Every fourth death during a traffic accident is caused by fatigue. Now, finally, it can be measured, writes Die Presse (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). The new device monitors your condition, measuring the pupil. Fatigue driving is not yet an offense. “Tired drivers are as dangerous as drunk,” the neurologist Manfred Valtsl, director of the Institute of Sleep Medicine with a neurological clinic in Graza, warns.

All this time, a Chinese citizen Lee Zhongku spent in a hospital at the bed of his wife Jin Meihua, who fell into a coma, having received a severe head injury. During this time, he did not leave the hospital for a day. Doctors say that when the nurse accidentally poured boiling water on his feet, he refused to treat, because he did not want to move away from his wife's bed. A few years ago, doctors informed Zhongku that his wife had practically no hope of recovery. 'I'm an old soldier.

The Ministry of Economic Development expects that inflation in Russia in 2003 will not exceed 12%, Arkady Dvorkovich told reporters to journalists. "The dynamics of prices in the country allows us to say that 12% percent is a realistic forecast," RIA Novosti quotes the official. At the same time, the deputy minister noted that he considers the error in the plus minus 1%permissible. According to his forecast, in June, inflation can be 0.5%.

The former captain and coach of the German national team, Franz Beckenbauer, said that the current national team of Germany has forgotten how to play football, and he was concerned with the fear of the game of Germans even with such teams as Faroe Islands. Beknbauer spoke about this in an interview with Reuters.

The organizer of the coup d'etat in Mauritania, retired colonel Salah Uld Hnan was killed in battles with government troops in the United Northwest. This was reported today by the South African news agency South African Press Association. In the information from the Mauritan capital of the United Nuacash, the specific circumstances of the death of the leader of the patchists, who last year was fired from the ranks of the Mauritan armed forces, are not given.

Briton Lennox Lewis and Ukrainian Vitaly Klitschko confirmed that their fight for the title of worldweight world will be held on June 21 in Los Angeles. The meeting will be held at the STPPALZ Center Sports Palace. Recall that the possibility of such a fight appeared immediately after the injury of the opponent Lewis, Canadian Kirk Johnson refused to fight due to injury to the chest muscle.

The conditions for the detention of Ahmed Zakayev in the event of his extradition to Russia will meet international standards, Yuri Chaika, Minister of Justice of Russia, said on Tuesday. “If we have hardeners, then we are ready to provide the opportunity for representatives of international human rights organizations, including the European Committee on Prevention of torture, visit Zakayev at least every day,” Chaika said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spent on Tuesday evening telephone conversations with Prime Minister Israel Ariel Sharon and Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Administration Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen).

The meeting of the Russian Mikhail South and the Frenchman-Anri Mathieu field at the Tournament in German Galle, reminded her tennis lovers of the fifth meeting of the match of last year's final of the Davis Cup, where the South in a heavy five-season match prevailed over the Frenchman. As it turned out, the South continues to remain an impassable opponent for the young Frenchman. At the Gerry Weber Open tournament, South won Mathieu - 1: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2.

The ancient Indian holiday of the Ratha-Jatra ("procession of chariots"), celebrated on the eve of Vladimir. According to the Blagovet-Info agency in the press center of the Russian Society of Consciousness Krishna , this year Ratha-Yatra was timed to the Day of India. The festival was attended by Vaishnavas (followers of the teachings of Krishna) from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Ivanov and other cities, as well as members of the Indian diaspora.

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon handed over to the settlers "Divorce Papers", Haaretz writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). His emissar, Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz, tried to seem kind, but nothing could mitigate what he said - Israel would no longer build new settlements, all the avantists built after March 2001 and the settlements to be dismantled in the American list will be evacuated.

Five swimwear drowned off the coast of Florida on Tuesday due to a strong current, CNN television company reports. Among the dead is the CNN television veteran Larry Lamott. One person who, among many others managed to save, was hospitalized. His condition remains serious. Rescuers on the beaches of Florida recommend that vacationers go into the water, which, however, notes CNN, does not stop the swimwear.

On Tuesday, the Australian court awarded the woman that her ex -husband infected with AIDS, more than 700 thousand Australian dollars (about 460 thousand American). The victim, whose name is not called, was sure that the tests gave a negative result, reports Reuters. Doctors who took tests - Nicholas Harvey and Kin Veng Jen, who were initially summoned as witnesses, said that medical ethics did not allow them to inform their friend infected with AIDS about his illness.

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli Air Force struck a second air strike, firing at the Palestinian militants near the camp of Palestinian refugees Dzhabali and the village of Beit Khanun north of the city of Gaza. As a result of the attack, three people died, and another 32 were injured, reports Reuters. Firing on the Arab village of Beit Khan and the Jabali refugee camp located in the north of Gaza was carried out from helicopters and from tanks.

Sensational messages appeared in the South Korean press about finding at the bottom of the Sea near the island of Ulundo the sunken Russian ship, on the board of which there is supposedly a huge cargo with gold. We are talking about the Russian cruiser "Dmitry Donskoy", which was flooded off the coast of Ulundo during the Russian-Japanese War of 1905. The first reports that the sunken Russian ship appeared at the bottom of the Japanese ship in 2000.