In St. Petersburg, unknown criminals attacked a student from Jordan. Four attackers caused a victim two stab wounds and disappeared from the scene of the crime. As Interfax was informed in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, on Wednesday night, four unknown people were attacked by a 26-year-old student from Jordan, who was returning home. It was established that the attack was not related to robbery.

In the American state of Oklahom, the jurors considering the case against a former judge accused of masturbation in the courtroom will be shown a sexy toy with which he is self -satisfied. Sudya rejected the request for protection not to demonstrate the device. In addition, the jury will consider the indications that the second such device was discovered under a bench where the former district judge Donald Thompson was sitting back in 2001.

Sony announced a reduction in 10 thousand jobs (this is about 7% of all personnel) as part of a large -scale restructuring, which will help the company to restore the market position and save about $ 1.8 billion, AR reports. In addition, in the next three years, Sony will get rid of 11 of his 64 plants. Sony, which in March, has changed management, announced that this financial year (ends in March 2006) is waiting for a loss of 90 million yen.

The victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan receive financial assistance and collected donations. Recall that the amount of payments is from 350 thousand rubles to those who received mild wounds up to 1 million rubles for the death of a relative. In anticipation of a sharp increase in the money supply to the grief murdered city from all over the world, representatives of all kinds of religious sects gathered.

The "author's guild" of American writers, consisting of 8 thousand people, filed a lawsuit in the New York Court of the Google company. Writers accuse the Internet company of copyright violations. The reason for the lawsuit was the Google plan for transferring several large library assemblies into the digital format.

The clergy of the Chechen Republic should bear moral responsibility for what is happening in Chechnya, says the first deputy prime minister of the Government of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. “The fact that the young people die on that side is largely guilty of the clergy,” R. Kadyrov told reporters in Gudermes, Interfax reports. "When they (religious figures - approx. Ed.

According to Karl del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the Hague International Tribunal for Military Crimes in the former Yugoslavia , the Vatican is guilty of covering one of the most wanted war criminals. According to Carla del Ponte, General Ante Gotavinin to this day is hiding in one of the Franciscan monasteries in Croatia.

On Thursday, a fifth, highest category of danger was given a hurricane "Rita" on Thursday. The wind speed in the center of the storm was about 280 km per hour, the American National National Center for Observation of Hurricanes said. The pressure in the epicenter of the hurricane slowly drops, which will cause further strengthening of "Rita".

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation sent a request to Latvia demanding the issuance of Boris Berezovsky by Russian law enforcement agencies.

In Chelyabinsk on Wednesday evening, a recidivist was detained, wounding five students from firearms in one of the city cafes. As Interfax was informed in the press service of the city police department, detained in a state of intoxication, began to pester a woman in a cafe. Then, students sitting at the next table stood up for her. The man who received a rebuff left the cafe and after some time returned with a gas gun, crushed under combat weapons.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court began consideration of the cassations of lawyers of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev for the verdict of the Meshchansky court of Moscow. This is the fourth attempt to consider the complaint. Each time, the court was forced to postpone the meetings because of the illness of Henry Padva, the only lawyer Khodorkovsky, with whom he entered into an agreement to represent his interests in the cassation instance.

Representing the 2006 budget in the State Duma, which deputies on Thursday consider in the first reading, the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin defended the stabilization fund by all means. "The stab fund allows you to restrain inflation and in the medium term to reduce it to an acceptable 4.5% in 2008," the statement quotes the Minister of RIA Novosti quoted. "We must protect Russian citizens from exhausting inflation," he said.

Manhattan's famous skyscrapers in New York will turn off the light after midnight to save migrating birds. New York public figures reported that the light in buildings above 40 floors will be disconnected after midnight during the spring and autumn migration of birds, Reuters reports. According to experts, more than 4,000 birds have died since 1997, or were injured in a collision with skyscrapers.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Thursday supported the candidacy of Yuri Yehanurov for the post of Prime Minister of the country. 289 deputies voted for the approval of Ekhanurov by the prime minister with the minimum necessary 226 votes. In full force for his candidacy, the “Regions of Ukraine” faction (50 people) voted. In the United Ukraine faction, 3 people voted, in PP - 7. "Blok Yulia Tymoshenko" in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to refrain from voting.

The semi -final match of the Davis Cup between the national teams of Croatia and Russia, which will be held in the Croatian Split in the Sports Complex of the Dvorand of Courtyard, will begin on Friday with the confrontation between Mario Anchich, which is the second racket of the Croatian national team, and Nikolai Davydenko, the first number of the Russian team.