In Iraq, an Italian journalist is stolen. The search for the missing reporter of the Dario magazine Enzo Baldoni has not yet been given a result. The Embassy of Italy in Baghdad is not able to get accurate information about his fate. According to ITAR-TASS, the office of the head of the government of Italy Silvio Berlusconi keeps the control of events around the search for a journalist. The last time the journalist got in touch on Friday morning.

Five people were wounded today as a result of a shootout in the Izmailovsky market in Moscow. RBC reports that the shots were heard next to the entrance to the clothing market - near the N4 house on Lilac Boulevard. Near the entrance, two criminals committed a robbery on two sellers from the market. Both merchants were injured. Then the criminals had to shoot back from the raised guards. Three were injured, and the attackers disappeared by the Volga car, which belonged to the wounded sellers.

A team of Russian rapirists won bronze Olympic awards. In a duel for third place, the Russians crossed weapons with the fencers of the US team and beat them with a score of 45:38. In the match for bronze, the Russian team was Renal Ganeyev, Vyacheslav Pozdnyakov and Yuri Molchan. Ruslan Nasibullin, who fenced as part of the team at the earlier stages of the Olympic tournament, will join them at the award ceremony.

The German national team won the gold medal of the Olympiad in Athens in the exit competitions. This is the sixth consecutive Olympic success of the German team in this type of equestrian sport. The main character of the team was Ulla Zalzgeber. The German team scored 74.653 percent of points, which was the best result. In second place was the Spanish national team, which scored 72.917 percent of points. The US national team brought the country a bronze medal with 71,500 points.

China and Indonesia took gold in male and female badminton. The Chinese women's duet won gold in its discipline. In male single-handed men, the Indonesian Taufik Hidayat, who is called George Bestminton, was called the Indonesian Taufik. On Saturday, in the final of the competition, Zzeven Zhang and Wei Yang outplayed their compatriots Sui Juan and Lin Gao - 2: 1 - 7:15, 15: 4, 15: 8. But the Chinese women could not take bronze medals.

One Nepalsky policeman was killed on Saturday as a result of a terrorist attack, carried out by the Nepal Maoists in Kathmandu, the capital of this small Himalayan state. According to ITAR-TASS, two bandits entered the hall of the cinema and opened the shooting of automatic weapons at it. The runs in Kathmandu lasting for the second day. On Friday, left -wing radicals, claiming a leading political role in the country, carried out several similar shares in the city.

In Orenburg, a fire is stewed at a chemical plant, where the propane installation exploded. As a result of the explosion, a fire broke out, with burns of varying severity, three people were taken to the hospital, one died. According to Interfax, the explosion occurred at 14:55 Moscow time. The cause of the explosion is a gas leak and propane production installation. The fire was localized at 17:20 Moscow time. When extinguished, one fireman died, two more are still listed as missing.

The Dragon Komodo, who lived in the London Zoo, died of unrequited love. Reuters reported the regret incident by the zoo spokeswoman. The largest predatory lizard in the world could not overcome the wall of alienation that separated her from her beloved. This wall is not a metaphor at all. The 10-year-old Nina and her friend Raju were placed in different parts of the aviary, separated by a powerful wall.

In Moscow last Friday near the house 6 on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street, an armed robber wounded an employee of the Security Service of the Greece Embassy in Moscow. According to Interfax, an attacker from unidentified firearms shot a security officer of the Greece Embassy Service, and then abducted a portfolio with him, in which there were money and personal belongings. The unknown disappeared from the scene in the car. The victim is hospitalized.

In Chechnya, when following a column of armored vehicles in the area of ​​the village of Khankala, the infantry combat vehicle hit the support of a local gas pipeline, which was supplying gas to the headquarters of the united group of troops in the North Caucasus. According to Interfax with reference to a source at the headquarters of the OGV, the incident occurred at about 13:00 Friday.

Russian woman Natalya Sadova won the sixth gold for the Russian national team at the Olympics in Athens. She justified the hopes associated with her in the throwing of the disk. The Russian woman turned out to be better than her rivals with crowded stands of the Athenian athletics stadium. However, the stands were on Anastasia Kiselida, who, after the third attempt, showed the best result, throwing a shell of 66.68 meters.

In Chechnya in the village of Roshni-Chu, Urus-Martan district and in Grozny, 4 militants were detained the day before, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the regional operational headquarters for managing a counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus. The headquarters explained that two of the detainees - the inhabitants of the Urus -Martan - had a machine gun, a gun, cartridges for them and two manual grenades.

American Paul Hamm, who became the first American to take gold at the Olympiads in gymnastic all -around, can be deprived of the first place of games in Athens. However, the gold medal, which was awarded with him. This is stated in the official press release of the International Federation of Sports Gymnastics. We are not talking about Hamma in doping. The fact is that the machine that counted gymnasts was mistaken in determining the assessment of the Korean gymnast Jan Tae Yuna.

The bear and the teddy bear called a commotion, appearing in the Danko children's tourist camp, broken on the shore of Lake Airup in the southeast of Sakhalin. According to Interfax, animals appeared in the camp early in the morning on Saturday. Wandering around the tents, they woke up girls and boys. Frightened children and their leader climbed into the trees and from there for half an hour observed the behavior of the bears.

The Georgian military on Friday later handed over the body of the deceased in battles for one of the heights in the vicinity of Tskhinvali young men. According to the Georgian side, the deceased Gennady Sanakoev is Russian by nationality, and fought for the Cossacks. The Ossetian side confirms that Sanakoev’s body was delivered to the Morg of Tskhinvali with the assistance of the Russian Embassy in Georgia. However, Irina Glloeva claims that he was Ossetian, not Russian.