Chinese scientists plan in March this year to create the first “virtual woman” in China, reports the PRC television. This will be the most detailed computer model, completely reproducing all organs and systems of the human body, Interfax reports. Work on the creation of a "virtual woman" is carried out by the first medical university of the People's Liberation Army of China and the Central Institute of Science and Technology of the PRC.

At 32 million rubles, the damage from the fire in the shopping complex of the city of Ivanovo is estimated. According to RIA Novosti on Saturday in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, a fire in a two -story building of a private store broke out last night. The flame instantly covered all the premises, the fire area exceeded 6 thousand square meters. About 6 in the morning, the fire was eliminated. As a result of the fire, no one was injured.

In India, tests of the UPA anti -tank missile with a guidance system based on infrared sensors were first carried out, which allows you to successfully use it at any time of the day, RIA Novosti reports. In the message of the Ministry of Defense of India, a message that was widespread on Saturday, it is noted that the three Maharastra test launches of this rocket were successfully. All goals at a distance of 4 km were amazed.

Russia will oppose the UN Security Council resolution, which automatically authorifies the use of force against Iraq. This was stated in an interview with Interfax on Saturday, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Yuri Fedotov. "We still believe that the new UN Security Council resolution is not needed for Iraq," said the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Two days before the COLUMBIA shuttle disaster, one of the NASA engineers by e -mail warned his colleagues about the danger. When Columbia was still in orbit, NASA security engineer sent a letter to his colleagues by e -mail, in which he said that the incident at the start with a dumped piece of heat -insulating foam may have tragic consequences.

Two people were killed as a result of the encounter of two cargo ships off the coast of Japan. Their bodies were discovered on Saturday by employees of the Japanese coastal protection of the Kagawa Prefecture. According to preliminary data, the dead are citizens of China from the vessel "Fence" with a displacement of 6,000 tons under the flag of the PRC. It collided on Friday near the island of Seto with a Laura dry -loaded Laure Cambodia with a displacement of 2700 tons.

One Palestinian was killed, nine wounded and four were arrested as a result of operations of the Israeli army on the night of Friday to Saturday on the western bank of the Jordan River. This was reported by the Palestinian Information Agency "Vafa". According to the agency, early morning on Saturday in the city of Tulkarm on the western bank of the Jordan of the Israeli River, the car of 24-year-old Ahmeda Fajara fired from a large-caliber machine gun.

In the Kuzminsky cemetery in the east of Moscow, the vandals defeated several tombstones. Sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital reported on Saturday Interfax that on Friday the police were contacted by employees of the Kuzminsky cemetery, who reported that the unknown people had defeated five tombstones in the cemetery.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the state will do everything necessary to strengthen the Russian army. "It is necessary to make our army combat -ready, and the service in it is prestigious. The state will continue to do everything necessary for this," Putin said, speaking on Saturday in Moscow at a solemn evening dedicated to the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland.

In the Shali district of Chechnya last Friday, two leaders of the gang groups, the so -called emirs of the village of Avtura and the district center Kurchali, were destroyed. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the United Group of Troops in the North Caucasus, law enforcement officers during a special operation in the village of Avtura of the Shali district of Chechnya discovered a bandit group of several people.

Valery Zorkin immediately after the chairman of the Constitutional Court in an interview with Kommersant, he said that he learned lessons from the events of a decade ago. According to him, the appointment was not a surprise for him. “I think this is not like when the brick falls on the head. In this sense, this is not a surprise. Everything else must be proceeded from the fact that the chairman of the Constitutional Court is not the head of the judges, but the first among equal terms.

Munich Bavaria may not become the country's champion this year, although it is the first to go in the standings. This will happen if the existence of a secret contract between the club and the Media Magnate Leo Kirch is proved. The amount of this advertising agreement is 42 million marks. Moreover, the 17 -time German football champion concluded this agreement, knowing very well about the existence of a collective agreement - the entire Bundesliga - with Leo Kirch.

The Kuwait Ministry of Internal Affairs announced today about the arrest of the Iraqi spy. 60-year-old Zuheir Muhammad Nadir, who has been living in the Emirate since 1980, was a personnel officer of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, ITAR-TASS reports. He regularly visited Bahrain, where he transmitted secret information to Iraqi special services about the deployment of Kuwaiti and American troops in the Emirate and other information regarding the issues of Kuwait's national security.

The Iraqi crisis and the difference in the approaches to its decision were the focus of the meeting of the pope of the Roman John Paul II and the Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair in the Vatican of the meeting today, RIA Novosti reports. The pontiff first gave the audience to Tony Blara, who professes the Anglican faith. As the Saint Svyat Service emphasizes, the meeting, which lasted 30 minutes, had a purely private character.

From the beginning of the year, 27 thousand people received a new passport in Chechnya, including 2 thousand forced immigrants who live in tent towns in the territory of Ingushetia. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the head of the passport and visa service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, police colonel Alikhadzhi Muguev. According to him, 10 employees of the passport service work in tent towns. Currently, new documents are delivered from Grozny.