Shootout on the Israeli-Lebanese border: mortars and artillery are used

Father Frost was killed in Belarus

Israelis on the Internet vote for Sharon and expect a big war

Arafat left the White House again

JPMorgan Chase opens new superbank in US

Law enforcement officers will go to prison for taking bribes

Wounded soldiers fired back at the militants until reinforcements arrived

In Spain, a train rammed a van: at least 13 dead

Massachusetts twins born in different millennia

King arrested for murder of Russian wife

An Israeli airline office was blown up in Zurich

Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation: inflation in 2000 was 20.2 percent

Israeli tanks fired at a Palestinian post near Ramallah

On Wall Street, the New Year opened with stocks falling

The RTS index fell to its lowest level since December 1999