The Grand Prix of Belgium returned to the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2010. As reported in the statement of the Government of Wallonia (region of Belgium), Minister of Economics Serge Kubla agreed with this with the owner of the formula Bernie Ecclestone. The approximate date of the Belgian stage is already known next season - August 29.

According to the new Bulgarian law "On religious denominations" bishops and priests "self -proclaimed Orthodox Church" can be expelled from their parishes by police forces, critics of this law claim. The law approved by the Bulgarian parliament does not recognize the powers of the self -proclaimed synod. Recently, all religious minorities are also obliged to obtain court permission in order to act in the country, the Blagovers-info reports with reference to Ecumenical News International (ENI).

The dollar exchange rate to the euro increased markedly at international currency trading at the beginning of the current week. On Tuesday in New York, only $ 1.1087 was given for the euro, which is a minimum quotation in the last four months, Bloomberg notes. The market is actively playing raising: traders expect positive data on the construction of new houses in the United States and consumer confidence that should indicate the revival of the economy.

In the area of ​​the northern smoking on Tuesday, the patrol border ship was discovered by an unknown fishing trawler. This was reported to RIA "Novosti by the head of the press service of the North-Eastern Regional Border Administration of the FSB of Russia (SVRPU) Andrei Orlov. When trying to bring closer, the ship, without responding to radio, began to leave the border guards. Border guards had to pursue the ship for several hours. After warning shooting, the extension ship leaned drift.

Today, at the 59th year of his life, Anatoly Isaev, editor-in-chief of the European Council magazine, “Sports for All”, doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor, died.

The authorities of Japan turned to Internet providers calling for urgently to take measures against a new variety of Blaster virus, because of which today almost 18 thousand computers of the Japanese postal service and administrations of two prefectures had to be disconnected from internal networks. The network worm is called MS Blast. He also attacks Microsoft operating systems, but uses other "holes" in the security programs to penetrate than Blaster.

In the Chechen village of Sernovodsk, on Tuesday night, an attempt was made to undermine residential buildings where the families of the heads of the local administration live, Interfax reports. The administration of the Sunzhensky district of Chechnya reported that the two explosions thundered last night opposite the houses of the head of the administration of the district of Hizir Vitaev and the head of the administration of Sernovodsk Vakhi Arsamakov.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow granted the petition of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to extend the term of detention of the deputy head of the fifth department of Mura Yuri Samolkin, who is accused of abuse in the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

Smithsonovsky Institute exhibited the legendary bomber of the Second World War Enola Gay, for the first time since 1960 as a whole. The "flying fortress" of the B-29 dropped in 1945 at Hiroshima an atomic bomb, which, according to estimates, killed 200 thousand Japanese. The aircraft will become one of the main exhibits of the new site of the National Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics in North Virginia.

The leader of the Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov and the Arab mercenary Abu Al-Valid received $ 3 million to organize the disruption of the President of Chechnya. This was stated by Interfax on Tuesday by a representative of the regional operational headquarters for managing a counter -terrorism operation in the North Caucasus (Rosh) Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

The famous cult picture of Don Siegel with the participation of Clint Eastwood "Escape from Alcatraz", shot back in 1979, according to experts, inspired five prisoners awaiting extradition to their homeland. The prisoners fled from the Danish prison through a huge tunnel dug from a camera with a concrete floor. Patient and purposeful prisoners took as many as eight months to dig a tunnel of 10 meters long.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Lithuania issued permission to the judge of the Parisian court, Natalie Turke, to interrogate in prison Bertrand Kant, accused of the murder of the famous French actress Marie Trentinyan . The Investigative Brigade of the Paris Court arrived in Vilnius on Monday evening. The Lithuanian prosecutor’s office received 15 questions from Paris in advance, which the French judge is going to ask the suspect.

The Pope John Paul II appointed the Benedictine abbot Jean-Batista Gurion by the Vikar bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. His tasks include pastoral nourishment of all Catholics of Jewish origin living in the Holy Land, Blagovet-Info reports with reference to the CNS agency. Papa’s decision put an end to the disputes around the possible institution of jurisdiction independent of the Latin Patriarchate, which would unite the Catholics-Jews who did not speak Arabic.

A girl at the age of 5 weeks, who was injured by the skull, when a gang of criminals attacked her father last week, was discharged from the Sydney hospital the day before. The case of Elizabeth Nunes shocked Australia and caused fierce discussions about the gangs operating in different cities of the country. People say that the number of cruel crimes is constantly growing, while the police claim that the number of cases of violence is falling.

In the Iraqi city of Mosul, the associate of the ousted President Iraq, former vice president of Tah, Yasin Ramadan, was arrested. This was announced on Tuesday by the Arab Internet site Al Bawaba . “He was detained in Mosul as a result of cooperation between political parties and local residents,” Adele Murad, a representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), told Reuters in Baghdad.