The process of restoring the health of the 80-year-old Fidel Castro is “satisfactorily and progressively”, said the brother of the Cuban leader Raul Castro in an interview with the newspaper Granma, published on Friday. On behalf of the citizens of the island, Raul Castro expressed deep gratitude to the doctors, to everyone who ensured the care of the operation to Fidel.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in Nazarovo at the Zarya Hotel, a double murder occurred on Thursday the day before. As reported by IA REGNUM , acting The senior assistant to the prosecutor of the region Vladimir Medvedev, in the morning a wounded man ran up to the hotel administrator and asked to call an ambulance and the police. Soon, a man died of an ambulance from a stab wounds received. On the second floor of this hotel, a corpse of another man with stab wounds was found.

In the Turkish resort of Antalya, a Russian tourist died. She died of a gunshot wound obtained as a result of the shooting, which was arranged in the bar with an unknown mask. The incident occurred on the night of Friday in the resort town of Side in one of the bars where foreign tourists and local citizens rested. According to RIA Novosti Consul of Russia in Antalya Sergey Alifanov, the dead name is Olga Yushin, born in 1970.

The passenger of the United Airlines N923 flight, which flew from London to Washington and was forced to make an emergency landing in Boston due to her behavior, was abandoned for at least a week. Such a decision on 59-year-old Katherine Mayo made a court in Boston, reports Breitbart.com . At her first court hearing in this case, 59-year-old Mayo came in a T-shirt of the popular rock band Rolling Stones, in socks and without shoes. Katherine Mayo on Thursday was charged with hindering hindering.

The nurse of the Chelyabinsk Tank Institute Nadezhda Burda during the interrogation at a meeting of the Chelyabinsk military court on Friday stated that Andrei Sycheva’s mother informed her of a family disease. According to the witness, in the evening of January 5, after Sycheva was sent to the Chelyabinsk military hospital, his mother, Galina Sycheva, called the school’s medical unit to find out about her son’s condition. “I said that Andrei was hospitalized with edema,” the nurse specified.

Olympic champions of the 2004 Games in Athens Tatyana Lebedeva (triple jump) and Yuri Borzakovsky (800 m) will perform at the athletics tournament "Call of Russia", which will be held on September 2 in the Luzhniki sports complex. In addition to Lebedeva and Borzakovsky, Julia Pechenkina and Andrei Epishin will compete in the Russian national team.

The Federal Registration Service (Rosregustration) completed the planned verification of four Russian political parties for their compliance with the current legislation.

The Israeli Air Force inflicted a new blow to the gas sector this morning. The house is destroyed, where, according to the Israeli military, there was a warehouse of missiles like "Kassam". During the air raid, one of the suburbs of Gaza was injured by one Palestinian. Other people who lived in the building managed to leave him, having received a warning by phone about the upcoming attack from the Israelis, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the south of Sakhalin, a powerful earthquake occurred on Friday night. Underground shocks with magnitude 6.1 points on the Richter scale were recorded at 2:20 local time, the South Sakhalinsk seismic plants reported. According to experts, the epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km from the village of Gornozavodsk, the Nevelsky district. Four scores were felt by force in Kholmsk, Nevelsk, Korsakov and on Cape Krillon. In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the earthquake was felt by force up to three points.

In the USA, in the terrarium of the City Museum of Saint Luis, the world's largest exhibition of two-headed mutants has opened-more than twenty-two-headed snakes and turtles are collected here. In the immediate plans of local zoologists, start an operation to doubling the number of unusual terrarium. Great hopes are assigned to two two -headed gloza, which can put the basis of the new mutant population. True, there are suspicions that snakes are hermaphrodites.

The statement of the Russian authorities about the voluntary surrender of the leader of the Chechen militants of Doku Umarov turned out with embarrassment. It was publicly announced that Umarov allegedly appeared with guilty personally to Kadyrov, but soon after that it turned out that an error had occurred. The president of the so-called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (Chry) is still free, and his elder brother Ahmad surrendered.

In one of the recently published studies, a forecast was made that after 15 years the number of women millionaires will exceed a similar number of men. Previously, at work, women were considered "teapots", and now they prove that they can make money using their business abilities, writes The Sun. But what about the blondes who for years have been the target of countless jokes about their stupidity?

At the 14th festival of Russian cinema "Window to Europe", which was held in the city of Vyborg from August 11 to 18, awards were awarded to the winners. The most important prize for the competition "Vyborg account" "Big Golden Rook" was awarded to the film "It doesn’t hurt me" directed by Alexei Balabanov.

In the west of Moscow, three men were detained who forcibly held 5 girls from Ukraine and Russia for prostitution. According to the prosecutor's office of the capital, "police officers in the house on Veernaya Street were detained by three men who forcibly held five girls in the rented apartment, brought under the pretext of building to work in the capital from Ukraine and regions of the Russian Federation.

Israel expressed dissatisfaction with Russia due to the fact that Russian -made anti -tank missiles were at the disposal of the Hizballlah militants who used them against Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, Ha'aretz reports with reference to the officials of the Israeli government. The Israeli delegation, headed by the first adviser to the head of the Israeli government Asaph Sharif, visited Moscow earlier this week in order to discuss this problem with Russian representatives.