The famous essayist Jacques Dukeen, the author of the books Jesus and the God of Jesus, who became a kind of "theological bestseller", published his new work dedicated to the mother of Jesus. He introduced Maria as, in his opinion, she was for the first Christians. The Swiss Le Temps publishes an interview with the writer today (you can get acquainted with the translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Unexpected results were given by a survey conducted among Canadian youth. 40% of adolescents said that the United States considers the main evil in the modern world. Researchers who conducted a survey intended to find out how Canadian youth refers to America.

The leader of the Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov dismissed the cabinet of the so -called "Chechen Republic of Ichkeria." Aslan Maskhadov published the corresponding decree on one of the sites of Chechen separatists.

Four Jordanian and two Turkish hostages are liberated in Iraq. The release of the Turkish hostages working in Iraq by drivers said the Katar television channel Al-Jazeera, referring to the information received from the Iraqi terrorist group "AT-Tauhid Val-Dzhikhad", headed by one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda, Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi. As Reuters reports, the liberation occurred after the Turkish company for which they worked agreed to stop working in Iraq.

The Russian Orthodox Church intends to deepen cooperation with the countries of the Persian Gulf. This was stated in Moscow at a meeting with the delegation of the Kuwait government, the head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev).

The Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Hiroyuki Hosode denied on Wednesday the allegations that the Prime Minister Dzyuniitiro Koizumi plans to visit the southern Kurils, who in Japan called the "original northern territories." According to the official representative of the government, it would be nice if the head of the Japanese cabinet had such an opportunity, ITAR-TASS reports.

Optimists who think that they will live for a long time, more often give birth to sons than pessimistic women, claims a new study. Researchers found that with every additional year of life that a woman is counting on, the chances of the fact that her first -born will be a boy, are increasing significantly.

In the United States, a young couple had to leave the American Airlines aircraft due to the fact that a naked female breast was drawn on a young man’s T-shirt. Oscar Arela and his girlfriend Tala Tau returned to New York from Puerto Rico. They made a transplant in Miami, but they had to leave the flight number 952 after the employee demanded that the young man change his t -shirt or put on it inside out.

In Angarsk, the Irkutsk region, a 7-month-old child was stolen. The 29-year-old hostel cleaning and dormitory Natalya Solovyova turned to one of the police police department with a statement that her seven-month son Andrei was kidnapped. According to the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Irkutsk Region, the kidnapping of the baby occurred on the night of July 31 to August 1, the Baikal news service reports.

In Moscow, when clarifying the circumstances of the traffic accident, a random passerby, who was not a member of this accident, beat an employee of the metropolitan prosecutor's office. "On the eve of 22:05 Moscow time, two vehicles collided at the 1st Khoroshevsky passage, a driver of one of which was an employee of the metropolitan prosecutor's office, " a representative of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate on Wednesday told RIA Novosti .

More than $ 2 million hopes to sue Transval’s owners of the Transval water park as compensation for moral damage to the grandfather of 8-year-old Julia Micorodskaya. On the eve of the Cheremushkinsky court of the capital, the first meeting was held on the process in this case, Izvestia reports. Julines were killed on February 14 this year under the collapsed roof of the water park.

A large traffic accident occurred in Mexico. According to preliminary data, as a result of an accident, 7 people died and 30 were injured. According to the Federal Preventive Police on Tuesday, the tragedy occurred in the northwestern state of Sonor on the Mexico Carbon-Nogles highway. On one of its sites, a bus bus with passengers overturned, ITAR-TASS reports.

Moscow warns Tbilisi against actions capable of damage to Russian citizens. We are talking about yesterday’s statement by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to drown all the vessels that will enter the Sukhumi port without the consent of the Georgian authorities. "The official Tbilisi went to an unprecedented step - he took the threat of" opening fire and drowning all vessels "that will appear near the coast of Abkhazia.

The conflict between the Orthodox believers and the restorers around the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi is close to permission, the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography Mikhail Shvydka, the head of the Echo of Culture and Cinema, said the day before.

In the Turkish resort Bodrum on the coast of the Aegean Sea on Tuesday morning, an earthquake of 5.4 points on the Richter scale occurred. According to CNN television company, the underground shocks began at 7:01 Moscow time. According to preliminary data, as a result of the earthquake, 15 people received slight injuries. Basically, these people were injured, jumping out of the windows and from balconies to the street.