The Supreme Court of Los Angeles finally rejected the petition of the famous director of the Polish origin of Roman Polanski on the removal of accusations of rape of a minor. The reason for this was the director of the director to the court. Polanski has been living in France for more than 30 years, and his return to American territory would lead to his immediate arrest.

The Vatican newspaper called the film adaptation of "angels and demons", continuing the sensational "Code of Da Vinci", "Innocent entertainment," the British The Guardian writes today. Many expected that the film "Angels and Demons", which would be released next week, would cause the discontent of the Vatican, who called the "Da Vinci Code" an intentional attempt to discredit the Catholic Church , the author of the publication in The Guardian (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

On the eve of Victory Day, the Russian Vaishnavas celebrate the ancient Vedic holiday of the victory of good over evil, the press service of the movement of Krishna consciousness in Russia reports. Sometimes this very ancient holiday, which does not have an accurate fixed historical date and verified according to the lunar calendar, is even on May 9. This year, Narasimha-Chataturdashi is celebrated on May 8.

The meeting of the Georgian authorities and the opposition will take place on Friday, work on the organization of the meeting is already underway, the chairman of the parliament David Bakradze told reporters. “I, as the chairman of the parliament, want to fix the specific readiness today at any time to meet representatives of the non -parliamentary opposition in order to start a dialogue on topics that bother us all,” the Rosbalt agency quotes his words.

Under Tula, more than twenty pupils of special -aging for young criminals were arranged under Tula. So far, the police managed to catch only about half of the fugitives. The remaining can appear in the capital. A large -scale escape was made on the night of Wednesday to Thursday from a special professional school (PA) No. 1 of the village of Pervomaisky Shchekinsky district, writes the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda with reference to the local police department.

Employees of the Primorsky Rosselkhoznadzor detained 250 tons of Vietnamese rice, since dead beetles were discovered in the croup, the assistant to the head of the regional department of the department Vitaly Salenko said on Friday without specifying the detention date.

In the Berdsk, the Novosibirsk region, the head of the city administration department, suspected of bribery, disappeared from the investigation. According to Marina Kinzhalova, senior assistant to the head of the media, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk Region, the detacial official was placed in the city hospital in Berdsk.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper the inflated visit to Afghanistan and visited the Canadian troops in the Kandahar region, ITAR-TASS reports. “Throughout the operation in Afghanistan, our military personnel were on incredible sacrifices, in the name of protecting our values ​​and our interests,” the Prime Minister said during his visit.

The untimely commissioning of the facility to destroy chemical weapons in the city of Pochepe, Bryansk region, may bring Russia to failure the clerk program on time, Interfax reports.

In the American state, Illinois, a retired police sergeant was arrested, who in 2004 killed his third wife. According to investigators, three years later, the wife dealt with a similar way with his fourth friend, as she could testify against him. Four children remained from the former guard of the law, and he himself became not only a suspect, but also a participant in the television show .

The child who arrived in Russia from the United States is hospitalized with signs of SARS. Currently, laboratory studies are being conducted, the Rospotrebnadzor, which quotes Interfax , published on Friday. In the world, new cases are recorded by influenza A/H1N1, which is also called pork. The outbreak of the disease that has begun in Mexico can develop into a pandemic .

The Pope Benedict XVI went today with an apostolic visit to the Holy Land, during which he will visit Jordania, Israel and Palestinian territories. The aircraft, on board which is the head of the Roman Catholic Church , flew from Rome to the capital of Jordan Ampman, RIA Novosti reports.

Japan supports the proposal of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to solve the issue of belonging to the southern smoking through a "non -standard approach." In addition, Tokyo welcomes the proposal of the leader of the Russian Federation not to transfer the problem of the islands to the next generation, the new Japanese ambassador to Russia Masakhur Kono pointed out. “At the end of this week, a large parade on the occasion of Victory Day will be held in Moscow.

The ex-lawyer Yukos Svetlana Bakhmina, ahead of schedule from the colony, gave a new interview. She told why she wrote a petition for pardon and why the issue of UPO was resolved for so long, and also described how she gave birth to a child in prison and how she is now returning to ordinary life. “In the colony, I was apparently saved by the peasant genes and the fact that I am an experienced mother. The birth itself took place in Moscow ...

The share of the female population buying apartments in Moscow in the first quarter of 2009 increased by 18%, compared with 2008, up to 39%, the DOKI real estate agency said . As indicated in the report, traditionally, housing buyers in Moscow have always been men. For ten years, men have prevailed in the real estate market.