In Israel, police officers mistakenly handed over to the lawyer a porn movie instead of a CD, which, according to them, had a certificate against two lawyer customers suspected of robbing a store. The video camera captured thieves at the crime scene. According to the investigation, two criminals broke into the store and beat the owner, which was filmed on a video camera. The lawyer was waiting for this video for two months.

The research organization Trust for America's Health has published a report on the problem of obesity in the United States. The study states that the Americans are getting fat and more strongly, and the authorities' attempts to stop the epidemic of obesity suffer a fiasco. At the moment, two -thirds of the US inhabitants have excess weight or are obese. For example, if in 1980 obesity was noted in 15% of adult Americans, then in 2004 - in 32%.

The Technical Commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC) to investigate the Tu-154M aircraft of the Pulkovo Airlines Aircraft, which broke up on August 22 near Donetsk, completed the preliminary deciphering of the on-board recorders of the airliner.

A wave of poisoning by surrogate alcohol swept through Central Russia. Cases of mass hospitalization of poisoned are noted in several areas of central Russia at once - in St. Petersburg, Tver, Voronezh, Belgorod, Nizhny Novgorod regions, and Tatarstan. About 100 people got into the hospitals, several of them have already died. The age category is different - the youngest is only 16, and the oldest is 60 years old.

The Federation of the Jewish communities of Russia (Feor) believe that its cooperation in the future with the Palestinian community of Moscow could contribute to the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, reports Interfax .

Mature mothers who had no children before, during pregnancy reach complete nervous exhaustion, showed a new study. The report of the Tommy's charity organization says that the growth of the number of women with successful careers led to the fact that many of them know nothing about pregnancy and motherhood.

Russia "is ready to accept Lebanon, who suffered during the Lebanon-Israeli conflict for the treatment of civilians." This was stated in Stockholm by the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Saltanov at the International Conference on Humanitarian Assistance Lebanon.

The Perm Regional Court sentenced the 21-year-old resident of Perm to a life imprisonment for the murder of his father, mother, wife of his brother and her child. As Interfax was told in the press service of the Perm Territory prosecutor’s office on Thursday, the criminal case was opened in part 1.2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov at a meeting in the editorial office of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, dedicated to the ideas of sovereignty and democracy , admitted that "sovereign democracy" is only one of the possible ideological concepts. He called on the expert community to create his own language of political philosophy, the absence of which complicates the dialogue with the world community.

The American space agency NASA extended the terms until September 8, which is supposed to be launched to the Atlantis Senttl International Space Station. This was announced in an interview with the Internet publication Space.com by the official representative of the American space department Katherine Trinidad on Wednesday. “I can confirm that we have the opportunity to launch the eighth,” she said.

In Brussels, the pianist from Israel Benamin Rawitz (Benjamin Rawitz) was killed. According to the local media, the corpse of a 60-year-old musician was discovered in a residential building in the center of Brussels, where he rented an apartment. The circumstances of the death have not yet been established, but there are traces of numerous beatings on the face and other parts of the body, on the basis of which the police believe that Ravitz was beaten to death, RIA Novosti reports.

The American military leadership believes that Iran will be able to create the first atomic bomb in five to eight years. This temporary segment explains why the Bush administration does not consider itilless to apply air strikes on the objects of Tehran’s nuclear program. However, some politicians and the military urge the country's leadership not to calm down and start the bombing of Iran as soon as possible.

Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will not send their troops to the southern Lebanon to participate in the mission to maintain the world authorized by the UN. Such a decision was made at a meeting of the ministers of the Baltic Defense of Baltic countries in Jurmala, the Ministry of Protection of the Territory (Defense) of Lithuania said on Thursday.

In the capital of East Timor, more than 60 prisoners fled from prison on Thursday night. Among the fugitives are dozens of people convicted of participating in the coup, including the leader of the rebels, Malaysian radio reports. According to the radio station, this is the most massive in the history of the existence of the Eastern Timor the escape of prisoners. The criminals neutralized the guards and broke several walls in prison with improvised means.

The hurricane "John" in the Pacific Ocean is gaining strength and threatens at least 800 thousand inhabitants of the Mexican coast. According to the National Meteorological Service of Mexico, on Wednesday the hurricane reached the fourth category on the five-point Suffira-Simpson scale. This means that in the epicenter of a hurricane the maximum wind speed is 249 kilometers per hour.