Specialists in tissue growing, which recently demonstrated the replacement of the penis on animals, have now added a significant missing component - nerve cells, reports New Scientist (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

In the National Hockey League, two quarter -final matches of the Stanley Cup draw ended. The Senators Ottawa, perfectly conducting this season, prevailed in the third duel in the series above the Philadelphia Flyers - 3: 2 and led in a series with a score of 2-1. The victory of Ottawa was provided by its leaders.

The US engraving and seal bureau announced the official presentation date of the new 20-dollar bill, which was called "pink" in Russia. The banknote will be presented on May 13 of this year. Initially, they wanted to introduce her at the end of March, but the war in Iraq prevented this event. New bills should be applied in October-November of this year.

The Moscow pensioner through the court won the promised winnings in the amount of 187 thousand rubles from the postal scum. Recently, the decision of the Khoroshevsky inter -municipal court has come into force, the Moscow Komsomolets reports. According to MK in court, Pensioner Radutsky Eduard Danielevich once ordered by mail and received a widely advertised medicine from CJSC Clinic of Vitamin preparations.

Los Angeles Lakers’s basketball players woke up from sleep and showed that they were in champion form, defeating Timberwulves away. Kobi Bryant scored 16 out of 32 of his glasses for the third quarter, Shakil O'Neill added another 27. But even more importantly, the stars received reliable support from teammates, Nbatode notes. With an equal score in the series-2-2, the winner of this match placed opponents on the line of departure from the Play-Off.

A detachment of militants of the extremist group "The Lord of the Resistance" (GAS) from 10 to 13 people attacked the mission of the Catholic Order of Comboni in the city of Gulu in the north of Uganda the day before, the Blagovers-Info reports with reference to the CWN and CNS agency. The fighters of the GAS set fire to three car missions and beat the rifle with an butt of the 88-year-old priest Vittorio Albertini.

The Ministry of the Russian Federation on taxes and fees recalls that the deadline for submission to the tax authorities of the income declaration for 2002 by citizens who are required to declare their income expires on April 30. For the convenience of taxpayers on the Internet sites of the Ministry of Tax Service and regional departments of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties , the forms of declarations on income of citizens are placed , as well as software for filling out tax returns.

In Germany, 8 people were injured, of which three are difficult, as a result of two explosions that thundered on Wednesday in the morning at a glass factory in Dusseldorf. According to the German agency DPA , the fire that arose as a result of the explosions was quickly extinguished. According to the Dusseldorf Fire Department, the enterprise has been caused material damage in the amount of several million euros.

At least three gangs operating on the territory of Chechnya are directly "associated with international Islamic terrorists and use terrorist methods." This is stated in the report of the US State Department "The features of international terrorism - 2002", published on Wednesday.

A large fire occurred on Wednesday in a boarding school for mentally retarded children in the west of Moscow. As a result of the emergency, one child died and two were poisoned by smoke. Another child was provided on the spot. The signal of the fire in a 4-story building of the boarding school on Akademika Pavlov Street was received on the remote control of the 01 city on-duty in the city at about 3:50 Moscow time.

The election commission of Norilsk on Wednesday will determine the new date of the election of the head of the city administration. This was reported on the eve of the secretary of the Norilsk city election commission Nina Petrova. At the same time, she admitted that the elections of the mayor of Norilsk would be postponed, most likely, in the fall. Recall that on the eve of the last of the remaining applicants for the post of mayor of Norilsk, lawyer Alexander Gliskov withdrew his candidacy .

The accident occurred on Wednesday morning in the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg. At about 8:20 in the morning Moscow time, a piece of stucco moldings in size 10 by 10 cm fell from the facade of house number 38 along Kamenostrovsky Prospekt, not far from the Petrogradskaya metro station. As a result of the incident, a 14-year-old teenager was injured. According to preliminary data, he was injured in the spine and was hospitalized at the Pediatric Academy.

Iraqi prostitutes returned to the streets of Baghdad after overthrowing the Hussein regime. During the time of Saddam, they cut off their heads, and corpses were thrown into the streets for public viewing - such a cruel measure practically eradicated prostitution in Iraq. Now representatives of the ancient profession again appeared on the dilapidated streets of the Iraqi cities ruined by looters.

In the upcoming May holidays, the police will take increased measures to ensure the safety of citizens. The operational headquarters will work, which will be headed by the Deputy Minister of the Interior Alexander Chekalin, Interfax reports. According to Chekalin, the situation in the country will be evaluated every hour. The main task of the work, according to him, is to prevent possible terrorist attacks.

The unified social concept of the Protestant movement of Russia, which was carried out for six months by a special working group, will be presented at the conference of the gospel movement in the fall of this year. This decision was made on the eve of the participants in the meeting of the advisory council of the heads of the Protestant Churches of Russia, the Blagovers-Info reports.