President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf called the murder of American journalist Daniel Pall "cruel" crime and expressed condolences to the family of the deceased. Musharraf also gave the police order and special services to continue to search for this meaningless crime of criminals, most likely activists of one of the radical Muslim militarized groups, RTR reports.

“From the very beginning, the current games were greatly painted in US colors,” said the Japanese sports expert and writer Nagis Pictory. “What is happening at the current Olympiad is the protrusion of America, imperialism in the field of culture,” said another expert and writer Masayuki Tamaki. He believes that it has the same roots as the recent known statement about the countries of the “Ensinum of Evil”.

Yasir Arafat received a letter from President Bush, in which the American leader speaks of the adherence of his administration by the process of peaceful settlement in the Middle East. This was reported on Friday by the Palestinian News Agency WAFA, reports Jewish.ru . The Arafat adviser told the agency that the letter was handed over to the US Consul in Jerusalem Ronald Schlicher.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Muslims of Russia on the holiday of Kurban-Bayram , the press service of the President of the Russian Federation reports . The congratulation, in particular, states: "Millions of citizens of our country live in accordance with the traditions of Islam .

Russia insists that the Russian skater Irina Slutskaya was also awarded a gold medal, which was won by American Sarah Hughes in solitary figure skating. Such information, as RIA Novosti reports, appeared in some American media, including on television channels. As we reported earlier, the Russian figure skating Federation stated a protest regarding the results of the Olympic tournament skaters and sent it to the referee of Britta Lindgren.

The helicopter of the American Air Force MH-47 Chinook, on board of which there were eight members of the crew and two passengers, crashed on Friday at night at the sea off the southern shores of the Philippines. According to representatives of the Pentagon, a search and rescue operation was immediately undertaken. Representatives of the Pentagon refute the message that two American troops managed to save.

The next month, the Britney's Dance Beat video game will be released in America. The genre of the game is musical action, the super -task - to dance in the dance of Britney Spears at her virtual concert, reports "Netoscope" . The player must bring his ability to knock on the Joyic buttons under the songs of Britney Spears to perfection. Songs like "Baby One More Time", "Oops! I DID it AGain" or "Stronger" The player must achieve the desired result √ become a dancer of the idol.

Over the past few years, whole streets of shops have appeared in Moscow, where a bottle of spirits or an evening dress can cost several hundred, or even several thousand dollars. According to sellers, foreign tourists rarely make purchases here, much more money in Lux class stores leave their Russian buyers, TV-6 LLC on Echo of Moscow is broadcast. Near the rows of clothes, where there is not a single thing cheaper than a hundred dollars, on ordinary days you will not see anyone but sellers.

The film actress Nicole Kidman stated that she would have handed Oscar not for herself. In principle, such statements on the eve of the ceremony are made by many actors. Indeed, in the eyes of the public you will look better if in words you will disinterestedly give the award to another than you will scream at all corners, that "only I worthy." Moreover, any opinion will not affect the opinion of the Academy of Cinema.

The State Duma took on the basis of the appeal to the chairman of the state sports Pavel Rozhkov and the President of the Olympic Committee of Russia Leonid Tyagachev "On the situation with Russian athletes at international competitions." 421 deputy voted for this decision, no one voted against, only one abstained.

An action is held on the Internet, the organizers of which urge employers to take care of their employees and declare a loafer day for them. They aim to remind people that their life is not limited only to the office. The day spent in bed in front of the TV can make employees happy and return the overall tone, the promotion participants add. They stood up for the right of each person for idleness in a small company Oncus .

The American Bode Miller, who became a silver medalist in Salt Lake City for the second time, he said completely. Stefan Ebercharter became a worthy successor to Hermann Mayer, who did not completely recover after the injury. In the absence of a germinator, he got the third “gold” for the Austria national team, leading at each of the three attempts.

From March 1, nicotine -containing drugs - chewing gum and a special patch will be spread to the smoking passengers of Aeroflot from March 1. This was told by the Deputy General Director of the Company Lev Koshlyakov. This will be done due to the ban on smoking during flights, which meets global standards. He recalled that the ban on smoking during flights was introduced after numerous polls.

Every third owner of a mobile phone in the CIS is not a Russian. These are the results of a study conducted by the Russian branch of the analytical company IDC . A boom in the mobile phones market is observed not only in Russia, in 2001 the number of mobile subscribers in other CIS countries increased more than doubled compared to 1.7 million at the end of 2000. Of the 12 million in the CIS, 7.5 million falls on Russia, about 1.9 million - to Ukraine and 1.9 million - for all other countries.

The Minister of Transport of Egypt Ibrahim Demiri on Friday resigned. He explained his decision by the inability to occupy this post after a recent railway disaster between Cairo and Luxor, as a result of which almost 400 people died. According to Reuters, President Hosni Mubarak has already accepted Demiri's resignation. Recall that a strong fire broke out on Wednesday night in Egypt in a passenger train, following Cairo to Luxor . 373 people were bored, several hundred passengers were injured.