The pastor of the underground Protestant Church Kai Zhuohua, his wife and two parishioners will appear before the Beijing court, reports the Blagovers-Info with reference to the BBC. Kai, who had already held 10 months in preliminary conclusion, is accused of “illegal entrepreneurial activity” - the pastor imprinted more than 200,000 copies of the Bible in the underground printing house.

American troops hold 5 US citizens in Iraq, previously detained on suspicion of participating in a partisan war, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced on Wednesday by the official representative of the US Department of Defense Brian Whitman. According to him, the arrested were captured one by one and, according to the Pentagon currently available, were not interconnected. Three of the detainees are Americans of Iraqi descent, the fourth in nationality Iranian, the fifth is a Jordanian.

In connection with the attacks in London, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia takes additional security measures. "The internal affairs bodies and internal troops are transferred to the enhanced service regime," said Alexander Chekalin, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on Thursday.

In the Altai Territory, police detained a killer who was wanted for 11 years. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Altai Territory, the suspect was detained in August 1994. Already in December of the same year, he managed to escape from the temporary detention center in Biysk. For 11 years, the offender was hiding from justice, sometimes working on construction sites.

In 2004, 3192 large terrorist attacks were committed in 2004, as a result of which 28.5 thousand people were killed, wounded and stolen. Such data was published by the US National counter -terrorism center operating under the CIA. Statistics prepared when using a new calculation methodology significantly exceeds numbers previously published by the US government.

Preparations for the presentation of the third annual world award for stupidity are ongoing. This popular show will be held on July 22, but you can vote for the nominees now. The winners of the ceremony are determined by international Internet voting, as well as the vote of members of the International Academy of Dumbness.

In Dagestan, a freight train was undermined on the North Caucasus Railway, law enforcement agencies said. As a result of the undermining, no one was injured. Two sleepers were destroyed at the scene of the explosion, a funnel was formed on the canvas with a diameter of 1.5 meters and 15 centimeters deep, the locomotive received minor damage, RIA Novosti reports.

The heads of the five Far Eastern dioceses of Russia take patronage over the atomic submarine cruiser St. George the Victorious , said Bishop Petropavlovsky and Kamchatka Ignatius. "Metropolitan of Smolensky and Kaliningrad Cyril will sign an agreement with the command of the squadron of atomic submarines in Vilyuchinsk that the heads of five Far Eastern dioceses take patronage over the Saint George the Victorious," the bishop said.

About 60 thousand people gathered at the Merrafield stadium in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening for the final concert of Live 8, organized by the stars of the world stage in support of efforts to solve the problems of poverty and hunger in Africa.

The corpses of three young people, two women and men were discovered last night in the city of Ivanteevka near Moscow. According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region, at about 03:00 in one of the communal apartments of the house on Mayakovsky Street in the kitchen, a man with stab wounds in the chest was found in the kitchen. In one of the rooms of the same apartment there was a naked corpse of a woman with tied arms and legs.

In Budapest, people from two shopping centers are evacuated in connection with the threat of an explosion, the Reuters correspondent reports. Perhaps this is due to a series of terrorist attacks in London, as a result of which 12 were killed and 185 people were injured. A series of powerful explosions thundered on Thursday morning in London. Data on the number of explosions vary. The attacks in the city center began with an explosion at the ALDGATE metro station.

All the main Hindu churches of India were taken under enhanced guard after the attack of terrorists on Tuesday on the temple of the frame under construction in Ayodchia in Uttar-Pravashev, local media reported. In particular, security measures around the Jagannatha temple in Puri (Orissa) are strengthened. Currently, hundreds of thousands of people from all over India gathered at the Church of Jagannatha (in Hinduism).

Researchers from South Africa began to develop an “electric shield” to protect sharks bathing from attacks. The shield should be installed 400 meters from the shore. It consists of interconnected electric generators (each about 3 meters range), which emit an unpleasant shark electric signal, which can help keep these sea predators away from the coast.

In London, on Thursday, all evening performances in theaters and musical shows were canceled. This decision was made by the Society of London Theaters after the warning of the police, which recommended residents of the British capital to refrain from traveling to the city center, RIA Novosti reports. On Thursday morning, London underwent a terrorist attack. According to the latest police data, four explosive devices worked in the British capital - three in the metro and one on the bus.

On Thursday, the new historical maximum reached the price of oil on the New York Production and Syrhe Exchange-$ 61.62 per barrel. The price of August oil contracts on Nymex increased by 34 cents due to fears that the tropical hurricane may violate oil supplies to the United States, Interfax reports.