The outbreak of "bird flu" in Turkey did not affect the desire of Russian tourists to visit this country. This was announced on Sunday by RIA "Novosti" the head of the press service of the Russian Union of Trade of Trade Irina Tyurina. “There were no refusals from travel to Turkey,” she said.

The victorious start was taken at the first in the new year in the new year in the new year in the Japanese struggle of Sumo natives of North Ossetia the Boradzovs brothers. The senior, 25-year-old Soslan, who performs under the pseudonym Roho (Russian Phoenix), became the author of the main sensation of the day, quickly prevailing over the public’s favorite by Bulgarian Kaloyan Makhlyanov, who was nicknamed Kotoooi (“European Citra” in the ring).

The health status of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains critical, AP agency said on Sunday with reference to a statement widespread by the premiere attending doctors. "No changes in the prime minister in the past night occurred. His condition is stable, but continues to be critical," the statement said. Joseph Cohen - one of the surgeons who conducted the operation to Sharon, said that Sunday would become decisive in determining the state of Ariel Sharon.

Barcelona continued the victorious procession, having won the 15th victory in a row in all tournaments where the team takes part. This time, blue-granate beat fellow countrymen from Espanyola in the starting match of the 18th round examples. The victory of Barcelona has developed from the heads of deco and Samuel ET'O.

Norwegian Halvard Hanvold became the winner of the race of 15 kilometers from the mass start at the stage of the Biathlon World Cup in German Oberhof. The best of the Russians Maxim Chudov showed only the fourth result. Having allowed only one miss of not four firing borders, Hanvold finished with a comfortable advantage ten seconds from the nearest of the pursuers. For the second place in the race, a real struggle unfolded between the three biathlonists.

The acting prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, in his appeal to the Israeli Cabinet of Ministers, stated that Ariel Sharon would “fulfill the wishes”. According to the AP agency, Olmert noted that if Sharon was able to speak, he would focus on improving Israel's safety and implement priority socio-economic projects. “We will continue to work in this direction,” said Ehud Olmert.

Several thousand residents of almost one hundred multi -storey buildings and several children's institutions in the right -bank part of Krasnoyarsk from the early morning on Sunday and until the deep evening were devoid of hot water and heat supply. According to RIA Novosti in the administration of the Sverdlovsk district of the city, a large accident is called the reason for the disconnection.

In Turkey, a new focus of the spread of "bird flu" has been identified. This is the village of Karakhadyr in the province of Bursa in the northwest of the country. Currently, by order of the local administration, quarantine has been introduced in the village and have been launched by poultry, the CNN-Turk television company reports on Sunday. All trips and entrances to the settlement are closed. There is no information about cases of infection of people yet.

In Pakistan, over the past day, at least 16 people were killed as a result of clashes with militants in the North Vaziristan district border with Afghanistan, ITAR-TASS reports. Eight servicemen died during the attack of militants on Saturday at night at the army block-post near the village of Mirali. The military command sent additional forces and fire support helicopters to the incident area, which underwent the alleged places of terrorist shelters.

The Boeing-737 aircraft with 111 people on board made an emergency landing at the Borispol airport on the eve, the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergencies reported on Sunday. There are no victims and victims. According to the preliminary version, the cause of landing was the leakage of the passenger cabin, in which there were 105 people. The aircraft owned by the Ukrainian airline Aerosvit made a flight Kyiv - Baku.

The director of the Hadassa hospital, Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef, made another statement about the health status of Ariel Sharon. Professor Moro-Yosef said that today, January 8, a meeting of specialists, including neurosurgeons and anesthesiologists who discussed the state of the head of government, took place. At the meeting, it was decided to conduct computed tomography, the results of which showed an additional improvement in the condition of the brain of the Sharon.

The striker of the English Newcasl Alan Schirer scored his two hundredth ball behind the team and thereby repeated the club record of the legendary striker Jackie Milbern, who played for forty years in the post -war years. This significant event occurred in the match of the third round of the Cup of England against the team of the Third Division "Mansfield Town" ("Newcastle" won with a score of 1: 0). Recall that Shirer moved to Newcasl in the summer of 1996 from Blackburn.

The grouping of the internal troops (BB) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus in five directions has a significant reserve to prevent the breakthrough of gangs across the State border of the Russian Federation, said Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lieutenant General Sergei Topchiy.

The protest against raising tariffs for housing services takes place in Nizhny Novgorod. The protesters require the authorities the abolition of the new Housing Code, the Echo of Moscow reports. The current rally promises to become the first political action in the new 2006. Nizhny Novgorod is unhappy with the growth of rent.

The pharmacies of Chelyabinsk refused to sell medicinal drugs to minors, which can be used to make narcotic substances, the representative of the State Directorate of the State Directorate for the Chelyabinsk Region told Interfax. As the agency’s interlocutor explained, voluntary restrictions on their sale were introduced by pharmacists at the numerous requests of citizens.