The attack of computer pirates on the Internet site of Microsoft with the help of the new MyDoom virus has not reached the goal. Thanks to the hype raised around the virus, most users have worried about the treatment of their computers. As a result, according to Microsoft representatives, the attack was undertaken from only 700 computers.

State Duma deputies at lunchtime can now enjoy live classical music. According to Interfax, on the days of plenary meetings - on Wednesday and Friday from 14:00 to 16:00 - in the deputy dining room, where the employees of the apparatus and guests of the State Duma also have the opportunity to dine, performed by the student of the Moscow Conservatory, the works of Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schubert.

The mayor of Pusan, the largest portion of South Korea, committed suicide on Tuesday in the preliminary prison chamber, where he was placed on charges of corruption. The 64-year-old Academy of Sciences San En hanged himself on a home-made rope woven from underwear, the prison administration said today, RIA Novosti reports.

The wife of the current Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, leaves work in the NBC television company. She reported her decision on Tuesday, noting that she could not combine professional journalistic activities with the duties of the first Lady California, ITAR-TASS reports. During the election campaign of her husband, the Shriver, the niece of US President John Kennedy, took a vacation to NBC.

Seven people burned in a truck on the Chupanan-Ardecan highway in the Central Iranian Province of Yaz. This was reported on Wednesday by the press service of the country's traffic police. The reason for the ignition of the machine was a overturned cylinder with household gas in the back, where people were. In a truck, one of the families transported things to a new place of residence.

In Thailand, a serial rapist of dogs was detained. The drunk Tatsa was detained after an unsuccessful attempt to rape the dog. Judging by the bitten type of rapist, the dog desperately resisted his harassment. The police detained the 33-year-old Torip Ravang at the moment when he, bloodied and drunk, walked along the side of the highway. Locals called the police, reports DPA. The detainee told the police that, returning from the bar, he noticed a sexy dog ​​on the road, which behaved defiantly.

The shares of the Yukos oil company continue to play out the positions lost in recent months: the quotes of papers are growing the second day after signing the contract on the final division of the company with Sibneft. And this growth pulls up the entire Russian stock market. By noon in the Wednesday on the RTS exchange, Yukos shares rose in price to the end of the end of November last year, having risen by 2.4%, the quotes of the remaining largest companies increased by 0.3-2.1%.

NASA is ready to send another Israeli into space. So claims the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post with reference to the newspaper Ediot Ahronoth. The head of NASA Sean O'Kif, speaking at the memory of the astronaut Ilan Ramon, hinted that Ramon was the first, but not necessarily the last Israeli in space. Ilan Ramon was one of the astronauts who died as a result of the Boltla Columbia explosion on February 1, 2003.

The Sports Arbitration Court will consider the "Zherdev case", which arbitrarily left CSKA on February 23. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference by the President of the Russian Hockey Federation, Alexander Steblin. According to him, the Russian side on arbitration will be represented by Alexander Brilliantov, who is the head of the legal department of the Olympic Committee of Russia.

Deputies of the State Duma will not on Wednesday, as intended, consider the issue of the abolition of the "auto -citizen". In the draft appeal of the Lower Chamber, the president was proposed to issue a decree that suspend the law on the compulsory insurance of civil liability of vehicle owners.

Readers did not remain indifferent to the publication on Newsru.com letters from a member of the National Guild of Canada ANNA Evseeva about a difficult situation, in which, due to illness - 3 years ago, he suffered a stroke, and since then lies in bed - was the popular actor Semyon Farada. According to Anna, people from different countries of the world responded.

Three Citizens of the SRV representing the Vietnamese victims of Dioxin filed a lawsuit to American chemical manufacturers. As one of them said on Wednesday - a member of the Provisional Executive Committee of the Vietnamese Society of Dioxin, a professor at the Hanoi Medical Institute of Fan Thu Fi, the lawsuit was transferred to the US Federal Court in Brooklyn (New York), RIA Novosti reports. This is the first lawsuit of the Vietnamese presented by American chemicals about dioxin.

The Russian economy carefully and on time fulfills the order of President Vladimir Putin. The Goskomstat reported that last year GDP grew by 7.3%. This assessment exceeded even the most optimistic expectations: the national economy should grow exactly at this pace in order to double for a decade appointed by the president. “This figure found us by surprise,” Viktor Subbotin from the economic expert group tells Vedomosti .

While British Prime Minister Tony Blair began on the eve of the investigation of pre -war intelligence failures , the former leading specialist of the Ministry of Defense of Mass destruction Brian Jones said that the Dauning Street dossier is a key point for the conviction of society in the need for war - "misleading the chemical and biological combat effectiveness of Iraq." Jones, who, before retiring last year, headed the military intelligence department (DIS), the department of nuclear,

In Kamchatka from the crater of the shevel -scanner, the ash emissions are occurred to a height of up to 3 thousand meters. According to RIA Novosti in the Kamchatka experimental and methodological seismological party, over the past day, emissions from 1.5 to 3 thousand meters occur from the crater of the most acting vulcan of Kamchatka. The ash train stretches 45 km west. The emissions are accompanied by a large number of surface earthquakes from a depth of 0.5 km.