Although the Pope Benedict XVI did not receive an invitation to the Big Eight summit in Aquille, the authority of the pontiff made it the actual participant in this most important forum. Through the premiere of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, the chairman of the group of eight, he applied with a welcoming message to the leaders of the largest states in the world, ITAR-TASS reports.

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church expressed confidence that foreign structures would not intervene in church problems in Ukraine. In particular, we are talking about the Patriarchate of Constantinople , which the Ukrainian authorities hoped to attract to create a national church in the country, separated from the Moscow Patriarchate. "They (the Patriarchate of Constantinople. - Ed.

The state reanimates the gas by providing Oleg Deripaska for unprecedented state guarantees for 20 billion rubles. The change of management of an enterprise that has been on the verge of bankruptcy is “not even discussed,” write Vedomosti . On the eve of the anti-crisis commission, chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, approved the provision of Gas-guarantee gas in the amount of 20 billion rubles.

The unidentified hackers were massaged on Tuesday, July 7, official sites of the Presidential Administration of South Korea, the Ministry of Defense, the ruling party, as well as more than 20 other most important portals in the national Internet sector. This was reported by police authorities in Seoul, who created a special group to investigate this unprecedented incident, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the press, approximately 25 leading sites in South Korea were disabled for about four hours.

The leaders of the "large eight" of developed countries will begin an annual meeting on Wednesday by warning the world from authorship about economic recovery, Reuters reports. Three days of negotiations are aimed at finding a common point of view on a number of issues, from the fight against global warming to increasing assistance to farmers, from the resumption of international trade negotiations to solving the problem of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Investigators in civilian clothes freely carried fragments of explosive devices into ten government buildings in four cities of the United States. It is reported by CNN with reference to official documents. Investigators passed through the security points, collected bombs in rest rooms and then freely entered the offices of state structures with explosive devices in portfolios.

The office of OJSC "Oil Company" Magma ", which is part of the Sibir Energy PLC group, the investigating authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation are acquainted with documents related to the commercial activities of OJSC" Moscow Oil and Gas "2006 and OJSC" Moscow Oil Company "on the episodes of 2002 and 2003," the company said in the message of the company Sibir Energy.

Germany’s police, called to the highway leading to the city of Goslar (Lower Saxony Earth in the north-west of the country), to remove the dead badger from the road, found out that the animal was alive, but is in a state of extreme intoxication, AFP reports. As it turned out, Barsuk fell asleep in the middle of the highway, overeating apertured cherry, which transferred in his stomach. “Speaking with direct text, he was drunk like a pig,” the police representative said.

The spiritual leader of Tibet Dalai Lama XIV celebrated his 74th birthday on the eve of his 74th birthday. Turning to believers who came to congratulate him in New Delhi, the Dalai Lama expressed the hope that the prayers of Buddhists around the world will help him live for at least 100 years, the Blagovers-info reports with reference to AP .

The authorities of the Kuril district allowed the delegations of Japan citizens in the framework of visa -free exchanges to arrive on the island of Iturup on the boat "Rosa Rugoza". The group consists of 65 people.

After a year absence, the holder of the Oscar of Tom Hanksa was elected to the managers of the American Film Academy - he headed the acting unit, Variety reports. The head of the directorial department for the first time in the history of the film academy was not defined in the first round of voting. This position is claimed by Gil Gates and Edward Zvik.

Israel managed to obtain consent from the United States to continue construction in Jewish settlements on the west coast of Jordan, the Maariv newspaper writes on Wednesday. According to her, we are talking about 700 houses, including 2500 housing units, the construction of which is already inappropriate to stop.

On July 13, the Presidium of the Government will consider the latest version of the socio-economic forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development for 2010-2012, Vedomosti said. According to the forecast, the restoration of the economy will be slow and long. By 2012, its volume will still be 4% less than in 2008.

Scientists have found that the system of assigning to US citizens of social insurance, which has been working in automatic since 1989, allows, knowing the date and place of birth of a person, to guess its social insurance number for less than 1000 attempts. This, according to RIA Novosti , said in an article published in the journal ProChedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the north of Moscow, an employee of the traffic police on Wednesday morning killed the alleged hijacker, who resisted and attacked policemen with a hammer. As RIA Novosti was reported in the information department of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, at 06:00 the police received a message about the theft of the Toyota Land Cruiser SUV from one of the houses on Navyskaya Street.