The dollar stabilized to the euro on Thursday after growth to a five -month maximum following trading results on Wednesday on the news about the further activation of the American economy. The euro to the dollar amounted to 1.193 dollars per euro on Thursday morning after a fall to 1.1870 dollars the day before. The reached course became the lowest since November 26, 2003.

Employees of the Vitebsk Internal Affairs Directorate establish the personality of a woman who claims to be in slavery in Chechnya and does not remember anything else about himself. The woman was brought to the district department of the city of Lyozoz Vitebsk region, a priest of the local church, to whom she turned for help, reported in the department of information and public relations of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee.

In Iraq, one of the four Italians captured as hostage is executed - the 36 -year -old former military factory Kuattrokki. This was announced on Thursday by the Catar satellite television channel Al-Jazeera, at the disposal of which came a video with the footage of the execution. Al-Jazeera refused to show her on the air because of her extreme cruelty and respect for the family of the murdered hostage. Currently, militants hold about 20 more hostages from different states.

As already reported, representatives of the Orthodox community intend to prevent the construction of a Krishna temple and to achieve the elimination of registration of the Krishna consciousness Society. A few days ago, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II in an interview with the United Russia newspaper, said that "the Krishna Consciousness Society is seriously threatening the inter -religious world" in the country.

38 people died in Bangladesh, about 800 were injured as a result of a tornado, which collapsed to the northern regions of the country the night before. In a non -trunk, 130 km north of the capital of the country, at least 26 people were killed, including children. More than 700 people were injured, hundreds of victims were hospitalized, RIA Novosti reports. In Maymansingha (110 km north of the capital), rescuers found 8 bodies of the dead.

The largest American supercomputer systems have undergone a well -coordinated hacker attack. Under the blow were the Stanford National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Supercomputer Supercomputer Center (San Diego Supercomputer Center) and the National Center for Supercompleter Applications at the University of Illinois. Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications). The hacker attack was held in late March - early April, but information about it was published only now.

In Chechnya, the federal armored vehicles were fired from grenade launchers and large -caliber machine guns, the site of Chechen separatists reports on Thursday. According to these data, the attack occurred in the Sharoy district of Chechnya. According to the militants, at least 23 troops of the federal forces were killed as a result of the shelling, two armored personnel carriers and a military "Ural" were burned. Russian military sources do not comment on this information.

The first in the world to cross the Pacific Ocean on a boat with one oar is intended to 62-year-old Japanese Ikuo Tateo. On Thursday, he set sail from the pier of the city of Tanji in the north of the main Japanese island of Honsu and plans to step on land now only on the west coast of the United States. Earlier, successful attempts have already been made to overcome the Pacific Ocean in a funny boat.

In the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, on Thursday at 12:30, preliminary hearings began in the criminal case of the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev, Interfax reports. Lebedev was taken to the court of the court in handcuffs. In front of the court building, an independent public group “Conscience” arranged a picket in his support. For public security purposes, security was strengthened in the court building.

In Russian schools, history textbooks will appear in which the section on domestic sports will be included. This was announced today by the chairman of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Vyacheslav Fetisov. The proposal to include a section on the history of Russian sports in the school textbook was made in March at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the captains of the Olympic teams. It is reported by RIA "Novosti".

Early presidential elections in Lithuania will be held on June 13, along with the elections to the European Parliament. This decision was made today by the Sejm of the Baltic Republic, reports ITAR-TASS. The former head of state Rolandas Paxas was removed from power as a result of impeachment on April 6. Paxas, who was at the post of President of Lithuania since February 2003, became the first president in Europe, shifted from the post of impeachment.

Work, car, own house - dominant of the American lifestyle, "American dream". As for salaries and cars, everyone knows that in the US they are good. But the Americans attach no less importance to housing. The average American house of the 2002 model possessed an area of ​​196 square meters. m. About 87% of houses are equipped with a centralized air conditioning system. There were at least two toilet rooms in 55% of houses in the United States. In 58% - one or more fireplaces.

The meeting of the Chelsea coach Claudio Ranieri and the Executive Director of the club Peter Kenion did not clarify about the future Italian mentor. The club’s statement says that Ranieri and Kenion discussed the “personal nature of”, and the meeting itself was designed to "clarify the position of the coach in the club." Agent Ranieri Phil Smith said that the lack of a clear answer about whether Ranieri would continue to train Chelsea or not was no surprise for him, the Air Force reports.

The operation to detain an anesthetist Gregori Kapordelis, who was suspected of molestime, conducted law enforcement agencies of the United States at the Kennedy New York Airport. This was reported to ITAR-TASS on Wednesday by representatives of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs, which is part of the US Department of National Security.

In the Spanish city of Villagarsia, unknowners robbed the bus of the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, who arrived in Spain on tour. As the musicians themselves told REGNUM , foreign robbers brazenly penetrated the bus at night, breaking the window. The police were not yet able to detain the police in hot pursuit. In addition to the personal belongings of the orchestrants, a rare and only bass cracker in the region, worth 5 thousand dollars, is stolen.