The court of Tampa in the American state of Florida, at a meeting on Tuesday, justified the former professor of the University of South Florida al-Arian himself on the key point of accusation: the provision of support for the Palestinian terrorist organization "Islamic jihad". Al-Aryan, whom the American media called the "Professor of Jihad", was justified by 8 out of 17 points of the prosecution. At the remaining 9 points, the jury "came to a dead end", reports AP .

In the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, two participants in the illegal armed groups (NVF) were destroyed on Wednesday, the republic’s law enforcement agencies told Interfax. "At about 17:00 local time (18:00 Moscow time), two NVF participants were blocked in the Meridian cafe in the Meridian cafe. When trying to detain them, they opened fire. As a result of shootings with employees, two militants were destroyed," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Several phone calls from information about the fall of an airplane in the ocean in the south of the Canadian province of New Bransuik entered Wednesday at local radio stations and in the coordination rescue center in the Canadian city of Galifax. According to the representative of the Canadian army, Pat Jessap, "nothing has been discovered so far so far nothing has been confirmed, but we are monitoring the development of the situation," Interfax reports.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nedzhad, who demanded to erase Israel from the face of the earth , unexpectedly found an ally in Ukraine. According to the correspondent of Newsru.com, the Kiev Interregional Academy of Human Resources (MAP) appealed to the UN with a proposal to cancel the resolution on the creation of the Israeli state, adopted in 1947.

Channel One agreed with the American satellite channel DirectV Inc. On the distribution of three new Russian -speaking channels in the United States. One of them is the channel "Time", on which you can see the old news releases of the Soviet period. Experts note that in the American market, Channel One will face strong competition from its Russian colleagues, including RTVI television companies, owned by Russian entrepreneur Vladimir Gusinsky, Kommersant writes.

By 18 o’clock in Moscow time, as a result of the explosion in a 7-story residential building on Godovikova Street (metro station "Alekseevskaya"), 3 people are officially considered to be dead, 30 received various injuries (three were hospitalized in serious condition), another 5 people are considered missing . The body of the first dead woman was found on the 4th floor of the collapsed entrance immediately after the start of the analysis of the rubble.

The Governor of the American state of California Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday for a short time was hospitalized with signs of tachycardia (heart heartbeat). Doctors reported that Schverzenegger's heart is working normally. Schwarzenegger’s spokesman Margarita Thompson spoke in connection with the hospitalization of the governor with the following statement: “On the eve of the governor fell ill with an infectious disease, and tachycardia became the result of this.

The immersion of the Titanic passed, obviously, otherwise than it was still supposed. The recently discovered fragments of the ship’s hull, according to experts, prove that the former reconstruction was drawn up by the catastrophic development of events, writes Spiegel (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). When on April 10, 1912 the Titanic went from Southampton to his first and last flight, he was considered unsinkable.

In the near future, the United States can provide Ukraine with the status of a country with a market economy. This opinion was expressed by US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice after meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday. “We hope that we can successfully and quickly advance in this matter,” Rice said at a briefing for journalists.

When there were no modern methods of contraception, women got out of the situation in different ways. Women used pessaries, made douching and hot baths. Some hoped that if you do not reach orgasm not simultaneously with a partner, you can not get an undesirable pregnancy.

The Publishing House of Zakharov is published by the action-packed thriller “Rabbit Tamer”, whose action takes place in the mid-1990s against the background of the election campaign in the large provincial city of Russia. The author of the novel is Kirill Sheleestov. This is a pseudonym, the publishing house claims that the events described took place in reality, and the author took a direct part in them.

Motorists, whose house is located next to the church, have 10% less chance of getting into an accident, while drivers living next to restaurants and other places of a large accumulation of people, the probability of an accident on the road is 30% more. These are the research data conducted by Quality Planning Corp. , which belongs to a large insurance organization that, in particular, is engaged in an analysis of road risk.

The explosion thundered in a mine in the north of China in the city of Tanshan Habei Province. As a result of the explosion, at least 123 people went missing. According to the Chinese agency Sinhua, 27 miners managed to escape. Explosions in mines in China are repeated with a menacing frequency. Less than 2 weeks in the Chinese mining industry, four major accidents occurred. The most serious explosion of gas was November 27 at the Dunfen mine in the Northeast Province of Haylunjiang.

The State Duma on Wednesday in the third, final reading adopted the law "On the Parliamentary Investigation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation", initiated by the president.

In Moscow, from January 1, 2006, tariffs for passengers and baggage transportation in public transport are increasing. Since the new year, the cost of a coupon for 1 trip on a ground city passenger transport instead of 11 rubles will be 13 rubles. At the same time, the cost of such a ticket at the driver in the bus, trolley and tram will be 15 rubles. The fare in the expression bus along the route No. 400 Zelenograd-the metro station "River Station" will be 26 rubles.