Los Angeles Lakers came forward in the quarterfinal playoff series of the National Basketball Association against San Antonio Spars-3-2. In the fifth match of the series, the Californians outplayed the current NBA champions on their site with a score of 74:73. The most productive player was the defender of Lakers Kobi Bryant (22 points). 21 points were scored by the leader of SPARZ Tim Dankan.

At the invitation of the followers of the “Focolare” movement, representatives of the Preobrazhensky Commonwealth of the Small Orthodox Brotherhoods and the Holy Philretical Institute (SPI) took part in the work of the International Congress of Christian movements and communities “together for Europe”, held the day before in Stuttgart (Germany), Blagovet-Info reports.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation sent a criminal case to the court against the former governor of the Tver region Vladimir Platov . "The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation completed the investigation and sent a criminal case to the court against the former governor of the Tver region Vladimir Platov.

The Tampa-Bey Lightning National Hockey League Club, whose colors are defended by Russian Nikolai Khabibulin, again stepped forward in the semifinal series of playoffs against Philadelphia Flyers, winning a guest victory with a score of 4: 1. Already in the first period, hockey players of Tampa - Corey Stillman and Ruslan Fedotenko - twice struck the gates of Robert Ash and created a good tank to win their club.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in the area of ​​military warehouses near Melitopol, ammunition does not explode since Thursday evening. On the territory of the 275th artillery base in Novobdanovka, where a fire occurred on May 6 , after which ammunition began to break, smoke remains, but there is no open fire, so there is no extinguishing.

On Wednesday morning, a drunken Catholic priest shot the mayor of Chalpatlahuac in the mountains in the west of Mexico. Noting the successful completion of the religious festival, the priest with the mayor of Lorenzo Ruits was peacefully drank. Then, when both reached a certain condition, they quarreled and began to fight. An angry priest took out a 9-mm pistol and shot the head of the city administration. “Apparently, they seriously argued.

Two Japanese police helicopters and eighteen patrol cars pursued for more than 17 hours on Thursday on the northern Hokkaido island of a lonely unemployed, suspected of fine theft. The 34-year-old Yasuyuki Suzuki back in April, as the investigation assures, stole a video recorder worth about $ 400 in their stores. The authorities established the personality of the thief and put him on the wanted list.

After the Second World War, the US governments used the Nazi criminals as spies, protecting them from attracting to court. Secret documents published on Thursday confirm that some of them were even provided with American citizenship. The released archival data of the CIA, the Federal Tax Service and the US Army show that at least five colleagues of the infamous chief of the Jewish department of the Gestapo Adolf Eichmann worked for the CIA.

Despite the fact that a year ago, the National Bureau of Patent annulled the Yamamoto Bussan, a brand brand of sweets with the name "Sawn of the Big Buddha," they are still going on sale. The monks of the Todiji Temple, who considered this name offensive, continue to demand the termination of the production of these products, reports Yomiuri (the translation of the article publishes the site inopressa.ru ).

250 million ago, a giant meteorite, the diameter of which could be up to 11 km, caused a "great extinction" - the disappearance of most plant species and animals on Earth. This conclusion was reached by American archaeologists by examining the ancient giant crater Bedout in the north-west of Australia.

Lamborghini gives the Italian police on the occasion of its anniversary the Lamborghini Gallardo model (500 l/s, aluminum body), writes Focus magazine. The road police will use the road police on the Salerno -Regino Calabria highway. The machine was additionally equipped with the necessary equipment for urgent medical care and transportation of transplantation, as well as a blue flashing "beacon" and siren.

The head of the US Civil Administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, admitted on Friday that the people of Iraq "did not welcome" the stay of American troops on its territory, and the troops would probably have to be withdrawn from the country.

The prosecutor's office of the Saratov region opened a criminal case against Governor Dmitry Ayatskov. He is suspected of abuse of authority and is prepared for the charge under the relevant article of the Criminal Code (Article 286 of Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Exceeding of official powers"). The prosecutor of the Saratov region Anatoly Bondar said that the prosecution has not yet been charged to the governor.

In the southwest of Iraq, in the area of ​​the city of Nezhef, clashes of the American military with the rebels of the so-called Iraqi Shiite "Mahdi Army" resumed, the Arab satellite television channel Al-Arabia reports on Friday. Strong explosions are heard in the city. According to the television channel, the coalition forces are currently trying to break into the central part of Nezhef and have already occupied the Muslim city cemetery.

The famous Moscow lawyer Anatoly Blinov is suspected of fraud and will be placed in the Ufa investigative insulator. On Friday, the chairman of the Oktyabrsky district court of Ufa Valery Davydov chose such a measure of restraint against Blinov.