The American telecommunications giant Verizon buys a MCI telephone company, better known as WorldCom, for $ 6.7 billion. Verizon managed to convince MCI directors that the offer of competitors from QWest Communications is less profitable even despite the fact that QWest offered MCI 7.3 billion. According to AR, MCI considered that the Alliance with Verizon, the largest telecommunications company in the United States, promises more benefits in the future and more stable.

In the Indonesian province of Achech, rescuers found another 582 who died from the tsunami under the rubble, AP Monday reports. According to the latest official figures, in Indonesia the number of victims of the earthquake that occurred on December 26 last year, and the tsunami caused by him is 119 thousand 349 people. Almost 115 thousand Indonesians are missing, although, most likely, none of them are alive.

Alexander Ankvab was appointed Prime Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia. At the first meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday, the new head of government was represented by the Cabinet of Ministers. The decree on the appointment of Alexander Ankvab, Prime Minister of Abkhazia, will be signed on Monday during the day, Bagapsh said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

For the first time in the history of Bobsleya, the Russian quartet consisting of Alexander Zubkov, Sergei Golubev, Alexei Seliverstov and Dmitry Stepushkin excited in the overall standings of the World Cup. The Russians put a beautiful victorious point on Sunday on one of the most difficult tracks in the world - in the American Lake Placis, winning the final, seventh stage. The result of 1 minute 49.94 seconds turned out to be victorious for the Russians.

The Ministry of Economic Development has prepared two radical sentences that will change the alignment on the Russian car market. Herman Gref, according to the results of a working trip to Kaliningrad, told reporters that the MECHAT offers to cancel the reproduction of the preferential customs clearance of cars. At the same time, the ministry advocates the abolition of duties for the import of component parts for the production of foreign cars in our country.

Former STRO SSRIO Service Alexei Pichugin, accused of murder, during a meeting in the Moscow City Court on Monday did not plead guilty.

On the 60th anniversary of the bombardment of Dresden by aviation of the Allies on the Antihitler coalition in this city, the doors of the restored Temple of Fraunkirche opened in this city. He was completely destroyed on February 13, 1945, reports ITAR-TASS. In memory of the victims of the air raid and the entire World War II, the leadership of the Frauenkirche restoration fund will conduct a “night of silence”.

According to updated data, as a result of a collision of two suburban trains in Denmark, 47 people were injured in varying severity, reports the Danish agency Ritzau . All victims are hospitalized. At least two of them are in serious condition. The collision occurred near the city of Holstebra to the north of Copenhagen, when the trains set off from the Lingby railway station.

An annual award ceremony in the field of photojournalism World Press Awards 2004 was held in Amsterdam. The author of the best photo of the year was recognized by the Indian photographer Arko Datt from the Reuters agency. The best of the best was the authoritative jury chaired by the famous Argentine photographer Diego Goldberg.

“At the end of February 2005, the end of the examination is planned, after which conclusions will be drawn about the reasons for the collapse, and the investigation will determine the guilty persons in this,” Anatoly Zuev prosecutor Anatoly Zuev prosecutor said at a press conference. Currently, a comprehensive construction and technical forensic examination is being conducted as part of the investigation, RIA Novosti reports.

Vladikavkazskaya "Alania" concluded contracts with three new football players - defenders Isaac Koronkvo and David Quirkvelii, as well as with midfielder Justis Christopher, UEFA.com reports. The last club of the 26-year-old Nigerian defender of the fracture was the English Wolly Supreme Empton, which he left in the summer of the year. Before leaving for the English league, Khorno -Koronkvo played for the Tiraspol Sheriff and Donetsk Shakhtar.

West-Midlands British brewery from the County of West-Midlands presented a special pink beer on Valentine's Day , BBC reports. El with a fortress of 5.6 degrees has a pale pink color and is prepared on the basis of Belgian beer with the addition of nasal from the thorns. The authors of the recipe of the drink claim that this is the only variety of beer of this kind in the entire United Kingdom. The new drink was called Womanizer ("Babnik").

In Hamburg, the day before, an exhibition of archaeological rarities from the collections of the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve was opened. According to RIA Novosti in the GMZ, at an exhibition in one of the best exposition halls in Germany, Bukerius Kunst Forum "Novgorod Museum-Reserve presented 212 rarities.

On the last day of the Devacking campaign, the Yaroslavl hockey club Lokomotiv signed the contract until the end of the 2004-2005 season with the highest paid Russian hockey player-the NHL NHL, Alelanders NHL, Alexei Yashin. According to the press service of the Lokomotiv HC , in the near future Alexei will arrive in Yaroslavl and start training with the team. After resolving the issue of insurance, he will be able to go on the ice in the Lokomotiv sweater.

A soldier of the 58th Army of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation left the military unit in the village of Troitskaya of the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, having a Kalashnikov assault rifle with him. According to Interfax on Monday a source in the district department of the internal affairs, the soldier Pavel Tirtyshin, who was drafted from the Kochubevsky district of the Stavropol Territory a year ago, left the observation post on the territory of the military unit.