In Moscow, they urgently call on to sit down at the negotiating table to resolve the situation around South Ossetia. "In Moscow, they hope that restraint and mind will prevail. It is necessary to urgently sit down at the negotiating table and solve problems with peaceful political means," the report said on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation .

Azerbaijani authorities are able to stop any anti -zaconous actions of religious extremists in the state. This was announced today by the chairman of the State Committee of Azerbaijan for working with religious organizations (GKRRO) Rafik Aliyev, Interfax reports. "We allow the illegal existence in Azerbaijan of all kinds of religious organizations of an extremist sense.

Throughout the world, children become involuntary killers, looking at the famous cartoon, recognized as the best animated film of the year, "in search of Nemo." It turned out that thousands of children, having watched the film about how the fish escaped from the aquarium, began to release their little friends into the sea.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell, a trip to a number of countries of the Middle East, suddenly arrived in Baghdad on Friday. A visit to Iraq did not appear in his official program. Before that, he visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. His assistant, Richard Armitiga, visited Iraq earlier this month, reports Reuters. In Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State met and held negotiations with Prime Minister Iraq Ayad Alaiui.

Over 5.3 thousand athletes of non -traditional sexual orientation from 38 countries of the world participate in European games of representatives of sexual minorities, which opened the night before in the South German Munich. The ceremony of the opening of the festival of sports involving prominent German and foreign public figures took place in the Olympic Palace of the capital of Bavaria, ITAR-TASS reports.

The price of September futures for WTI brand oil in the electronic system of the Nymex New York Exchange in Friday morning increased to the historical maximum - $ 43.08 per barrel. This is 33 cents higher than the final quotes of Thursday. The previous price record was set on Wednesday, when Yukos reported the possibility of suspension of oil supplies due to the actions of bailiffs.

Judge of the Supreme Court of New York Lewis Stone on July 28 issued a decision on the temporary suspension of the arbitration process, which was started by the president and a number of Harvard University employees against Surgutneftegaz OJSC at the American Arbitration Association, the Surgutneftegaz press release said.

On Friday, at the headquarters of the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA), the draw of the second qualification round of the UEFA Cup took place. The St. Petersburg Zenit went into the rivals the Pashing club (Austria), the Kazan "Rubin will play with another Austrian team - the Vienna Rapid, and the Grozny" Terek "will measure the forces with the Polish" Lech ". Kazan and Grozny clubs will hold the first matches of the house, and Zenit will visit.

On Friday, the Moscow City Court decided on the examination of the criminal proceedings of the UKOS Security Service Alexei Pichugin, who is accused of organizing the murder. Thus, the court satisfied the on the eve of Pichugin's request to consider his case by the jury. According to Pichugin’s lawyer Georgy Kaganer, the judge appointed the selection of jury on August 10.

The Turkish court sentenced six boys to imprisonment for up to 22 years. All the fault of schoolchildren, whose age at the time of the crime was from 11 to 15 years old, consisted in the fact that three years ago, threatening with a knife, they stole a million Turkish lires from their classmates - about 67 American cents. The judge considered that the guys were already adults enough to realize that they violate the law, and the consequences of this violation, Ananova reports.

The most popular international leader is considered by the Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair. This was shown by a survey of public opinion conducted by the Harris Institute. According to the survey, most Americans, Russian President Vladimir Putin is more cute than the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder or the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, but less than the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Employees of law enforcement agencies of the Moscow Region detained a malnutrition maniac, on the account of at least one murder. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, a 16-year-old Lida, a resident of the Odintsovo district, turned to the police. The girl said that on the way to the cottage in Zvenigorod, she met a pretty man who volunteered to conduct her. On the way, the man suddenly attacked the girl, robbed her, and then raped her.

In the northern capital on Friday, July 30, the III International Festival "Petersburg Carillon" opens. The festival participants this year will be the famous masters of carial music - Yo Haazen, Marina Nevskaya, Anna and Sarah Elias, as well as Trubach Alexander Shcherbakov. The participants will be performed by Portuguese clavier music, musical compositions for films, works of famous composers - Mozart, Bernhetin, Bach, Handel, Grieg. In total, ten concerts will take place.

On Friday, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution in which he demanded from the Sudan government to stop violence in Darfur in 30 days. 13 members of the UN Security Council voted for the resolution, two abstained, according to France Presse. In the event that Sudan does not comply with the requirement of the Security Council, sanctions will be imposed against the country.

In Belgium, 50 km from Brussels at the Butagaz gas processing plant under construction in the industrial zone of Gislengien near the city of AT on Friday, an explosion occurred. It was so strong that the explosive wave shook the entire plant building. The explosion was heard at a distance of several tens of kilometers. “A strong explosion thundered at about 9:00 in the morning (11:00 Moscow time),” said one of the firefighters of AT.