In Iran, studies on animal cloning are successfully conducted, which indicates a high level of Iranian science. The first clone was born two days ago. Despite the fact that he lived only a few minutes, this can be considered a great scientific achievement, today the head of the association of Islamic universities Ali Montazeri said. He informed the Fars with the news agency that the ram was the first cloned in Iran. However, experiments are carried out over other animals.

The midfielder of the Francum and Marseille football team Frank Ribury, who became one of the discoveries of the past world championship, said that he wanted to leave the club, although in the early week he claimed the opposite. “I want to leave Marseille. I want to develop, I want to play in the Champions League. They (“ Marcel ”) know where I want to go, and the club I want to play in the course.

In South Ossetia, in the area of ​​the village of Avnevi, under the guise of checking documents, unknown in masks stop all cars, thereby creating obstacles to the Ossetian population of an unrecognized republic. About this RIA Novosti on the phone from Tskhinvali was reported by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia Mikhail Minzaev.

At least 10 people died in New York because of the almost 40-degree heat that has been in the largest city in the USA since the beginning of this week. The corresponding data on Friday was distributed by the service of the main forensic medical expert of the city.

The United States and France have reached an agreement on the draft resolution of the United Nations Security Council for Lebanon. This was announced today in New York by a regular representative of the United States at the UN John Bolton. The draft document was prepared by France to demand a complete termination of hostilities and then work "on a long -term settlement," the Eliseisian Palace notes.

During the landing operation carried out on Saturday night in the Lebanese city of Tire, eight Israeli soldiers were injured, RIA Novosti was told in the Army press service. Earlier it was reported that the Israeli paratroopers lost one soldier there. The purpose of the raid, according to the agency’s interlocutor, was the Hizballla cells, firing large cities in the north of Israel with the help of high -range missiles.

Residents of the Russian capital are active viewers - the vast majority of Muscovites watch TV every day or almost every day. Such data from a telephone survey almost a thousand Muscovites published the Romir Monitoring research holding. During the survey, it also turned out that every third Muscovite (32%) has one TV at home. Four out of ten respondents (41%) reported the presence of two TVs. In every fifth metropolitan household (19%) - three TVs.

Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" signed agreements with three attackers from the NHL clubs. According to the general manager of the Yaroslavl team Yuri Lukin, the next season in Yaroslavl will spend Russian Evgeny Artyukhin from Tampa Bay, Finn Sean Bergenheim from New York Ilanders and Canadian Eric Shuinar from Philadelphia. For Artyukhin and Bergenheim, the last NHL championship was relatively good. The 23-year-old Russian became one of the pleasant surprises in Tampa Bay, having held 72 matches for it.

In the village of Port Caton (Azov district), three local residents died during the construction of the sewer well, Interfax told the Azov district law enforcement agencies on Saturday. “Three local residents dug a sewer well in their private household, and suffocated by the gases who were in this well,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The head coach of the Moscow Spartak Vladimir Fedotov was outraged by the judge of the main referee of the match of the 14th round of the Russian Championship with Rostov from Rostov-on-Don Alexander Gonchar. This followed from his words at a press conference after the game, in which Spartak convincingly won with a score of 5: 2 . “We warned the players that (the forward“ Rostov ”Maxim) Buznikin is a provocateur. You can’t get into this trick twice!

Turkish archaeologists intend to prove the existence of Cimmerida - almost a centuries -old monastery of one of the oldest peoples of Europe, reports the Turkish agency DHA. If they succeed, then Conan-Warvar, whose role in the cinema was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, may turn out to be a real historical character.

OSCE observers in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone discovered recently dug trenches on Saturday near the Ossetian village of Tbeti. According to the Agency for News-Georgia in the Ministry of Defense of Georgia, employees of the OSCE mission in Georgia, the officers Kristers Cryste Dzhanna Mora and Laszlo Kovar, discovered trenches, monitoring the conflict zone.

In the north-west of Pakistan, due to rains, a bridge hit at least 23 people died, RIA Novosti reports. The tragedy occurred in the town of Mardan, located 50 kilometers west of Peshavar. The local bridge collapsed when about 200 people were on it. According to the head of the administration of the Khimaytullai Potara region, the rescuers removed 23 bodies of the dead from the wreckage, and, most likely, this number will increase. The authorities turned to the military for help.

Russian Dmitry Sautin became the champion of the continent in water jumping from a three -meter springboard. For the 32-year-old Olympic champion, this medal has already become the 10th Higher Award in European tournaments. In general complexity, Dmitry won 14 "European" medals. He won his first European "gold" in Athens in 1991. By the way, his partner in the synchronous jumps, with whom Sautin won the Silver in Budapest on the springboard - Yuri Kunakov at that moment only ...

Moscow "Spartak" won in the 14th round of the country's football championship on his field "Rostov" with a score of 5: 2 and caught up with the leader of the Russian championship CSKA. “Spartak”, which recently has not acted too confident in creative actions, in the match with Rostov proved that things in this component of the game are not so bad. Of course, the opponent helped him partly in this, but the fact remains - five goals scored in the first half, deserving admiration!