In France, a 24-year-old resident of Marseille will stand trial for abusing a kitten, which was recorded on video and posted on YouTube. The Local writes about this on February 3. The accused of cruelty to animals faces up to two years in prison and a 30 thousand euros (1.4 million rubles) fine. The recording, which the accused himself posted online, shows how a young man throws a kitten high, after which the animal falls 4-5 meters from its tormentor.

Zachary Quinto will star in the film adaptation of the Hitman series. Deadline reports this. There is currently no information about his character. The main role in the film called “Agent 47” will be played by Rupert Friend (“The Young Victoria”, TV series “Homeland”). He came to the project after Paul Walker, who was originally supposed to play Agent 47, died. Filming will begin in March, but the premiere date is still unknown.

The trial of Michael Dunn, who shot and killed 17-year-old African-American Jordan Davis, begins in Florida. According to the Associated Press , the trial begins on February 3 with jury selection. The incident occurred back in November 2012. According to the investigation, Dunn shot Davis at a gas station: the man did not like the loud music coming from the car in which the teenager was with three friends.

One of the coaches of the Russian women's biathlon team, Wolfgang Pichler, said in an interview with Sport-Express that he cannot guarantee that his athletes will win medals at the Olympics in Sochi. “I can’t guarantee that we will be on the podium. I can only promise that we will do everything possible for this,” Pichler said. According to Pichler, when athletes take fourth or fifth place, it is a disaster for Russian fans, but he himself does not consider such results to be failures.

President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov said that the organizers will have time to remove the snow and tidy up the tracks where the Olympic competitions will be held. reports this R-Sport . According to Zhukov, there were previously fears that there would be little snow in Sochi during the Olympics. “But now it snows every day.

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) together with the University of California have developed electronic whiskers similar to those of a cat or rat. According to LBL, the new whiskers, called E-Whiskers, are capable of “feeling” pressure of one Pascal (the same pressure, for example, a dollar bill can exert on the surface of a table). Electronic whiskers are touch sensors made of flexible fibers coated with carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles.

After an armed teenager killed two people and wounded a third at a school in northern Moscow on Monday, February 3, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin demanded that all Moscow educational institutions be inspected and their security levels increased.

Norwegian snowboarder Thorstein Horgmo broke his collarbone during training in Krasnaya Polyana, where the Sochi Olympics competitions in this sport will be held. Horgmo, who was considered one of the medal contenders in slopestyle, was injured when he fell on a railing that is part of the course, USA Today reported.

A new actor has been found for the main role in the rock musical “TODD”, which was previously played by the lead singer of the group “The King and the Jester”, Mikhail Gorshenev, who died in 2013. This became known from a press release received by Lenta.ru. The role of hairdresser Swinney Todd in the production will be played by musician Robert Ostrolutsky, founder of the Moscow thrash metal band Crownear, which existed from 1987 to 1996, and lead singer of the band “Dogs of Tabaka”.

Juventus players during the match with Inter. Photo: Marco Bertorello / AFP The Turin football club Juventus beat Inter Milan in the Italian Serie A match. The meeting, which took place on the evening of February 2, ended with a score of 3:1. This was reported on the official website of the league. Juventus took the lead in the 15th minute of the game. The goal was scored by Turin defender Stefan Lichtsteiner after a cross from Andrea Pirlo.

A teenager detained for taking hostages at Moscow school number 263 will be sent for a psychiatric examination. reported this on February 3 RIA Novosti . “The reasons that prompted the teenager to commit a crime are being clarified.

In 2013, the supply volume on the market of new buildings in “old Moscow” increased by 19.2 percent. This is stated in the review of the NDV-Real Estate company. As analysts note, the main increase was provided by new facilities, and not by additional buildings in projects already underway. The share of apartments in the primary market has more than doubled compared to the end of 2012.

Euromaidan activists installed a toilet covered with gold paint on a pedestal in the center of Kyiv, from where a monument to Lenin was toppled. Vesti.ua reports this. Participants in the action said that their sculpture symbolizes “a criminal regime, unjustified luxury and corruption.” Possession of the “golden toilet” has long been attributed to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych by his opponents.

Kazan football club "Rubin" is negotiating the transfer of English Newcastle forward Papiss Cissé. Sport Express reports this. The newspaper notes that Kazan intends to formalize the transfer of the 26-year-old Senegal national team player on February 3 in order to have time to register him for participation in the Europa League. The application period ends on February 3. According to Sport Express, Rubin is ready to pay 10 million pounds sterling (12.1 million euros) for Cisse.

The Cure will release their 14th studio album in 2014, writes NME. The album has a working title of "4:14 Scream", which is a reference to The Cure's previous studio work, the album "4:13 Dream", released in October 2008. The exact release date of the new record is not indicated. In 2014, the group also plans to release a series of concert DVDs and go on another tour. The tour will be built according to the scheme that the musicians used during the Trilogy (2002) and Reflections (2011) tours.