Defender of the NHL club "San Jose Sharks" and the Swedish Olympic national team Magnus Ragnarsson broke his finger in today's match against Florida, blocking in the second period the throw of Pavel Bure Panther leader. According to the assistant to the head coach of San Jose, Rich Preston, Ragnarsson showed true heroism, not leaving the team in difficult times, and continuing to play even with a broken finger.

The Italian referee Pierliji Collin, recognized as the best in his country in the fall, was a huge margin of leading in the nomination "Best Football Arbiter of the World" according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). Previously, he already won this title three times. Kollin scored 129 points, while his closest pursuers of the √ Swede Andres Friske and the Dane Kim Milton Nilon Nilon √ only 47 and 34 points, respectively.

In Moscow, as a result of the explosion in the food market near the Vykhino metro station, four people were injured. The police officers who arrived at the scene found out that the gas cylinder exploded in a container for the sale of fruits. Sellers - immigrants from Azerbaijan - heated with this cylinder storage with goods. As a result of gas leakage, an explosion occurred from the cylinder. One of the sellers received serious injuries and was hospitalized in critical condition.

Edson Arantes, before Nasimieento or Pele, is convinced that the Brazilian team will reach the final of the World Cup. Doubts is only the future rival of the four -time world champions of the world. According to the great football player, who was expressed by him in an interview with the newspaper Globo, published in Rio de Janeiro, they may become the national teams of Spain, Portugal or Italy.

Last night, the next matches of the NHL regular championship took place behind the ocean. The Russian forward of Pittsburgh Alexei Kovalev for the third time in the season and in the ninth in his career scored three goals in one match. Moreover, the last two washers the leader of the Penguins spent with an interval of less than a minute, burying all the hopes of the Rangers - 4: 1. It is also worth noting that Kovalev abandoned one of the goals when his club played in the majority.

In Moscow, in the charity center for the street children, a festive performance was arranged on the eve of Christmas. The plot of the performance repeats the biblical story about the birth of Christ, and all the roles are played by the pupils of the center, NTV reports. A minibus with an icon "Caution, children!" They know at all Moscow stations: several times a week, free food for street children is being transported on it.

In the American city of Tampa, Florida, a small Cessna aircraft crashed into a high -rise building Bank of America . This happened on Saturday about 5 hours local time (01:00 to Moscow on Sunday). Aircraft pilot, 15-year-old Charles Bishop died. No one else was injured. The building did not even have a fire, reports NBC . The tail of the aircraft sticking out of the middle of the 40-story skyscraper.

The main rabbi of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia (Feor) Berl Lazar spoke at the Congress of Rabbi CIS and Baltic countries, continuing his work in Israel, at the Krown Plaza hotel on the Dead Sea, RIA Novosti reports. Berl Lazar primarily noted great successes in the development of Jewish life in Russia over the past year, indicating, in particular, to increase the number of Jewish schools, synagogues, children's and youth Jewish centers.

The head coach of the Russian national football team Oleg Romantsev hired consultant Vladimir Fedotov, so that the latter collected information about the first rival of our team at the upcoming world championship √ Tunisia. The mentor of Russians intends to avoid any unpleasant surprises, because, in his opinion, the team from North Africa has significantly added recently.

Tim Henman became the winner of the Australian Men's Hardcourt Championship tennis tournament, having overcome the Australian Mark Filippussis in the final of 6: 4, 6: 7 (6: 8), 6: 3. The match between the first “racket” of the tournament and the last hope of Australian fans was interrupted for two and a half hours due to heavy rain.

A group of Russian parliamentarians is located in the capital of the Palestinian Autonomy √ the city of Ramallah, reports Echo of Moscow . The meeting, according to the commentators of the radio station, was very fruitful. As you know, the Israeli authorities do not allow Arafat to leave Ramalllah. The leader of Palestine is actually under house arrest.

Chernobyl, perhaps, is the most terrible disaster of those in which people are to blame-tens of thousands of people were killed because of it, and the consequences of the accident will be told in several more generations. However, according to the new study of the United Nations, the consequences of the accident at the station became so terrible not because of radiation, but because of feverish and inept attempts to help the victims, says The Observer , Sunday to the London The Guardian.

The former striker of the Chicago Bulls Basketball Club Dannis Rodman was arrested for resistance to the police investing possible violations of the Professional Code in his restaurant. Representatives of the law enforcement agencies Newport Beach found that, despite the existing ban, in the Rodman’s institution it was possible to freely purchase alcohol after 2 a.m.

In his Christmas Epistle, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church recalls that "we still have many difficulties and problems," such as "poverty, social insecurity, the threat of terrorism, crime, the propaganda of immorality, the spread of alcoholism and drug addiction, and other terrible vices." Considering that "the basis of all this is damage to the human soul," the patriarch is convinced that "it is impossible to change society for the better without faith, hope and love." As Alexy II

The German jump from the springboard Sven Khannavold forever entered his name in the history of this sport, becoming the first who managed to win all stages of the Four Tourne competition within one season. This became known today, when in competitions in the Austrian BishofShofen he showed the best result in the sum of two attempts - 282.9 points. In the first jump, he also managed to set a K115 springboard record for a flight range - 139 meters.