The illegitimate son of the famous Argentinean Diego Maradona, Diego Maradona Jr. from the next season will play for Clyde, playing in the first division of the Scotland championship. Between the 'Claid' and 'Napoli', in whose youthful team the 16-year-old Italian plays an agreement on the rental of Maradona. The head coach of Claid 'Alan Kernagan said that he saw Diego in action, and that the guy reminded him of his outstanding father.

On the eve of the 2003 World Cup, which will be held in Finland, the Russian national team will hold six control matches - with the national teams of Finland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. With each team, the Russians will play twice. On April 5 and 6, two friendly meetings with the Finns are planned to have two friendly meetings with the Finns in Moscow. Also in Belokamennaya on April 8 and 9, the national squad will hold two control matches with the Ukrainian team.

A record mountain of pancakes grew under the walls of the Moscow Kremlin on a wide shirt. The “pancake tower” of 6.8 meters high was baked today 23 people in the Shrovetide town on the Vasilyevsky descent of Red Square. For more than three hours, pancakes baked the “whole world” on 19 electric shocks and planted hot piles on the pole. For the construction of the "pancake tower", consisting of 6800 rounds, the best cooks of Russia prepared more than 750 liters of liquid dough.

The hostility in the relationship between Iraq and Kuwait found its expression in mutual abuse. This happened on Wednesday at the Islamic summit, the purpose of which is to combine the voices of a billion Muslims opposing the war. The beginning of the skirmish was shown on the live air of the state television company Qatar, then the channel stopped broadcasting.

In Sweden, a scandal flared up: a deputy of the Swedish parliament worked as a prostitute while studying at the university in the 1970s. The new documentary film "Sex for the sale for rich men", which will be shown on Swedish television, is devoted to the mysterious past of the Swedish policy, Ananova reports. The deputy woman herself tells how she slept with famous people, including police chiefs and government ministers.

A new mass phenomenon in the border regions of Germany: their inhabitants, due to high prices for German gas stations, are increasingly going to refuel to neighboring countries. In recent weeks, gas prices have taken off in Germany to a record high marks. Today, one liter of gasoline with an octane number of 95 costs an average of 1 euros and 16 cents. For one liter of diesel fuel, you have to pay 97 cents. Germany did not know such high prices in its entire story.

The mayor of Baghdad Adnan Abed Hamed has been in Minsk for three days. Observers do not exclude that he came to discuss with the Belarusian authorities the opportunity to move to Minsk Saddam Hussein. It is officially reported that the purpose of the visit of the mayor of Baghdad is to study the water supply system of the Belarusian capital, reports Belarus Today . Upon arrival in Minsk, Adnan Abed Hamed gave the Belarusian people personal greetings from Saddam Hussein.

Air Algerie aircraft with 97 passengers on board divided on Thursday a few minutes after taking off the Taman Rasset from the airport, the administrative center of the province of the same name in the south of Algeria. This was reported by AFP with reference to the Algerian news agency APS. The disaster occurred in the south of the Taman -Rasset province, in the Sahara desert, 1900 km from the capital of the country - Algeria. It was here that the plane was heading.

The Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCCB) continues to block loopholes for manipulating the market. The draft law on insider information prepared with the participation of the commission experts allows the criminal prosecution of issuers or brokers suspected of leakage or the use of closed information. Abroad, this has long been a difficult accusation, threatening a long -term conclusion and millionth fines.

In Austria, the police found a pile of hidden rifles under the bed of a pensioner Bauer. In total, the police counted 212 weapons. The police decided to check the house of the 74-year-old resident of the Flahu district, having received a tip from their informants, Ananova reports. Among the 212 rifles, collection specimens were discovered from the time of the First and Second World Wars. Rifles were stored in a specially made box hidden under the bed.

At the Cervantes Institute in Moscow, the opening of a photo exhibition of the famous Spanish director Carlos Saura will be opened. On Thursday, 71-year-old cinema classics will perform in the Russian capital at the opening of the exhibition. According to the press secretary of the cultural center of Anna Schoolboy, well-known Russian filmmakers will come to the vernissage. "Carlos Saura - photographer" is the first of the cycle of exhibitions "Saura Versus Saura".

One of the British schools excluded a fairy tale about three pigs from the program for the youngest children so as not to offend the religious feelings of Muslims, reports.ru reports with reference to Izvestia . The director of the Batley School in Western Yorkshire Barbara Harris says that she made such a decision after she found out that during the lessons, the little Muslim children constantly listened to stories about pigs - “dirty” animals, according to Muslim tradition.

The next championship of the country's hockey ended with the victory of the Arkhangelsk Vodnik, which in the final, by the amount of two meetings, was transferred by the Krasnoyarsk Yenisei. At the work filled to capacity, the “Trud ', holding 10 thousand spectators, the Arkhangelogor residents won - 8: 5, taking a convincing revenge for defeat in Krasnoyarsk with a score of 1: 2.

In connection with the arrival of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the townspeople had a need to contemplate the picturesque or photographic image of the head of state in their dwelling or in the organization. According to Knowledge’s bookstore, recently the demand for Putin portraits has increased significantly. In most cases, women of middle -aged women wish to acquire an image of the President of the Russian Federation.

The Central Electoral Commission of Armenia at its meeting on Thursday evening confirmed that Robert Kocharyan was re -elected by the President of the Republic of Armenia . The CEC meeting ended about 21 to Moscow time in Yerevan, and, as the chairman of the CEC Artak Sagradyan said at a press conference, all members of the commission signed the protocol on the re-election of Kocharyan with the exception of one abstract.