Usama Ben Laden gave an order of a significant part of the militants from the Al-Qaeda organization headed by him to transfer from Afghanistan to Iraq to lead the Jihad with American troops, on Thursday the Pakistani newspaper News. The newspaper publishes an interview with the correspondent of the private television channel "Geada" with one of the Arabs, the direct performer of this decree.

On Thursday, two matches ended with the first tour of the Russian hockey championship in Super League. The Omsk "Vanguard" at home was outplayed by the Voskresensky "Chemist" with a score of 3: 1. Hockey players near Moscow opened an account in the eighth minute - experienced Andrei Taschuk distinguished himself. However, the owners of the ice quickly intercepted the initiative and already in the first period came forward.

In Columbia, 8 people died and ten were injured as a result of the attack In the center of Columbia, a terrorist attack is committed on Wednesday. On the central square of the village of Chita, 200 km north-east of the Colombian capital of Bogota was blown up. As a result of the attack, at least 8 people died and 16 were injured of varying severity. The terrorist attack occurred near the Chita municipality building, which explains the large number of victims.

Moscow expects that in the new resolution of the UN Security Council on Iraq, the principles for which Russia acts will be reflected. “The new resolution on Iraq is necessary. But, of course, it should be reflected in the principles for which Russia consistently acts,” the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Igor Ivanov told reporters on Thursday in Belgrade. He emphasized that "various amendments to the draft resolution that has been introduced by the United States are now being considered.

Pope John Paul II flew out today with an apostolic visit to Slovakia, RIA Novosti reports. As indicated in the Communny of the Holy See, during the visit there are meetings of John Paul II with the President of Slovakia, as well as with the chairman of the country's parliament and with the Slovak Catholic hierarchs. The visit will last four days. His climax will be a worship that the head of the Roman Catholic Church will be headed on Sunday in Bratislava.

Today, thousands of people rushed to all the Buddhist and Taoine temples of China. There are solemn prayers about the sending of well -being, prosperity and peace. China celebrates the holiday of Zhuntsuzze - the feast of the full moon, crop or mid fall. It is held on the night of the 15th day of the eighth month according to the lunar calendar (this year this holiday falls on September 10-11).

On Wednesday, during the two -hour conversation of the club Andrei Chervichenko and the head coach Andrei Chernyshov, a joint decision was made that Chernyshev would leave his post. The press attaches of the team Alexei Zinin believes that two reasons forced Chernyshev to leave. Firstly, the head coach could not find a complete understanding with the players of the team, and this adversely reflected in the game and the results of the red and white.

Admiral Suchkov was temporarily dismissed from the post of commander of the Northern Fleet in connection with the death of the K-159 Premier League in the Barents Sea until the end of the investigation in this case. This was reported to reporters from the Commander -in -Chief of the Navy Vladimir Kuroyedov.

An agreement on the payment of multimillion-dollar compensation has ended in the United States the largest scandal in the country with Catholic priests from Boston, DW-World reports. The scandal in Boston became unprecedented both in scale and in the amount of compensation. The Catholic diocese of the capital of Massachusetts agreed to pay $ 85 million in order to avoid 552 trials in claims for the molestation of minors.

The former treasurer of the American energy company Enron, which went bankrupt last year against the backdrop of the scandal around the financial fraud of representatives of its leadership, was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS reports. Ben G and Glisan became the first senior Enron employee, who suffered a criminal punishment for his acts.

A commemorative bronze board with the name of the Italian fashion designer Georgio Armani is opened in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles-the first on the high-fashion alley, which is created by analogy with the famous Hollywood alley. In connection with a significant event on the Rodeo-Drive full of boutiques, the movement was blocked and a kind of open-air theater was equipped.

More than 30 people died in the north-west of Iran after the truck crashed into a passenger bus. This was reported on Thursday by Iranian media. The state radio of the country said that after a collision in the bus salon exploded a canister with gasoline. As a result of the explosion, a fire arose and after a few seconds the bus was completely embraced by fire, Reuters reports. All passengers were killed, as well as a truck driver.

Jan Karlsson, who served the Minister for Cooperation and Migration at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, was appointed on Thursday the temporarily acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden. This was officially announced on Thursday in the afternoon in Stockholm, reports ITAR-TASS. The post of head of the Swedish Foreign Ministry was vacant after the tragic death of Anna Lind , who became a victim of an attempt committed by an unknown on Wednesday in the center of Stockholm.

Due to the heat in Italy, mortality among the elderly increased compared to the same period last year by 14%. This was announced on Thursday by the Minister of Health of the country of Girolamo Sirchia. In total, from the unprecedented heat that fell on Europe this summer, 4,175 people died in Italy. Most of the dead are people over 65 years old. The Ministry of Health of the country announced the start of the investigation, reports Reuters. “We are not going to look for scapegoats.

English scientists plan to conduct research on the phenomenon of the "existence of the mind outside the body." Some people claim that, being in a state of clinical death, they watched their body from the side. It is this state that Dr. Peter Fenwick plans to explore the famous neuropsychiatrist, writes The Independent . The idea of ​​Fenwick is quite simple.