The DPRK is going to go to the "risky concessions" of the United States in the name of resolving the crisis around its nuclear program.

American military intelligence has data on contacts between Chechen militants and armed groups acting against coalition forces in Iraq, reports Ar. According to Major Thomas Sirois, the US Army intelligence intercepted several messages by e-mail and telephone conversations in which the Iraqis received from Chechnya, as well as from the members of Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan, instructions for the tactics of guerrilla warfare.

The Delta aircraft is the next flight number 43 Paris - Cincinnati walked over the US territory, accompanied by two F -16 combat aircraft of the US Air Force. According to Foxnews television company, the US authorities are afraid that a terrorist can be on board the aircraft. The liner sat at 23:20 Moscow time at the Kincinnati airport (Kentukki), RIA Novosti reports.

The Pope John Pavel II congratulated today on St. Peter Square all Catholics on one of the most important religious holidays in the year - God's , Interfax reports. “The world on earth means truth, justice and fraternal love,” the pontiff repeated the words of his predecessor Pope Paul VI, said exactly 40 years ago during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In the Catholic churches of Italy today, thanksgiving prayers were performed and "gold, Mirra and incense" were covered.

In Moscow, the son killed his own mother, after which he committed suicide. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, on the eve of the apartment on Yalta Street with nine stab wounds in the chest and back, a corpse of a non-working resident of the capital Maria Pavlova was discovered. During the investigation, it was found that all the wounds of Pavlova her son Alexei, who came to visit his mother.

The cost of an entrance ticket to the State Hermitage from January 1, 2004 for Russian citizens increased by more than six times - from 15 to 100 rubles. “We did not increase the ticket prices for Russians for three years, which was quite difficult for the museum’s budget. Raising was planned in 2003, however, since it was the year of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, the leadership decided not to change the cost of tickets,” said the representative of the museum’s press service.

Mongolia paid Russia the remaining part of the debt on Soviet loans, said the Minister of Finance and the economy of the country Chultamiyn Ulaan. The amount of payment amounted to almost $ 250 million, reports Prime-Tass with reference to the Mongol media. Thus, the issue of the so -called "big debt", which remained unresolved for more than 10 years, is closed. This was confirmed by the Prime Ministers of the two countries in mutual messages.

The overwhelming number of Russians (88%) plans to celebrate Christmas on January 7. 9% of respondents do not celebrate this holiday at all, Interfax was told in the company Romir Monitoring. As you know, on January 6, the Orthodox believers end in a Christmas post, which lasted from November 28. This post was established even in the days of early Christianity specifically in order for the Orthodox Christians to cleanse themselves with repentance, prayer and abstinence.

Princess Diana 10 months before his death warned that Prince Charles was planning her murder. This was written on Tuesday by the British newspaper The Daily Mirror, publishing a letter to the deceased Princess of Wales, transferred to the newspaper by her former butler Paul Barrell.

Only 67 minutes took the first racket of the world following last year, to American Andy Roddik to win the first victory this season. With the score - 6: 3, 6: 4 - Roddik won the match of the first round of the tournament in Doha from Russian Nikolai Davydenko. “It was a good duel, although I feel some kind of discomfort, playing the first match after the break related to the holidays. But, I must say, by the end of the meeting I already found my game.

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Prosecutor's Office introduced a cassation submission to the acquittal to the scientist Valentin Danilov, who accused of treason and fraud.

Astronomers discovered an object that they consider the largest and most vivid star of all that they have ever seen, and its size cannot be explained within the framework of the existing theories of the formation of stars. The LBV 1806-20 star is 5-40 million times brighter than the Sun, at least 150 times higher in mass and at least 200 times in diameter, astronomers said on Monday at the conference of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta.

In Iraq, the body of the murdered Polish soldier was found, reports the Katar television channel Al-Jazeera. The body was found in the village of El Mindia in the province of Karbela south of Baghdad, RIA Novosti reports. Other details have not yet been reported. This is the third Polish soldier who died in Iraq. On December 22, a Polish soldier died at the Babylon military base as a result of an accident .

According to the data at 20:00 Moscow time, the Georgian CEC processed 80.5 percent of the total number of ballots, said Zurab Chiaberashvili, chairman of the Georgian CEC, on Tuesday at a press conference in Tbilisi. In the presidential race, the candidate from the "National Movement" Mikhail Saakashvili with 96.21 percent of the vote. According to the results of the preliminary counting of the votes, the former governor of the Imrazu Shashiashvili Imieze scored 1.77 percent of votes.

More than 2 tons of meteorites found in Morocco two French researchers Bruno Fektei and Karina Bido. Since 1998, they have been searching for these space bodies in the foothills of the upper atlas and in the Sahara desert, ITAR-TASS reports. Among the rarities are one “lunar stone” and six meteorites that came to Earth from Mars. One of the meteorites from the Red Planet is known in the scientific world called NVA 1950 - this is the abbreviation of the words "North -West Africa".