The leaders of Toronto Mats Sundin and Ed Belfort decided not to go to the “match of all the stars” due to injuries, but together they gave a gift to their 60th anniversary to their coach Patu Quinn. Sundin scored two goals in the majority, and Belfor reflected 25 of the 27 shots on his goal in the match with Karolina, which ended with the victory of Toronto 3: 2. This victory stopped the three -match series of Toronto's defeats.

Contrary to the statements of the United States and Great Britain, there is no evidence of a violation by Iraq of the UN Security Council number 1441. This was announced on Thursday in London the General Director of the International Agency for Atomic Enegria Muhammad al-Baradei.

The deputy of the Storting - the Norway Parliament - was filmed by journalists at the moment when he played a military game on his pocket computer during the meeting. Trond Helleland had no idea that television cameras in the parliament hall were sent at him during the discussion of the issue of the country's participation in a military operation in Afghanistan.

Frankfurter Allgemeine writes today about the election of Kuchma as chairman of the CIS Council . Recall that the Ukrainian president on Wednesday in Kyiv was elected chairman of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS. This was announced by Russian President Putin and Kuchma after the end of the informal meeting of the heads of the CIS state in the Ukrainian capital.

A day of assistance to patients with leprosy is celebrated on Thursday in all countries. This terrible disease is usually associated in people with the Middle Ages, but today about 5 million people are sick with leprosy. In Russia, the situation is much more prosperous than in many other states - only 750 people are sick with leprosy. Over the past 30 years, the incidence has decreased by 2.5 times. The disease is known in the world for more than four millennia.

The visit of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II to Estonia will most likely take place in May of this year. This was reported to "Interfax" today was informed by an informed source in medical circles.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Great Britain David Blankette signed an order on the beginning of the extradition procedure of Ahmed Zakeva to Russia. This was announced by a well -informed source in London. Thus, the British leadership made an important political decision. This order created the legal basis for the consideration of the case of extradition in court.

Every third woman in the UK from time to time takes one -day vacation due to illness to have sex, revealed a study. At the same time, half allows themselves to be binded, 40 % fantasize about selfless copulation with a stranger, and 33 % remove the process on the video camera.

Arkansa lawyers approved a bill prohibiting the sale and 'use for criminal purposes' of urine. It turns out that urine is a hit of sales in this state via the Internet: many buy it in order to successfully undergo drug tests and chronic diseases, reports Russianny.com . The initiator of the bill is Jay Martin, a young ambitious member of the lower house of the Arkansas parliament.

The oldest map of the starry sky is cut out on a piece of mammoth tusk, and she is about 32,500 years old. So thinks Munich archaeologist Michael Rappenglyuk, reports Die Welt (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). A fragment of a mammoth tusk of only 4 by 1.4 cm with a pattern cut on it was discovered back in 1979 in the Swabian Alba. However, scientists were able to study the image only now. New data make you think that the male figure depicted on it is Orion constellation, experts say.

Armenian citizen tried to hand over a disassembled tank in Khabarovsk for scrap metal. According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Khabarovsk Territory, the truck, in the back of which the tank was located, was detained by police officers in conjunction with the military traffic inspectorate on Tuesday. The driver of a heavy truck said that he was not related to the cargo - according to him, he was simply asked to help.

In Voronezh, the former deputy chief of the Office for the Combating of Organized Crime (ARC) Sergey Savin was killed. Representatives of the Organized Crime Control Department, believe that this murder has all the signs of custom. The ordered nature is evidenced not only by the fact that the offender made six shots, but also that the large amount of the money that the murdered was intact.

To distinguish warm from cold, sharks, burbot and slopes seem to use their heads. According to new data, the mucus that is contained in their nose produces electric current in response to temperature changes. Similar mucus are present in other animals. The synthetic variety of such a gel can be of interest to the microelectronic industry, reports Nature (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Mammals feel the temperature by means of pores in the cell membrane - ion channels.

The Lokomotiv finally handed the gold medals that the players won in the Russian championship. This happened on Thursday at the State Kremlin Palace. The ceremony gathered the whole color of the Russian football leadership and almost the entire color of our politicians. So, the medal was presented by the President of the Russian Football Union Vyacheslav Koloskov and General Director of the RFU Alexander Tukmanov.

It is possible that the Working Group "Duma-Pas" will cease to exist. “This form has outlived itself and it was especially clearly manifested when the part of the group, represented by Lord Jadd, tried to kill its own brainchild, opposing the holding of a referendum in the Chechen Republic of the Constitution,” the head of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation in PACA, the head of the State Duma Committee Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.