In the UK, as in all other countries, it is forbidden to pay for the authorities to the authorities. This is stated in the Law on the transplantation of human organs of 1989. However, although direct sales are prohibited, often the donor pays for all expenses and compensation, writes The Times (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

In Mexico, the passenger bus fell into the gorge. At least 21 people died, 16 wounded, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. The incident occurred in the mountain area of ​​Sierra Gorda in the central part of the country. “Among the dead and wounded people of all ages are from babies to the elderly,” the representative of the local police said.

The Hamas movement nominated its candidate for the post of Prime Minister of the Palestinian Autonomy. As expected , they will be 43-year-old Ismail Hania, who headed the Hamas list in recent parliamentary elections. The next Saturday, the parliament of the new convocation will be sworn, after which he will have approved the candidacy of Hania, which will form a new government.

Unpleasant for snack fast food and their visitors, the opening was made in Florida. The student of the local college experimentally managed to prove that the water in the toilets there is cleaner than the ice supplied with drinks. According to 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts, she had long had suspicions about water sterility in fast food restaurants. "My hypothesis was that the ice in fast food restaurants contains more microorganisms than the water in the toilets of these institutions," she says.

President Vladimir Putin set the task for state authorities for three years to provide all the population of Russia for 100 percent by telephones. The Russian president also proposed to eliminate computer illiteracy and more actively use information technologies in the implementation of national projects. Speaking at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council in Nizhny Novgorod, Putin noted that more than 40 thousand settlements have not yet been telephone in the country.

At the 2006 Olympiad, athletes have the opportunity to use dubious ways to achieve the best sports results, the American newspaper Los Angeles Times (full text on the website inopressa.ru ) notes. During the Winter Olympiad in Salt Lake City in 2002, the Russian ski-lover Julia Chepalova was pregnant.

The Museum "Treasury of Yakutia" has a collection of 14 diamonds the size of a golf ball, including an Olonkho diamond of 130.85 carats, worth 500 thousand dollars. The pebbles like these turned Yakutia from a bear angle inhabited by shepherds and fishermen, to a prosperous center for the development of deposits, which supplies 23% of unprocessed diamonds in the world - only Botswana is inferior only to Botswang's production.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Thursday recognized as legitimate the transfer of the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) to serve his sentence. Thus, the court rejected the complaint of Lebedev’s lawyers, who asked to recognize as unlawful the decision on his direction to the colony of the Kharp village.

In California, an unknown man abducted two prosthesis of her legs with a secondary school student - one, specially made to play softball, the other for everyday sock. This is the second case of the theft of prostheses in the girl in the last three months. Now Melissa Huff has lost a special prosthesis for playing sports worth $ 16 thousand and a prosthesis for 12 thousand dollars, which she wore every day, CBS 2 reports.

North Korea on Thursday celebrates the 64th anniversary of his leader Kim Jong Ira. The birthday of the head of the DPRK is one of the two main national holidays along with the birthday of his father Kim Il Sen. According to the North Korean media, the "dear leader" was already congratulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader expressed confidence in the stability of traditionally friendly relations between Pyongyang and Moscow.

The chairman of the State Council of Dagestan Magomedali Magomedov, who has been holding this post since 1994, said that he decided to resolve the powers ahead of schedule. "I reported to the President of the Russian Federation about my intention to prematurely lay down the powers of the head of the republic," Magomedov told reporters in Makhachkala on Thursday. According to him, he told the president that he wanted to resign, Interfax reports. "I am 75 years old.

On Thursday, at the Olympics in Turin, final competitions were held in high -speed skates among women who revealed the strongest in the team persecution race. The “gold” of the team race went to the German, for whom the eminent Annie Frisinger, Daniela Anshutz and Claudia Pakhstein participated in the decisive race. The "silver" of the Canadian team, who lost to the Germans in a decisive race.

The joint exercises of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and NATO ended on Thursday off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. The maneuvers took place as part of the preparation of the Black Sea Fleet for the participation in the anti -terrorist operation of the North Atlantic Alliance "Active Efforts". According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the press service of the Black Sea Fleet, the Moscow Rocket cruiser "Moscow" was represented on the exercises.

At the International Film Festival in Berlin, the outstanding Polish director Andrzej Waida was awarded the honorary "Golden Bear" for creative activities. “Berlin has always been an important and living bridge between the East and the West,” the director said at the ceremony. The ceremony emphasized that Vaida, who is 80 on March 6, is one of the most significant filmmakers of modern Europe, ITAR-TASS reports.

The heiress of the world -famous Hilton hotel network Paris Hilton was once again in the center of the scandal. During a modeling show, as part of the fashion week in London, a secular lioness sprinkled with flour the indignant defender of wild animals. Paris Hilton opened up models of the famous British designer Julian McDonald, who uses fur in his models.