The BBC Today radio program voted for Saddam Hussein as a foreigner, the most "deserving honorary status of a British citizen." The appearance of the "Baghdad butcher", as human rights activists call it, among the personalities such as the leader of the Burmese opposition, Ms. Aun San Su Sui and former US President Bill Clinton, however, causes some surprise, The Guardian writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The rich selection of Romanian wines, offered to customers before the New Year, was replenished with new products - collectible drinks from the basements of Nikolai Chausko. Vinalcool -Bakeu, in the basements of which there is a special reserve of the former dictator, put up for sale 250 bottles of more than 20 years of exposure. Each product has an original packaging with the inscription "Nicolae's", to which the corresponding "legend" of the drink is attached.

The record of the duration of the game on the piano was set by American John Comte. In one of the restaurants of Greenwich-Willidge, the Bohemian region of New York, he played music for 52 hours in a row, taking only 15-minute breaks after every eight hours of the game. This achievement claims to be entered into the Guinness Book of Records .

A rabid dog bit 45 people in the village of Mukhtolovo, Arlatorsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. This was reported on Friday in the State -Epid Service of the Russian Federation. Among the victims are 17 children under the age of 14. In total, 21 people turned to the other bites for help, doctors identified the local residents during a survey. All victims were provided with first medical care and treatment with a special vaccine was prescribed. The dog was caught by a special team.

Advertising technologies in the Society of Consumers are becoming more and more intrusive. Advertising shields that can "cut" depending on the tastes of the contemplating public are already installed in American megacities. To the current advertisers, fortunately, far far from the nightmare of the film by Stephen Spielberg "Special Opinion". The shield can determine what the driver of the car passing by is listening to - Rock'n'roll, program, talk show or news.

The leading political forces of Yugoslavia and Serbia today resolutely condemned the actions of the hooligans, who torn on the eve of the Christmas service of the Anglican church in Belgrade.

In connection with the explosion of the Chechen government house , as a result of which more than 40 people died, the police in Moscow and the region were transferred to an enhanced service regime. According to ITAR-TASS, in accordance with regulatory documents for such emergency situations, “traffic checks at the DPS posts at the entrances to the city, in Moscow itself and the Moscow Ring Road were strengthened.

The captain of the Moscow 'Lokomotiv' midfielder Dmitry Loskov is called the best football player in Russia in the past year. This follows from the results of the most prestigious survey, annually conducted by the popular weekly Football . In a survey of the leading football publication, according to tradition, since the Soviet era (then the weekly was called 'Football Hockey'), Russian journalists who write about football participate.

The People’s Court of the Southern Chinese province Hainan sentenced 6 leaders of criminal groups the day before to the death penalty. The remaining 12 defendants in this case, the Chinese seal reported on Friday, received long prison terms up to life imprisonment. As established by the investigation, one of the gangs, led by a certain Hi Tsaiwann and Lin Fanji, from 1993 to 1999, kept several underground gambling houses and brothels in the city of Haikou.

The New Year's gift seems to be going to present the weather to Muscovites. The metropolitan weather forecasters unveiled an updated forecast for the upcoming holidays. According to the agency "Evening Moscow" in the metropolitan hydrometeorological unit, in the coming days, Muscovites will still be very freezing. Thermometers most likely will stubbornly demonstrate marks about minus 18 degrees. However, the very holidays of the cold should weaken.

The state prosecutor demanded to be sentenced to Colonel Yuri Budanov, accused of killing a Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, to 12 years in prison. Speaking on Friday in the court of the North Caucasus Military District, the state prosecutor Alexander Derbenev also stated that he insisted on depriving the defendant of military ranks and awards.

North Korea sends inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who controlled frozen nuclear facilities. The notice of this was sent today by Pyongyan to the General Director of the IAEA Mahammad al-Baradei. This was announced on Friday by the British television company Sky TV with reference to sources in South Korea.

A German citizen, who is 93 years old, sued the German government. The process will be of great importance because we are talking about the fundamental problems of the modern history of Berlin. The fate of Charlotte Hildebrand is shared by more than a thousand families, who can also file claims, writes today The Guardian (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Thousands of houses, apartments and plots were expropriated by the authorities of East Germany, who decided to build a wall.

Chemist Bridget Buassel, the director of Clonaid, associated with the ufological sect, Raelian , claims that the first cloned baby was born . Genetics consider this a bluff and "propaganda." The first cloned child was called Eve. The child was endured, the birth passed through cesarean section, and the weight of the baby was 3.1 kg. For cloning, Mother's DNA - 31 -year -old American was taken, Buassel said. As she noted, the girl is a genetic copy of her mother.

The Pentagon relies on the Smart, controlled by satellites, weapons, microwave bombs and unmanned aircraft to minimize the Baghdad resistance period. As La Stampa writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ), the arsenal during the war in Iraq will be 80% of the Smart weapon. During the "storm in the desert" of such combat funds there were only 10%. In 1991, the main weapons of the Americans in the war in the Persian Gulf were Tomahawk missiles and F-117 bombers invisible to radars.