In Ulyanovsk, on Monday, seven teenagers were arrested accused of murder of one of the members of their group. According to the senior assistant to the prosecutor of the region, Vasily Winter, the investigation found that the 15-year-old student of the aviation college Sergey (the surname is not called in the interests of the investigation) was a member of the criminal youth group specializing in the embezzlement of details and a radio from private vehicles.

In the city of Kolpino, located in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, a massive escape is made from the children's correctional colony. This was announced on Monday by a source in law enforcement. The source clarified that 18 pupils aged 14 to 18 were escaped on Monday night. 13 of them were already detained by morning. The search was mainly carried out at the place of residence of relatives of adolescents and their acquaintances.

And so not a very good year for the pop star Michael Jackson ended even more unpleasant and insulting - he was called the largest loser of 2002.

The Novosibirsk air traffic controllers joined on Monday to the protest announced by the Federation of Trade Unions of the Russian aircraft Spatters. The action will be held in the form of a hunger strike, said Konstantin Karakhalin, deputy chairman of the aviation dispatch of the Novosibirsk Region. According to him, it is assumed that 50 - 70 air traffic controllers, as well as engineering employees, will take part in the hunger strike.

The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II bruised her leg and will meet Christmas with a wand. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, Buckingham Palace said on Monday evening. Despite the trauma, Elizabeth is the second and her husband Duke Edinburgh will take part in the Christmas Mass in Sentrinkham, which is located in the county of Norfolk. In this place is the Sendrinkham House, the private house of the British queen, in which she and members of the royal family will meet Christmas.

The North Caucasus District Military Court will introduce on Monday the accused of the murder of the Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva Colonel Yuri Budanov with the conclusions of psychiatrists who conducted the examination of the defendant.

Three rebel groups in the Cote of D'Ivoire on Monday were a meeting with the aim of unit against troops loyal to the President of the country Laurent Gbagbo, RIA Novosti reports. The meeting followed after the day before the French command announced the possibility of sending significant forces to stop the internal armed conflict in the African country.

At the age of fifty, the leader of the punk group The Clash Joe Strammer died. According to the official representative of the singer, he died on Sunday, BBC reports. Straimmer became the legend of Rock in the late 70s, when he headed the London group The Clash, performing punk style music. The group had an anti -racist orientation, it became known for its provocative intellectual songs, such as London's Calling, White Riot, White Man in Hammersmith Palais and Tommy Gun.

During the customs inspection of the Dok-Express Marine self-propelled barge, which arrived from Martinics to the French port of Lorian, a large batch of cocaine was discovered, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the France-Info radio station. There was an unusual load on the dry cargo - sailing yachts. Customs officers, obviously, received preliminary drug information, climbed one of the yachts, where 900 kg of cocaine found in the cache.

In Iran, the AN-140 passenger plane crashed, transporting Ukrainian scientists. According to Reuters with reference to Iranian television, 42 people and four crew members were on board the liner. As the Minister of Transport of Iran said, they all died. According to Iranian TV, all passengers are employees of the Ukrainian aerospace organization. They flew to Iran to test a new aircraft. The name of this organization is not reported.

On the third transport ring in Moscow, a traffic accident occurred, as a result of which the car caught fire. In the area of ​​the congress to Krasnaya Presnya, a slight accident occurred between the Gazelle, Mersedes and the third machine, presumably the Peugeot brand, which caught fire, reports RIA Novosti . Currently, the car is entirely embraced by a flame. According to preliminary data, none of the passengers of a foreign car was injured.

The Japanese celebrate the national holiday on Monday - the birthday of the emperor. The owner of the chrysanthemum throne - Akihito - turned 69 years old. On this occasion, the country is a day off allotted for celebrations. Akihito became the monarch of Japan on January 7, 1989 after the death of his father - Emperor Hirochito. From that time, according to the ancient tradition, a new period of Japanese chronology, which is called Hayesi, has begun.

In Omsk, the match of the "All Stars" of the Russian Hockey Super League ended, in which the East team with a score of 8: 4 beat the West team. The winners have three goals on the account of Maxim Sushinsky and Alexander Selivanov, Gomolyako and Prokopyev also distinguished themselves. As part of the West team, the puck was abandoned by Nemchinov, Antipov, Epanchintsev and Turkovsky.

The court in the case of Colonel Yuri Budanov, accused of the murder of a Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, conducted an interrogation of a new witness to the prosecution, whose call was achieved by the lawyer of the Kungaevs Abdullah Khamzaev. Taisiya Suleimanova, who lived next to the Kungayevs and was friends with the deceased Elsa, answered questions from the court. The interrogation was in Chechen with the participation of the translator.

In the Federation of Trade Unions of the Air Forcers (FPAD) of Russia, they refute information about the beginning of negotiations between trade unions and the head of the Ministry of Labor Alexander Pochinka to resolve issues related to the protest of the air traffic controllers.