The Osopa virus caused perhaps the most terrible epidemic in the world. Now some experts are afraid that, getting this virus into the hands of terrorists, an epidemic of smallpox can again fall upon humanity. A quarter of a century after the last disease, scientists of the State Scientific Center for Virology and Biotechnology (STC) "Vector", a strictly protected center in Siberia, still study 120 strains of this virus, reports Reuters (the translation of the material publishes inopressa.ru ).

Four Indian football teams were removed from participation in the championship, after it turned out that 118 goals were scored in two matches with their participation, Ananova reports. Clubs of the second division representing the state of Goa were so carried away by the tournament struggle and, in particular, the difference between the clogged and missed balls that neglected the conspiracy and decided to “correct” this indicator in one single match.

A huge egg weighing 148 grams, demolished by one of the chickens in the Cuban city of Las Tunas, is the most difficult in the world. In addition, another smaller egg was found inside it. The egg will be included in the Guinness Book of Records. Until now, the world record belonged to the Costa Rican chicken, which in October last year demolished an egg weighing 110 grams, Interfax reports. Meanwhile, eggs weighing 75 grams are already considered large.

Vladimir Putin on Wednesday stated that Russia has successfully experienced a new strategic missile system, which, according to analysts, will be able to allow nuclear warheads to overcome the American pro.

Two land plots located in the Western Administrative District of the capital were transferred to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church).

The number of people who died as a result of the crash and the subsequent explosion of a commodity train in Iran, who transported chemicals, increased to 320 people, the Iranian agency IRNA reports on Thursday. The tragedy occurred on Wednesday in the north-east of Iran in the province of Khorasan, 20 km from the city of Nishapur. According to IRNA, the commodity of the 51 wagons stood at one of the stations near Nishapur, when, at least, an explosion occurred in one carriage.

The designer of the Transval A water park Nodar Kancheli said that before the collapse of the roof of the water park there was a certain “release”. According to Kancheli, this is evident from the video of the last minutes before the disaster. “I can’t say what it is - smoke, dust, explosive gases . But this“ something ”was thrown outward, aside the building.

The details of the attack on the policeman , committed last Wednesday at about 19:30 at the Historical Museum on Red Square, became known. A serious knife wound was received by the Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Petryakov. According to the head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, Kirill Mazurin, Petryakov stopped the suspicious young man "Caucasian appearance" and asked him to present documents.

In connection with the mass events scheduled for the last day of Shrovetide and the defender of the Fatherland, on February 22 and 23, the movement of vehicles in the center of Moscow will be blocked, the official representative of the traffic police of the capital said on Thursday.

The exercises on the detection and salvation of the crew of the spacecraft of reusable use were carried out on Wednesday by experts from NASA. The training took place in the area of ​​the Kennedy Space Flights Center on Cape Kanveral (Florida), where such tests have been held since 1960. According to the scenario of the exercises, when landing was refused by the control devices, and the ship fell to the ground about 4 km from the landing strip.

The employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Volgograd region detained when receiving a bribe of 10 thousand rubles of the head of the police department of the Pallasovsky district. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Volgograd Region, the illegal monetary reward proposed to the officer from the director of Volgoagropromrers LLC was supposed to allegedly for non -interference by the police into commercial affairs of the enterprise.

Magadan police officers revealed a crime in which a two -month -old child was stolen. The day before, a woman called the duty department of the city of Magadan and said that she had a two -month -old daughter. According to her mother, she left her child in a stroller near the entrance, periodically going to him or looking out the window. Once again, deciding to check the baby, the woman did not find the stroller in place.

The Prosecutor General’s Office refused to satisfy the petition of the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev, who insisted on the allocation of the entire investigative group led by Salavat Karimov. This was reported to "Interfax" by businessman Vladimir Krasnov lawyer.

In Turkey, a military helicopter crashed on Thursday. As a result of the emergency, all five crew members died. According to the military, the Sikorsky type helicopter transported the patient from the inaccessible mountain district of the Bingol Province to the city of Bingel in the east of the country, RIA Novosti reports. The helicopter fell shortly after takeoff. The causes of the disaster have not yet been reported. Links on the topic

Extraordinary incidents in the naval exercises in which Russian President Vladimir Putin took part not only about the state of Russian weapons, but also of the "deep degeneration" of the Russian military. This was written by the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung in the material, the translation of which is published by Inopressa.ru .