The famous composer Alexander Pakhmutov celebrates his 75th birthday. Alexander Nikolaevna prefers not to spread about herself. He says that her songs said everything about her. Indeed, this is its main achievement, ITAR-TASS notes. Pakhmutova’s songs are more than 300, and almost every widely known and loved by the people.

More than 9,000 prisoners, including 150 foreign citizens, amnestered by the Decree of the President of Turkmenistan, are released from places of imprisonment. This was reported in the General Prosecutor's Office of the country. Today's night from November 9 to 10 (according to the Muslim calendar, this is a "night of forgiveness"), that is, the 27th day of the celebration of the Holy month of Ramadan, they will meet at home.

Last Sunday, the drawing of the final women's tennis tournament WTA Tour Championships with a prize fund of $ 3 million, which will be held in Los Angeles from November 10 to 15, took place. Eight best participants in the WTA championship race, among which five represent Russia , by the will of the lot were divided into two groups - “red” and “black”. Each athlete will spend three matches in her group - against each opponent.

Against the backdrop of rumors about the death of Yasir Arafat in the USA and Europe, they discuss whom to direct to the funeral of the Palestinian leader. The countries of Europe and the USA do not plan to send heads of state to the funeral and, most likely, will be limited to senior government members or diplomats, AR reports with reference to diplomatic sources.

The dollar in the world was stabilized after the statements of the ECB about the unwillingness of the further strengthening of the euro. Member of the Board of the European Central Bank of Guy Kaden in an interview with the Belgian newspaper De Tijd said that the course would be good to stabilize. The point of view of Kaden coincides with the opinion of the President of the ECB Jean-Claude Trisha, who criticized the "brutal" fluctuations in foreign exchange rates on Monday.

The Russian national tennis team will take part in the 2005 World Cup, which will be held from May 15 to 21 in German Dusseldorf. According to the official website of the Association of Professional tennis players, the honor of the Russian flag will be defended by Marat Safin and Mikhail Yuzhny. The Russians deserved the right to speak at such a prestigious competition this season, RIA Novosti reports.

Silvio Berlusconi is going to make another sensation in the international arena. He was already forced to abandon the candidacy of Rocco Buttillone for the post of European commissar after sexist and anti -enemy statements of the latter, writes Le Temps (the translation of the article publishes inopressa.ru ). Now, during the permutations in the government, the Prime Minister of Italy intends to seize the former fascist Dzhanfranko Finni in the chair of the Foreign Minister.

A small village of Chimbarongo, 150 kilometers south of Santiago, became a sensation in Chile. The other day, the mistress of the poultry farm Maria Gonzalez discovered all the chickens dead, as if someone had sucked all the blood of them. There was not a single sign of injury. According to her, despite the fact that the farm was guarded by the dogs at night, "someone strange" in an unknown way penetrated the chicken coop and interrupted all his he eats and chickens.

Losses of coalition forces in Iraq are growing every day. During October, during combat clashes with Iraqi rebels in the areas of the cities of Baija, Kirkuk, Tikrit, Tall-Arab, as well as in El Falludge, Karbel and Nezhef, the units of the coalition led by the United States lost 350 people killed and 878 wounded. The American contingent (344 soldiers, sergeant and officer) suffered the lion's share of irrevocable losses. Another 848 US troops were injured.

In the suburbs on Monday, the head of the Chekhovsky district, Gennady Nedoseka , died. According to sources in the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, the corpse of Nedoski was discovered on Monday at about 15:00 Moscow time: according to some sources, near the village of Komarovo near Moscow, according to others, near the village of Alferovo, and in the third - near the village of Pokrov. His body was in a charred Hummer car belonging to an official .

Estonian security police opened a criminal case on Tuesday in connection with the loss of secret documents by the Minister of Defense Margus Hanson. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the State Prosecutor's Office. The investigation should find out how the minister had documents containing a state secret at home.

The Russian Foreign Ministry denied reports that the Russian Foreign Ministry issued an entry visa in the Dalai Lama Russian Federation, Interfax reports. "According to the data at this moment, neither at the Russian Foreign Ministry, nor to the Russian Embassy in India, no requests for a visa to enter the Dalai -Lama entry into the Russian Federation, therefore, the visa itself could not be issued," said Mikhail Troyansky, Deputy Official Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

In Connecticut, a woman is accused of sexual relations with an 8-year-old boy. As the police became known, the 29-year-old Tammy Imre considered the child as her boyfriend. She was arrested last Friday on charges of raping a minor and a threat of harm to his health. On Monday, the judge set the amount of a deposit of $ 250 thousand. The police began the investigation of the incident in September after the mother of the third -grader discovered the letter that Imre wrote to him.

The chief rabbi of Belarus, Senter Uritsky, believes that the museums of the republics, which have Jewish shrines in the reserves, must return them to believers. This opinion was the chief rabbi expressed Interfax on Tuesday.

For faithful Muslims with the sunset on November 9, the most blessed night of the year - the night of predestination, or the al -Kadr Lylat. It is expected that this evening, the chairman of the Council of the Russian Mufties Ravil Gainutdin will read the festive sermon in the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, the council said.