Italian "Inter", which is Shakhtar Donetsk's opponent in the third qualifying round of the Champions League, has topped the list of the world's best teams according to the International Institute of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) for the second month in a row.

In the village of Tsuman in the Kivertsiv district, the charitable fund "Special Child" has been established. This was reported by one of its initiators-founders – Protoiereus Taras Maneliuk, the Tsuman dean. The organization united all those who care about the problems of local disabled children.

In the Lutsk publishing house "Teren," a collection of poetic works by journalist, writer, and publicist Oleh Poturai titled "A Lantern in the Corner" has been published.

At a meeting of the Lutsk Press Club of Reforms, a presentation will be held of the new (in many senses of the word) project "Through the Community to Shared Comfort," which operates within the framework of the Program for Support of Regional Think Tanks with financial support from the "Freedom House – Ukraine"…

1. Roger Federer (Switzerland) - 6505 2. Rafael Nadal (Spain) - 3995 3. Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) - 3805 4. Marat Safin (Russia) - 3285 5. Andy Roddick (USA) - 3200 6. Andre Agassi (USA) - 2415 7. Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) - 2115 8. Gaston Gaudio (Argentina) - 1835 9. Guillermo Coria (Argentina) - 1670 10.

The twenty-fifth session of the city council will begin on August 11, 2005 at 9:00 in the session hall of the city council.

The increase in industrial production in the region over the half-year compared to the corresponding period last year is 16.4 percent; output has been increased in most types of industrial activity.

On August 1, the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, introduced the new head of the regional reception office of the President of Ukraine in the Volyn region, Stanislav Yushchyk, at an administrative meeting, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.

Almost 2 magazines of Kalashnikov assault rifle cartridges had to be "fired" by border guards of the "Samara" outpost of the Lutsk detachment to stop a "ZIL" vehicle that illegally crossed the State Border of Ukraine, the Western Information Corporation was told at the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

On August 1, on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of the death of the outstanding Lesya Ukrainka, clergy of the Volyn Eparchy of the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate served a memorial service on the central square of Lutsk in front of the monument to the poetess.