The British government announced the intention to tighten the immigration policy of the United Kingdom, in particular, to limit the provision of a permanent residence permit to foreign specialists. This right is supposed to be granted only to those visitors, whose knowledge and professions of which the British economy needs.

In the Egyptian resort city of Sharm-Esh-Sheikh, a four-sided meeting of the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon and the head of the Palestinian National Administration of Mahmoud Abbas was held. President of Egypt Hosni Mubara and King of Jordan Abdullah II also took part in the meeting. Today's meeting of the leaders of Israel and Pa - the first from the moment Sharon was elected to the post of head of the Israeli government in March 2001.

The 28-year-old British yachtsman Ellen MacArthur set a new world record of a round-the-world single swimming round-bearing, broke the previous, seeming fantastic achievement of the Frenchman Francis Joyon. She overcame the distance of more than 40 thousand kilometers in 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes and 33 seconds, and completed the trip more than a day earlier than the planned period.

The famous Spanish director Pedro Almodovar refused membership at the Spanish Academy of Cinema. The same decision was made by the brother of the director, producer Agustin Almodovar, who is a member of the leadership of the Academy and for some time even acted as its president.

In the city of Sarapul (Udmurt Republic), an explosion of a gas cylinder occurred in one of the apartments of a two -story building, a woman was injured. According to Tuesday, the press center of the Volga-Ural regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies, on Monday at 13:35 Moscow time, due to a gas leak from a 50-liter cylinder, an explosion occurred in an apartment in an 18-apartment brick house on a worker street. A woman born in 1919 was hospitalized with various burns.

On February 10, quarantine will be introduced in Tyumen educational institutions. This was announced on Tuesday by the epidemiologist of the city center of the state-owned center Elena Alimova. Yuri Dmitrenko, the chief sanitary doctor of Tyumen, sent the relevant recommendations to the city’s departments, health and culture department. Quarantine in schools, medical and cultural institutions will prevent the flu epidemic in Tyumen, RIA Novosti reports.

A huge asteroid will fly past the earth in 2029, which will be visible with the naked eye. This is the same asteroid 2004 MN4, which the astronomers noticed in June last year and immediately suggested that it might encounter the ground in 2029 .

Although only a small number of Islamist rebels fight against the domination of Moscow in Kabardino-Balkaria, the authorities declare hundreds of young people enemies of the state. The police list for internal use of 430 men are called the alleged enemies of the state. With true data, this list, apparently, has little in common, writes Frankfurter Rundschau (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Metropolitan Panteleimon is removed from the performance of duties for six months. Such a decision was made by the Synod of the Elladsky Orthodox Church , who interrogated the Metropolitan on the issue of corruption, RIA Novosti reports. In the next six months, the head of the Local Church, Archbishop of Athens and All Hellas Christ , will be controlled by the Central Attic Diocese of the country.

The President of the Russian Football Union, Vyacheslav Koloskov, does not connect the recent audit by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of financial documentation of the organization with the election of the new head of the RFU. Recall that on February 4, the RFU office seized documents - employees of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were interested in the financial statements of the organization.

Moscow "Spartak" tied again at the Guadalpin Cup football tournament, which is held these days in Spain. On Monday, the wards of Alexander Starkov could not replay the St. Petersburg Zenit - 1: 1 (1: 0). The expense in the mast was opened by the Spartaks. In the 4th minute of the game, Dmitry Parfyonov successfully realized the penalty, appointed for violation in the penalty area of ​​Zenit against the Argentinean striker Red-white Fernando Kavenaga.

The Council of the Duma will determine on Tuesday the date of consideration by the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of Distortion of Distortion to the Government of the Russian Federation. It is preliminary proposed to appoint a discussion on Wednesday, February 9. The leadership of the lower house intends to invite Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to the plenary meeting.

This year, Russia will show a new piloted spacecraft of reusable Cliper in Le Bourger, which can be used not only for flights to the ISS, but also to the Moon. This was announced by the head of Roscosmos Anatoly Perminov. "In the fundamental plan, the fate of the Clipper spacecraft, created in the Energia missile and space corporation, has already been determined. This year we plan to demonstrate it for the general public at the Aviation and Cosmic Salon in Le Bourger," Perminov said.

A large batch of smuggling from Southeast Asia was seized by employees of the central operational customs in the suburbs. According to the press service of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, according to preliminary data, the weight of the smuggling cargo amounted to about 40 tons. At the end of January, the Mercedes heavy truck with goods from the countries of Southeast Asia proceeded across the Russian border without customs clearance, bypassing the checkpoints.

The statement by the leader of the Chechen terrorists Aslan Maskhadov on the termination of the "offensive activity" of illegal armed groups - a lie from beginning to end, conceived by him in order to win the time, they say at the headquarters of the united group of troops in Hankal.