London mayor Ken Livingston continues his consistent struggle with large cars polluting the environment. London became the first metropolis to introduce a fee for entering the city center. Soon in the central part of the British capital, only low -profile environmental cars can remain. The mayor of London proposed more than three times to raise the fee for entry into the city center for cars that got into the most non -ecological class, the newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports.

Representatives of the Sexual Services of Australia said that prostitutes from Asia, working at reduced prices, steal "bread with butter" from more expensive local workers. The owner of the city of Perth Mary-Enn Kenvorti spent several thousand dollars on the study of this problem and the study of announcements about the offer of sexual services by Asian prostitutes in local newspapers.

The Department of Public Relations of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia (Keror) and the Moscow Jewish Religious Community (Merchant) statement of the main rabbi of Russia Adolf Shaevich regarding the situation in the Middle East.

As a result of attacks and terrorist attacks of militants in various areas of Iraq, 34 people died on Friday. This was stated by representatives of the country's security forces. Near the large oil industrial city of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, an attack on one of the checkpoints was made. As a result, 13 Iraqi troops were killed, including one officer. South of the Iraqi capital in the city of Kut, militants shot a bus with Shiite pilgrims.

US President George Bush, who arrived on Friday in St. Petersburg, took part in a round table meeting with representatives of 16 non-governmental organizations of Russia. The meeting was held in the American Consulate General.

The younger sister of the scandalous American television cognitiveness, model and film actress Paris Hilton decided to earn on her name. The heiress of the Hilton empire will create a network of fashionable homes under his name. She created the Nicky O brand, and Nicky Hilton Hotel, which will sell existing hotels in different "fashionable" cities of the United States. The first such hotel will appear in Miami Beach, writes The Miami Held newspaper.

In the Baltic countries, there is a massive outcome of citizens to Europe. Over the past 15 years, almost every tenth Latvian and Lithuanian moved to the West, most of them are young and well -educated people, the Frankfurter AllGemeine newspaper writes. Several tens of thousands of Baltic stations live in Dublin and London. In Ireland, such specialists as engineers, nurses or programmers sometimes earn ten times more than at home.

The chief prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) Karl del Ponte was unable to perform at the preliminary hearing on the case of seven former officers of the Bosnian Serbs, accused of involvement in the massacre of Muslims in the Bosnian city of Srebrenic during the Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Israel will not stop the military operation against Lebanon until Beirut begins to follow the UN number 1559 resolutions, which provides for the disarmament of the Hizballlah terrorist group and the placement of the regular Lebanese army in the south of Lebanon. Such a statement was made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interview with the UN Secretary General Cofi Annan.

In the UK, the police advise women who intend to go somewhere to have fun, put on beautiful cowards in case they fall on the street. In a periodic journal called Safe!, Suffolk and devoted to security problems, photos of girls lying on Earth are accompanied by the inscription: "If you have them, do not flaunt them" “If you fall, then remember that the skirt or dress can lift up,” the magazine says. “It may happen that it will see more than you would like.

For anti-globalists conducting a two-day “countersammit” in St. Petersburg , any forms of expression of their opinion are acceptable except for processions and rallies. This was stated at a briefing on Friday, Deputy Head of the Organizing Committee for the Eight Summit Vladimir Kozhin. “We pay special attention to the safety of the summit,” said Kozhin. “For the activities of anti -globalists, a place that they chose by themselves is at the Kirov stadium.

The list of Belarusian officials who are prohibited by entry into the United States includes Judge Alexei Rybakov and prosecutor Sergei Bortnik, who participated in the trial in the case of the ex-candidate of the President of Belarus Alexander Kozulin. The day before, he was found guilty of hooliganism and sentenced to 5 years 6 months in a general regime colony.

In St. Petersburg on Friday night, the UFSB officers were detained by the leader of the extremist group "MAD CRUD" Ruslan Melnik. As Interfax was informed in the city prosecutor’s office, Melnik, who was on the international wanted list for the past few years, was detained on Friday night in St. Petersburg. During the detention, he was immediately arrested, since earlier the court had already issued a sanction for his arrest.

The World Cup is in the hands of Italian football players for only a few days, however, it seems that it has already been broken, writes Daily Telegraph (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). In the photographs that were published on the first page of the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero , Fabio Cannavaro, the captain of the Italian team, who looks at the trophy with horror, and then in his hand is a piece of green malachite, which broke away from the base of the cup.

In the suburbs on the Leningrad highway, a truck with hydrochloric acid overturned. About 400 liters of toxic chemicals resulted in a highway. "The emergency occurred at about 18:40 on the 73rd kilometer of the Leningradskoye Shosse. As a result of an accident, a truck transporting barrels with hydrochloric acid overturned. About 400 liters of acid poured onto the roadway," RIA Novosti said in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow Region.