The Microsoft Corporation presented a report for the first financial quarter on Thursday evening, ending on September 30. The US and Asian stock markets with open arms adopted news of the financial successes of Microsoft and, as the Air Force notes, the trade week may end on a major note. The profit of Bill Gates amounted to 2.73 billion dollars, which was 113% exceeded the indicator of the same quarter last year. Revenues grew from $ 6.1 billion. A year ago to $ 7.75 billion.

Russian transplant surgeons are the first in the world to transplant to patients cloned organs. The hearts and kidneys will grow from the cells of the patients themselves. The results of research in genetic engineering, according to research specialists, can in the future to completely solve the problem of lack of donor organs. Currently, the main problem of organs transplant specialists is that there is no material for transplantation (kidneys, heart, liver).

Until 2010, 72 thousand km of roads will be built and reconstructed in Russia. Their total length will reach 670 thousand km. The Ministry of Transport says that now in the country the national program "Roads of Russia of the XXI Century" is in full swing. This document is scheduled to bring the length of roads with a capital type of coating to 428 thousand km, and with the transition type of coating - up to 212 thousand km.

Rescuers continued today to clear the approaches to the tunnel in the Karmadon Gorge, in which the bodies of the Kolka glacier died when the Glacier of Glacier may be. But the explosions are already prohibited. Rescuers clear the ice blocks manually. As explained in the Ministry of Emergencies, the use of explosives is currently inappropriate.

UEFA experts noted a high degree of readiness of Moscow for the 2008 European Football Championship, however, they attributed to problem issues the level of hotel development, customs and visa restrictions. The next meeting of the National Coordinating Committee for the Russian Coordination Committee as a candidate for the 2008 European Football Championship was held in Moscow on Friday in Moscow.

The corpse of a former athlete was discovered at the stadium in Kaliningrad, reports the website of Kaliningrad News . 58-year-old Vladimir Petrov played for Baltika in the mid-60s. The body of a former athlete with multiple bruises, characteristic signs of violent death was found the day before at the stadium after the match of the Kaliningrad football players. As the police officers found out, recently Vladimir Petrov has been a vagrant lifestyle, lived in the stadium.

State Duma deputies on Friday in the second reading discuss the draft federal budget for 2003. During the meeting, parliamentarians have to approve the expenses for the main sections of the budget represented by the government. Experts and parliamentarians of big problems do not expect a document.

The “soon defeat” of the United States predicted Saddam Hussein, speaking with a speech after taking the oath as the newly elected President Iraq. To stop the “evil and aggression” that the American administration carries Iraq, Hussein told Sadam in his speech, which was broadcast on Thursday night by all channels of Iraqi television, only “if this administration is defeated”.

In the French capital, on Thursday, a meeting of the “quartet” of international intermediaries on Middle East settlement, which was attended by representatives of Russia, the USA, the European Union and the UN, took place.

The head of the Indonesian Islamist organization "Jema Islami" Abu Bakar Bashir was hospitalized in the hospital, reports Reuters. Nothing is known about the reasons for his hospitalization. However, now he may not appear for interrogation to the police, as was planned earlier. Abu Bakar Bashir was called for interrogation to the police today.

On Friday evening, in the courtyard of the house ╧112, an entrepreneur was killed on Mira Avenue in Moscow. In the Central Committee of Interfax, the Central Committee of the Capital was reported that in the evening a woman ran into the lobby of the metro metro station, who had just heard shots in the neighboring courtyard. A police officer went to the scene of the metro, the police patrol arrived there.

The Federal Border Service of Russia intends to strengthen the military presence on the border with Georgia, said Colonel General Konstantin Totsky in Yerevan. According to him, additional forces are transferred to the most dangerous sections of the borders with Georgia, new outposts and outfits are exhibited. "Our goal is to increase the density of the military protection of the border with Georgia," the general said.

The legendary rock band Queen was awarded exclusive honor √ Her star was open on Friday celebrities in Hollywood on Friday. This means that the group has joined the Beatles quartet, which has become one of the few non -American celebrities who received a star on the alley, BBC reports. Brian Mei and Roger Taylor were present at the ceremony, held by Hollywood Honorary Johnny Grant in front of the IVAR night club on the Alley of Celebrities in Los Angeles.

The likelihood of a threat of attacks against the United States has returned to the level of September last year. At the same time, the capabilities of the American special services to prevent them are limited, and there will be defeats in the fight against terrorism, said CIA Director George Tenet.

During the All -Russian Census of the Population in the Republic of Tatarstan, the curifary incident was recorded: the man enrolled in the Incam speaking in Mogican In addition, one of the inhabitants of Naberezhnye Chelny wanted his nationality to be designated as "Papuas". Otherwise, Chelninets refused to give any information about himself.