An unidentified flying object fell into the territory of Argentina. According to the metropolitan newspaper Clarin , the inhabitants of the town of San Rock in the province of Corrientes on Wednesday morning were terribly scared by the roar coming from the sky. Suddenly they saw a fire ball flying right on them, after which one, and then the second explosions came first. The peasants who ran up to the place of fall discovered a funnel on the field and a very charred metal object.

On the fourth game day of the Australian Open Tennis Championship, the prize fund of which is $ 19 million, five representatives of Russia made their way to the next circle.

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation at a meeting on Thursday refused the former head of the Central Bank of Russia Viktor Gerashchenko in registration as a candidate for the position of President of Russia.

The Latvian Sejm forbade the teaching in Russian schools of the republic of all obligatory subjects in Russian. The relevant amendment to the current Law "On Education" was adopted on Thursday by a majority vote, RIA Novosti reports.

A terrible accident occurred in the Republic of Mari El on the 9th kilometer of the Zvenidi-Shelanger highway. About 9 a.m. on a secondary road from the village of Krasny Yar Zvenigovsky district, a VAZ-2108 car traveled to the main highway, which was a local resident at the wheel. In the cabin, in addition to it, there were three more men, also residents of the Zvenigovsky district.

One person died and two received burns as a result of an explosion in a boiler room in the village of Krasny Yar in the Horde district of the Novosibirsk region, Interfax reports. The explosion occurred on Wednesday in a boiler room heating a bakery. To warm up a frozen pipeline connecting the main and intermediate containers, a mechanic and an electrician used a soldering lamp.

In the current month, the inflation rate has already grown to the indicator of January last year, Mikhail Kasyanov said on Thursday at a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation. "We repeat the inflationary trajectory last year," said the Prime Minister. However, the prime minister believes that the situation is under control - the surge of inflation in January is quite common for Russia.

In the village of Giha, on the federal highway Rostov-Baku, an armored personnel carrier from the column of the federal troops rammed the Volga car and shot the VAZ-21099 car. The soldiers also opened fire on the Zhiguli car of the 99th model. Traces of bullets are clearly visible on the car. According to NTV , as a result of the tragedy, a local resident died, three employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs were injured.

The leadership of the Ferrari team is displeased by the behavior of Michael Schumacher. According to RIA Novosti, citing the British newspaper The Times , the fact is that during the Christmas holidays, which Schumacher spent in Norway, the famous ralist Peter Solberg drove him at frantic speed at his “battle” Subaru in the vicinity of the border between Norway and Sweden.

The authorities of the Netherlands, known for their strict attitude to the observance of animal rights, were forced to resolve the shooting of rabbits. For unknown reasons in the city of Zvolla, rabbits chose a local prison. They gnawed at electric cables, telephone lines and signaling systems and even tried to make a dig under the prison walls. They tried to catch them, put in cages and release them in other places, but this did not stop the destruction of the prison in the ringlet.

In France, the State Secretary of Real Estate Pierre Bedier resigned. He left this government post after an official accusation of involvement in corruption was brought against him. The officials of the official were identified during the investigation of the case of violations during competitions for state construction contracts. According to the investigation, when the mayor of the city of Manta in 1995-2002, Bede received annual bribes from one local company in exchange for municipal orders.

The US administration intends to change the head of experts involved in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Currently, the search group is headed by the CIA employee David Kay. According to the NBC television company, a former UN inspector Charles Dulfer can replace him. This decision reflects the discontent of the White House with the low efficiency of the working group, which could not find significant evidence that Iraq has a weapon of mass destruction.

Representatives of the National Council of Churches (NSC) of the United States, as well as leaders of 15 other religious and human rights organizations filed a complaint with the country's Supreme Court, demanding the protection of the rights of prisoners of the American military base in Guantanamo (Cuba), Blagovet-Info reports. According to the initiators of the action, people detained without court have the right to legally dispute the powers of their conclusion.

In St. Petersburg, a fire occurred in the building of the Lenfilm film studio. According to the press service of the UGPS in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, a message about a fire in a three-story building of the film studio on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, 10 was received at 8:23 Moscow time. The overlaps between the second and third floors caught fire. At 8:40 a fire was assigned to the 2nd complexity number due to the threat of fire spread to other objects.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II spoke out for the speedy convocation of the Holy Great Council of all Orthodox churches. “Our deep conviction is that in our time it is necessary to strengthen the Orthodox unity is an urgent demand for time,” Alexy II said at a meeting with Patriarch Alexandria and all of Africa Peter VII, RIA Novosti reports.