At the Youth Hockey Championship, the Slovaki team defeated the team of Belarus with a score of 11: 1, and the Belarusians held their only puck in the majority. In group "B" Czechs beat the German national team - 3: 0. Thus, Belarusians and Germans have already suffered the second defeats at the World Cup. Moreover, the German national team in two matches did not score a single goal, having missed seven, RIA Novosti reports.

Two Magate inspectors who were responsible for security issues in the North Korean experimental nuclear power station in Yonben and in respect of which the DPRK authorities decided to combine them from the country, fly to Vienna from Pyongyan with the first flight, that is, on the nearest Tuesday, December 31. About this, told RIA Novosti the representative of the IAEA Melissa Fleming.

In Yerevan on Saturday evening, the chairman of the public television and radio company Tigran Nagdalyan was killed by unknown people. “With a gunshot wound to the head at about 19:30, he was taken to the third Yerevan hospital, where he died,” sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia told Interfax. Sources did not report the circumstances of the attempt on the head of the television company.

The emperor of Japan Akihito found prostate cancer. This was officially announced on Saturday by the Office of the Imperial Court. In the second decade of January, the head of the most ancient of the existing monarchies of the world, who celebrated the 69th anniversary on December 23, will be hospitalized for the operation. It is expected that he will spend about a month in the hospital, during which he will not be able to perform official functions, ITAR-TASS reports.

Four American aircraft carriers, including Kitty Hawk, are given increased combat readiness, RIA Novosti reports. By reporting this on Saturday from Washington with reference to American sources, the Japanese media concludes that the US military machine entered the final stage of preparation for the strike on Iraq.

According to the preliminary results of the presidential election in Kenya, the candidate from the opposition of Mvai Kibaki, held on Friday, is leading. This was reported by the country's national radio and television, noting that the final results of the vote will become known in two days. According to RIA Novosti , Mvai Kibaki is a veteran politician: he is 71 years old, and he began his career under the first President of Kenya Jomo Keniatte in the 60s.

In the Khevron area, Israeli troops as a response on the actions of terrorists completely destroyed two buildings and wounded three Palestinians, RIA Novosti reports. In the morning, the Israeli military, entering the village of a fool located next to Hevron, blew up the house of Aberrahim al-Qaika. Then the soldiers destroyed to the ground a house belonging to Jamil Hammad Abu Atwan, about a year ago, who died in Calcilia and accused of the Israeli side of involvement in the attacks.

Iraq handed over the UN list of its scientists related to the development of chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs. The correspondent of RIA Novosti reports this, on Saturday evening at a press conference in Baghdad, a representative of UNMOVIC and the Iraq in Iraq Hiro Ueki.

17 bodies were seized by rescuers from under the wreckage of the Government House in Grozny over the past night. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the operational headquarters in Grozny. Agencies provide various data on the number of victims. Interfax, citing a source in the Ministry of Emergencies of the Chechen Republic, reports about 39 dead and 152 wounded. ITAR-TASS reports that 47 people were killed.

Brazilian Ronaldo became the best athlete of the world according to the largest Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. The best tennis player Marat Safin is recognized in Russia. Sports journalists of national information agencies from all the continents of the planet who sent the strongest athletes of the world and Russia expressed their opinion in the survey. Marat Safin won the title of the best athlete in 2002 - 134 points with a great advantage.

In the Moscow airport "Vnukovo" on Saturday, the Ministry of Emergencies from Mozdok will be delivered by the victims of a terrorist act in Grozny. “We received lists from Mozdok, in which 32 surnames are on. Two from this list died of wounds,” Adlan Magomadov, Presidential Magomadov, told Interfax on Saturday. He did not exclude that the Ministry of Emergencies will take on board all the victims in medical institutions in Mozdok.

Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov became Russian figure skating champions in ice dancing. They performed a four -minute composition on oriental motifs perfectly. The hall looked, holding his breath, and in the end exploded with a standing ovation. A sharp struggle went for the second and third places. As a result, Svetlana Kulikova and Arseniy Markov from Moscow, Bronze Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, notes the silver medalists, ITAR-TASS notes.

'Tampa Bay Lighting' this season shows hockey a worthy hit in the playoffs. In the match of the next gaming day 'Tampa', led by Russian goalkeeper Nikolai Khabibulin, won the recent leader of the championship - Boston. In the middle of the third period, two goals with a difference of two minutes of goals in the gate of Bruins were held by Martin Saint-Louis and Fredrick Modin. This brought the Victory 'Lighting' with a score of 5: 2.

More than 40 victims of the terrorist attack in Grozny were evacuated by army aviation in military hospitals. As the ITAR -TASS, the head of the press service of the OGV, Colonel Nikolai Baranov, said today, three helicopters of army aviation from the place of tragedy to the military hospital in Mozdoka delivered 26 people, 4 people to the hospital in Khankala, and 9 people to the hospital at the Severny airfield.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell during a telephone conversation with the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov expressed his condolences in connection with the death of people as a result of the terrorist attack in Grozny, emphasizing the need to combine efforts in the fight against terrorism. This was reported on Saturday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.