Palestinian terrorists shot a car of an Israeli settler near the city of Ramallah, writes the Ha'Aretz newspaper. The Israeli died on the spot, and his pregnant wife received serious injuries. The incident occurred on Friday northeast of Ramallah, on the western bank of the Jordan River. According to Israeli radio, the car lost control as a result of shelling and rolled over. The shooters disappeared.

President Bush’s personal cooks were offended by the French jokers who seduced him with the offer of work, which forced the cook to leave his employer to work for France President Jacques Shirak, The Daily Telegraph writes today (translation of the article on the website inopressa.ru ).

American doctors mistakenly cut off the patient the genital organ. A resident of Texas lay on the operation - he should have cut part of the bladder, affected by a cancerous tumor. Waking up, he discovered that the doctors cut off his penis. As it turned out, due to a tragic error. The conflict had to be settled by an extrajudicial agreement, the terms of which are not disclosed, so it is not known how expensive this mistake was treated to two surgeons.

In the period from August 1 to 15, 11 thousand 435 people were killed from the extraordinary heat established in France. Such data are given in a communique, distributed on Friday on behalf of the Minister of Health of France, Jean-Franesu Mattei.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusevich, consecrated the memorial of the victims of World War II, which was solemnly opened in Kaliningrad. The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of the regional and city administration, Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran clergymen and parishioners of local temples.

In the city of Ras-al-Khaim (the United Arab Emirates) on Friday, seven young people for immoral misconduct will be publicly torn, the local newspaper al-aithad writes. Execution will take place after a midday prayer at the Cathedral Mosque. The publication reports that the young men, dressed in dresses, penetrated the banquet hall, where women celebrated the wedding (in the Emirates and other Arabian countries, wedding celebrations are held separately for men and women).

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov spoke out to revise the sizes of subsidies to power of high school students. Currently, the amount of subsidies for the nutrition of students in grades 5-11 is three rubles per day. "The amount will iron illogical and does not correspond to the spirit of time. It needs to be adapted and switched to a differentiated approach to subsidies," Luzhkov said on Friday at a meeting on the preparation of the city for the new school year.

The first working meeting of Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi, as part of the visit of the head of the Russian state to Italy, lasted almost three hours. At the end of the negotiations, the President of Russia and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Italy went to reporters and answered questions. The meeting of Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi took place in an informal setting.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the facts of causing property damage when transferring to the Russian diamond “ALROSE” the state -owned shares of JSC “Arkos” in 1993. Since that time, the state does not receive income for stocks for rent.

In Grozny, militants fired at the car, one employee of the Chechnya Ministry of Internal Affairs died. According to Friday, the murder occurred on the eve of the Leninsky district of Grozny, when the senior inspector of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Isa Inderma, was heading for lunch in his car, RIA Novosti reports.

On the night of August 27, in the regional center of Aban of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, under mysterious circumstances, one of the leaders of the syncretic movement "Liberation" Svyatoslav Minor committed suicide. His body was found early in the morning of August 27 in one of the houses belonging to the community on the outskirts of the village, the Blagovers-info agency reports.

The International Chess Federation canceled the match for the title of world champion between Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomarev and Russian Harry Kasparov. This was announced today at a press conference in Moscow by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. This decision was made after a meeting with all members of the Fide presidential council, Ilyumzhinov said. The match was supposed to begin on September 18 in Yalta.

The decision of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow on the extension of the detention of the head of the MFI CJSC MEFA MENATEP Platon Lebedev was adopted "on the most far -fetched and artificial occasions and reasons," Evgeny Baru lawyer Yevgeny Baru said on the air of the Ekho Moscow radio station. Having made such a decision, the Basmanny Court granted the petition of the Prosecutor General's Office; The deadline for Lebedev’s detention is extended for 2 months - until October 30.

Four more Russians overcame the barrier of the second round of the US Open Championship in tennis - the last, fourth tournament from the Grand Slam series. Elena Dementyeva, sown under the 11th number, prevailed over the Ukrainian Tatyana Dubinis - 5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 0. And Anastasia Myskina (7), with great difficulty in three sets, defeated the Italian Antonella Serge -Wzanetti - 6: 2, 2: 6, 7: 6. The rivals set a peculiar record, losing 16 games in a total of a total of a total of 16 gamers.

The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko refused to force foreign exchange integration with Russia. In response to the call of Vladimir Putin, to immediately sign an agreement on the introduction of a single currency Lukashenko said that first it was necessary to document a single economic space and sign a constitutional act.