Residents of the metropolitan region on Wednesday have to survive the last day of the exhausting July heat, the Moscow Hydrometeorological Department reported. According to weather forecasts, on Thursday it will already get a little colder. In the daytime in the capital there will be a plus of 21-25 degrees. This weather will last until the end of the week. Now in Moscow and the region plus 14-19 degrees. By noon, the air in the capital will warm up to plus 28-30, in the suburbs will be 25-30.

A suspect of a severe injury to the French actress Marie Trentinyan, her groom Bertrand Kant, testified in the Vilnius police and was detained. The prosecutor of the Jew Radishauskas, who was present at the interrogation, in an interview with BNS refused to report whether the detachable pleaded his guilt, Interfax reports.

US President George Bush took responsibility for inclusion in his annual message "On the Regulation of the Country", with which he spoke to the US Congress on January 29 of this year, who did not correspond to the reality of Iraq attempts to acquire uranium in Africa. Earlier, CIA Director George Tenete said that, upon his oversight, these unverified data appeared in the speech of the head of the White House. “These 16 words should never have appeared in the president’s speech,” Tenet said then.

Iraq was elected by the head of the transitional ruling council (PPS), Ibrahim al-Jaafari was elected, RIA Novosti reports. Such a decision was made on Wednesday at a meeting of the Council, in which the head of the Civil Administration of Iraq, Paul Bremer, took part. Al-Jaafari was previously the press secretary of the Opposition Shiite Party "Islamic appeal".

In the capital of Yemen, the city of Sanya, an explosion occurred near the US Embassy, ​​RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Cairo radio. According to preliminary data, there are no killed and wounded. The building of the diplomatic mission caused insignificant damage. Details of the incident are clarified.

Spy Briyan Ragan buried secret documents that make up the "military secret" in the parks on the outskirts of Washington. The FBI over the past several months ago dug up thousands of documents in the most diverse corners of the American capital, on which there were no suspecting visitors of the parks. Among them, federal agents discovered a compact disc with an accurate description of the orbits of American spy satellites, Liberal writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

On Wednesday, a video of the video soldier confirmed the arguments of the ex-champion of the world in heavyweight overweight in the case of a fight in the lobby of the Marryott Hotel in Brooklyn on June 21 of this year. The 37-year-old Tyson, leaving the hotel in the morning, collided in the lobby of Samuel Vales and Nestor Alaves, who, accompanied by his girlfriend, walked towards him. A fight ensued, as a result of which Tyson was accused of beating three people .

Relatives of passengers who died in the Tu-154M plane crash over the Black Sea in October 2001 do not consider the amounts of compensation proposed by the Ukrainian side during the next round of Russian-Ukrainian expert consultations acceptable, Interfax reports. This was stated on Wednesday by the chairman of the Fund for Assistance to the relatives of the dead passengers of the flight of 1812 Boris Kalinovsky.

Immigrants from Russia are regulars on the beaches of the American city of Dennis on the Cape Code Peninsula. For them, it will be exposed on the beach - a trifle business. However, other visitors to the coast of the Russians openly change into bathing suits right on the sand of the beach or on a car parking, hiding behind a towel, it seems not just a piquant national feature, but causes indignation today, writes Boston Globe today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The projects of the main sports facilities of the 2008 Olympiad in Beijing are embodied by the most daring fantasies of modern designers. Until recently, the public was presented to the central stadium in the form of a bird's nest, and today newspapers publish photos of the project that winned in the competition of the National Center for Water Sports. The building illuminated from the inside resembles a square aquarium, filled with blue bubbles to the top.

More than 220 kg of heroin was seized by FSB officers in the suburbs in a truck who was in Moscow. The day before, a KAMAZ truck was detained in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district of the Moscow region during the operational information audit. During the inspection, it was found that the gas tank of the machine has a double bottom.

The mayor of the second largest in the Republic of Mari El, after Yoshkar-Ola, Volzhsk, Nikolai Svistunov, by the decision of the Volga City Court, was detained, Interfax reports. As a source in the prosecutor’s office of the republic said on Wednesday, the mayor is charged with Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (assignment or embezzlement on a large scale). Under this article, Svistunov faces five to ten years in prison with confiscation of property.

The leadership of PNA extremely negatively took the decision of the Israeli government to continue the construction of the “security wall” along the territory of the western bank of the Jordan River.

The Mercedes-Benz CUP Tennis tournament, whose prize fund is 380 thousand dollars, showed that the physical condition of the first number of the Russian national team Marat Safin is far from the ideal. The day before, Marat held his first match after a three -month break, in which he was opposed by a tennis player from India Prakash Amritrai.

The hearings of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the case of the former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevich were interrupted by the end of the week, which is associated with his state of health. The process will resume on August 25 after the summer holidays of the Hague Tribunal itself, which begin on the next Monday, ITAR-TASS reports. The hearing in the case of Slobodan Milosevich was postponed on Monday in connection with the deterioration of his health.