The 75-year-old Briton Harold Pinter -actor, playwright, director, poet, constantly acting and with sharp political statements, became the Nobel laureate in literature. In recent years, for example, Pinter has criticized America a lot - for the invasion of Afghanistan, Serbia bombing, a war with Iraq. He openly called Bush a serial killer, and Tony Bler is a mistaken idiot. In 2003, he released the poetic collection "War" - with seven poems and an angry war in Iraq, a speech.

The United States again called on the authorities of Libya to free the Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death on charges of intentional infection of children HIV virus. According to the official representative of the US State Department, Adam Elley, the trial of the nurses "was not properly carried out, and therefore it cannot be considered fair." Libya accuses five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor of intentional infection of more than 400 children in the Bengazi hospital in 1990.

The US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice will visit Moscow on Friday for negotiations with Russian leaders. Such an unexpected statement was made by the official representative of the US State Department, Sean McCormak after the arrival of the head of American diplomacy in Paris. “She will meet with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,” he added.

The British Air Force plane fell into the sea off the coast of Scotland, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. Details of the incident are unknown. Today, the US Navy fighter crashed off the coast of Florida.

Among the militants killed in Nalchik there are residents of almost all regions of the North Caucasus, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the special services of the Southern Federal District. According to him, according to preliminary data from the destroyed militants, there are representatives of almost all regions of the North Caucasus. A number of bandits have already been identified, among which there are residents of Abkhazia.

The United States condemned the attack of militants to the Russian city of Nalchik. “We express sympathy for those who were wounded and the families of those who died,” said Adam Elley, official representative of the US State Department. The American diplomat abandoned any further comments about what happened, referring to the lack of detailed information, RBC reports with reference to AR.

The short list of the Russian Boker , announced last week, caused an ambiguous reaction of our literary public. But specialists, i.e. The jury, better. And what can read the readers? How do they relate to the authors who are on the list? And most importantly: are they familiar with the work of these authors? With this question, the " pragmatist of culture" turned to her respondents. So, our question: Have you read the novels that entered the short list of the Russian booker?

The attempt on the senior investigator for particularly important cases of the city prosecutor’s office Oleg Pipchenkov, who was conducted by the Vyacheslav Ivankov case, known in certain circles as a thief in law, nicknamed Japanchik yesterday in Moscow, was committed last night at about 20.30 -the newspaper “News Time” was involved. At the entrance of the house 23 Corps 2 on Shipilovskaya Street, where Mr. Pipchenkov lives, the explosion thundered.

As a result of pouring rains in Barcelona, ​​several metro stations were flooded, and therefore the movement of trains on the fifth metro branch was stopped. A number of institutions located in the city center are closed. RIA Novosti reports that in Barcelona in many places, rainwater covered with a meter layer of street and square, floods the basements and the first floors of buildings. A particularly difficult situation has developed in Catalonia.

In the United States, in the northeast of Ohio, two small aircraft collided and fell into the field on Friday. According to the road patrol, one plane lies upside down. The second plane crashed tens of meters from it, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to AP. Nothing is known about the victims.

The famous guitarist and singer Eric Clapton entered into an agreement with Doubleday publishing houses in the USA and Century in Bertelsman Corporation on the publication of the Book of Memoirs. The book will be published in 2007, reports Reuters. The amount of the advance, which the publishers are ready to pay the Blues to the Star of Blues, is estimated at $ 4 - 6 milions.

About 2.00 (1.00 Moscow time) in the Pakistani Kashmir, a new earthquake was registered with a force of 5.3 points on the Richter scale. This underground impetus has become an echo of the Saturday earthquake, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to Reuters. The inhabitants of Kashmir are sleeping on the street for the sixth night. According to UN experts, the situation in Pakistan is close to critical.

In connection with the approach of two cyclones, a storm warning was transferred in Kamchatka. According to the Kamchatka Hydrometeorological Center, atmospheric vortices are approaching the peninsula from the northern part of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Already on Friday evening in the west of the Kamchatka region, rains will begin, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Palestinian autonomy, a program to combat violence in society has been developed. Its goal is to stop internecine conflicts, as a result of which many innocent people die, and to achieve consent between armed Islamic movements and organizations. The Palestinian administration express extreme concern to the situation that has developed now in autonomy, RBC reports.

Ecologists do not expect a significant improvement in the quality of air in the metropolitan region in the next day, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Moshydrometeorological Unit, despite the expected change in the synoptic situation, rains and strengthening the southeastern wind, an influx to the capital of smoke from the eastern regions of the Moscow Region will remain.