The UEFA appeal was a verdict in the case of the London “Chelsea players” Didier Drogba and Jose Busingva, who incorrectly behaved at the end of the second semifinals of the Champions League against Barcelona on May 6 at Stamford Bridge. After filing an appeal and revising the disqualification case of players in the European arena, they were reduced by one match for each.

NASA specialists will have to study the data recorded by the video camera in the second minute after the start of the Endeavour shuttle. The agency confirms that, perhaps, the casing and the protective layer of the shuttle are damaged, reports on Thursday RIA Novosti with reference to AFP. The crew of shuttle and employees of the International Space Station (ISS) will also have to carefully examine the outer layer of its corps.

About 50 people were detained without explanation in the evening on Wednesday at an anti-fascist concert in Saratov. This was reported by "Echo of Moscow" with reference to the representative of the local department of the opposition "Solidarity" Alexander Baturin. Among the detainees both participants in various anti -fascist organizations and ordinary spectators.

The operatives of the Office for Combating Economic Crimes (UBEP) of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate conduct a large-scale operation under the code name Harry, designed to prevent the Piry Potter and Prince Publishing Prince, Interfax reports to penetrate the Russian market. The new film about the adventures of the young magician is released today in Russian rental.

Western diplomats are now inclined to approve the Israeli blow to Iran. About this with reference to a certain British official writes The Times , which is quoted by Inopressa.ru . The bargaining coin in this matter may be Tel Aviv’s cooperation in the creation of the Palestinian state, journalists say. Note that the peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict was discussed , in particular, at the recent G8 summit in Aquille.

The wife of the ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair Sheri, perhaps, fell ill with the flu A/H1N1 ("Pork flu"). According to the Air Force , Sheri, who leads professional legal activity under the maiden name of But, due to malaise with suspicion of flu A/H1N1 on Thursday, canceled her participation in the ceremony at the University of her native Liverpool.

Iranian experts are trying to extract information from the black boxes of the passenger aircraft Tu-154, which crashed on Wednesday soon after departure from Tehran. The Iranian airline Caspian Airlines flew to Yerevan. Relatives of the dead passengers will fly from Armenia to Iran on Thursday at 13:00 local time (12:00 in Moscow). At the moment, 143 people have registered, said the press secretary of the Main Directorate of Civil Aviation (GUGA) of Armenia Nelly Cherchinians.

In the Batumsk water area, joint exercises of the US Navy and Georgia were held. They were involved in the missile destroyer of the US Navy Stout and two boats of the Georgian coast guard service, the site "Russia -Georgia" said the day before. During the maneuvers in the Georgian port, theoretical and practical measures were worked out in emergency situations, measures to eliminate the fire on the vessel and conducting a rescue operation.

The American spacecraft Endeavour started from the Cosmodrome at Cape Kanveral (Florida) and without problems reached orbit in the ninth minute of the flight. However, soon after the start it was found that the spaceship received some damage when taking off. This was reported by representatives of the American space department.

The unprecedented, according to the New Region agency, the case occurred in Pervouralsk: the court fined a local resident for insulting on a social network. According to the press service of the Pervouralsky City Court, a 23-year-old resident of Pervouralsk inflicted an insult to his opponent on the popular website "Odnoklassniki".

One of the banks in the South African city of Cape Town, equipped his payment terminals with a new "tough" protection system from vandals and robbers. If attackers are detected, the system sprinkles the contents of the pepper spray, reports Soft.mail.ru. An alarm is triggered in cases where the surveillance camera installed above the ATM records an attempt to hack the device - for example, installing a data interceptor ("Skimmer") or an explosive device.

Three new cases of pork infection were detected in Russia. "The influenza a/n1n1 fell ill with a man and two girls who returned from Cyprus who was resting in Thailand," ITAR -TASS said in Rospotrebnadzor. Thus, in Russia, seven infected with a new virus have already been registered.

The State Duma is concerned about the frequent facts of the murder of journalists engaged in human rights activities - the deputies finally noticed the tendency. Parliamentarians readily put forward versions: the murder of Estemirova - the revenge of the militants or a provocation against the authorities of Chechnya. True, they notice, resonant killings in Russia often remain unsolved.

The Government of the Russian Federation proposed to introduce restrictions on the purchase of additional retail space with food networks if the maximum threshold of their dominance is higher than 25% and the total turnover of the network over 1 billion rubles, Interfax reports. The relevant proposals are contained in the draft law on the regulation of trading activities published in the automated information system of the Russian Federation.

On the facts of violations identified at the Moscow Medical Academy. Sechenov, five criminal cases have already been instituted. This, as ITAR-TASS reports, reported in the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. It was noted there that on July 14, two more criminal cases have been added to three criminal cases in May of this year. Recall that violations at the university entailed the resignation of the rector of Mikhail Paltsev.