Yemen is going to make his first feature film, reported by the local Saba News Agency. As the screenwriter and director of the tape Bader Ben Hirsi stated at a press conference, shooting a romantic drama called "New Day in the Old San" will begin on October 10 and will be held in the Yemeni capital and other cities of the country. The film of the British of Yemensky descent will be released in the country's screens in February next year.

Based on the results of processing the ballots from 936 out of 973 polling stations, the current head of the region Valery Serdyukov won the election of the Governor of the Leningrad Region in the first round.

Armed Palestinian organizations refused to join the government of Ahmed Kureya, who was appointed to the post of prime minister of autonomy in early September. According to Israeli sources, on Sunday, Ahmed Kurai held consultations with representatives of 13 armed organizations, in particular, Islamic Jihad, the People’s Front of the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front of the Liberation of Palestine.

Vladimir Putin ordered the government to ensure the adoption of budgets without failures. As the president said at a traditional meeting with government members, while the "government may be satisfied" by the fact that the draft federal budget for 2004 was adopted in the first reading in the State Duma. However, the work should be continued. "The budget has been adopted in the first reading, this is a very important stage, but the work is difficult, large," the head of state said.

In the Israeli army, more and more snipers-veterans of the Chechen war, reports Ha`Retz . The Israeli command is very quite Russian veterans: "Many immigrants are much better trained than Israeli snipers. If snipers in the Israeli army undergo a special training course in 5 weeks, then in Russia snipers are preparing for a whole year," the newspaper notes.

Houses on the northern coast of Norway are now heated with the help of the moon’s energy - it was precisely for this that a unique underwater station was created, which acts thanks to the tide and castings. The movement of sea water, caused by the gravitational field of the moon, drives 9-meter turbine blades, which is installed on the bottom of the sea canal near the city of Hammerfest. Thanks to this, the turbine produces electricity for the local network.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with American journalists that Moscow was not considering the issue of sending Russian troops to Iraq, Interfax reports.

The Gosstroy and the Moscow government intend to get advice from the US government and private American companies in the design, construction and operation of high -altitude integrated buildings. This was stated in Washington by the head of Gosstroy, Nikolai Koshman, according to which the development plan of Moscow involves the construction of 60 new high -rise buildings in the Russian capital until 2015.

American singer Mayrai Carey will give two concerts at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow on September 27 and 29 and one concert in the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg on October 2. According to the organizers of the tour of the singer, at Moscow concerts, Mariah will mainly perform songs from his new album - Charmbracelet. But the public will also be proposed by its most famous hits, such as My All and Without You. The singer is known for extremely rarely sets off to tour around the world.

In the second round of voting in the elections of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, according to preliminary data, the current head of the region Eduard Rossel won. According to the regional election commission, 31.9% of voters took part in the vote (33.61% in the first round). According to preliminary data, Rossel gained 55.63% of votes who took part in the vote, and his opponent, a deputy of the upper house of the regional parliament, Anton Bakov - 29.86%.

At least 46 people died on Monday as a result of an accident that occurred on the border of Uganda with Rwanda. The bus in which they were in collided with a truck who transported food assistance. "The passenger bus, who was walking from Burundi, ran into a truck that Mais drove to Burundi," Assuman Mugni representative told Reuters. "We have removed 46 bodies, 33 passengers are in critical condition in the Kabal clinic."

Russian scientists deciphered the genetic code of the atypical pneumonia virus, obtained from Denis Soinikov from Blagoveshchensk, which was ill with this disease in Russia. This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Health of Russia, the chief state sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, the "genetic passport" of SARS, created by Russian specialists, will soon be published on the Internet.

The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission at a meeting on Monday set a date of re-voting in the election of the governor on October 5. "The decision of the commission for re -voting was two candidates - Anna Markov and Valentina Matvienko," said Alexander Gnetov after signing the protocol on the results of the voting in the elections of the governor of St. Petersburg. Anna Markova in the first round scored 170 thousand 239 votes, Valentina Matvienko - 523 thousand 836 votes.

In Moscow, two unknown criminals on the Borisov ponds (Southern District) near House 6 were shot by the General Director of CJSC Trading House CJSC Thermal Subject Cable Reinforcement (CJSC "Tsa") Viktor Ersen. On Monday, at about eight in the morning, the man walked with his dog. At that moment, killer ran to them and opened fire. At the time of the attack, the shepherd tried to protect the owner, but the criminals shot her, after which they disappeared. The victim swept in place.

In two cities of the Chelyabinsk region - Kusa and Plast - a flash of dairy dysentery is registered. According to Monday, the press service of the chief sanitary doctor of the Chelyabinsk region, from September 17 to 21, 143 people fell ill with a sharp dysentery in these cities, all the victims were pupils of preschool institutions and schools. The number of victims in the layer was 91 people, 52 people in Kusa.