. Then he sent an open letter to Brezhnev, in which he demanded a weakening of state control over the economy and democratization of Soviet society.

Admiralty. Photo from the site www.navy.ru On August 13, 1949, 55 years ago, in the office of a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, George Malenkov, the secretary of the Central Committee Alexei Kuznetsov, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR Mikhail Rodionov and the head of the Leningrad Communists, Peter Popkov, which laid the foundation for the Leningrad case.

The cover of the official pop album of the Olympic Games ** Various artists Unity Capitol, 2004 ** "The official pop album of the Olympic Games" - this should be sold, especially since the money will go for good goals. For example, to fight AIDS. Well, of course, because almost all the noticeable people of show business were noted at the collection. These people set one task: to sing a song about the world. Avril Lavin, for example, cost a Romek on time -tested hit Knocking on Heavens Door.

On August 11-12, Japanese amateur swimmer Ken Ikarashi swam across Lake Baikal from east to west, Gazuta.Ru reports. According to the information given by the agency "Baikal News Service", the athlete started the swim from Cape Sredny in the Selenga delta (east coast) and moved in the direction of Buguldeyka (west coast) - this is about 40 km.

Vladimir Putin. Filming RTR Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that in Russia by 2005 the target program "Anti -Terror" would be launched. According to ITAR-TASS, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin said that it is planned to allocate 2.3 billion rubles for the implementation of this program.

The Russian Foreign Ministry refutes the information that nuclear tests are being conducted in Russia. According to the ministry, since gaining its sovereignty, Russia has not conducted a single test. "Since gaining its sovereignty, Russia has not carried out a single nuclear test," the Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department said in a commentary.

Drawing from the site lambdaweb.org On Thursday, the Supreme Court of California annulled all the homosexual marriages concluded by the authorities of the city of San Francisco, Reuters reports. The court found that the authorities did not have the authority to issue permits to join a single -sex marriage, as this contradicts the laws of the state. In addition, the Supreme Court demanded that the city administration fixes its mistake.

In Georgia, they are looking for three missing climbers from St. Petersburg. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the information department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the tourist group of three people did not reach the camp at the foot of Mount Ushba by the deadline, August 9. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the group was last seen on August 7 at the foot of Mount Ushba.

The Moscow prosecutor's office has completed the investigation into the criminal case of the National Bolsheviks who seized the Ministry of Health and Social Development on August 2, 2004, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office on Friday, seven young people were brought to criminal responsibility. They were charged with committing hooligan acts and deliberate destruction and damage to property.