The large jury of the Russian Journalists Union will consider the case on the statement of the Gospel Church "Torch" in relation to the Timeschko television program, the Blagovet-Info reports with reference to the information service of the Slavic Legal Center (SPC). The program entering the TV Center TV channel shows a plot that spreads knowingly false information about the church and defaming the good name of its servants and believers.

As a result of mortar shelling, four Iraqis died in the center of Baghdad. According to the Catar satellite television channel Al-Jazeera , two shots were fired on Friday evening unknown from the car towards the residential quarter in the area of ​​Al-Andalus Square. One of the shells fell into an apartment building, as a result of which four were killed and several local residents were injured, RIA Novosti reports.

On the eve of one of New York's hospitals at the age of 70, El Gayvin died, a famous coach who worked with boxers such as Vitaly Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, Oscar de la Hoya, Mickey Ward. According to RIA Novosti, Gayvin suffered a heavy stroke, after which he fell into a coma. From the very beginning, doctors evaluated his chances of recovery as low. However, a few days ago, the patient began to open his eyes and respond to questions from loved ones. But hopes for the amendment were not justified.

On Thursday, thirteen people with signs of ammonia poisoning entered the city hospital in the city of Bratsk on Thursday. As the chief of staff of the Civil Defense and Emergencies of the City Hospital Number 3 Bratalya Rykova said on Friday, the gas release came from the cylinder. “The locals found the old gas cylinder on the landfill and decided to hand it over to the scrap metal. But before that they began to empty it. They untwisted the valves, and a stream of gas broke out of the cylinder.

The musician David Bowie had to lie under the surgeon’s knife, as he needed to open the clogged heart artery, AP reports. Heart surgery took place in Germany and now Bowie is restoring strength, his representative Julian Stoctor said. Doctors found that the artery was clogged when a 57-year-old musician sought medical help after a concert in the German city of Sheezel on June 25. Initially, the doctors believed that the cause of pain in the shoulder, which Bowie complained was a pinched nerve.

The President of the Catholic Bishopric Conference of the United States, Ballville Wilton Gregory, spoke in support of the project of amendments to the Constitution of the country, according to which only the union of a man and a woman can be recognized as a marriage. The prelate sent a letter to the Senate members, urging them to approve the amendment, the Blagovers-Info reports.

The chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev), believes that the process of reuniting the two branches of Russian Orthodoxy is irreversible. “The most important thing is that this process has begun,” he said in an interview with Izvestia newspaper today, Interfax reports.

On Thursday, a general meeting of members of the Premier League (Premier League) was held, in which, in particular, a decision was made to establish a annual prize in the field of professional football - "Premier". Moreover, employees, coaches, players of the Premier League clubs will not be allowed to take part in other annual football awards, the Premier League press service notes.

The post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia was fired in the evening of Friday unknown armed Georgian group, Interfax told the Committee on the information and press of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia.

The founder of Adelphia , John Rigas, who became famous for its unprecedented in arrogance by the methods of deceiving shareholders and investors, found guilty of criminal conspiracy, fraud with securities and bank accounts. Now he, as well as his son Timothy, who is brought in similar accusations, may claim the title of the most impudent corporate fraudster in the history of the United States.

The organization of oil exporting countries, as planned, will increase quotas for oil production from August 1, 2004, said the head of the OPEC Purnomo Yusgiantoro on Friday. “Our solution is maintained, we are still increasing (quotas) by 500 thousand barrels per day since August. This decision is really,” REUTERS quotes the head of OPEC. Purnomo also added that the OPEC ministers will discuss the issue of raising the price corridor of OPEC, which is now at the level of $ 22-28 per barrel.

On Friday, Russian peacekeepers brought the liberated Georgian police officers to a police officer in the village of Erglands and handed them over to the Georgian side. According to updated data, the South Ossetian side freed 36 Georgian military personnel detained the day before. They were delivered on two trucks, accompanied by mothers, reports ITAR-TASS. According to Georgian State Medical School for Conflict Supplies Georgy Haindrava, the fate of 12 people is not yet known.

The mortality rate of women during pregnancy and childbirth in Russia significantly exceeds European indicators, reports Interfax. "In the world, 529 thousand women die in the world and pregnancy. In Russia, 100 thousand lives account for about 30 deaths, which is three times higher than in Western Europe," Lidia Bardakova, coordinator of the UN Foundation (UNFPA) program in Russia, said at a press conference on Friday. “Russia has much reduced the maternal mortality rate,” she admitted.

NK Yukos appealed to the cassation instance a court decision to recover 99.342 billion rubles of tax payments for 2000 from the company, the company's lawyer Sergei Pepelyaev said on Friday RIA Novosti. "In the cassation appeal, the company asks to suspend the execution of the court decision of May 26, 2004 and the appeal of June 29, 2004," the lawyer also noted.

Hungarians are shocked by the next scandal in the field of healthcare. In one of the prestigious clinics in the city of Seged, during surgery on the skull, the patient died. Only an hour later it turned out that a tragic mistake occurred - the patient was operated on by mistake instead of a neighbor in the ward, ITAR -TASS reports. The Seged prosecutor's office opened a criminal case and was looking for those responsible for the tragedy.