In Moscow, a visitor was detained from the Krasnodar Territory, who brutally killed an 82-year-old woman. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, on March 26, the corpse of a pensioner with an open head injury, a fracture of the spine and multiple fractures of the ribs was found in her apartment on the Amanievsky highway. As a result of operational-search measures, a 22-year-old native of the Krasnodar Territory was detained last day on suspicion of murder.

The United Nations "are not ready to play the central role" in the post -war settlement in Iraq. The vice-president of the United States Richard Cheini, who was held at the New Orleans of the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper editors, was again announced about the similar approach of the American administration on Wednesday. According to him, the UN will "play a very important role, but the key role belongs to the coalition of" anti -Irakan forces led by Washington.

Original author's brackets created by the celebrities of cinema and show business, including the defiantly frank from Brad Pitt and his wife Jennifer Aniston, are sold at auction. The purpose of the action is noble: to receive funds for medical research of a terrible disease, with which humanity - cancer has been struggling unsuccessfully for many years.

99 -year -old Cecil de Brunoff, who invented a character whose adventures fascinated by many generations of children - an elephant Babar, died in a hospital in Paris after a stroke. Madam de Brunoff began to tell the story of the elephant before going to bed his sons in 1931.

A television show with a record prize of $ 1 billion is organized by Pepsi. This is the largest prize in the history of lotteries and television. Tinejegers who want at once become billionaires will not need to show any special knowledge, although for promoting Pepsi and hired producers of one of the most popular lotteries "Who wants to become a millionaire?" Michael Davis.

Madonna composed her most personal song - dedicated to the death of her mother. The hit "Mother and Father" is written from the perspective of a child growing without a mother and thinking over loneliness. The singer was only five years old when her mother died of cancer. The track is included in the new album of the American Life Madonna, which should be released on April 21.

Many observers believe that the Iraqi army deliberately left Baghdad , and the war is far from over. Where this army, where it went, after Baghdad left, no one knows, but many Arabs hope that it will still give battle to the Americans. “Where did the army, the Republican Guard, thousands of tanks?” The Jordanian engineer Tahsin Taufik wonders. “If they surrendered or were destroyed, they would be shown by CNN or BBC.

In the Iraqi capital, "there are no more signs of central government," sources in the US intelligence community say. As it became known to the NBC television company, on Wednesday in Baghdad, "no one appeared to work in government institutions." The police were not noticeable, the troops were practically not carried out. All this forces American experts again and again asking the question of whether Saddam Hussein is alive or dead.

The population of Iraq drags everything that came, without experiencing special fear of a possible punishment. The US soldiers, like the Iraqis, use the unrest of wartime for robberies. In one of the Saddam palaces, they acquired ashtrays, pillows, glasses and other souvenirs, Focus writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). After a tank battle in the city of Ez-Zubair, Iraqi plundered government institutions, taking out radios, furniture and air conditioners from there.

The victory in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein will not be able to justify the war, begun by the United States and its allies, said Dr. Conrad Raiser, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (VSC). According to Blagovest-info with reference to CNS, with such a statement, the raiser made on the pages of the newspaper International Herald Tribun. "Victory does not ensure the legality of" military operations, said the Secretary General of the VSC.

Concorde supersonic liners will cease in the fall in connection with the "deterioration of economic results on the transatlantic line on which planes are operated." According to AFP, the leadership of British Airways announced that it stops the operation of the liners at the end of October, Air France calls the exact date - November 1, 2003. As Newsru.com already wrote, a few months really remained unique liners.

The Moscow CSKA practically secured a place in the "finale of the four" basketball Euroleague. On the eve of Moscow, the wards of Dushan Ivkovich won Ephesus Pilsen - 66:54. After the defeat in Turkey, Ivkovich relied on pressure, which, however, the Turks were easily defeated. In the attack, CSKA was counting on the sniper qualities of Holden and the individual skill of the players of the front line. As a result, the first quarter remained with Ephesus.

Metropolitan of Petersburg and Ladoga Vladimir committed today in the northern capital of the consecration of the main bell of the Kazan Cathedral. The giant cast at the Baltic Plant was then raised to the ringle of the temple, Interfax reports. . The bell weighing 4.4 tons and 2.25 meters high was the second order made by the plant for one of the oldest cathedrals in St. Petersburg.

The American of Chinese origin, who assisted the American intelligence services in their work against China, is accused of theft of secret documents from his lover, the FBI agent, and transfer them to China, reports Reuters. 49-year-old Katrina Le Jung was arrested with her lover, a 59-year-old retired agent of the FBI James Smith. She is charged with illegally the acquisition of documents related to national security issues for a foreign power.

The criminals released a citizen of Germany Henry Wolfgang on Wednesday, captured on March 23 in order to receive a bunch in the state of Manipur in the northeast of India. According to the Bird Agency, currently the liberated hostage is under enhanced security in one of the hotels of Imfala - the administrative center of this state.