The court of the city of El Hoseim in the north of Morocco sentenced a young man named Said to the month of prison for the appearance in a public place in a T-shirt with a portrait of Osama Ben Laden. The verdict is final and is not subject to appeal, ITAR-TASS reports. The other day, the “offender” went into a cafe called “New Maghreb” in a T -shirt with a large portrait of “terrorist number one” on his chest.

The Guinness Book set its own record - its circulation reached 100 million copies. She marks this achievement today in a number of cities around the world. So, in New York, it is supposed to hold an event, during which many inflatable balls should “burst” at the same time. If the action, whose participants will become 500 children, will succeed, then the record about it will be included in the record book, ITAR-TASS reports.

The random passerby selected a grenade launcher from children. A passerby drew attention to the fact that young children played with a grenade launcher on a lively street of New York. Fortunately, only a grenade launcher hit the playful pens of children. Militaries were not found in children. The dangerous find was handed over to the police, Ananova reports. A sapper detachment of the New York police arrived at the scene. The sappers found that a grenade launcher is not dangerous for anyone.

A large car accident occurred in Egypt. As a result of a collision of 2 buses in Cairo, 10 people died and 55 were injured, Reuters reports citing the Egyptian Security Service. The number of accidents in Egypt is one of the highest in the world. Most often, car accident occurs due to the excess of speed, violation of the rules of the road and bad roads.

Vladimir Putin considers it necessary to remove those leaders in places on the top of those who cannot cope with work. If "people will bring their city or village to the tsugunder, then it is sometimes better to remove them than to wait for the pitchfork from below," said the President of Russia, speaking at the Congress of municipalities. Help : "Bring to the tsugunder" means "bring to punishment." This turnover came to the language from army jargon, borrowed from the German language.

In the near future, up to 12 multi-purpose Ka-52 Alligator Helicopters will enter the arsenal of the Russian Air Force, Colonel General Vladimir Mikhailov said on Monday, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. According to experts, 12 units are a "drop in the sea." Currently, the Russian Air Force contains a little more than 5100 aircraft and more than 2000 helicopters. Of these, 55% are operated for more than 15 years, 40% of 5 to 10 years and only 20 aircraft of less than 5 years.

In the Moscow City Court, during the consideration of the criminal case on the explosions of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999, the two victims became ill, and they called an ambulance. Medical assistance was required by the residents of Volgodonsk Irina Polyanskaya and Lyudmila Dubinskaya. During the attack, they lost housing and property, in addition, Dubinskaya became disabled by the second group.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress introduced a draft resolution calling for President George Bush "immediately demand the resignation of the Minister of Defense Donald Ramsfeld." Under the bill, signatures of 26 congressmen-democrats were placed.

In Lviv, an attack on the bookstore "Open Cafe" was made, where they sell Russian-speaking literature. On Tuesday afternoon, four unknown people burst into the room of the Kafe store. According to the seller, four young people similar to skinheads, were put on masks to the store and armed with reinforcing rods. Having burst into the store, the bandits first threw off the employee who was sitting at the computer, and broke the computer.

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday at 16:00 should begin consideration of the possibility of liberation from the custody of the former head of the oil company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said lawyer Anton Drill.

The legendary rock singer and composer Ozzi Osborn resumed preparations for his long-expected solo concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The planned European tour of the former soloist of the Black Sabbath group was unexpectedly canceled in October after Ozzi Osbourne felt bad. It was officially announced that he had a tick as a result of a nervous overstrain.

Seven police officers and two journalists were injured on the eve of the explosions of bombs in the Pakistani city of Kvetta (the capital of the Belujistan province), the newspaper "UNON" writes on Tuesday. The first explosive device worked near the building of one of the local schools. The law enforcement officers and press officers hastened to the scene, RIA Novosti reports. At this time, another bomb hidden nearby exploded, wounding nine people.

Among the many Japanese comics, translated this year into English, the central place is occupied by the one that has been in Japan in Japan for 30 years. It is called "Buddha" and talks about the events that occurred more than 2500 years ago. According to the Yomiuri newspaper (with the translation of the material, the website Inopressa.ru ), the comic book "Buddha", created by the artist Osamu Tadzuka, was first published consistently in three comic book magazines in 1972.

In Moscow, Latvia and Estonia, even before the formal entry into the European Union, will settle the situation related to the situation in these countries of the Russian -speaking population, Interfax reports.

Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad.