The Japanese police hold the arrests of the followers of the Aum-Sinrik sect in Tokyo. According to the representative of the Tokyo police department today, one of the leaders of the Alef religious group (earlier Aum-Sinrika), 37-year-old Naruhito Noda, was arrested. He is accused of unlicensed trade in medical drugs, RIA Novosti reports. The police plans to detain several more people, added to management. Eight members of the sect have already been convicted.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday that weapons of mass defeat (OMP), which allegedly had the regime of Saddam Hussein, may not be found. At the same time, the British leader emphasized that, in his opinion, there was such a weapon in Iraq, and therefore Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the whole world. “We know that Saddam Hussein had a weapon of mass defeat, but we did not find it,” Blair said, speaking to the British parliamentarians.

Tax claims may be made to the Yukos oil company based on the results of activities for 2002 and 2003, the Radio Station of the Echo of Moscow said the Prosecutor General of Russia Vladimir Ustinov. He recalled that today the claims to Yukos are being considered in 2000, and "as it became known, in 2001, claims have already been presented in about the same amount." These sizes are colossal - $ 3.4 billion in the results of 2000, more than $ 3 billion - according to the results of 2001.

The American company Chiquita International plans to engage in the sale of bananas with new tastes, for example, with the taste of strawberries, since, in her opinion, ordinary bananas have already bored with everyone. Employees of Chiquita International hope that the new variety of bananas will attract many customers, Ananova reports with reference to Sky News. The company does not yet say how they are going to change the bananas, but they assure that fruits will not be genetically modified.

About 10 women from among the members of the Juma religious community were detained on July 5 by the Baku police, Blagovet-Info reports. This happened after their statement about the violation of the freedom of conscience and religion in Azerbaijan, the reason for which was the intervention of the police in the commission of religious rites in the Juma mosque.

The technical failure nullified the long-term efforts of the 100-year-old resident of South Africa, Philip Rabinovich, who tried to set a world record in 100 meters running for his age category, Interfax reports. At the new Mandela Park stadium, this former runner ran a hundred -meter in 28.7 seconds in the suburbs of Cape Town, breaking the previous achievement of the Guinness Book of Records, which since 2002 belonged to the Austrian Erwin Yaskulsky and was 36.19 seconds.

Russian Tatyana Slyvenko, who won a lawsuit against Latvia in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, will not receive an apartment from the government of this state. The corresponding decision was made at a closed meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia, ITAR-TASS reported the representative of the country in international human rights organizations Inga Rhine. "The decision of the Strasbourg Court does not say that Slivvenko is supposed to the apartment.

US President George Bush sometimes resorts to abnormitative vocabulary. About this with reference to two US presidential advisers at once, the informed journal US News & World Report reports. Bush uses one of the most common curses in English as an adjective, verb and noun, "one of the assistants to the head of the White House told the magazine, according to which the president usually resorts to non -normative vocabulary in less official situations, RIA Novosti reports.

Defenders of animal rights from 15 countries, including Russia, held in the Spanish pamplon the manifestation of protest against traditional races with bulls conducted in this city. Several hundred people walked in a march along the streets of the city, chanting the slogans in defense of animals.

At the only concert in Moscow, American singer Pink will perform her songs from the new album. Today's show in the Olympic sports complex was included in the world tour program of the artist. The organizers of the tour said that Pink's concerts are always an enchanting representation in which the most modern technologies are involved. According to the singer, her show is never repeated, and therefore she expects to surprise the audience.

The Washington Post again published in her number for Tuesday 146 photographs of American soldiers who died in Iraq in April, May and June of this year. Photos of American troops are occupied by three newspaper pages and are a continuation of the campaign of the newspaper "Faces of the Dead", which began to it in April 2003. "These photos were taken from newspapers, news agencies or from family members of the dead with their permission.

In Pyatigorsk last Monday, unknown people penetrated the house of a non-working 48-year-old local resident and abducted his property for almost a million rubles. This was reported to "Interfax" a source in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Stavropol Territory. According to the victim, the three attackers in masks penetrated the house through the open door.

The captain of the London Chelsea, Marseille Desay, broke the contract with the club of Roman Abramovich, in which he spent the last six seasons, "by mutual agreement of the parties." The world and European champion in the French national team, which will turn 36 in September in September, became another player who did not fit into the coach of the new mentor of the "aristocrats" Jose Mourinho.

On July 6, the All-Chinese Research Institute of Study of Bird Influenza announced that the cause of the death of Curtain on July 3 on one of the farms in the city of Chao Chuha County of the East Chinese province of Ankhoy was the Bird influenza virus H5N1, central Chinese television reported. The Ministry of Health of the PRC immediately sent to the Acho Province a brigade of doctors to study the situation and conduct preventive measures.

On Tuesday, the Consular Service of the French Embassy in Moscow suspended its work and temporarily does not give out visas, Katya Bartovski, Katya Bartovski, told the Echo of the Embassy of the French Embassy in the Russian Federation. According to her, this happened in connection with an attack on one of the consulate service employee. “The employee went home from work, three unknown people attacked him and beat him,” said Bartovski.