Pupils of schools belonging to the religious communities of Great Britain are ahead of their peers from public schools for the year. Such conclusions came scientists from the National Institute of Economic and Public Studies, who tested 11-year-old schoolchildren in two British cities. Researchers examined the results of mathematics tests written in seven church and 28 public schools, Blagovet-info reports.

The IV International Festival of Carillon Music begins on Friday, the Cathedral Square of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The program "Petersburg Carillion" has original bell music, European and Russian classics, musical compositions for films, works of composers of the twentieth century. The concerts will be attended by musicians from Russia, America, Belgium.

In Seville, the verdict was declared to the famous performer Flmenko, who knocked down a person to death. 19-year-old Juan Manuel Fernandez Montoya, speaking under the pseudonym Farruquito, was accused of shot down a resident of Seville Benkhamin Olali in September 2003 and disappeared from the scene. The victim of the accident died. As it turned out, at the time of the accident, Farrukito, who did not have a driver’s license, was driving BMW without compulsory insurance.

The Russian youth women's team reached the final of the European Football Championship (among players under the age of 19), which takes place these days in Hungary. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". On Thursday, in the semifinals of the European championship, the Russian team with a score of 3: 1 beat the German national team. The hat-trick in this match, as in the previous game with the national team of Scotland, was made by Elena Danilova.

The UN Security Council expanded on Friday the sanctions introduced earlier in relation to the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and the Taliban movement. In the unanimously adopted resolution, the Council of People's Commissars extended the sanctions to “any cells, branches, breakdown and subsidiaries of these groups, as well as to persons participating in financing, planning, preparing and carrying out their operations, supplying weapons and recruiting new members, RIA Novosti reports.

Lahlan Murdok, son of the founder and main shareholder of the transnational media giant News Corp. Rupert Murdok, leaves the post of deputy general director on August 31, reports Reuters. Rupert Murdok curled on this occasion that he was extremely saddened by the decision of his son and is grateful to him for a huge contribution to the company's activities.

As a result of the collapse of the balcony in a residential building in the German city of Bruil (the land of Baden-Württemberg), three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child. According to the police, three more people were injured. On the balcony, which was located on the second floor of an apartment building, at the time of the incident there were five people - two women, a man and two children.

On Friday in Moscow and the Moscow Region, 24-26 degrees above zero are expected, in the suburbs-up to 23-28 degrees. In the morning, slight cloudy is expected. It is not expected precipitation, the wind of the north-west, 3-8 meters per second, RIA Novosti was informed in the Moscow Hydrometero Bureau. At the weekend, the temperature in the metropolitan region may exceed a 30-degree mark, weather forecasters predict.

The president of the Moscow oil and gas company Shalva Chigirinsky yesterday denied the version of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation that his oil company Evikhon was in a conspiracy with ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov in order to seize the last State District of Sosnovka-1, the legality of whose privatization has been investigated from July 1.

Rumors about the breakthrough of the dam caused a panic in one of the poorest quarters of the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay). As a result of a panic flight, at least 18 residents of slums, including seven children, died. “People died due to baseless rumors,” said the deputy governor of the state of Maharastra. According to him, rumors about the breakthrough of the dam and about the rivers allegedly emerging from the shores spread in the afternoon on Thursday on the northern outskirts of Mumbai.

In the city of Rabia in the north of Iraqi, the suicide bomber committed a terrorist attack in a paragraph at recruiting recruits in the army, AFP reports with reference to the police. According to the police, 25 people died during the explosion, 35 were injured. According to the police, the suicide bomber managed to penetrate the point on the recruitment of recruits.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov called the requirements of more than 2 million square meters on Friday illegal. meters of squares occupied in Moscow by various state institutions, to federal property, the Interfax agency reports. “I have not seen this letter, but informed about it,” Luzhkov noted.

As already reported , last Friday 20 representatives of the lawsuit in Israel made a ceremony of a religious curse ("Denur's pulse") regarding the prime minister of the country Ariel Sharon. The ceremony took place at dawn, at the old cemetery of Rosh Pina. According to its participants, the ceremony was carried out with the blessing of authoritative rabbis, the names of which were not disclosed.

The Chinese government decided to deal with unscrupulous leaders of pop music. Now, according to the new law, pop artists regularly singing under the phonogram are facing a fine of 100 thousand yuan (12.5 thousand dollars) and a review of a professional license. On Thursday, the Ministry of Culture of the PRC adopted a resolution according to which the artist can be excommunicated from the stage if he is caught for singing "under the plywood" more than once within two years.

NBC Universal is negotiating the purchase of the DreamWorks SKG film studio, one of the owners of which is Stephen Spielberg, Reuters reports. According to analysts, the estimated price for the studio can amount to $ 1 billion. According to some reports, negotiations are still in an early stage. At the same time, representatives of both companies have not yet confirmed these messages. DreamWorks film studio was founded in 1994.