In the Sicilian Palazzo, which once served the headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition, dozens of drawings were discovered, left there as “witches” sentenced to burn at the stake. Drawings and inscriptions, which are a desperate scream for help, were found on the walls during restoration work in the Palazzo Sterior in Palermo.

At one of the intersections in Perm, a truck loaded with gravel collided with a route bus. As a result, one person died, four more were hospitalized, Interfax reports with reference to the Volga-Ural Regional Center of the Civil Defense and Emergencies. According to the report, the driver of KamAZ, who did not give way to the bus, is to blame for the accident that occurred last Thursday. There were about 50 passengers on the bus. As a result of the accident, a truck driver died.

In Turkey, as a result of the missile shelling of the building of the border gendarme command in the southeastern province of Hakkari, 5 were killed and 7 military personnel were injured. The attack on the border with Iraq The gendarmerie building occurred on Friday night. The shell hit the guard post, where five gendarmes were on duty, two of them were officers. All military personnel were killed, reports ITAR-TASS.

A new scientific study carries bad news to 60 million Americans suffering from obesity. It turns out that if a person is thick, then he is poor. It has long been known that excess weight is harmful to health. In the USA, 112 thousand people per year die from obesity diseases. Now the study of the New York University shows that obesity is poorly affected by the welfare of people, writes The Daily Telegraph (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Sergei Dorenko filed a lawsuit against the Kommersant publishing house on compensation for 35 million rubles as compensation for moral damage, his lawyer Maxim Smal said on Friday. "Today we filed a lawsuit in the Savelovsky court on behalf of Dorenko on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation," said RIA Novosti lawyer. The representative of the journalist added that the date of preliminary hearings on the claim has not yet been set.

On Friday, the Tskhinval authorities blocked the water supply of several Georgian villages located in South Ossetia. As the inhabitants of the Georgian village of Nikosi told reporters, they do not receive drinking water or water for irrigation of personal plots. According to local residents, the South Ossetian armed forces on Friday in the morning were introduced into the territory of a water intake station near the capital of South Ossetia, the city of Tskhinvali.

Representatives of the so -called "Eurotroshka", which includes Britain, France and Germany on Friday, handed over to Iranian officials proposals for economic and political cooperation, aimed at forcing Tehran to abandon the enrichment of uranium. "Three ambassadors (Britain, France and Germany) transferred proposals this morning," Reuters said an informed source.

In the village of Emmaus of the Tver region, a large Russian rock festival "Invasion" will be held for the fifth time. The festival will be held from August 5 to 7. This year, the festival will collect not only music lovers, but also fans of theatrical art and sports. Within the framework of the “Invasion-2005”, a beach football tournament among the teams of the audience and a tennis tournament dedicated to the festival will be held.

The search operation of the Mzymt River near Sochi continues, where two tourist groups disappeared. The body of another deceased was discovered by rescuers on Friday morning in the line of the Mzymta River near Sochi. In the Krasnodar Territory, in the morning, the search for tourists resumed, who descended on Thursday evening on catamarans along the same mountainous river.

The owners of the houses in the village of Catherine’s Valls of the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow Region, who do not have documents for their homes, may lose their rights to Moscow apartments if they do not voluntarily demolish their cottages, the head of the Federal Service in the field of nature management (Rosprirodnadzor) Oleg Mitnol. “People should understand that it will be better to demolish all these houses without documents. It will be cheaper.

Two people died as a result of a clash of two private aircraft in the sky above the suburbs of Seattle Renton, Washington. One of the planes collapsed onto the building of an empty school, the second managed to land near the local airport, reports ABC News . In the air, a single-engine Cessna-152 and a five-seater single-engine seaplane de Haviland BeAver collided. Both people in Cessna - a pilot and a passenger - died.

Drunk wild pigeons became a real "headache" for the service of salvation in the New Zealand city of Vangariy. About 30 birds Kereru (New Zealand wood pigeon) have been saved recently. Robin Webb, an employee of the State Center for the Protection of Birds of Vangarey, said that pigeons who do not know what can be eaten in the city, eat up boiling berries of the Guava. This leads to the fact that the birds are in a state resembling alcohol intoxication.

In the Ordzhonikidze district of Yekaterinburg, an attack on collectors was made. The criminal stole 20 million rubles. A message to the police about the attack on the collectors was received on the evening of August 4. It said that the attack occurred at about 11:00, 20 million rubles were stolen. Currently, the suspect in the commission of the robbery has been detained. A part of the stolen money was seized from the detainee, Interfax reports.

The day before, the former main local "authority" Vladimir Podatev, known in criminal circles as a poodle, returned to Khabarovsk. In the late 80s, he was a member of the largest in the Far East of the criminal group "The common fund" and was its position in Khabarovsk. However, after the conflict with other leaders of the common fund, Vladimir Podatev left the city.

The only survivor after the school’s capture in Beslan terrorist Nurpashi Kulaev survived by chance, but had such a task from the gang members, said Alexander Torshin, chairman of the parliamentary commission to investigate the terrorist attack in Beslan. The theme of terrorists today generally unnoticed from the court building, but they only talk about the "crimes" of the special services. This is the main goal for which Kulaev survived, Torshin believes. “I think he had his own mission.