About 4,500 jars of black sturgeon caviar found in Makhachkala in the garage of one of the inhabitants of the Dagestan capital of the city administration of the internal affairs. According to RIA Novosti on Saturday in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, in the case of implementation on the market, an "underground" owner of the caviar would have won 1 million 125 thousand rubles.

On Saturday, it became known that the famous couturier Yves Saint Laurent leaves high fashion and resigned. Paris and the most prestigious houses of models are filled with such rumors. It is reported that the 65-year-old couturier will announce its decision at the coming press conference on January 7. After the departure of Iva Saint Loran, one of the most prestigious fashion houses will be either very transformed or eliminated. Neither Laurent nor his companion intend to leave the successor.

A very risky way of movement was chosen by a resident of Alma-Ata, NTV reports. He managed to overcome 17 km on a mountain road on an acrobatic shell of the Renk wheel. Just good physical preparation for such a trip is clearly not enough. With such a descent, it is very important to be able to control the speed of movement, since the road all the time goes under the slope.

Between Israel and the Palestinian autonomy a scandal is flared up about a ship captured on Thursday with 50 tons of smuggled weapons. The Israeli authorities say that weapons were intended for the Palestinian autonomy. The representative of Yasira Arafat categorically denies this. According to him, statements of this kind are aimed at disrupting the mission of the US envoy in the Middle East Anthony Zinny. According to Israeli mass media, the Karine A ship was detained in the Red Sea.

The garden of a resident of the village of Middle Bugalysh of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Retomov, resembles a television satellite center. There are immediately 4 parabolic antennas. Alexander Nikolaevich built the first plate 3 years ago. So the rural craftsman decided to diversify life. All antennas are made of fragments of water pipes, iron and wood. It takes no more than a week to make one. With the help of the first plate, the County could look at about 10 channels.

On European and American raw material exchanges, the price of raw oil and oil products increased significantly. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Saturday at the General Secretariat of the Organization of Exporting countries of oil (OPEC) in Vienna. Not least, this is caused by the decision of the OPEC and countries - large oil producers who are not part of the global oil cartel - to export oil for almost 2 million barrels per day.

Thousands of Coal have already died from unprecedented forest fires in Australia, AP reports. It will take at least 15 years to restore the natural population of these animals, ecologists from the National Park of Wildlife. Koala is considered one of the symbols of Australia, and the mass death of these marsupials is perceived in the country as a national disaster. “Coals are extremely vulnerable. They move very slowly.

An unknown creature appeared off the coast of New Zealand, which destroys all living things in its path. It is reported by the last issue of The New Zealand Gereld. The sea monster looks rather harmless. The animal is a parasitic organism from the spongy family, but it acts extremely effectively. The entire underwater life in one of the largest New Zealand bays is almost completely exterminated. Scientists report that this type of sea sponges has still been unknown to science.

Russian parliamentarians may be in the center of the scandal. The head of Palestine Yasir Arafat, despite the prohibitions, is going to try to arrive in Bethlehem on January 6 for the celebration of Christmas. State Duma deputies intend to accompany him, reports Echo of Moscow . The success of the mission will depend on our determination, said one of the LDPR leaders Alexei Mitrofanov.

In the Vedensky district of Chechnya, as a result of the explosion of the Fugasa, an employee of the military commandant’s office of the republic was injured. According to RIA Novosti in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, the explosive device was laid on the eve on the side of the road near the village of Oktyabrsky and it worked at the moment when a column was driving as part of two armored personnel carriers, two Ural cars and four UAZs.

Ussuri customs officers stopped trying to illegally import meat and alcohol from China to Russia. According to Rosbusinessconsulting, on New Year's Eve at the customs post of Markovo, the border guards detained two KamAZ cars and one MAZ car, on which, according to documents, rice was transported from China to Russia. However, during the inspection, it was found that in cars under the bags of rice there were about 30 tons of ice cream and 150 200-liter barrels of alcohol.

Japanese scientists managed to achieve significant success in experiments to grow artificial eyeball. This was reported by the Kyodo news agency. A group of researchers, led by Professor Tokyo University, Makoto Asashima, was able to reproduce eye apples on the basis of cells taken from the germ of these animals. The received bodies were then successfully implanted in the embryos of frogs. According to Professor Asashima, such experiments will help in the future to restore vision in people.

The President of Pakistan and the Prime Minister of India still met at the summit of South Asia Saarc in the capital of Nepal Kathmandu. However, this meeting was more like diplomatic embarrassment. The Pakistani leader Perevez Musharraf, after his speech, suddenly approached the Indian prime minister and held out his hand to him. Vajpai had no choice but to shake her. At the same time, the head of India clearly did not expect such a gesture and smiled bewildered, reports CNN .

The terrorist who seized the minibus with hostages in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegri surrendered to the police. No bombs were found. The hostages were not injured, reports AP. In a minibus, five people spent more than a day under the gunpoint. The terrorist captured them hostage and demanded 500 thousand reaishes as a ransom, this is about a quarter of a million dollars. He also demanded that he be provided with a helicopter. The terrorist had a box with adhesive tape for the body.

The first captured militants of Al-Qaeda and Taliban can be delivered to the American military base in Guantanamo / Cuba / this weekend. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, sources in the Pentagon reported. The fact that the base in Guantanamo will be used to maintain captured militants, the US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld said for the first time last week. It is still unknown how many prisoners will be delivered from Afghanistan.