In one training in emergency landing on the water, astronauts lose 3-4 kg of weight. This was told today by the head of the survival department of the Cosmonauts training center (CPC) Valery Trunov. “Among the astronauts, it is considered the most difficult,” he said. All astronauts study in the Black Sea, where joint exercises of the search and rescue services of Russia, the USA and Canada will take surviving in extreme conditions.

Cleopatra’s outfit for 180 thousand dollars, which was worn by starring in the film "Asterix and Obelix", Italian actress Monica Bellucci, was abducted from a hotel on the French Riviera, in Cannes. As the police established, theft was committed by a waiter who wanted to impress his acquaintances.

Saddam is alive and wrote another letter, says the newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi , published in London. Earlier, the newspaper published a photo of a letter that came on a fax on Sunday, and on Wednesday - and its text. The text of the letter with some reductions : "From Saddam Hussein to Mujahideen in all places, the brave sons of the Arab world, members of the Party of the Arab Socialist Renaissance. We fight with cowardly American and British aggressors.

On Wednesday night, the main series of the overseas hockey season was started - the final of the Stanley Cup, in which the New Jersey Devils and Anaheim Mait Dax came together. Long before the starting whistle, this rivalry many hockey lovers christened as the "ending of the nightmares", RIA Oreanda notes. Proof of this is the game of both teams. After all, both clubs are bright representatives of the so-called defensive and destructive hockey.

In Moscow, in the 74th year of his life, Shirpach Alexander Prokofiev died, better known in criminal circles under the nickname Shorin. It was his life that the Brothers Vainers took as a basis when creating the image of a brick in the script of the film "The meeting place cannot be changed." This role in the picture of Stanislav Govorukhin was played by actor Stanislav Sadalsky. According to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, Prokofiev was judged eight times for pocket thefts.

A criminal who is accused of serial murders for sexual motives of five women was arrested in the United States. The massive hunt for 34-year-old Derrick Todd Lee, who for a long time holding in fear of the beautiful half of Louisian, ended in his detention at 20:30 on Tuesday in Atlanta. The police acted on the fire of the FBI, who released the on the eve of the arrest of one of the most dangerous criminals in the United States.

In a hospital in Saudi Arabia, a team of surgeons conducted a unique operation: the patient was removed with a racial tumor weighing 17 kg. RIA Novosti, citing the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, reports that the surgeon team of King Faisal to conduct surgery for 10 hours. The giant tumor sprouted in the small and large intestines, the rectum and stomach of the patient. As a result, only 5% of the tumor was left to preserve blood vessels. Further the patient will be treated with chemotherapy.

On Wednesday, the Moscow City Court sentenced the 14 years in prison in a colony of general regime Mikhail Smurov, one of the executors of the explosion in the Kotlyakovsky cemetery in November 1996. Smurov was taken into custody in the courtroom, Interfax reports. The court found Smurov guilty of committing an intentional murder with special cruelty by preliminary conspiracy by a group of persons. The court noted that the crime was committed in a hazardous way for many people.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia intends to charge Timofeus Sasykov in the near future in the near future. “In the near future, Saskov will be charged with exceeding the official authority, which was expressed in the illegal distribution of apartments,” said Sergey Fridinsky, deputy prosecutor general of the Russian Federation.

In Nepal, a helicopter crashed with climbers of Everest. Two people who were on board died, another 6 people were injured in varying severity, reports Reuters. The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter, belonging to the private company Simrik Airlines, on board of which there were eight people, including three crew members, suffered a disaster on Wednesday morning when landing near the climbing camp at the foot of the highest peak of the planet of Jomolungma (Everest).

In the capital, an unknown criminal opened shooting at two men in the room of the green tower cafe in house 2 on Kelzavodskaya Street. According to the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Southern Administrative District, the incident occurred on Tuesday at about 23:20. The criminal, according to the reviews of witnesses, with the appearance of the Caucasian, shot several times in two Azerbaijanis who were in the cafe.

Four British soldiers sued the Ministry of Defense of the country. They claim that they were injected too many vaccines and vaccinations before sending to Iraq, and therefore they are now tormented by diathesis and depression. The veterans of the First War in the Persian Gulf of the Gulf of Persian is well familiar.

The board of the Estonian parliament approved the composition of the group of Orthodox deputies, which included six parliamentarians out of 101, Interfax reports. The group includes deputies supporting both the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (EPC MP) and the Estonian Apostolic-Orthodox Church (EAC), which is in the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople .

Actor Ben Affleck, according to well -informed sources, signed a profitable contract with the world famous L'Oreal company. Now Affleck will be the new male face of the giant of the cosmetic industry. This action took place almost five years after a similar contract concluded with L'Oreal by girlfriend Affleck actress Jennifer Lopez.

The court of the city of Suleimaniy in the north of Iraq for the first time issued an arrest warrant for a war criminal, the newspaper "ASh-Shark Al-Ausat" reports. Prior to this, the Americans or the Iraqis themselves were engaged in the search and detention of representatives of the former Baghdad regime, involved in war crimes themselves, reports RIA Novosti .