The Japanese Melx01 magnetic pillow train set a new speed record on Monday. During the experiment on the highway in the Prefecture of Yamanashi, to the southwest of Tokyo, an electric train of three wagons accelerated to 560 kilometers per hour. The locomotive updated his own record of 1999 - the speed was exceeded by 8 kilometers per hour. According to ITAR-TASS, the flight was carried out in "unmanned mode". Management was carried out on a computer from a control point.

In the suburbs, police officers are wanted by a woman who abducted the son of a resident of Istra is reported by Interfax. According to a source in the Istra International Academy of Sciences on Monday, a local resident turned to the duty unit last Saturday. The victim - a 24 -year -old woman said that on November 14, at about two in the afternoon, from her house on Rogkin Street, her familiar resident of Chuvashia, deceived her four -year -old son and disappeared.

The leadership of the Union of European Football Associations will be considered by the incident with the blow of the Welsh Ryan Giggz in the face of Russian Vadim Evseev during the first butt match of the national teams of Russia and Wales for the right to enter the final part of the European Championship. This is stated in the statement published today by the headquarters of UEFA in the Swiss Nyon.

Israel reserves the right to strike at the territory of Syria, if terrorist activity continues from there. This was stated on Monday at a press conference in Moscow, the Israeli ambassador to Russia Arkadi Mil-Man. "Israel reserves the right to take measures in order to protect its citizens," the ambassador said. According to him, a number of terrorist organizations are currently operating on the territory of Syria, whose activities are directed against Israel.

In each region of Russia, at all levels of management, former secret police agents are seizing power, digging and gaining old friends in the KGB to work. Step by step, they make a “controlled” unoperfed Russian democracy. The last, but far from the only example is the persecution of the Yukos oil company and the arrest of its largest shareholder Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The smell of repression hangs in the air. Liberals fear the revival of the police state. Neckha, conservatives say.

The Swiss Rozhe Federer became the winner of the unofficial world of the Association of Professional Tennisian Association in Houston, whose prize fund was 3 million 700 thousand dollars. In the final match of Masters Cup, he defeated American Andre Agassi with a score of 6: 3.6: 0.6: 4, and Federer did not interfere with an unscheduled break in the duel caused by the rain. "This victory means a lot to me. I got into the most complicated group, and in every match there was a stubborn struggle.

The presidential elections in Serbia have failed for the fourth time over the past year. According to the Center for Free Elections and Democracy, about 38% of voters went to re -vote on Sunday. Under local legislation, the elections can be considered consisted if more than 50% of 6.5 million citizens with the right to vote reached them. The election room of Serbia is expected to officially announce the final results only by Thursday, ITAR-TASS reports.

The diesel locomotive of the railway, in one of the wagons of which was explosives, left the rails on Monday night in the area of ​​the city of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region. As Interfax was informed in the Main Directorate of the GOICH of the region, the causes of the accident were the actions of unknown attackers who stole 80 m of railway tracks. As a result, the diesel locomotive of the freight train came off the rails.

The sports director of the Moscow Lokomotiv Boris Ignatiev refused to offer the post of head coach of the Makhachkala football club "Anji". In an interview with RIA Novosti, the ex-mentor of the Russian national team said that negotiations with him were really conducted on this subject, but he decided to abandon the proposal and focus on working in Lokomotiv.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell and his wife Alma take part in teaching girls of virtue of sexual abstinence, writes the British The Independent (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). “Abstinence is what young people need to be taught until she is ready for sexual life,” Powell said in an interview with the Air Force. “It works.

New information about a maniac appeared, which, according to a huge number of victims, has already been called the new Chikatilo. It became known that the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Rostov Region is looking for Konstantin Lubentsov, suspected of a series of double murders. As Izvestia.Ru suggests, perhaps the wanted criminal is the same maniac on the account of which 58 women killed.

In the Novgorod region, two residents of the Nevskoye village stole and handed over a water tower in scrap metal. RIA Novosti , citing the Novgorod Regional Internal Affairs Directorate, reports that the application for the theft of an unexplosed metal water tower came from the head of the Nevsky administration last Friday. As a result of operational investigative measures, the remains of the tower cut into pieces were found in one of the points of reception of Vtorchermet.

The corpse of an unknown man was removed from Moscow. According to the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, opposite House 1A along Leninskaya Sloboda Street in the river, a male corpse was discovered presumably Caucasian nationality. It was 30-35 years old in appearance, chopped wounds on his head. The corpse was wrapped in a sheet, packed in a plastic bag. A backpack was tied to the body, in which there were four disks from the bar.

One of the leaders of the ATP, the vice speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Irina Khakamada, does not exclude the possibility of nomination of his candidate for the post of president of Russia. “Everything in this life is possible,” she said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. “There really are people who think just like me and respect me, my actions and my views,” she remarked.

In Pyatigorsk, the jury repeatedly acquitted a 23-year-old local resident accused of killing a taxi driver. According to the Stavropol Regional Court, Maxim Typikin, previously convicted of theft, was accused of killing a taxi driver from a cross -cutting rifle in October 2002 from a hunting rifle in the area of ​​the brick factory. According to investigators, the accused threw the corpse into the ravine, and burned the VAZ-2107 car.