Prayers for peace and restoration of the country were met by Iraqi Christians with a passionate Friday , marked today according to the calendar of the Western Church. “People are happy about the fall of the regime - bad regime, but so far we see nothing but destruction, death and hardships,” the bishop of the Chuldia Church Slavi Varduni said in a sermon in one of the churches of Baghdad, ITAR -TASS reports.

According to the President of the International Federation of Motorsport (FIA) Max Mosley, Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso may be punished for dangerous driving during the Brazil Grand Prix . Both pilots flew out of the highway during the rain Grand Prix 11 days ago, when they did not reduce the speed, despite the double warning yellow flags. Now they can be punished.

Next week, a memo will appear in the public places of Moscow to prevent atypical pneumonia, the first deputy mayor of Moscow in the Moscow government, the head of the social sphere, Lyudmila Shvetsova, said in the Echo of Moscow radio station.

During the extraordinary session of the Armenian parliament on Friday, a new Criminal Code was adopted in three reading, which provides for the abolition of the death penalty. The new Criminal Code was adopted by Armenia in accordance with the obligations taken by the republic upon joining the Council of Europe and also provides for a significant liberalization of the Criminal Code currently in Armenia, adopted back in 1961, Interfax reports.

The DPRK authorities have a message that this country began the processing of spent nuclear fuel, "puts under the jeopardy" of the negotiations between the United States, North Korea and China, which was planned for the next week. This was announced in an interview with CNN by the unnamed representative of the American administration. According to him, it is still impossible to determine how true the statement of Pyongyan is.

More than a third of family income, Russians spend children on the education of children. These data were obtained by experts of the State University Higher School of Economics following the results of all -Russian monitoring conducted on the instructions of the Ministry of Education of Russia. As the survey showed, almost all parents want their children to continue education after graduation.

The Volgograd prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of the accident at the oil refinery LUKOIL-Volgogradnefteaskita LLC, as a result of which 30 children were poisoned from emissions into the atmosphere of the poisonous mixture. According to Mikhail Muzraev, deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region, the criminal case was opened under Article 246 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - violation of environmental protection rules during work.

The Pope John Pavel II signed a new encyclic the night before, ITAR-TASS reports. Encyclic is the Epistle of the Roman High Priest, addressed to all Catholics in the world and, as a rule, relating to the fundamental issues of creed, moral, socio -political problems. The current document is the fourteenth in a row for the entire stay of John Paul II on the throne of St. Peter. It is dedicated to the sacrament of the Eucharist - the Holy Communion.

The Russian Orthodox Church will not change the order of rituals and sacraments at Easter services in connection with the threat of the spread of atypical pneumonia. This was the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station said the deputy chairman of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin.

The gilded assault rifle Kalashnikov AK47, belonging to one of the minions of Saddam Hussein, discovered vigilant customs officers of the Heathrow London Airport. The machine, made by gilding, exactly the same as the Americans found in the house of the eldest son of Saddam Udey . The machine was charged. According to the British newspaper The Mirror , the machine was lying in a box marked "computer components".

According to DPA, citing the Berlin Zoological Institute, it is difficult for hares in Germany: annually, about 120,000 field hares fall under the wheels of cars, about 450,000 die at the hands of hunters. In addition, in the first month of life, animals massively die from infectious diseases. A lot of hares become the prey of foxes, tens of thousands die at the time of kosba. Mr. Kai Fr stage, an institute’s employee called for more money in defense of hares.

American military personnel stationed in the vicinity of the city of Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, was very lucky. Their diet, the basis of which is already pretty boring and extremely tasteless, dry rations , was enriched by the delicacy of gazelle meat. The fact is that near the military base, where the 271 support division is located, is the former personal customer of Saddam Hussein.

Hong Kong doctors on Friday denied the widely spreading rumors that smoking people are not infected with atypical pneumonia. The allegations that smoking can protect a person from infection with acute syndrome of difficulty breathing is absolutely unfounded, a representative of the Hong Kong Department of Health said in Siangan, RIA Novosti reports.

46-year-old Ali Alkhanov was appointed to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya. This information was confirmed on Friday in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Before that, he was the head of the Main Directorate of the Interior in the Transport of Grozny, RIA Novosti reports. Ruslan Tsakaev, who previously held the post of minister, was relieved of his post in connection with his petition for resignation. Tsakaev wrote a report on the resignation on April 4 .

At the New York Motor Show , which opened for visitors on Friday, American and Japanese manufacturers reign. There are almost no European cars there. This is understandable - the taste of the Americans too peculiar. In the United States, huge and powerful cars are traditionally well bought, while in Europe they are more compact and economical. Most cars will never get to Russia - at least in official ways.