During the special operation, the Australian police seized the unique records of The Beatles recorded on tape recorders, which are supposed to be stolen from the legendary Abbey Road studio more than 30 years ago. The rarities were discovered during a joint police raid of detectives and employees of the department for combating musical piracy in one of the houses in the west of Sydney.

A 17-year-old resident of Oregon was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs when he inflicted several stab wounds on his mother. According to police, the woman died of blood loss. David Seven was accused of murder after law enforcement officers discovered his 52-year-old mother Linda Seven in their house in Happy Welly. A friend of the deceased woman Jeffrey Bard said that Linda was engaged in retail and selling Mary Kay cosmetics.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the award of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art of 2002." The text indicates: "Having examined the proposals of the commission under the President of the Russian Federation on State Prizes of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art, P O TALL: Award the prizes of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art of 2002: Borovsky-Brodsky David Lvovich Gundareva Natalia Georgievna

The youth movement "Walking together" decided to join the congratulations in connection with the decade of the Communist Party. On Friday morning, about 200 representatives of the "walking together" gathered at the Moscow Duma hotel building.

Fifteen people were killed and thirty were injured on Friday as a result of the bomb explosion in the city of Neuva, 325 km southwest of the capital of the country of Bogota, AFP reports. The explosion rang out in one of the houses examined by a police patrol. The explosion occurred on the eve of visiting the city by President Alberto Urist, when the police conducted searches in search of explosive devices or hidden rebels.

The deputy prime minister of the Iraqi government Tarik Aziz will today be adopted by the head of the Vatican by Pope John Paul II . As RIA Novosti reports, a meeting, with a request for which he turned to the Roman high priest Tarik Aziz, will take place on the day when the report of the leaders of the Yunmovik and the Magate on the progress of inspections in Iraq will be heard at the UN Security Council.

The plan of the partial restructuring of the capital of China on the eve of the 2008 Olympic Games caused stormy debates in Germany. And not because of the grandeur of plans - the 16 -mile boulevard will connect the Olympic Park with a closed city and Square Tiananmyn - and because the author of the project is the son of the personal architect Adolf Hitler.

In the city of Ershov, the Saratov region, three teenagers in the company with a girl were scored to the death of a man who invited them to warm up. Young people are 15, 18 and 19 years old and their 16-year-old girlfriend drank beer on the street. There was a frost, and a 47-year-old local resident, seeing teenagers and regretting them, invited them to move to his apartment. There, the children hit the hospitable host with a bottle on the head and began to mock him.

The Pope demanded that Irack take on “specific obligations” in order to demonstrate his desire to fulfill the UN resolutions. John Pavel II stated this on Friday, taking the Iraqi deputy prime minister Tarek Aziz, AFP reports with reference to the representative of the Vatican . "Mr.

St. Valentine Italian, whom the Western tradition considers the patron saint of lovers, helped the newlyweds. This is evidenced by the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church , which celebrates his memory today , ITAR-TASS reports. Despite the persecution of Christians in the III century, the Italian in the city of Terni (near Rome) crowned young Christians. When Roman legionnaires with his brides stretched to him, Emperor Claudius forbade the bishop to crown them.

The largest gift to the Italians on the eve of the festival of lovers was made by police officers of the Roman region Lazio, ITAR-TASS reports. They managed to find precious cancer with a particle of the relics of Valentine, the bishop of the city of Terni, who took martyrdom in defense of faith. Relicaries decorated with precious stones were stolen from the Cathedral of this city in Central Italy on February 15, 1979.

Letters of Russian Germans living in the Urals began to enter the editorial office of the newspaper Russian Germany , outraged by the call of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel to the former compatriots who moved to the Federal Republic of Germany to return to their homeland.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld accused Austria of blocking the transfer of American troops from Germany to Italy. Speaking in the Senate Committee on Armed Forces, he noted that the Pentagon has to face unexpected obstacles. "For example, we try to translate some military units from Germany to Italy, and Austria creates problems in the transit by trains," he said. As a result, it will be necessary to deliver the soldiers in the paths, he added.

The US Services Office Insurance Services, which determines the size of insurance rates in the country, reported on the adoption of basic insurance rates in New York and Washington, which, along with Chicago and San Francisco, are recognized as the most susceptible to potential attacks of terrorists, the newspaper The New York Times writes.

The Supreme Court of Russia on Friday will consider the statement of the General Prosecutor of Russia on the recognition of 15 radical Islamic organizations by terrorist and to eliminate the elimination of the liquidation. The corresponding list was presented to the Prosecutor General of the FSB of Russia.