In the United States, a 16-year-old teenager, who worked as if he was sitting with a 6-year-old girl, while her parents were not at home, pleaded guilty in repeated cases of sexual violence in relation to the child. Now he faces up to 10 years in prison. Jeremy Morrow, a resident of Ansonya (Connecticut), was found guilty of a sexual attack on a third degree child and causing health damage.

On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Dzyuniitiro Koizumi will sign a decree ordering the country's security agency to start transferring soldiers to Iraq. According to the order, which will be given to the Japanese government, the Japanese air defense forces (Japanese Air Self Defense Force - JASDF) will have to send the advanced group of the military to the Middle East. The order to send will receive employees of the naval, air and ground forces of Japan.

In 2003, more than a thousand special operations were carried out in the North Caucasus, said the director of the FSB of Russia Nikolai Patrushev. "Together with other law enforcement agencies, more than a thousand units of firearms, 300 thousand units of various ammunition, about three thousand explosive devices, about 600 kg of poisonous substances were seized, eight hostages were seized," he said on Friday at a meeting with the leaders of the Russian media.

In a duel with Denell Nicholson, who will take place on Saturday in the German city of Kil, ten and a half thousand fans of boxing will be observed behind the ex-champion of boxing Vladimir Klitschko. At the same time, some of them will burn out of love. Because at the sight of a beautiful and strong Vladimir Klitschko, the hearts of women are hung up.

The legendary singer Osi Osbourne, who was in the hospital after a heavy accident, set a new record in the history of rock music. His new composition "Changes" recorded with Kelly's daughter, again headed the British hit parade. This happened exactly 33 years later, three months and 23 days after the single of his group Black Sabbath first entered the five hit parade of England.

As a result of a traffic accident on Mira Avenue in Moscow, movement towards the center was practically paralyzed. Immediately after the Riga Estacade, three cars collided: a cargo Gazelle, a bus Ikarus and VAZ-2109. Cars blocked the roadway towards the center. As a result, the movement stopped, RIA Novosti reports. The traffic police also had to block the movement from the center.

The spiritual leader of the Palestinian movement "Hamas" Sheikh Ahmed Yasin made new threats to Israel, Israeli Radio reports on Friday. The head of the extremist group warned of the activation of anti -Israeli actions if the Israeli authorities begin to implement the prime minister Sharon of the plan of unilateral separation of Israel and Palestine, RIA Novosti reports. “No policy of separation will save the Zionists.

The Russian Democratic Party (RDP) "Yabloko" questioned the results of the parliamentary elections officially published on Friday , and stated that she continued to recalculate the ballots. The party spread on Friday the text of its appeal to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, where it was sent the night before, Interfax reports.

In Japan on Friday, a reactor was automatically stopped after a zipper. The reactor is located at the nuclear power plant (nuclear power plant) in the city of Tsuruga (Fukui Prefecture on the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan). According to the authorities, the blow fell on one of the power lines leaving the nuclear power plant. As a result, a powerful voltage jump occurred, after which the automatic shutdown system worked.

In one of the Odessa dormitories, they found dead a one -year -old child. There were no adults next to him. Arriving ambulance doctors made the conclusion that death came from hunger. The twin brother of the deceased boy was taken to the regional children's hospital in extreme exhaustion. Currently, the baby is in intensive care in a state that doctors characterize as extremely heavy. At 12 months, the boy weighs about 5 kilograms.

The correspondent of the Echo of Moscow radio station Evgenia Ten was detained on Friday during an environmental action, which was unauthorized in the center of Moscow at the monument to the heroes of Plevna. Ecologists conducted their theatrical action in protest against the adoption of the State Duma in the third reading of the amendment to the forest Code of Russia on November 21, 2003.

On board the Turkish vessel "Express", which has a disaster in the Black Sea of ​​the Black Sea near Sochi, there are 45 tons of diesel fuel. Currently, fuel traces on the surface of the sea are not observed. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation with reference to the captain of the rescue tug "Mercury", which was sent to the disaster area.

In 2003, Russian counterintelligence "as a result of long-term and carefully prepared operations, caught red-handed 5 foreign citizens - career employees of the special services." Director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, at a traditional meeting with the heads of Russian media, said today that “the FSB has stopped the espionage and other subversive activities of 14 career intelligence officers and 37 agents of the special services of foreign states, including two Russian

The United States does not consider Wahhabism initially the criminal course of Islam. This was stated by US Ambassador John Hanford, presenting on the eve of the new annual report of the State Department on the freedom of religion in the world.

The project of creating a transport hub at the intersection of Tverskaya Street with a passionate and Tver boulevards was approved on Friday at a meeting of the Public Urban Planning Council under the mayor of Moscow. The chief architect of the capital, Alexander Kuzmin, said that under Pushkinskaya Square it is planned to build a shallow tunnel in the form of pants.