Fifty people were injured in the explosion in Beersheba Yesterday morning an explosion occurred at the central bus station in the Israeli city of Beersheba. The suicide bomber was killed, 51 people were injured, two of the victims are in serious condition. The gunman approached the bus driver and asked for directions to the hospital, police said. The passenger's appearance seemed suspicious to the driver, and he alerted the security service.

Yesterday in Moscow the winners of the final tournament of the national qualifying stage of the World Cyber ​​Game 2005 (WCG 2005) were determined. The competitions were held in six categories: Counter-Strike: Source, FIFA Soccer 2005, Need for Speed: Underground 2, Star Craft: Brood War, War Craft III: The Frosen Throne, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War. Players from 18 regions of Russia took part in them. The total prize fund of the Russian stage of WCG 2005 is 100 thousand dollars.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Grodno branch of the Belarusian Institute of Law Alexander SMOLYANCHUK told Vremya Novostey about the history of Belarusian-Polish relations. -- In 1569, under the Union of Lublin, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was created - a federal state, the ethnic basis of which was Poles, Lithuanians, Belarusians and Ukrainians.

FOOTBALL. September 3. 2006 World Cup qualifying matches. Group 3. Russia - Liechtenstein, Estonia - Latvia, Portugal - Luxembourg. Once upon a time, matches of the Russian national team against teams from dwarf states like Liechtenstein did not cause any excitement in the country. Even if they were not broadcast on television, no one was worried about this; the fans added points to the Russians in advance for winning.

Menshov won the prologue at the Vuelta The prestigious multi-day race “Vuelta a España” began with the victory of the Russian cyclist of the Dutch team “Rabobank” Denis Menshov. Menshov covered seven kilometers along the streets of Granada in 9 minutes. 45 seconds, ahead of Belgian Rick Verbrugge, who showed the second time, by just a second. At the award ceremony at the end of the stage, Menshov received the yellow jersey of the leader of the general classification.

Ingrid Bergman was born 90 years ago Ingrid Bergman lived exactly sixty-seven years and died exactly on her birthday, August 29, 1982. She only appeared once in the film of her great compatriot and namesake Ingmar (in “Autumn Sonata”), but, perhaps, she glorified Swedish cinema no less than he.

CLUBS Zbigniew Namysłowski (saxophone) and Arkady Ovrucki Trio . The end of the Moscow tour of the legendary saxophonist and composer, who has been personifying Polish jazz for thirty years. "Le Club" , 20.30. Indie music festival Stop The Silence. The groups participating are “Diffuzzia”, Indigo, Man Bites Dog, Esther, Itakdalee, Banana Princess, RikiTikiTavi. "B2" , 19.00. "Strawberry meadow" Folk. "Oracle of the Divine Bottle" , 22.00. Artline in the Central Dispatch Center.

The Constitution will be distributed to Iraqis along with rations. The political process in Iraq has reached a dead end, threatening an outbreak of civil strife. Yesterday, Sunni leaders called on the people to vote against the new constitution. This happened after Shiite and Kurdish parliamentarians signed a draft permanent basic law.

Turned out to be a joke from one of the passers-by On Friday morning, Chechen militants were caught in Hamburg. Up to a thousand police officers were involved in the operation. On Thursday evening, police cordoned off the historic city center. Police cars were stationed at metro stations, and law enforcement officers with drawn weapons scurried about the trains, checking passengers.

On September 2, the most unpleasant, most difficult and most important meeting in Vladimir Putin’s presidential career will take place in Moscow. He will meet with the mothers of Beslan. At this meeting, you cannot say routine empty words on camera, you cannot pretend. At this meeting, unlike all others, the president’s interlocutors do not consider it a pleasure to meet with him. They even wanted to refuse, but still decided to give the president a chance to admit some obvious things.

Forecast for the coming days Summer is coming to an end, but in most of the European territory of Russia, thanks to the anticyclone, the weather is still mostly dry and warm. In the north of Russia, the air temperature during the day is slightly lower, in the middle zone it is slightly above +20°C. In the south there is a velvet season, during the day about +30°C, the water temperature off the coast of Sochi and Gelendzhik is about +26°C.

Governors Viktor Kress and Leonid Polezhaev were left without a large electric power industry RAO UES of Russia was unable to identify the winner in the struggle between Omsk and Tomsk governors Leonid Polezhaev and Viktor Kress for the right to register Territorial Generating Company No. 11 (TGK-11) in their region.

The Israeli Prosecutor General's Office yesterday indicted Likud Knesset member Omri Sharon. The eldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is accused of violating the law on political parties and giving false testimony. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, from 1999 to 2000, Sharon Jr. created shell companies through which he received about 6 million shekels ($1.3 million) from several commercial organizations operating in Israel and abroad.

About Arkady Strugatsky and Yuri Trifonov The fact that Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky and Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov were born on the same day - August 28, 1925, of course, is an accident, but a symbolic accident. The differences are striking. Trifonov was a prose writer from God, which is evident even from his debut novel “Students,” which brought the author first noisy fame, and years later - pangs of shame.

School problem on how to forge defeats into victories When Lokomotiv shocked the country by losing to Rapid, a team without a single star but working terribly hard, the first press responses were, to put it mildly, derogatory. The emotions are understandable: the champion of the country, whose second club won the UEFA Cup several months ago, must, simply must, get into the group stage of the Champions League - even as a carcass, even as a scarecrow, even without Sychev, even with Lebedenko.