Since the beginning of 2005, nine women and one student of the 11th grade have been detained in the Sogdian region of Tajikistan (in the north), involved in the prohibited Islamic organization of the Khizb Ut-Tahrir political lady. This was announced at a press conference on Thursday by the regional prosecutor Abdugaffor Kalandarov. According to him, from the beginning of this year, 36 people were detained in the region on suspicion of involvement in the Hizb Ut-Tahrir.

The United States is monitoring the Chinese space program , which they consider as a potential challenge to American domination in space. The Chinese government said that the Shanzhou-6 space mission was undertaken solely for the sake of peaceful and scientific purposes. But even if this is true, such an initiative automatically helps to obtain information and experience that can be used for military purposes, writes the La Stampa newspaper (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The former "silovik" of Syria in Lebanon, Gazi Canan on Wednesday committed suicide . According to the communique, published by the official Syrian agency Sana, "General Gazi Kanan, the Minister of the Interior, committed suicide in his office in the morning," writes Le Figaro newspaper (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The discussion of the problem of financing the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater continues. This time, experts of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences expressed their opinion about the project. The specialists of the Academy approved the project and gave him high, the New Izvestia reports. The scandal broke out a month after the closure of the theater for reconstruction.

Kenya President personally ordered more than half of about 800 elephants from the Schimba Hills National Reserve to 350 kilometers from there the Tsavo East National Park, and the country's government allocated $ 2 million for this. This measure is caused by the fact that recently elephants threaten people in Shima Hills. Animals reach the processed fields, eat fruits from bushes and trees. They say that elephants attack people. From time to time there are deaths.

The director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky with a group of representatives of the intelligentsia and artists wages war against the Palace Square in St. Petersburg of international festivals and concerts of overseas type and against sponsors of such events. "A similar situation has not been observed since the time of the Bolshevik assault," writes the local Internet newspaper Fontanka.ru . The war over Palace Square began in June last year after the Paul McCartney concert .

Computer chips on which music is stored can be mounted in female breasts. In one breast there will be a MP3 player, and in the other - the entire personal collection of music. Developers of the idea, specialists of the BT-FUTUROLOGY laboratory, they say that this will become possible for 15 years, Ananova . Flexible plastic mechanisms will be mounted in the chest, says the specialist of BT laboratories Jan Person.

From October 13 to 28, a book exhibition dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the publication of the famous book of Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote will be held in the Russian State Library. The exhibition was organized with the participation of the Servantes Institute, at the opening of the exhibition, the Spanish ambassador to Russia Javier Elors Cavent will perform.

Livne rains brought to the Pyrenee Peninsula with a powerful cyclone from the Atlantic Ocean forced Spain authorities to introduce a state of emergency in seven of 17 autonomous regions. Especially strongly the riot of the elements in Catalonia. In the area of ​​Girona, a woman died, who washed off the stream of water into the river. In addition, two people who were in a car with a stream were hospitalized and survived thanks to the help of rescuers.

Another mass fight was celebrated in Bratislava with the end of the football match fans of the prefabricated Slovakia and Russia. According to the police, about 50 people participated in the brawl. According to ITAR-TASS, a source in the law enforcement agencies of Bratislava, the conflict managed to quickly localize, and the fans to dilute and avoid victims.

According to preliminary information, the culprit of a fire in a residential building in St. Petersburg, which arose in the morning on Thursday, was a man who tried to burn his children, the city prosecutor's office said. The man, the director of one of the consulting firms, lived in a house in a five -room apartment with his three children.

The head coach of the Russian national football team, Yuri Semin, stated at a press conference after the match of the 2006 championship of the 2006 championship against the Slovakian national team in Bratislava, which ended with a zero draw that is not going to leave his post. “Such questions arise after any failure. Give me time to think about, to reflect,” Semin said, answering the question of journalists, is he going to complete the work as the head coach of the Russian national team.

In the male part of the Moscow Tennis Tournament, the Kremlin Cup, which is held these days in the capital's sports complex "Olympic", on Thursday a quarter -final couple, represented by Russian tennis players, was determined. Mikhail Yuzhny defeated the American Paul Goldstein and now he will have to measure his strength with Dmitry Tursunov, who in his match of the second circle was stronger than the Italian Filippo Volanderi.

In Tyumen, there was a brutal murder of an employee of the regional court. The killer was detained on Thursday - the day after the crime, he faces up to 20 years in prison. A local resident suspected of the murder gave confessions, after which he was charged with the prosecutor's office of the Kalininsky district under Part 1, Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional murder). According to the criminal, he met a 48-year-old court officer several months ago.

The historian of the film crew, Michael Jones found documents in the Rouen Cathedral, which, in his opinion, indicate that Edward IV, who ruled in 1461-1483, was an illegitimate child, since at the time of the conception his parents were 200 km from each other. The "father" of Eduard, Richard Yorki fought with the French near the Pontoaz, and his mother Cecili was in the 5 days of the journey, in Ruan, allegedly enjoying the society of a certain archer.