The United States joins the world's largest research project to create a new source of energy based on nuclear synthesis. This was announced on Thursday in Washington, US President George Bush. The project is already participating in the EU, Russia and a number of other countries. The President announced that he had requested 1.2 billion dollars from the US Congress in the new federal budget for the creation of a new type of hydrogen fuel car.

During the investigation of the explosion of the Tavria car near McDonald's on Kokdashkin Street on October 19 last year, law enforcement officers of the capital entered the terrorist network operating in Moscow and the Moscow Region, which was prevented by several terrorist attacks. This was announced in an interview with the program "Man and the Law" on Channel One Deputy Head of the operational-search part of the Moscow Military District of the Moscow Institution Evgeny Taratorin.

The II Congress of the Association of Orthodox Youth of Belarus was opened on the eve of Minsk, in the premises of the temple in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "of all mourning joy." According to the Blagovet-Info agency in the press service of the Belarusian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (BPC MP), not only representatives of the Orthodox youth organizations of Belarus, but also guests from Russia, Poland and from Ukraine take part in the congress.

The transition of the Russian football player Andrei Kanchelskis to the Al-Khilyal Club of Saudi Arabia still took place. According to RIA Novosti correspondent, the midfielder of the English Southampton recently signed a contract with the Arab club, but the transition was in question due to the end of the deriva period in England.

In Saudi Arabia, the Council of Ulemov (scientists-theological) issued a fatwa prohibiting attacking non-Muslims and destroying their property, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The council uniting prominent theologians and lawyers is the highest spiritual authority in the kingdom. He has the right to publish religious legal judgments, interpreting the provisions of Islam and determining the attitude of Muslims to various problems. Believers are required to follow the instructions of Fatv.

Oksana Manilova - a 17 -year -old schoolgirl from the city of Demyansk, Novgorod Region, drew up a map of the disappeared Orthodox chapels, RIA Novosti reports. According to Oksana, in total in the Demyansky district, according to archival data, in 1916 58 chapels operated. During the Great Patriotic War, most chapels were destroyed and only 4 chapels remained by the present time.

The Federal Commission for the Securities Market of the Russian Federation canceled the order of its regional branch in the Central Federal District dated January 25, 2002 "On the cancellation of state registration of securities of the open joint -stock company" Babaevsky ". According to the press release of the FCCB of the Russian Federation, the commission made this decision on February 4, 2003.

Literaryist Vadim Stark opened unknown information about Pushkin’s life. He denied the opinion that all St. Petersburg addresses of the great poet have been studied in detail, and called the previously unknown address of the Russian genius. In a small two -story mansion near Kalinkin a bridge in the house of Count Apraksin (now the Griboedov channel, 174), a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum arrived in June 1817.

In Kuwait, an American soldier died as a result of an accident. Four more were injured. The CNN television company, citing the Pentagon, said that the accident occurred near the army camp Arithjan in Kuwait. The Pentagon emphasizes that an investigation of the causes of the accident is being conducted. The names of the victims of the incident are not reported, since relatives have not yet been notified of the incident, RIA Novosti reports.

In the center of Saratov exploded a three -story residential building on Astrakhan Street. None of the residents of the house were injured. According to Friday in the regional Ministry of Emergencies, the incident occurred last night. The explosive wave carried out the doors in a store located in the same building, partitions collapsed. A fire began on the basement and on the ground floor, RIA Novosti reports. 12 fire brigades participated in the extinguishing of fire.

Approximately every fourth Frenchman (23%) is expressed for the free sale of hemp. Three years ago, only every sixth inhabitant of France (17%) supported this measure. These are the results of a sociological study on the topic "French and drugs", published on Friday, the French Supervisory Committee on drug addiction and toxicomania (OFDT), reports AFP. The turn in favor of the liberalization of the hemp law was outlined in various sectors of public opinion.

On Friday, the Duma commission on ethics at its meeting intends to deal with the issue of the reliability of the facts of obscene public behavior of the vice-speaker of the chamber Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The reason for this was his obscene statements addressed to US President George Bush, widely replicated in the Russian media.

One of the producers of the "brigade" Valery Todorovsky stood up for the film. “If someone wants to seriously reconsider the“ brigade ”, he will see that the amount of violence in the film is much less than in other criminal series that go in our country,” he said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

The police found a human leg in a garbage tank belonging to the McDonald's restaurant in Manila. “So far we cannot identify the owner of the foot found. Everything that we can say at the moment is a fresh cut on the fabrics. Accordingly, the limb was thrown into garbage shortly after it was cut off from the body,” said the local detective Heriko Homens, commenting on the incident. The investigation considers various versions of the origin of the shocking find.

In California, it will find a fragment of the tail of the COLUMBIA shuttle. This confirms the message of the astronomer from California Anthony Bisli that the destruction of the shuttle began over the territory of the Golden State. According to the NBC television company, the US authorities gave two days to "lovers" of souvenirs to hand over any objects related to the death of shuttle, since any detail is important to clarify the causes of the disaster.