The Columbian Left -Training Army of National Liberation (ANO) liberated two Los Angeles Times Journalists, stolen on January 21 in the Arauk Department on the border with Venezuela. Last weekend, journalists working for the American newspaper Los Angeles Times were transferred to representatives of the International Red Cross Committee and transported to Bogota.

Despite the COLUMBIA COLUMBIA, the Cosmos study should continue. Mondays of families of the dead astronauts Columbia made such a statement on Monday.

In Khabarovsk, the operational group of prosecutors and police officers detained a criminal group that stole a student of one of the secondary schools on Friday on Friday. The schoolboy was abducted by criminals in the day in the city center when he was in the cafe "Cup of tea". For three days he was kept in the apartment of one of the abductors, Interfax reports.

James Watson, one of the groups of scientists who opened the DNA spiral, said that it is necessary to create an international database where information will be collected about the genetic structure of all residents of Europe and the USA. The scientist gave the Independent newspaper an exclusive interview dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of a double spiral.

Thirty -three people died as a result of a strong fire in one of the hotels in the city of Harbin - the administrative center of the North -Eastern Chinese province of Haylunjiang. Ten more victims with injuries and burns of varying severity were delivered to hospitals, ITAR-TASS reports. According to police, the fire broke out on Sunday evening at the Tiantan Hotel. Over 100 people were evacuated from the burning building.

On Monday, at about 9 a.m. near the house where he lives, the former mayor of the city of Stavropol Ivan Tymoshenko was brutally beaten in the city center. The criminals attacked Tymoshenko when he left the entrance. The former head of Stavropol was hospitalized with a diagnosis of “concussion of the brain, a fracture of the facial skeleton,” reports Regions.ru .

With the advent of the Scandinavian anticyclone, Winter again entered into its rights. At the beginning of the week, cold weather is expected in the capital without snow. This morning met Muscovites with a 20-degree frost. Now in the capital minus 18-20 degrees, in the suburbs-16-21 degrees below zero. In the afternoon in Moscow, minus 14-16 degrees, in the suburbs-minus 13-18 degrees. Cloudy with clearings, east wind 3 m/s, reports ITAR-TASS.

In California, 500 people are evacuated due to the explosion of tanks with propane. The explosion occurred in the city of Siko, the Batte district (North California), when the driver of the trailer with tanks filled with propane, in a bend, unsuccessfully launched the car, because of which trailers turned upside down with this cargo. About 36 thousand liters of propane caught fire. The danger of the incident is aggravated by the fact that it occurred 400 meters from the vault with propane.

100 thousand dollars were stolen from the bank in Nizhny Novgorod. According to the department of information and public relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the incident occurred in the Sormovsky district of the regional center.

In the investigation of the causes of the Columbia disaster, progress has already been achieved. As it became known on Monday morning, in the last 5 minutes before the Columbia disaster, the temperature of the shuttle case in the area of ​​the niche of the left wheel of the chassis grew much faster than on the right side of the ship.

The FSB of Russia on Sunday on the Vesti Week programs showed video materials proving the involvement of the leader of the Chechen gangs of Aslan Maskhadov in a terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow. In particular, a video was presented, which captures Maskhadov’s meeting with Movsar Baraev, Abu Omar and other active participants in illegal armed groups, RIA Novosti reports.

The fourth batch of a “man against a car” in New York, which is found by Harry Kasparov and the Deep Junior computer program, ended in a draw on Sunday evening. Kasparov, playing black, had to defend almost the whole meeting. The current game became the longest of all played in this series and lasted 4 hours. A fracture in it occurred about a 40-door: a situation was in which Kasparov could lose only by making a gross mistake, which no one expected from him.

In St. Petersburg, a weapon was withdrawn at the Bomzh suspected of robbery. According to the department of information and public relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, on Sunday, a 22-year-old man turned to the police department of the Primorsky police department of St. Petersburg. The victim said that he was attacked by three unknown people.

The Swedish Ericsson, the world's largest company for the production of equipment for cellular networks, receives losses for the seventh quarter in a row. And they continue to grow. In the fourth quarter of 2002, losses amounted to 8.3 billion kroons ($ 965 million). These indicators exceeded even the most pessimistic forecasts - analysts predicted no more than 4.5 billion kroons. The company's sales fell by 37%over the year, the volume of orders decreased by a quarter.

Conflicting information is received about the fate of the crew of the Russian Sagittarius dry truck, which sank Monday in the morning in the Bosphorus Strait . According to the latest data, the crews of the ships located in the death area of ​​the Russian Sagittarius Sukhoos, raised three members of its crew on board. Among the rescued, as transmitted by the Anatolian agency, senior mechanic Sergey Lukyanov and sailor Sergei Barchukov .