The metropolitan policemen detained three men and two women-resident, suspected of several hundred frauds with the apartments of Muscovites. At the same time, after the sale of housing, scammers took people from Moscow to the city of Bezhetsk, the Tver region, where local gypsies kept them in slavery, the capital's law enforcement agencies reported on Friday.

Three people received firearms in the college of the town of Saut-Mounten (Arizona, USA). According to the police, the fire was opened by a person whose identity was not established. He shot aimed and disappeared from the scene of the crime. The wounds received: a man 25 years old, a woman 22 years old and a 17-year-old teenager. The man and woman are hospitalized and are in critical condition. The condition of the teenager is stable.

American journalists call the new film about Batman "The Dark Knight" by the panegyric of courage and moral courage of the American president George Bush, who, like a roller mouse man, is fighting terror and terrorists in the era of revelry and war, the correspondent of The Wall Street Journal writes. Like Bush, Batman sometimes violates the human rights to cope with the emergency situation, and after its resolution, he returns to the framework of the law.

In Russia, its own version of the famous British series "Office" will appear. Channel One acquired the rights to create its own series about the labor everyday life of a small regional office of a large company, whose inhabitants to endure their bad boss for days, reports The Guardian . On the basis of existing British series, it is planned to shoot 24 half an hour episode.

The Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who is responsible in the government of Vladimir Putin for the country's oil and gas complex, goes on a working visit to China "to participate in the energy dialogue." Rosneft, whose board of directors heads Sechin, from the very beginning of the Yukos case, supplies oil to China, and also intends to build an oil refinery there.

The Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision based on the results of an extraordinary comprehensive check of mines of the Kemerovo region suspended more than half of them. When checking the implementation of industrial safety requirements at 72 mines of Kuzbass, it was revealed that work on 40 of them - or 56% of all Kemerovo mines - is unsafe for people's lives, Interfax reports.

The eleven-year-old boy was in the focus of the Brazilian media, after he bit the Pit Bulterier, reports Reuters. Gabriel Almeida, who lives in the suburbs of Bel-Orizonti, the capital of the state of Minas-Jehraz, broke the fang when he bit the dog’s neck, trying to resist the attack. After that, he became a guest of a number of television channels, where he told about what had happened. “I grabbed his neck and bit him,” he said in an interview. “There is nothing special about this.

Former Commander -in -Chief of the Army of the Bosnian Serbs, General Ratko Mladich, looking for the Hague tribunal, ordered two armed bodyguards to kill him in case of inevitable seizure by Serbia security forces. This was reported today by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph with reference to sources in the Serbian special services. According to their data, Mladic is hiding in one of the cities of Serbia with two bodyguards, to which such a categorical order is given.

The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Alexander Shokhin, admitted that he did not expect a strict criticism of the pricing policy of the Mechel group by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, since "the government almost solved this problem." He believes that the prosecutor’s office should not be connected to the situation: to analyze the actions of the “Mechel”, first of all, the FAS should.

In the metropolitan district of Schukino, robbers carried out values ​​from a mobile communications salon in the amount of more than one million rubles. Five people participated in the robbery committed on Thursday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies of Moscow. The attackers hacked the door of the Tallink CJSC on Marshal Biryuzov Street, the house of 14 and, threatening the physical reprisal of the guard, stole mobile phones and office equipment.

Santos Mozart, transferred two weeks ago to the double with Yegor Titov and Maxim Kalinichenko, took part in the morning training of the team on Friday and is preparing with the main composition for the match of the next round of the Russian Championship against the Luch-Energy. According to the Brazilian football player, the meeting with the head coach Stanislav Cherchesov helped him rethink what had happened, RIA Novosti reports.

The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev is sure that Russian philanthropists will receive tax benefits, promises an increase in the state financing of the film industry and admits that the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater for objective reasons will last longer than the planned. He stated this in an interview with Rossiy newspaper , which was published on Friday "I think that an understanding of the need for financial benefits for philanthropists has matured.

At least eight people, according to updated data, died as a result of the collapse of the mosque in the north-west of China, the Xinhua agency reports on Friday. The wreckage of the collapsed building was injured by 31 people, four of them are in serious condition. According to rescuers, people are left under the ruins whose fate is still unknown. The collapse occurred at 17:40 Thursday by local time (13:40 Thursday in Moscow).

Metrinfo.ru magazine tried to equate a meter of housing in the capital with another objective indicator - with potatoes and find out how many kilograms of potatoes there was a square meter in 1971 and how many kilograms of potatoes it costs now. So, we know that 1 kg of potatoes in the then existing central collective farm market cost 16 kopecks in 1971, the publication reasoned. The square meter then cost 160 rubles. So, in 1971, 1 sq. The meter cost 1000 kg of potatoes.

Communicating in Western Australia with a group of teenage girls at the Women's College, the US Secretary of State admitted that she again dreams of getting to North California stores, AR reports. "As soon as I leave my high post in January 2009, I will certainly go shopping right away," Rice said. “Shopping is a wonderful pastime. And I even like it even if I don’t buy anything,” the Secretary of State added.