In the United States, the schoolboy shot the deputy director of the school, and also seriously wounded the director and another deputy. The incident occurred on Tuesday in the city of Dzhaksborough, Tennessi. The deputy director of the local secondary school, Ken Bruce, received two bullets from a 22 -caliber pistol to the chest and died a few hours later in the hospital.

The State Duma on Wednesday adopted on the first reading the amendments to the current legislation, which provide the Government, providing for the restoration of the Fendy Institute in the Armed Forces.

Participants of Lithuania unprecedented for female basketball took off a minimum fine of 300 litas (87 euros) and a disqualification for one match. The corresponding decision was made at a meeting of the disciplinary commission of the Lithuanian Women's basketball league, ITAR-TASS reports. The incident occurred on Saturday during the match of the Klaipeda club Lemminkainen and the Mariayamyapolsky Arvi.

US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice submitted to reporters the next report of his department on compliance with freedom of religion in the world. The report of the US State Department sent to Congress examines the situation in ensuring the freedom of religion in 197 states for 2005. A special place is given to Russia.

In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the case was sent to the court of the murder of two schoolgirls-6-year-old Zhenya Timofeeva and 8-year-old Nadia Sorneva. The 26-year-old laboratory assistant of the school where the dead girls studied was charged with part 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder), which provides for punishment up to life imprisonment.

Nikolai Davydenko, who first participates in the final men's tennis tournament Masters Cup with a prize fund of $ 4.5 million, determined the lot in the "golden" group. The Russian, which has today the seventh line in the "Champion race" of the Association of Professional tennis players, at the group stage of the final tournament, which starts on November 13, will play with the Spaniard Rafael Nadal (2), the American Andre Agassi (5) and Argentinean Gaston Gaudio (9).

In the UK, according to recent research, more and more parents give their children strange names. Perhaps someone will seem strange to give his child a name, inspired by the name of a furniture store or a brand of champagne. Nevertheless, as polls show, British parents are increasingly doing this. When choosing the name of the child, they with a nominth pleasure recall both fruits and vegetables. This was written by Spiegel magazine (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

According to the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in the Gongadze case , the Kiev authorities are obliged to pay 100 thousand euros of the journalist of the Ukrainian Pravda newspaper, as compensation for material and moral damage. The judges came to a unanimous conclusion. Since the Ukrainian authorities "could not protect the life of the plaintiff", there was a violation of the European Convention .

Five inhabitants of the village of Old Atagi of the Grozny district of Chechnya were injured on Wednesday night as a result of a gap of shells. Currently, doctors of the second city hospital of Grozny are fighting for their life, the hospital’s reception department said.

Laureates of the annual literary prize "Femin 2005" became known in France. They were Jofre, Joyce Carol Oks and Teresa Delpesh. According to France-Press, Roman Defrey, Roman Jofre's Shelter of the Mades, defeated the Best Work of French Literature in the nomination. The book describes the mental torment of a woman who, in observation, intends to get rid of everything, including her own body.

Installation work on the backlight of the Moscow Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be completed by the end of November. The cathedral is a high neo -Gothic building located on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street. The idea of ​​this project of lighting the temple was developed by the Moscow Government, which entrusted the work of the work of Svetoservis.

Military exercises of India and the USA based on Kalaikund in the state of West Bengal are held in enhanced security mode. Representatives of the Pentagon of 250 people guard a thousand Indian police officers, RIA Novosti reports. The left -wing parties that have an influence on the state, in advance, declared a boycott to joint exercises of India and the USA, conducting pickets and rallies under anti -American slogans. About 70 thousand people took part in the protest demonstrations.

The British supermodel Kate Moss began to work - for the first time after undergoing a rehabilitation course of drug treatment in the American clinic. The 31-year-old Moss spent two days last week in the photography of the new collection of the famous designer Roberto Cavalia. Filming took place on the Spanish island of Ibiza, the model was accompanied by her three -year -old daughter.

In Yekaterinburg, a man who may turn out to be a maniac with a syringe who is looking for the police. The press secretary of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Yekaterinburg Leonid Semenov said that during the investigative-operational measures, the personality of the so-called "maniac" was established.

The mayor of the city of Podolsk, Moscow Region Alexander Fokin, arrested on charges of organizing a double custom -made murder, committed suicide on Wednesday in the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center. This statement was made on Wednesday by State Duma deputy Alexander Hinshtein (United Russia faction). “According to my information, Fokin had taken his life at about 03:00, being in a prison specialist, allegedly he hanged himself on a rope weaving,” the deputy told reporters.