Large police units took the Weads Medical Center in the English city of Kettering into a dense ring. The law enforcement officers surrounded the medical center after the police received a message that one of the doctors was taken hostage in the building. The attacker threatens the doctor with a knife. All people who were in the medical center are already evacuated. At the moment, only a doctor and a person who captured him hostage remains in the building, BBC reports.

Hundreds of Hong Kong fans lined up in line in order to buy tickets for the game of Madrid Real Madrid, which makes a stop for the pre -season match here. Fans overcome the heat in the hope of seeing a Spanish superglub next week. Many arrived in Hong Kong back in the morning of Sunday to take the best places at the local stadium. Now the turn for tickets reaches 400 people. Many are in it with the umbrellas from the sun or under a canopy.

The Foreign Ministry of Georgia sent a note of protest of the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the flight of the sea passenger boat under the flag of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia from the port of Sukhumi to the port of Sochi and vice versa, carried out on July 26 and 27 - for the first time in 10 years.

Almost 7 kilograms of illegally mined industrial gold were returned to the state by employees of the inter -district department for combating crimes in the mining industry of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Magadan region and operatives of the local FSB. They found this criminal treasure in an ordinary flower bed. Within the framework of the operation "Sugar-2003", the police managed to go to a suspicious private house on the outskirts of Magadan, on Soldatenko Street.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in November may meet with Pope John Paul II , ITAR-TASS reports. "I hope that during the visit you can meet with John Paul II," said Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at a press conference at the end of negotiations with the reinforcement.

In Vilnius, the French actress Marie Trentignan, who received severe injury during a quarrel with a friend, a second complex neurosurgical operation was done. This was announced on Tuesday by the head of the neurosurgical department of the Vilnius University Hospital Egid Egdiyus Yarjamskas. In addition to the Lithuanian neurosurgeons, who last Sunday, the actress had the first operation, the medical officer from France Stefan Delyazhu also participated in the second operation.

Several dozen graves are defiled on the night of Monday to Tuesday at the military cemetery in the Cambrais city in the north of France, RIA Novosti reports. According to the gendarmerie, we are talking about the burials of soldiers from the countries of the British Commonwealth, who fought in France during the First World War. Unknown vandals defeated and overturned several dozens of steles installed on the graves of the dead soldiers.

A flash of anthrax is noted in the Turkish eastern province of Malaya. According to local media, eight peasants were hospitalized who used food meat of infected cattle. Veterinarians called on the population not to panic, saying that the focus of the disease is completely controlled. Nevertheless, quarantine has been announced in the province, livestock is vaccinated. According to experts, rodents are distributed in Malatier.

British scientists have found that nine out of ten London God's cows are sick with a fungal sexually transmitted disease. This indicator is much higher than in all other cities of Great Britain, the Air Force reports. London researcher Greg Herst believes that the fault of such a large number of patients with this type of insect in the British capital is high air pollution. He says that God's cows feed on aphids, and the best environment than dirty air cannot be found for aphids.

Two minor prisoners fled from the children's colony in the Primorsky Territory. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory. According to the police, the escape was made on Monday at about five o’clock in the evening from the educational colony in the village of Wrangel under the city of Nakhodka, RIA Novosti reports.

Another hot day is waiting on Tuesday residents of the metropolitan region, Roshydromet reported. Now in the capital, plus 17-19 degrees, in the region-14-19. In the afternoon in the capital - plus 29-31, in the suburbs - 27-32. In the afternoon, short -term storm rains, thunderstorms, and even hail are not excluded. Hot weather will remain on Wednesday, reports ITAR-TASS. According to meteorologists, the geomagnetic background today is turbulent.

Hot weather, more than 30 degrees, turned out to be a difficult test for pilgrims, who arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod region to celebrations dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the canonization of Seraphim of Sarov. On Tuesday, during the procession, who left the village of Diveev in the Sarov, one of the pilgrims had a heart attack. Doctors who accompanied the procession began to make the victim artificial respiration, and then urgently sent him to the district hospital.

Russia does not exclude the possibility of adopting a new UN Security Council resolution on Iraq, but does not insist on its adoption. “We are not insisted on a new resolution and are open to consultations,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in the Kremlin after negotiations with Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. At the same time, according to Putin, Russia "does not exclude the possibility of adopting a" new resolution, Interfax reports.

On Tuesday, the US intelligence services received information that the militants of the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist organization intend to commit a new attack on September 11 of this year, dedicating it to the two years of September 2001 in New York and Washington. According to The Washington Post , this information was reported by the previously captured militants of this organization.

At the Paveletskaya-Tovarnaya station, in the area of ​​the Paveletsky Station of Moscow, a technological accident occurred. According to the sources in the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, at about 5:00 a.m. Tuesday at the station, depressurization of the tank with acetic acid was discovered at the station, Interfax reports.