The Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah spent many hours with President George Bush, telling him about the situation in the Middle East. “He turned out to be a completely different person, not at all the same as I expected to meet,” the Prince Saudi newspaper quoted, for whom the April meeting in Texas was the first meeting of one on one with the US president, the BBC Russian service reports.

The Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova managed to win two matches in a row in one tournament. At the representative tennis tournament in Rome of the Masters series, Kournikova in the second round match in three sets beat the American Lily Osterlo - 6: 1.4: 6.6: 1, RIA Novosti reports. It is noteworthy that the rival of Kournikova in this meeting was supposed to be another American athlete √ Vinus Williams.

Uzbekistan will not be presented at a meeting of the ministers of the defense of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which opened in the Russian capital on Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, in a residential building 56, Building 3 on Tukhachevsky Street in the North-Western District, an explosion occurred, the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate said. A message about the explosion in one of the apartments of the house came from tenants at about 9:00, Interfax reports.

According to the Secretary General of NATO George Robertson, the creation of the Russia-NATO Council testifies to the advance of a new era in relations between the alliance and the Russian Federation. He stated this in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde , which is published by Inopressa.ru . Specific changes, according to the head of NATO, will depend on the people gathered at the negotiating table.

May 15 - International Deny Day of Army. Russian anti -Militarists met him with a public action, and the military - by the opening of a special public reception on the issue of draft. This was reported by the correspondent of the Moscow Bureau of NTV-INTERNATIONAL . For one day of work, a public reception on issues of calling here 20 women turned here. One of them is Irina Sergeevna, the mother of three children, a disabled person of the second group.

Pope John Pavel II took today as part of a universal audience in the square in front of St. Peter's Council of Former Prostitutes, RIA Novosti reports. Such an impressive delegation of the correction of the “priestesses of love” brought to the Vatican Priest Orest Benci, who has been struggling with an ulcer prostitution in Italy for many years. One of the girls, the 18-year-old Romanian, the priest led directly to the dad and spoke about her fate.

The UN Security Council unanimously extended sanctions against Iraq for another six months. Meanwhile, the extension of the embargo on Tuesday was by no means automatic, the most significant reform of sanction has occurred over many years, NTV-International reports. The UN Security Council approved significant relief in economic sanctions against Iraq in order to be able to provide this country with more humanitarian aid.

In India, the record has been rampant over the past 30 years. More than 350 people died from heat strokes, Interfax reports. Basically, old people, children and patients can not stand the heat. According to ITAR-TASS, sultry weather began in early May and to date is rampant at most of the north, center and southeast of the country. Penjab and Western Bengal are most suffered to the greatest extent. There, after noon, the air is hot to plus 47 degrees Celsius.

In the USA, the victim of the Catholic priest-pedophile tried to shoot a pervert, RIA Novosti reports. In Baltimore (Maryland), 26-year-old Donti Stox drove up to the house of the 56-year-old priest Maurice Blackwell and shot several times in the holy father, who talked with a neighbor. A few hours later, he himself came to the police and told about his deed. Stox was charged with trying to kill and attack the first and second degree.

As part of the FBI reorganization plan, developed by its director Robert Muller, it is supposed to create a new “super unit” with headquarters in Washington. According to The Washington Post (translation on the website inopressa.ru ), it will conduct all the largest investigations related to the manifestations of terrorism around the world.

The first deputy minister of the press of the Russian Federation Mikhail Ceslavinsky on Wednesday denied the media reports that he met with Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and discussed with him the issues of organizing the broadcasting of the media-Socium consortium on the sixth channel. According to Seslavinsky, he did not have a meeting with the head of government and, accordingly, there was no discussion of issues related to the activities of the Media Socium, RIA Novosti reports.

The unique letters of the outstanding writer of the 20th century, the Nobel Prize laureate Mikhail Sholokhov were today transferred to the FSB of the Russian Federation to the Museum-Reserve of the writer in the Don village of Veshenskaya. As ITAR-TASS reports, the museum was represented by the grandson of the writer Alexander. For more than 50 years, these documents have been stored in Moscow in the archives of the KGB and the FSB.

Almost no day passes that Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson do not exchange verbal attacks on each other. Such a skirmish is becoming more and more stiff and ulcerative as the battle approaches between professional boxers, which will be held on June 8 in Memphis (Tennessee). This time Lewis distinguished himself, who insists that the American is fed with a dense breakfast and dinner before he enters the ring.

In Saransk, the employees of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs detained the oldest pickpocket of Mordovia with theolochery, RIA Novosti reports. The man was engaged in the theft of wallets in city public transport. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, a detained 63-year-old resident of Saransk Anatoly Frolov specialized mainly in elderly passengers of urban transport.