The St. Petersburg police are taking serious security measures for the duration of the quarterfinal match as part of the UEFA Cup between the local Zenit football club and the Spanish team of Seville. According to ITAR-TASS in the St. Petersburg Central Internal Affairs Directorate, an intensified police outfit was formed to ensure law and order and security at the stadium and the adjacent territory, which included about 3.5 thousand employees of all police services.

The US forces command in Iraq announced on Thursday about the detention of one of the leaders of the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda Muhammad Hila Hammad Ubaidi. He is considered the closest henchman of the emissar Al-Qaeda in Iraq Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi, most wanted by the Americans of the terrorist in this country. Presumably, the arrested headed the militants in the province of Babil, and is the main suspect in the abduction of Italian journalists Juliana Sugrena in 2005 and Enzo Baldoni in 2004 .

The observation council for the media of Italy forbade Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to speak on the television channels belonging to him. As a result, he was forced to refuse to participate in the current program "Terra" ("Earth"), where he was invited as the only guest.

In China, an accident occurred on the highway, in which 130 cars collided, most of them are trucks. A series of accidents occurred in the province of Henan in a strong fog. Four people died and 10 more were injured, reports Reuters. It took about 7 hours to deal with the cork that has arisen. The authorities had to close the highway, which is the main transport highway between Beijing and Primorsky cities, NTV notes. China takes first place in the world in the number of auto -missions.

The Central Intelligence Directorate was published by the new World FactBook 2006 World countries available on the CIA website . Nine main sections and 139 subsections include geographical data, information about the political system and economics, military forces, airports and many other countries of the world, RIA Novosti reports.

Based on the results of the annual rating of independent energy sales companies conducted by Energodnok magazine, Rusenergosbyt was recognized as the best energy trader of Russia, which supplies more than 100,000 consumers, including the largest Russian companies - Gazprom OJSC, Russian Railways, OJSC NK Rosneft, other industrial enterprises, budgetary organizations and budgetary organizations and budgetary organizations and budgetary organizations and budgetary organizations and budgetary

On Thursday, the second finalist of the playoffs of the Russian hockey championship among the teams of the Super League was determined. In the fourth match of the semi -final series, Omsk Vanguard on its ice in overtime defeated the unconditional leader of the regular championship - Magnitogorsk Metallurg. Thus, Omsks closed a series ahead of schedule to three victories with a score of 3-1.

The veteran of Israeli policy Shimon Perez is found today in the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI , to whom he is lucky, the personal message of the acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. “They will also discuss issues of bilateral relations and global problems, in particular the prospects for creating an international front to combat extremism and terror, the ways of separating religion from terrorism,” said Jeram Dory, Person -Secretary of Peres.

Professor of the University of Hevons Ir Kharkansky claims that the public authority of Israeli rabbis in recent years is stably low. In his opinion, this is facilitated by public financial scandals with the participation of famous rabbis, as well as individual bizarre edicts of rabbinat, like a recent call to “cripple” children's toys in order to avoid the development of a sense of idolatry, Interfax reports. As a result, says I.

Scientists from Canada and the United States discovered the fossilized remains of an animal who lived 375 million years ago, which was already dubbed the "missing link" in the evolution between fish and four -legged ones. The find was made in Arctic Canada on the island of Elsmir to the north of the Buffin Earth. The opening article was published on Thursday in the scientific journal Nature . The fossil animal, the body of which was about 3 meters, was a cross between modern crocodile and seal.

On the morning of April 6, in one of the suburbs of Riga, opposite the Salaspil Memorial, the IVeco bus moved out of the road, in which the youthful team of Latvia in hockey was heading to Belarus. According to IA REGNUM , citing the LETA agency, one of the team members with various injuries was taken to the hospital, the rest was provided on the spot. The accident occurred due to the slippery area of ​​the street and was not the only one in the morning and night.

Prehistoric people have already owned the art of dental drilling. The archaeological excavations carried out in Mergarka, the Pakistani necropolis, which arose 9000 years ago, made it possible to detect the first traces of the existence of this practice. The international team of scientists led by the French archaeological mission of the National Center for Scientific Research, discovered 11 holes from the drill on the teeth of 9 adults, Le Temps reports.

In the UK, a 20-year-old bartender was charged with rape of a 97-year-old woman. As the investigation established, the pensioner was attacked by a rapist in his house in Essex County early in the morning last Sunday. The rape was brutal, the old woman received numerous injuries and was hospitalized, reports The Mirror . The suspect Joe Ashendon on the eve appeared in court - he was charged in two cases of rape and theft with a hack. The investigation continues. Links on the topic

The Israeli Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu with his galachic decree prescribing the Jews to disfigure toys, it seemed to confuse even his co -religionists. The Jews characterize the respected theologian as "the outstanding expert of the Torah," and therefore they say, "it is impossible not to notice his words." But what to do to the faithful Jew in this situation - is it really to deprive of children's toys, if they were in the house, legs, paws and even eyes and ears?

In the Persian Gulf on Thursday, the largest-scale naval exercises in the history of Iran successfully ended. This was stated by the Rear Admiral of the Iranian fleet, Mohammad Dekhkani, who acts as a press secretary of the maneuvers. “Today the last stage of the largest marine exercises under the code name“ The Greatest Prophet ”has ended. They passed exclusively, not a single emergency situation was recorded,” Rear Admiral said.