Due to the threat of the explosion, the plane with 150 passengers on board, who made the Munich-Stambul flight, returned to the capital of Bavaria, RIA Novosti reports. After taking off, one of the passengers of the airliner said that the bomb was on the aircraft. The crew commander immediately handed the alarm to the ground and gave the command to return to Munich. 10 minutes after taking off, the plane landed. After landing, the police officers arrested a suspicious passenger.

The American commander in Iraq ordered the British military personnel to prepare for a full -scale attack on Iranian troops, which crossed the border and seized the disputed territory, the high -ranking officer said. The attack would almost certainly provoke an open conflict with Iran. But the British chose to resolve the issue of diplomatic channels. The British edition of The Daily Telegraph writes about this on Wednesday.

The telecommunications company from the United Arab Emirates plans to win the Asian market, starting with Bangladesh. She offers an Islamic mobile phone that contains the full text of the Qur'an in memory, indicates the time of prayers, as well as a direction to Mecca of 5 thousand cities of the world. In addition, the phone is equipped with an Islamic calendar, the Islam.ru website reports.

The Department of the Migration Service (VHI) of Lithuania refused to a citizen of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov further residence in the republic. This was reported today by the press service of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Specialists of the Russian airline UTAIR do not exclude that the cause of the Mi-8 helicopter disaster in Sierra Leone was a fighting defeat. This was reported on Wednesday by the airline press service. The Mi-8MTV helicopter disaster (on-board number RA-27113) UTAIR (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) occurred on Tuesday at 13:20 Moscow time.

The militants in the North Caucasus receive financial support from Boris Berezovsky, said the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, the head of the Muslims against terrorism Mamma Mammaev , the head of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Denmark opened her embassy in Iraq, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Iraqi electronic media. Thus, the Danish kingdom became one of the first states that opened diplomatic missions in Iraq after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime. The Embassy of Denmark opened shortly after a similar step in the United States . The American diplomatic mission in Iraq has become the largest US embassy in the world.

A group of Egyptian archaeologists discovered the remains of a defensive complex of the pharaohs of the ancient eastern entry into Egypt, in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. This was reported on Wednesday by the Ministry of Culture of Egypt. Archaeologists have found three strengthening structures in the Tara region, an ancient city, which stood on a tributary of the Nile, which has long dried up, according to a statement by the Ministry.

The family of Vitaly Kaloev , who lost loved ones in a disaster over the Lake Bodensky, refused to accept the compensation and apology of the Skyguide airline, which sent letters to the families of the dead with a plead of guilt for the crash of the Bashkir airline. ITAR-TASS said this in a telephone conversation, Yuri Kaloev, who flew to Switzerland to meet with his brother Vitaly.

The research organization JD Power and Associates introduced the Reliability rating of cars, and it turned out that Toyota still, for the 10th year in a row, has been producing the most reliable cars. The rating of Vehicle Dependability Study evaluates three -year -old cars according to the main problematic indicators: noise, vibration and body rigidity, as well as handling, reliability and safety.

From July 1, 2004, all passport and visa departments of Moscow will work on a new schedule, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced on Wednesday by the representative of the Department of Information and Public Relations (UIOS) of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate. According to him, from July 1 to Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, departments will work from 8:30 to 17:30, on Thursday - from 11:00 to 20:00, on Friday - from 8:30 to 16:15 Moscow time.

The head of the MFI Menatep Plato Lebedev, by decision of the administration of the SIZO Sailor Silence, was transferred from therapeutic boxing into a common chamber, which contains about 20 people. This was announced on Wednesday by his lawyer Vladimir Krasnov.

The bicycles of Russian emperors Alexander II, Alexander III and Hikolai II are displayed in the new Peterhof Museum, where three new permanent expositions were opened on Wednesday. Compared to modern two -wheeled vehicles in the ownership of the Russian emperors, there were not so comfortable bicycles - the exhibition presented the famous Kostotryas on the metallic rims of the inventor of the eagle of Lileman, which was made in Paris in 1867 specifically for the imperial family.

Italian television people decided to anticipate events and distributed in advance who and what would broadcast on the day of the death of Pope John Paul II .

For three months, the treatment of the younger brother Michael, Ralph Schumacher, who received a severe injury during the “Grand Prix of the United States”, will be delayed. This became known after Ralph had medical tests. Schumacher Jr. is now going on the eighth in the Formula 1 championship, and most likely will no longer take part in this championship, which ends in the Brazilian San Paulo October 26th.