The American military in Iraq plan to divide Baghdad into 30 zones and conduct a large -scale counter -terrorism operation in them. Entire quarters during the operation will be blocked by the barricades, and only those Iraqis who received a new -sample personality will be able to get into the city. However, in the Red Cross they are sure that no one is engaged in the urgent problems of the population: mothers are forced to drive children to school along the streets dotted with corpses.

More than a quarter of the entire number of marriages concluded in 2004 in the UK, are unions where the bridegroom is younger than the bride. This is stated in the study conducted by the ONS Social Trends, writes The Times . For comparison, in 1963 there were only 15%of such marriages. True, in the statistical study given, it is not stipulated how exactly on average the grooms are younger than the brides.

In the Saudi city of El-Katif in the eastern province of the country, police officers publicly chopped 26 schoolchildren for the first time in history. According to RIA Novosti , citing local media, for several days, teenagers threw stones of more than 50 cars and caused them significant material damage. The patience of the municipal authorities burst when two police cars that performed patrol duties were thrown with stones.

The head of the National Security Council of the Russian Federation, Igor Ivanov, met in Jerusalem this morning, April 11, with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to discuss current Middle Eastern problems, NEWSru Israel reports. After his meeting with Livni, Ivanov is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Ivanov's visit to Israel will last until April 12. During this time, he plans to meet not only with Israeli but also with Palestinian senior officials.

The love story in the spirit of the Hollywood fairy tale happened to one of her subjects of Majesty. The Briton married a 22-year-old girl whose mobile phone number was dreamed of in a dream. According to the 24-year-old David Brown, one morning, Knowing all night with friends, he woke up, and someone’s phone number was annoyingly spinning in his head. An intrigued young man sent a text message, asking if they met the night before?

The head of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin, speaking at the international conference "Modernization of the Economics and Public Development" in Moscow, said that "Extraordinary" revenues from oil and gas can be used as a lever to attract investment 5-10 times larger than the amount of the Goldovale Reserve of the Central Bank and the Stablefond.

The Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov on Wednesday stated that the demand from the leadership of the Nakhimov Naval School, in which the head of the military department in March revealed poor domestic conditions for the stay of cadets, will be strict. “There is nothing to talk about objective difficulties here. The whole thing is in specific leaders, in relation to the case.

Ford Motor recalls more than 500 thousand SUVs of the Escape model. The reason for this was the complaints of engines caused by corrosion in the ABS system that received in the company. According to the representative of Ford, 50 cases of fire were registered. According to the company's statement, the review applies to cars of this lineup produced in the period from 2001 to 2004. and sold in the USA, Canada, Mexico and Europe, RBC reports.

Russian prominent public and political figures, businessmen and those in power became the heroes of the new book of the American journalist The Washington Post David Hoffman “oligarchs”, published by the “Hummingbird” circulation of 10 thousand copies. The author took more than 200 interviews, but Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Alexander Smolensky, Anatoly Chubais, Yuri Luzhkov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, were not in need of the performance, became the main characters of the book.

AvtoVAZ approved the launch of the project of a new car class C developed by the Canadian Magna. At the same time, the VAZ abandoned three of the four options for the price category proposed by Magna: 8, 8-10 and 14 thousand dollars. The cost of a new car, according to the management of the enterprise, will not exceed 12 thousand dollars.

On Tuesday, the Government of St. Petersburg adopted the draft law "On measures to implement the Federal Law" On state regulation of the organization and conduct of gambling and amending some legislative acts of the Russian Federation. "According to this law, slot machines will be closed in the city by January 1, 2008.

The President of the Non-recognized Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoita accused the United States of inciting tension in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. "The United States is pushing Georgia and South Ossetia to military operations.

Books talk a lot not only of our personal tastes, but also about what is generally happening in the world. The editors and critics of the book department of The USA Today selected 25 books that greatly influenced readers and publishing business in the last quarter of the 20th century. 1. J. K.

NASA again postponed the launch of the Atlantis space shuttle to complete the repair of the fuel tank damaged as a result of a strong city in February, the British television and radio corporation of the Air Force reports on Wednesday. The American space agency hoped that the repair work would be completed on time - to the scatter planned for May into space. However, now NASA said that the start of the shuttle will take place no earlier than June 8.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and Toyota signed an agreement on the production of seats in the Russian Federation for cars that will also be assembled in our country. The agreement was signed as part of the Government Decree on industrial assembly, according to which auto components are imported to the Russian Federation at preferential customs rates, RIA Novosti reports.