More than 80 people are missing two days after the accident of the vessel that stopped the Niger River in North Nigeria. This was reported by AFP with reference to a representative of local authorities. Five people were saved and ten bodies of the dead were raised from the water, a representative of the head of the Nigerian state Kebby Abdullahi Zuru said. The ship, on board which could be up to a hundred passengers, flew onto the underwater stone and sank, he added.

Even before the World Championship in Japan and Korea, everyone was sure that the famous penalties David Beckham directly depended on the shoes he wears . However, scientists do not agree with this statement. It turns out that the secret to the success of such blows is a combination of the forces of Magnus, the pace of rotation and climatic conditions. Scientists, after a series of studies, deduced the formula for the perfect penalty.

The British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ironia and condemnation have already been called the "vice president of the USA" and "deputy from North Texas." But no insult has glued to the Prime Minister of England as firmly as the fact that he is the "poodle of President George Bush." In recent months, not a day passes without at least one of the London newspapers that are skeptical of the war, did not repeat this offensive nickname, Berliner Zeitung writes today (translation on the website

The main prize of the American guild of directors was awarded to Rob Marshall, the creator of the screen version of the musical Chicago . At the ceremony, he was awarded a gilded disk, which annually for 55 years is awarded with American directors to his colleagues. Among the filmmakers, Rob Marshall is considered a novice, notes ITAR-TASS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today was awarded the highest distinction of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church - the Order of the Holy Tsar Boris. This high award, testifying to the special merits in the field of strengthening the authority of the Orthodox Church, was presented to the Russian president by the Primate of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Maxim and members of its Holy Synod. The Order of the Holy Tsar Boris has not been awarded to the heads of state over the past 20 years.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not exclude that the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein can turn into a martyr hero. “Such an opportunity probably really exists,” the Russian president said in an interview with the Bulgarian media, answering the question “Is there any risk to turn Saddam Hussein from an outcast into a hero for outcast regimes.” That is why Moscow believes that issues and crises like Iraqi should be resolved exclusively by peaceful means, the head of the Russian state noted.

A 16-year-old resident of the capital appeared the day before with a confession to the police. The minor Muscovite admitted to the murder of her grandmother. As the investigation managed to establish, the college student at 12:00 in her apartment on Baikalskaya Street strangled her grandmother born in 1940 in her apartment on a quarrel. Then the girl appeared in the police with a guilty. The investigation has begun. The circumstances of the incident are established, reports 'MK-News' .

At the Railway Traveling of Ankarich in the Amur Region, a fire arose in the head car of the passenger train N54 Kharkov-Vladivostok. The burning car was unhooked and taken to the spare path. The evacuation of passengers allowed to avoid serious consequences. “This happened last Sunday around 16:00 Moscow time.

The great -grandson of Joseph Stalin, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, is going to ask for political asylum in the United States. He intends to file a statement about this on March 5 - on the day of the 50th anniversary of the death of his ancestor, AFP reports with reference to the Canadian newspaper La Presse.

In the capital of Armenia, Yerevan on Monday at about 9 am Moscow time, a passenger bus, which was refused by brakes on a steep descent, crashed into a truck. As a result, the bus, heading to the city center, rammed and dumped a passenger car from the side of the road, the Armenian press service reports. The bus driver, who flew out as a result of an accident through a broken front glass out, died. Later, the bus conductor also died in the hospital.

The representative of the holy throne, Cardinal Pio Lagi, left for Washington today, where he intends to convey at a meeting with George Bush the personal message of Pope John Paul II to the US President. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the press service of the Vatican . The visit of Cardinal Lagi in the United States is another attempt to help the holy throne to promote the peaceful resolution of the Iraq crisis.

Religious figures of the DPRK and South Korea declared a joint desire for peace, reunion and independence. This desire is reflected in the declaration adopted the day before in Seoul at the forum, in which more than a hundred North Korean representatives took part, RIA Novosti reported. The forum was dedicated to the 84th anniversary of the Pervomartovsky uprising in Korea against Japanese colonialism of 1919.

Turin "Juventus" broke into three points from the pursuers in the Italian championship after the victory in the next round over Inter - 3: 0. Inter and Milan occupy the second and third places, respectively. Undoubtedly, the central meeting was the match in Turin, where “Inter” in the event of his victory could catch up with the Old Signor in the standings. However, in Juve there is Pavel Nedved and that says it all. He organized all three goals against Inter.

Saddam Hussein is preparing a three -level plan for the strategic defense of the capital of Iraq from the Americans. This plan was inspired by the history of the defense of Stalingrad during the Second World War.

In the Karmadon Gorge of North Ossetia, concrete ceilings of the tunnel were discovered, where people could hide during the glacier gathering. "When driving one of the wells at a depth of 69 meters, a concrete ceiling was discovered, indicating that the drillers went into the tunnel cavity," a source in the Ministry of Emergencies of the republic said on Monday.