Excessive media coverage of the scandal of sexual harassment in the Church contributed to the emergence of a perpetual opinion of all priests as minors molesters, said the head of the US Catholic Bishops Conference Wilton Gregory, the Agnuz Information Service with reference to the Zenit agency.

The price of housing in Moscow has reached the absolute maximum since 1995, when they began to record such statistics.

Ahmed Kureya, candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Palestinian Autonomy, nominated the conditions for his consent to head the new Palestinian government.

The day before, it became known that in Germany at the age of 101, Leni Rifenshtal died , which was called Hitler's favorite director. The legendary woman died on Monday evening in a dream in her mansion in the city of Peking on the shores of Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. Her heart just stopped. Rifenshtal is primarily known for his famous film "Triumph Volya" about the rally of the Nazi party in Nuremberg in 1934. She was called the singer of Nazism.

Entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky received political asylum in England. He stated this live on the air of the Echo of Moscow. The British government officially provided him with the status of a political refugee. Earlier, the Prosecutor General of Russia applied to the British Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request for the extradition of the Berezovsky entrepreneur in November 2002. The Prosecutor General accuses the entrepreneur of fraud under aggravating circumstances.

The average life expectancy of women is 81 years old, men - 75 years. Europeans live for a year longer than US citizens, today Seweddeutsche Zeitung writes. Europeans are getting older. This follows from the report of the European Commission "Social situation in the European Union." According to the report, men in the EU states now live an average of 75 years, and women - 81 years old.

Russian designer Elena Yarmak was awarded the annual prize "Best Foreign Field of the Year" at a high fashion week in New York. The presentation of the award and showing an exclusive collection, consisting of 60 copyright work of the laureate, took place on Tuesday evening in one of the popular places in New York-the Capital building, where the MTV show presentations and the Grammy Prizes are held.

In Buryatia in the Kizzhinginsky district, in the area of ​​Chesan, the rite of the consecration of the Suburgan (Buddhist sacred building) is performed. The ceremony was made by Lama by Loda Rimpoche - the official representative of the Dalai Lama XIV in Russia, reports regions.ru with reference to the GRK Buryatia. Suburgans, or stupas, were built as monuments of sacred events. The first hips were erected in India during the life of the Buddha Shakyamuni.

Opponents of the war interrupted on Wednesday the performance of the head of the Pentagon Donald Ramsfeld in the National Press Club in Washington. Two people who were on the balcony of the hall were interrupted by screams by the minister’s performance, waving a banner with the inscription “Bloody hands” and chanting anti -war slogans, RIA Novosti reports.

In connection with the unsuccessful attempt to capture the militants in Baksan, it was decided to open all the mosque existing in the republic only 15-20 minutes before the start of prayer and close shortly after the completion of the omaras, reports regions.ru . Separately, the mosques will be opened only on Fridays, to perform a jum - the main thing for Muslims of the general prayer.

An open letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II sent the day before the former rector of the Assumption Church of Cheboksary, Priest Andrei Berman, who accused his diocesan bishop - Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash Barnabas (Kedrova) - in the sin of idolatry.

The international community should take the most decisive actions to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Interfax reports. Ivanov did not exclude that to fulfill the "Roadmap" plan, an international presence in the conflict zone may be required.

Three groups of rescuers resumed on Wednesday the search for the bodies of the Ka-32 helicopter in the area of ​​the Fisht Mountain, 70 km from Sochi, told Interfax a source in the Southern Regional Center (URC) of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. "On Wednesday, 12-14 rescuers from the front-line camp are planned to go down to the Fisht base camp.

On Wednesday, the Championship of the Russian Hockey Super League begins. On the one hand, it cannot but rejoice that many cool legionnaires appeared in the championship. But at the same time, young hockey players continue to break into the NHL, and Russian hockey gets those in whom the ocean does not need. However, first about the championship itself.

Ahmed Zakaeva guaranteed normal conditions of detention before the court in case of issuing to Russia. This position was confirmed on Wednesday by Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Yuri Kalinin. He answered London's magistrate court of the defense of the emissary of Chechen militants.