A book of leading Spanish and Latin American writers has been published in Spain, the income from which will go to the aid of the Iraqis who suffered from the war. The book "Peace and Word" presents works of 81 writers, including the Nobel Prize laureate Jose Saramago, Ernesto Sabato, Rosa Regas. The authors of the book, which presented manifestos, articles, verses and other works of writers against the war in Iraq, refused to receive a fee for it.

Spring in the metropolitan region continues to delight its inhabitants with good, warm, warm weather. As designed in the Moscow Hydrometeorological Department, two anticyclones provide good weather in the metropolitan region. According to weather forecasters, this afternoon, air in Moscow warms up to plus 10 degrees, in the region - to plus 12. Generations will appear in the clouds, but in some places a little rain will take place. The southeastern wind will increase to 3-7 m/s.

The coach of the Belarusian national team Eduard Malofeev called the names of 22 football players who will play in Tashkent from the national team of Uzbekistan on April 30. There is only one loss in the team - the injured player of the Russian Spartak -Alania Igor Tarlovsky will not be able to play. But Vasily Baranov, midfielder of the Spartak Moscow, who last played for the national team in 2001 in the qualifying match of the World Championship against Wales, returned to the national team.

The American and British military, who visited the house of Saddam Hussein Udey, were shocked by what they saw. “At the same time, the majority of Iraqis suffered because of the UN sanctions, she was entertained by racing machines, drinking, drugs and prostitutes,” writes British The Mirror (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). It is reported that the personal zoo of the Udeus consists of lions, cheetahs and a bear.

Losses of the United States in Iraq reached 123 people killed. According to the information received here, this was reported on Tuesday by the US Department of Defense. According to the official version, 105 people were killed in battle, while 18 died as a result of various kinds of incidents, ITAR-TASS reports. At the same time, the Pentagon increased from 400 to 495 people at once the number of American military personnel who were injured in Iraq.

The Pentagon decided to financially interest those Iraqis who would like to transfer information about the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein, other leaders of the Baghdad regime, as well as hiding places with weapons of mass destruction. As the official representative of the US Department of Defense Barbara Barfid, the ceiling of the monetary reward - said for information about Saddam Hussein and his immediate environment - will amount to 200 thousand dollars.

Washington studies Western media reports on the cooperation of the special services of Russia and Iraq during the period of being in power in this country Saddam Hussein, the US Ambassador to the Russian Federation Alexander Vershbou said today. "We still hope to reach a larger amount of information in the light of messages that appeared in the press in the last weekend," Vershbow told Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow.

The threat of the explosion of the Ostankino television tower was not confirmed, Interfax informed on Wednesday sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital. Earlier it was reported that at about 20:30 an anonymous call was received on the remote control in the city of "02". The caller said that the TV tower was mined and would be blown up. All operational services of the city were immediately called to the scene.

The unusual way of assimilating the wisdom of Buddhism Tetsui Zhakhasi is the author of a series of comics released to help people who want to correctly understand the foundations of this religion and easily learn information about the churches of the school of Dzedo Sinau. The material about this was published on the pages of the Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri" (the Russian translation of the article is published on the website inopressa.ru ).

The US Ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Vershbou, said that the United States will finance the Iraq oil sector to restore the oil sector, but they do not intend to use the oil produced in their interests.

The Moscow Arbitration Court announced a break until April 22 in the hearing of the case of the order of the Order of the Ministry of Printing of the Russian Federation on the disconnection of TV-6. The reason for the declaration of the break was the need to “provide additional materials by plaintiffs”: CJSC “Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation” (MNVK - owner of TV -6), as well as one of the shareholders of the MSVK, Israeli citizen Demyan Kudryavtsev.

The inhabitants of the menagerie in one of the presidential palaces of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad are on the verge of starvation. The Lviv family with three Lionians indifferently observes from the cage behind the American soldiers approaching them. Adult predators do not even have the strength to rise - they weakened from hunger, and the cubs only shyly squeeze the mother.

The leaders of the list of Bombarders of the English Premier League Thierry Henri ('Arsenal'), Rud Van Nistelro (Manchester United), James Bitty ('Southampton') and Alan Schirer ('Newcasl') were among the six applicants for the title of player of the year. The trophy of the English Association of professional football players is also claimed by the Chelsea veteran Gianfranco Dzola from Chelsea and the teammate Van Nistelrochi Paul Skowles.

In the Novgorod region, pigs make complex laparoscopic operations. According to the RIA Novosti at the Institute of Medical Education (IMO) of the Novgorod State University named after Yaroslav the Wise, since January 2002 10 pigs have been operated on by IMO specialists. Laparoscopic operations of high degrees of complexity were carried out by institute scientists who were assisted by the most gifted students - members of scientific circles.

In Grozny, in the vicinity of the village of Michurin, the bodies of three schoolchildren were found on Wednesday, which, under the circumstances unclear, disappeared last Monday. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic.