More than 1.1 million people attended matches of the European Championship: this means that the current tournament attracted more spectators than Euro 2000. In total, 1,165 192 people visited the championship matches. At the games of the championship four years ago in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1,126,443 spectators visited. On average, each of the 31 matches of the championship gathered 37,587 people - a little more than in the previous championship, where each game attracted 36,337 people.

In the northern Parisian suburb, Pantten, a passenger car drove into an underpass, leading to the metro station. As the local police prefecture said on Wednesday, as a result of the incident, one pedestrian was injured, hospitalized with a serious injury of both legs.

The Formula-1 team "Toyota" officially confirmed the signing of the contract with the German rider Ralph Schumacher. Thus, in the next season, the "stable" "Williams", in fact, is falling apart. Recall that another pilot, now playing for this team - Huang -Pablo Montoya - goes to McLaren. Thus, the younger brother of the six -time world champion from the next season will play for a new team. Ralph Schumacher’s contract with Toyota is signed for three years.

In St. Petersburg, as a result of an explosion, a man died on a river tram, Interfax was told in the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg. The explosion of a gas cylinder on the river tram occurred at about 20:00 Moscow time about one of the yacht clubs located in the Petrograd district of the Northern capital. Two more people on board were not injured. As a result of the explosion, the walking vessel tilted one side and sank.

The national team of the Netherlands of the Netherlands Dick Lawyer resigned from his post. The resignation took place a week after the Dutch lost in the semifinals of the European Championship. He has already become a fifth coach who lost his job as a result of a failed team’s unsuccessful game at the championship. At a press conference, after a semifinal lesion from Portugal, the lawyer said: "In a week you will receive information from the fact, but I already know what awaits me.

The prosecutor's office of the Moscow Metro charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to an employee of the police accused of beating to the death of a metro passenger . This was reported to "Interfax" by sources in the prosecutor's office. The police sergeant Sergei Basorgin was charged with exceeding the official powers, which entailed grave consequences (part 3 of article 286), and inflicting serious bodily injuries that entailed death (part 4 of article 111).

Six months after Cannibal Armin Maesy was put behind bars for killing and ate a man, a German director-Hamose-man with a female name Rosa von Praunheim, known for his scandalous films, is going to make a picture of him. The film will be called "Your heart in my brains", shooting should be completed this year, today The Guardian writes (translation on the website of Inopressa ).

In New York, a dead film actor, the youngest son of the Hollywood celebrity Kerke Douglas, Eric Douglas, was found in his apartment, the local police said. So far, the exact cause of his death is unclear, but doctors suggest that there was an overdose of drugs. Douglas, born in 1958, suffered from alcoholism and drug use. Like his half -brother, the famous actor and producer Michael Douglas, Eric tried to make a career in the cinema.

In the American state of Alabama, a 10-year-old boy was killed, locked in the drum of the wound dryer. The police finds out how the child could get into the dryer and whether he was already dead when this happened, writes the website nBC10.com . The culprit of the accident could be his 15-year-old brother, as well as other children who at that time in the house with whom the dead boy played hide and seek.

The departments of Kyrgyzstan had a group that collected secret information for sale abroad, said the chairman of the National Security Service (SNB) Kyrgyzstan Kalyk Imankulov.

The Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, who won the Wimbledon tournament this year, defending his title, has a long -standing habit of coming to his homeland after the UK, to the Gstaada tournament. For the second year now, quite strange gifts are given to him there. However, they are given with all their hearts. The day before, he was given an alpine horn for supervision for his first gift, which he received a year ago - a cow named Juliet.

Moscow "Spartak" tied with the Krasnodar "Kuban" his first match of the Russian Championship after Euro 2004. Before that, Muscovites played in the Interoto Cup, missing the 14th round of the championship. In the meeting with the newcomer of the Premier League, Spartak had to be content with a draw - 1: 1. Playing at home, Muscovites went on the offensive from the very first minutes of the match. As in the meetings of the InterToto Cup, burbnyak and Samedov were dangerous.

Otto Rehagel will remain to lead the Greece national football team until 2006. He clarified that the new Rohagel contract provides that the German will train the Greek team throughout the qualifying cycle of the 2006 World Cup, as well as in the final part of the championship, if the Greeks successfully have qualified matches. "The Federation before Euro -2004 extended the contract with Rehagel.

At the end of June, in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican , a meeting was held between the head of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II and Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomey I , who wears the title of Ecumenical Patriarch and is considered "the first among the equal" chapters of the local Orthodox churches. The results of this meeting tells in today's publication of NG religions .

All trucks seized in the morning of the Georgian side of Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia were returned. This was announced by the adviser to the president of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia Konstantin Kochiev. "All trucks detained this morning were returned. The Gorus administration handed them to Colonel Kazbek Friev," he said. Kochiev did not specify whether the property transported in these cars was returned.