In Kamchatka, an old spear of the XVII century, which was missing from the Elizovsky Museum of Political Geography, was found on Monday to journalists on Monday at the Elizovsky Internal Affairs Directorate. According to police officers, children played with a valuable exhibit, after which they burst into the snow. A resident of Elizova, who told about the "toy", told the police to the police. Museum Director Vladimir Shevtsov announced the missing of spears from the storage on April 7.

Soon, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il intends to visit the PRC. On Monday, this was reported by the newspaper “Chunan Ilbo” in South Korea with reference to diplomatic sources. Kim Jong Ir has repeatedly expressed a desire to come to China. This topic was touched, in particular, in the course of recent negotiations on the nuclear problem of the DPRK. As ITAR-TASS notes, the preparation of the visit can be judged by some indirect signs.

On the Russian-Polish border in the Kaliningrad region, a colonel general with diplomatic passports for other people's names was detained. At the customs post, Mamonovsky, when departing from Russia, was detained by a 53-year-old colonel, a resident of Moscow. According to the press service of the North-Western Customs Administration, a whole set of documents for different surnames and metal award signs was in the bag of a senior officer.

American troops discovered in the Iraqi city of El Falludge the evidence of the preparation of suicide bombers there, according to Monday the newspaper The Washington Post . According to the newspaper, the preparation of suicide bombers was conducted in one of the abandoned factories of the city. There were traces of chemicals, leather belts with explosives, detonators, equipment and instructions for the manufacture of home -made explosive devices, as well as dying letters of terrorists.

One Romanian citizen was killed in Iraq, another wounded. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, the citizens of this country were not military personnel of the occupation forces, they worked in the field of security in a private company and were ambushed by Iraqi rebels 15 km from Baghdad. The wounded is operated on in the hospital of the capital of Iraq, his life is out of danger, Reuters reports.

The number of victims of traffic accidents in the PRC in 2003 exceeded 770 thousand people, and by this indicator China reached the first place in the world. This was announced by the Chinese Youth newspaper Zhongo Qinnyan Bao with reference to the study of experts at the Medical College at the University of Jinan in the South Chinese city of Guangzhou. According to this study, out of 770 thousand victims, 110 thousand people were killed, and 660 thousand people were injured.

Wodete and trailers with barbed wire are pulled to the presidential palace in Yerevan. Thus, the country's authorities prepared for the protest of the opposition, which achieves the resignation of Armenian President Robert Kocharian. Today in the afternoon the opposition intends to organize a rally, and then a march along Marshal Bagramyan Avenue to the Parliament building and the administration of the head of the republic.

The German cat, obesity, declared a hunger strike. The cat is unhappy that he was separated from the owner and placed in an animal shelter. The owner went to the nursing home. When the Mikesh cat was taken to a shelter on April 1, he weighed 18.5 kilograms. The cat could not take more than 4 steps and did not fall from fatigue. The shelter workers say that Mikesh was so fat that he could not even lick. He began serious heart problems.

Seven Chinese citizens were abducted in Iraq on Sunday by unknown armed people, the Chinese agency Xinhua said on Monday with reference to diplomatic sources in Baghdad. According to the Chinese diplomat, they drove into Iraq through Jordan on Sunday morning and were abducted by unknown in the city of El Falluja. All the Chinese are men who came from the Fujian province, the oldest of which is 49 years old, the youngest - 18.

In Moscow on Leningradsky Prospekt near the building of the Sovetskaya Hotel, a dummy of an explosive device was found under the Mercedes car. The capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate reported that at about 1:00 in the morning on Monday, the hostess of the car found a suspicious item under her car and informed the police about this, Interfax reports. Arriving experts, experts-experts suggested that the subject is an explosive device.

In Kamchatka in the village of Sobolevo, an 11-year-old student killed a 10-year-old girl with a shot from a gun. According to the press service of the internal affairs department of the Kamchatka region, the tragedy occurred during the game, when the schoolboy shot a girlfriend from the grandfather's hunting rifle "Saiga". The doctors who arrived at the place could not save the girl.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed decrees on the appointment of deputies of two ministers - the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin and the head of the Ministry of Economic Development German Gref. According to Interfax, by decree of Prime Minister Sergei Shatalov and Tatyana Golikova were appointed Deputy Minister of Finance. Earlier, Shatalov and Golikova held the posts of the first deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

A failure in electricity supply in the dispatch tower has completely paralyzed the work of Los Angeles International Airport today. There is no lighting at the airport, radars do not work, radio is silent, phones do not work, in a word everything that dispatchers use to communicate with airplane crews and airport services, ITAR-TASS reports. The failure occurred at about 09:40 local time.

In the lists of stolen in the North Caucasus there are 1808 people, of which 1699 were taken hostage in Chechnya. This is the data over the past 10 years, the representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Southern Federal District told ITAR-TASS. In 2003, 747 people were stolen in the region, of which 605 were in Chechnya.

In Italy, a pensioner, concerned about the prospect of the soon opening of a summer restaurant in front of his house, simply decided to blow him up. The terrorist attack failed, but only thanks to the unexpected arrival of a girl living in the neighborhood. 77-year-old pensioner Vincenzo Faro was arrested by carabinets from the Jarra company. Grandfather told the investigators that last year noisy visitors to the restaurant were unbearable for him, as they did not allow him to sleep.