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.

The search for a particularly dangerous criminal Vladislav Stepanov in Moscow has not yet given results. According to RIA Novosti on Saturday in the Main Directorate of the Interior of the Capital, at the moment the search for a recedivist continues within Moscow. According to some reports, Stepanov may appear in the eastern or north-eastern administrative districts of Moscow.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The aircraft of the Qatari Airlines, who was from the Doha to London, made on Saturday a forced landing in the airport of Damascus in connection with the receipt of information about the presence of a bomb on board. This was announced by the Katar television channel Al-Jazera. The ambassador of Qatar to Damascus, with whom the TV channel contacted, landed the aircraft, but could not report whether the bomb was found or not.

Presidents of Russia and Ukraine Volodymyr Putin and Leonid Kuchma during today's meeting in Moscow discussed the development of relations between the two countries, cooperation in the CIS and the creation of a trilateral gas consortium together with Germany.

From the beginning of the epidemic, about 5 percent of the inhabitants have become flu and SARS in Russia, half of them are children. This was reported to ITAR-TASS on Saturday by epidemiologists of the Federal Center for influenza and ARI RAMS in St. Petersburg. The Federal Center systematically monitors the epidemiological situation in 34 large basic cities located throughout the Russian Federation.

In Sevastopol on Saturday, the only Ukrainian submarine "Zaporozhye" was solemnly bred from the dock. The first stage of the repair of the submarine was carried out at the shipyard of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "Matalist" in the Balaklava in Crimea. After launching the submarine, they will be towed to one of the Russian ship repair plants to complete the recovery work on the ship.

President of Armenia Robert Kocharian called on the opposition together with the authorities to stabilize domestic political stabilization in the republic and "do not reach the extremes." "The establishment of internal political stability is one of my main achievements, and I will make all my strength to prevent destabilization," the president said on Saturday in an interview with public television of Armenia.

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.

A large traffic accident occurred around 13.15 Moscow time in the north of Moscow. According to RIA Novosti in the Office of the traffic police of the capital, the accident occurred at the intersection of the street of the 800th anniversary of Moscow with the Korovinsky highway. The driver of the Volga lost control and crashed into a public transport stop. According to updated data, one person died, six more were injured of varying degrees, including heavy ones.