Every century, an asteroid falls with a diameter of up to several tens of meters. The consequences of such a movement can be catastrophic, but science is not yet able to predict them. For example, on June 14, an asteroid about 100 meters long flew past the earth at a distance of 120 thousand kilometers (this is less than a third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon).

The test pilot of the LII named after M. Gromov Hero of Russia Colonel of the Air Force Magomed Tolboev proposed a project of jumping a person from space without a parachute, RIA Novosti reports. With this project, on Thursday, he spoke to journalists. According to Tolboev, he is ready to make such a jump himself.

From July 1, a new system begins to operate in higher educational institutions of the United States, which ensures control of foreign students.

The Moscow Government introduces a bill to the Moscow City Duma, which increases the amount of the fine for stiseral travel in urban transport with 10 rubles. up to 450 rubles, reports ITAR-TASS. It is assumed that for unpaid baggage, including hand luggage and skis, more than one pair, passengers will have to pay a fine of half the minimum wage (225 rubles).

A popular artist who devotedly loves the Russian viewer recently survived a stroke, Pravda.ru reports. It became known that in this difficult time there was nobody next to him. The artist, known by many roles, now lives alone. With his first wife Nonny Mordyukova, he parted for a long time, with her he almost does not maintain a relationship. They are found only on secular parties. Their only son died several years ago from an overdose of drugs.

In Kaliningrad, on Friday morning, an armed attack was made on the president of the regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, General Director of the Zepruss Joint-Stock Company Boris Ovchinnikov, ITAR-TASS reports. Unknown people from automatic weapons fired at the Audi A8 car, in which Ovchinnikov followed the street of the regional center in the area of ​​the Zeprussa enterprise. Serious injuries in the shoulder and leg were received by the driver of the car, which is hospitalized.

The Chairman of the Board of Gazprom OJSC Alexei Miller did not come to the annual meeting of shareholders of the concern, which began on Friday in Moscow. According to the press service of the concern, Miller is not present at the meeting due to illness. He is now on the examination. Instead, the report to the shareholders is read out by the Deputy Chairman of the Board, Alexander Ananenkov, reports Interfax. And the meeting is held by the former head of Gazprom Ram Vyakhirev.

The US Federal Aviation Administration banned all flights on July 4 (on the day of the US National Festival-Independence Day) over the three historical monuments of the country due to possible terrorist attacks, RIA Novosti reports.

The State Duma will consider on Friday on the third, final reading the government draft law "On Alternative Civil Service" , ITAR-TASS reports. Recall that the State Duma set the term of the alternative civil service at 3.5 years. The chamber made such a decision, supporting the proposal of four centrist deputy associations for the law on Wednesday in the second reading to the bill "On Alternative Civil Service (AGS)".

One of the leading manufacturers of copying equipment, the American Xerox, "incorrectly reflected about 6 billion profits in the reporting, the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, citing sources aware of the situation. According to WSJ, the inconsistency of indicators was revealed during the audit of the company's accounts.

On the morning of Friday in Moscow, an attack on the post of traffic police was made, one inspector was killed, the other was wounded, Interfax reports. According to the capital's Central Executive Committee, at 1:30, employees of the traffic police post at the 92nd km of the Moscow Ring Road detained the VAZ car, which was the wheel of which the non-working citizen Volkov was behind. After the examination, it turned out that the driver was very drunk.

The New China agency, which for decades reported the death of leaders in several lines and announced the successes of socialist construction in lengthy statements, spread information that the Chinese government began hunting for UFOs. A group of nine scientists will go to the Delingha area in the western part of the Qinghai province in the coming days in order to study the object, possibly extraterrestrial origin.

In the Polish city of Gdynia, a drunk 35-year-old priest stole a tourist bus of Mercedes, RIA Novosti . Gydyn's traffic police detained the priest after he, leaving the bus from the parking lot, shot down the gate, and then crashed into the Volswagen passenger. This was announced on Friday by the Police Police Representative Gdyn Danuta Volk-Karachevskaya. According to her, the drunken clergyman behaved extremely aggressively at the time of detention. He is currently in a detachment.

Motorola, the second largest manufacturer of mobile phones, announced plans to reduce 7 thousand jobs and related costs in the amount of $ 3.5 billion for large -scale restructuring of the company. "These reductions will affect all the company's business units and will lead to a reduction in expenses," the company 's Air Force quotes the company's statement.

It was still believed that stroke causes irreversible changes in the human brain. However, scientists have developed a new method to restore the brain cells damaged by hemorrhage. So far, the new method has been tested only on laboratory rats, but its results inspire scientists with optimism. “We believe that we managed to find a drug that will help the rehabilitation of patients after a stroke,” says Larry Benovich, a scientist of the Harvard Institute.