Three people were injured in an explosion of a gas cylinder in a residential building in Sevastopol in Ukraine. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine, a 47-year-old man was seriously injured, a 70% of the body of which is covered with burns. A 27-year-old woman and a two-year-old child were hospitalized in a state of moderate severity.

The Iraqi regime intends to "cause damage or destroy" oil crafts in the event of a war. With this statement, a senior representative of the Pentagon, who wished to maintain anonymity, made an anonymity today. According to him, US President George Bush has not yet decided to conduct a power operation in Iraq.

The Directorate of the Andrei Sakharov museum ahead of schedule closed the exhibition "Caution, religion!" And she apologized to believers. Earlier it was assumed that the exhibition would be held until February 9.

Today in the living room there will be a presentation of the program of numerous events dedicated to the 700th anniversary of the replacement of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, the ancestor of the Moscow princes. According to RIA Novosti in the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), the presentation is held by the oldest Holy Danilov Monastery in Moscow as part of the Orthodox Rus, open in the Gostiny Dvor of the First All-Russian exhibition.

The main prize of the international festival "Faces of Love" - ​​"Golden Arrow" - received the film "Pipe in the Valley", shot by Israeli directors Glory and Lina Chaplin. The closing ceremony of prestigious filmmaker, held for the eighth time, took place on Thursday in the Central House of Cinema in Moscow. The jury of the festival was headed by the famous Polish director, screenwriter and actor Jerzy Antchak.

Islamic militants, arrested this month in the UK, possibly planned to poison food with Ricin at least one British military base. This was reported by representatives of the US administration. This news gave rise to concerns in the UK and the United States about the security of the allies transferred to the Gulf of Persian on the eve of the war with Iraq.

Ten teen bikers were detained today by the Tokyo police. Teenagers are accused of cruelly tortured members of the 'competing' group with mustard and other sharp seasonings. Seven people suffered from torture. Teenagers were led by an 18-year-old graduate of secondary school, today Mainichi writes, an article by Inopressa . The detained adolescents explained that with such methods they tried to regain money for a motorcycle, which was supposedly abducted by the injured last year.

The gas supply from Russia in Transcaucasia resumed on Friday at 11:00 Moscow time. 20 hours it took Gazprom to fulfill the order of President Putin to restore gas supply to Georgia and Armenia within a daily time .

The President of Clonaid Brigitte Boisselia announced that two more cloned children will be born in January. At Thursday in Toronto, she reported that on January 22 a cloned boy was born in Japan-the third clone allegedly created by Clonaid, but she could not cite any evidence that these children really exist.

Israel decided to carry out a series of army operations in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, from where missile strikes were struck on the Israeli city of Deero on Friday. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Israel, General Shaul Mofaz, whose performance sounded on the howls of Israeli public radio, reports AFP. According to ITAR-TASS, as a result of the shelling in the outfit, one house was damaged, its inhabitant was taken to the hospital in a state of shock.

The head of the UN Commission on the Observation, Control and Inspection (Yunmovik) Hans Blix said that the inspectors did not come to unequivocal conclusions about the existence of weapons of mass defeat in Iraq. Blix met with other leaders of the commission, which is preparing a report on its activities in Iraq for the UN Security Council. This document should be submitted on January 27. “We have mixed results,” Blix noted.

In Kamchatka, a twenty -seven -year -old man spent more than a year in the same apartment with killed parents. According to the press service of the internal affairs department of the Kamchatka region, a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky came to the police on the eve of a confession. According to the criminal, on December 31, 2001, during a quarrel with his parents, he killed his father and mother, inflicting multiple stab wounds on them.

In Moscow, at the Kievskaya metro station, with a combat pistol, TT and cartridges for it were detained by a 19-year-old resident of Naro-Fominsk. According to the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the young man was detained by employees of the criminal investigation of the metro. During a search of a 3rd year student of the Moscow College of Railway Transport, a TT pistol with a sawn number and three combat cartridges for it was seized, Interfax reports.

If you want romance in a relationship with a girl, then you better go with her: to the stadium. Such advice is given by a British family relationship Susan Killiem. For this conclusion, she conducted a whole study where she turned on the rostrum of the football stadium. In addition, the comparative analysis of romantic places included restaurants, bars, theaters, cinema halls and just joint walks.

The International from Dallas Maveriks again won the NBA championship. 30 points and 14 rebounds of Dirka Novitski broke the resistance of Philadelphia Allen Iverson. The bill of this meeting - 107: 94 says that Dallas had practically no problems in this meeting. In addition to Novitsky, Steve Nash, who scored 21 points and made 13 rebounds, played perfectly. So far, Dallas is the leader in the entire league with an indicator of 33 victories and only 8 defeats.