The night on Friday in the Azerbaijani capital was calm, no excesses were recorded. By the evening of Thursday, the clashes between the police and the opposition in Baku stopped.

The ferry of the ferry near the Pierce of the New York District Statien Island, as a result of which 10 people were killed, could occur due to the fainting of the captain’s assistant who was behind the helm, CNN reports. Currently, 60 wounded passengers undergo treatment in hospitals, doctors evaluate the condition of eight of them as critical.

The first Chinese astronaut Jan Live said that the Great Wall, unfortunately, is "not visible from space." He stated this in an interview with television at the end of the historical mission. The launch and flight of the ship. Details (photo, video) Thus, the Taikunaut denied the common opinion that a grand fortification is the only creation of human hands that can be seen from orbit.

Irish actor Colin Farrell scared the Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie, writes Sydney Morning Herald . Now Farrel and Jolie are starring from the famous director Oliver Stone in the film "Alexander". Filming takes place in Africa - in the Kingdom of Morocco. Alexander is a new grandiose project of the famous director Oliver Stone about Alexander Macedonian, who talks about the life of the great commander. The New Star Hollywood Irish actor Colin Farrell plays Alexander.

Two policemen were killed and six were injured in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny as a result of the shelling and blowing of the landmine. According to a source in the Council of People's Commissars of the Chechen Republic, at the intersection of Chicherin and Dagestan Streets in the center of the Grozny, unknown persons who moved in a VAZ-2107 car fired a UAZ car from an automatic weapon, in which employees of the Urus-Martan District Department of Internal Affairs were traveling.

In the village of Clean Fields, about 100 km from Omsk, six people were killed as a result of the fire, including five children aged 1 to 6 years, Interfax was informed in the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies in the Omsk Region. During the investigation of the incident, it was found that the fire was preceded by a family quarrel. The head of the family - 27 -year -old Mikhail Panin - came home early in the morning drunk.

The relationship between the Formula 1 pilot Jacques Wilnev and the boss of his former Bar Honda team David Richards joined the new tragicomic phase. Shortly after the final stage of this season in Japan, in which Willeneus no longer took part, the Bar team owner offered the racket a contract for the amount of one dollar plus ridiculous bonuses for scored points.

The best commercials of 2003 will be shown on October 17, 18 and 19 at the Cinema House in Moscow, the organizer of the show said. The presentation of the international advertising festival "Cannes Lions" will be held in the Russian capital for the eighth time, a representative of the organizing company said. "Cannes Lions" is the most famous and significant event in world advertising life.

Leaders and representatives of the leading religious organizations of Russia condemned Prime Minister Malaysia Mahathira Mohamad for anti-Semitic statements, with whom he spoke the Islamic Conference the day before.

A large diplomatic scandal is flared between Israel and Malaysia. The reason for the scandal, which has already accepted a truly global scale, was a statement made by Prime Minister Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad at an opening meeting at the highest level of member countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin took part. Then Mahathir Mohamad said that "Jews rule the world." "Europeans destroyed 6 million Jews out of 12 million.

The Central Bank is likely to establish the official dollar exchange rate in a new way. On Thursday, several transactions at the MICEX almost lowered the official dollar exchange rate per ten cents. However, the Central Bank did not succumb to provocation and, calling the transactions by a mistake, established an official course based on his opinion about the market course.

The house of the former chairman of the Control and Audit Chamber of the Moscow Region Eduard Goncharov was robbed in the suburbs. The damage exceeded 15 million rubles, sources in the ATC of the Noginsky district reported on Friday Interfax. On Thursday, at about 21:30, three unknown in masks burst into Goncharov’s house in the village of Vsevolodovo, Noginsky district.

On the board of the Soyuz TMA-3 ship, starting on October 18, Russian Alexander Kaleri, a NASA astronaut Michael Foel and an astronaut of the European Space Agency (EKA), Spaniard Pedro Duke will rise to the international space station. Such a final decision was made on Friday on Baikonur, the state commission, which approved the crew of the eighth long expedition of the ISS and the visit expedition.

In the Russian army, official salaries increase. So, the salary of the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel General Yuri Baluevsky, is now 4 thousand 095 rubles 50 kopecks. He reported this to the Rossiyskaya Gazeta , which on Friday publishes the order of the head of the Ministry of Defense on the new salaries of military personnel.

Citizens of North Korea literally devastated the regiments of the bookstore in Vladivostok, buying up a large number of military and medical literature. According to the employees of the book supermarket in the center of Vladivostok, two DPRK citizens acquired a large number of reference books from them about various types of weapons and military equipment, as well as books on strategy and history of war.