Japanese Prime Minister Juniitiro Koizumi expressed “deep repentance” today and brought “heartful apologies” for the suffering caused by his country to other peoples as a result of aggression in Asia in the first half of the last century. He stated this at the nationwide ceremony in Tokyo in the Budokan complex on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the surrender of Tokyo in the Second World War.

On Sunday, on the seventh of August 2005, in the worship premises of the Church Vifzda-Dom of Mercy, which is part of the Council of the Xristian Gospel Churches in Russia (Kesetsr), employees of the Tekstilshchiki police department, interrupted the worship, forced believers to leave the worship and together with the officials of the Moscow Council "Textilers" sealed entrance. This was reported by the independent human rights initiative "Ark project" .

The 15th anniversary of the tragic death of Viktor Tsoi celebrates numerous fans of the musician’s work on Monday. He died in the early morning of August 15, 1990 in a car disaster near Riga and was buried in St. Petersburg in the theological cemetery. In the morning, on the old Arbat, dozens of fans of the singer gathered near the wall of Viktor Tsoi, who recalled him and sang under the guitar of his songs, reports ITAR-TASS. Previously, it was planned to erect a monument to the musician.

The premiere of the musical "Lennon" took place on Sunday at the Broadway Theater "Brodherst" in New York. The performance tells about the life of the leader of the legendary Beatles group John Lennon, starting from his birth in 1940 and ending with death 40 years after the hands of a fanatical fan near the New York Central Park. The musical was based on an interview with John Lennon and 28 songs, written after the collapse of the Liverpool four, including two previously no longer sounding.

Inflation, impoverishment, the threat of unemployment are the most acute problems that still excite Russian citizens. This is evidenced by the results of studies of the analytical center Yuri Levada. More than two thousand respondents participated in the July survey in more than 100 cities and settlements of the Russian Federation. According to sociologists, now almost three quarters (71%) of Russians considers the number one inflation and rising prices for themselves, Interfax reports.

15 people died, another 14 were injured of varying severity as a result of a large car accident in the Tomsk region. ITAR-TASS in the Siberian regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in Krasnoyarsk reported that the accident occurred late on Sunday evening on the Tomsk-Afino highway, about 45 km from the regional center. The driver of the Korean -made passenger bus, trying to overtake the tractor, collided with KamAZ in the oncoming lane.

Losses incurred by the organizers of the World Athletics Championship ended on Sunday on Sunday, according to preliminary estimates, are 3 million euros. This is with reference to representatives of the tournament organizing committee is reported by ITAR-TASS. One of the main reasons for the unprofitability of the anniversary of the 10th world athletics forum is inclement weather, established in the south of Finland last week.

During the expedition, one of its leaders, Irkutsk scientist Evgeny Vorobyov, died in the footsteps of the Vitim meteorite . The leading researcher at the Institute of Geochemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences died of vast heart attack. According to RIA Novosti, the participant of the astronomer expedition Sergei Yazev, the scientist did not reach 12 kilometers to the mysterious crater, which they were going to explore.

The Executive Committee of the Organization of the Liberation of Palestine (OOP) decided to appoint elections to the Legislative Council of the Palestinian Autonomy as of January 21, 2006. This date was proposed by the head of the Palestinian administration by Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen), one of the members of the executive committee told AFP.

People in masks and camouflage appeared on August 4 at about 10 in the morning . Jumping through the fences with machine guns in their hands, they entered the village of Catherine's shafts, beating and scaring the inhabitants. The special forces raid on the lair of Chechen militants? A skirmish of organized criminal groups due to looting good? Nothing of the kind. The purpose of this attack was several modest cottages, or cottages.

The leadership of the Rostov FC through the official website of the team made a special statement about the change of the head coach of the team, which occurred after the match of the 19th round of the Russian Football Championship. Recall that then the place of Valery Petrakov was taken by Sergey Balakhnin. “Recently, many rumors and speculations have appeared around the Rostov FC,” the club’s statement said.

The 36-year-old resident of New Zealand is accused of Zoophilia and cruelty to animals. Over the past few weeks, the police combed the poor areas of Sydney in search of a man who pulled skins from rabbits, and dumped their corpses into the trash. In the end, the police went to Brendan McMachon, who paid for one of the rabbits with a credit card.

In Iraq on Monday, an attempt was made on the family of the country's vice-president of Adele Abdel Mahdi. The incident occurred near the city of Baakub, about 120 kilometers north of Baghdad. As a result of the explosion of the bomb, two bodyguards died who guarded the family of President Iraq. None of the Mahdi family members were injured, Interfax reports. Shis Adele Abdel Mahdi is one of the two Vice Presidents of Iraq, an economist by education.

The mayor of the Austrian city of Fucking appealed to British tourists with a request not to steal road signs with the name of the city. According to Mayor Siegfried Hoppla, this small town has long attracted the attention of tourists leaving the nearby Salzburg. As a rule, visitors stop to take a picture against the background of road signs with the inscription "Fucking", writes Ananova .

The British hero of the war, who fought against the Nazis in a detachment of partisans in the Balkans, stole thousands of kilograms of gold and diamonds, which were intended to finance hostilities. This is evidenced by recently published documents, writes The Times (translation on the website of Inopressa ). Colonel Dwayne Hudson, who became for the writer Jan Fleming one of the prototypes of his hero James Bond, buried his treasures under peasant huts, as well as in caches in the forests.