Joseph Smith, 37, who was detained on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping of 11-year-old Carly Brush from Sarasota, Texas, refuses to cooperate with the investigation, reports WESH NewsChannel 2. The girl went missing on Sunday evening, and only a security camera at a car wash recorded her a young man took him by the hand. Smith was detained on Tuesday and his car was extensively searched for evidence.

Yefim Sukhanov, a leading journalist of the TVC-Arkhangelsk TV channel and assistant chairman of the regional assembly of deputies, was killed in Arkhangelsk, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. According to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Arkhangelsk region, the 27-year-old journalist was found in his own apartment in a house on Sovetskaya Street. Death came from multiple stab wounds. According to police, the murder was committed on the evening of February 1.

Abdul Kadyr Khan. Photo by ar The leaks of nuclear technologies, admitted to the “father” of the nuclear program of Pakistan, can be much larger than previously expected, representatives of the IAEA and Western diplomats claim. It is reported by Reuters. The "father" of the Pakistani nuclear bomb Abdul Kadir Khan on Wednesday officially pleaded guilty to the transfer of nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and the DPRK.

In Hong Kong, a 15-year-old boy miraculously survived after falling from the 21st floor, according to AFP. It turned out that he had beaten his older brother in a video game, and was so frightened of the imminent reprisal that he climbed onto the windowsill and, unable to resist, fell outside. He landed on a cloth awning over a shop window on the first floor. He was taken to the hospital and it turned out that he did not receive a single scratch.

Lawyers for Hollywood actor Robert Blake, who is accused of killing his wife, said that this woman could have been killed by Marlon's son Brando Christian. This is written by the International Herald Tribune. Blake, 70, spent 1.5 years in prison after his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, was found dead in his car. She was shot while her husband was away for a moment. Blake spent a long time in solitary confinement, where O.J.

In the United States, a court of appeals has given anthropologists the right to study the 9,300-year-old remains of the so-called "Kennewick Man", according to the BBC. This right was disputed by representatives of some Indian tribes, who insisted that the remains belonged to their ancestor and they should bury him. The court concluded that it was impossible to establish whether the "Kennewick Man" was an ancestor of these same Indians, all the more so without an in-depth study of the remains.

In the near future in Ingushetia the tent camp for internally displaced persons "Bart" will be liquidated. According to RIA "Novosti", this was announced on Thursday at a briefing by the first deputy head of the Federal Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General of Militia Igor Yunash. “In the coming days, I will sign an order to close one of the tent camps. This is the Bart camp. Now only 680 people live there.

In Samara, a jeep and a children's sled collided, Ekho Moskvy reports. A man with a small son decided to sled down a high mountain, but did not calculate, and the sled drove at high speed onto the road, where it crashed into a jeep. The child was not injured - the father was able to throw him off before the collision. The entire right side of the jeep was mangled, the door was smashed. The man was taken to the hospital with fractures.

The death toll from bird flu in Asia has reached 17, according to AFP. The latest victim was a 16-year-old Vietnamese woman who was hospitalized 10 days ago. A total of 16 people have been infected with this influenza virus in Vietnam. 12 have died, 2 have recovered, an 8-year-old girl and a 20-year-old woman remain in hospitals.

A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl has died of bird flu, becoming the 16th victim of the epidemic that has spread across the Asian continent, doctors said. "We conducted a study in our hospital, and the results show that a girl from the province died of bird flu," the deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases told Reuters. The day before, a 17-year-old girl had died from bird flu in Vietnam. In total, 11 people died from this disease in the country.

Logo Bi Line from the site www.beelinegsm.ru On February 3, the prosecutor's office of the Northern District of Moscow opened a criminal case of part 2 of Article 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - illegal entrepreneurial activity without special permission (license) with the extraction of income on an especially large amount (more than 1 million rubles) against Vimpelcom. The investigation is carried out in relation to the subsidiary of Vimpelcom - KB Impulse.

In Germany, in Stuttgart, a fire broke out in a hostel for the homeless, according to RIA Novosti. As a result, one woman died, another 21 received poisoning and burns. Four of the injured are in critical condition. The causes of the fire are being investigated. The building received serious damage. In total, 78 homeless people lived in the hostel building.

Two of the largest Russian museums have declared their desire to permanently exhibit Faberge Easter eggs purchased by Viktor Vekselberg. According to RIA Novosti, the director of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, Elena Gagarina, said that the Armory has the right to count on the transfer of the Vekselberg collection to her, and the director of the State Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, noted that the Hermitage is interested in the collection being transferred to it.

In the Australian city of Sydney blocked access to the subway, thousands of passengers were evacuated due to a gas leak. According to the online publication News.co.au, special services are looking for the source of a natural gas leak recorded at one of the stations. The version of the terrorist attack has not yet been considered. There were no casualties as a result of the incident. It is not yet known when the subway will reopen.

The program of the Open Russian Animation Film Festival, which will be held in Suzdal from 12 to 16 February, has been announced. The organizing committee of the festival told Grany.Ru that more than 50 works were submitted for the competition, including cartoons by famous artists Maria Muat ("Girl Lusya and Grandfather Krylov"), winner of "Nika" -2003 Alexei Demin ("Quiet History"), Olga and Alexandra Florenskikh ("Trophy Films").