In the American state of Maryland, an eight -year -old boy wounded a seven -year -old girl from a pistol. As the representative of the local police Derek Baileils said on Tuesday, the incident occurred in the Montgomery area in the children's center. "The boy took out a pistol from his backpack. During a game with weapons, a random shot occurred. The girl was wounded in the hand, at present her life is not threatened," the police representative said.

There is no need to invite Kremlinologists to explain the message that Russia is now transmitting to its closest neighbors and the West. At first, on the first day of the New Year, the Gas War began when Moscow stopped supplying gas to Ukraine due to a dispute about the price of gas. Thus, Moscow demonstrated to the world that it is ready and intends to use energy resources as a weapon.

In the United States, a famous actor, a performer of characteristic roles, the younger brother of Sean Penn - Chris Penn died. He was found dead on Tuesday in an apartment in Los Angeles. The police were caused by one of the residents of the house to the scene. According to the police, there were no signs of violent death on the corpse of a 43-year-old actor. The cause of death is established, reports AR.

The number of American troops in Iraq is currently reduced to 136 thousand people, said the official representative of the Pentagon, Lieutenant Colonel Barry Venel. About the same number of American soldiers and officers were in this country last fall, while the US Ministry of Defense on the eve of the Iraqi parliamentary elections outlined in the mid -December of the Iraqi parliamentary elections to build up their grouping there.

The concert program in front of the Winter Olympics in Turin is striking in its diversity. Italian music will be represented by performers of various directions. Concerts will open on February 11 Andrea Bochelli. On the eve of the publication of the new disc, performing the pop, songs will sound songs resembling arias from operas, and arias from operas resembling songs.

The growth of the Chinese economy in 2005 amounted to 9.9%, the head of the state administration of statistics from China Lee Dashui said on Wednesday at a press conference in Beijing. According to preliminary estimates, the gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of 2005 reached 18.23 trillion yuan (2.26 trillion dollars), Lee Deshui said. The head of the statistical department emphasized that in 2005 the economy developed "relatively balanced", RIA Novosti reports.

As a result of the explosions that threed on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Ashaz (the administrative center of the Huzestan province), eight people were killed, another 46 were injured. It is noteworthy that on Tuesday a visit was planned by President Iran Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad in Ahvaz. However, on Monday evening, the visit was canceled. The reason for this, as the Governor of the Province of Khuzestan emphasized in the official statement, was bad weather conditions.

The Moscow Arbitration Court decided to recover 8.6 million rubles from Mosenergosbyt from OJSC in favor of a military insurance company (VSK), the court said. Given the payment of court costs, this amount will amount to about 10 million rubles. The claim was filed by the insurer in the manner of the regressive claim after the preliminary payment in July 2005 in the amount of 7 million rubles in the Petelin poultry farm, which suffered from the power of power supply in May 2005.

The unexpected wealth in the form of a large piece of oily substance fell on the Australian married couple. The couple found him, walking along the deserted coast of the ocean in the south of the country. The gray amberous, a very valuable substance, widely used in perfumes, turned out to be strange in appearance to the waxy block. It throws a gray amber to the shore very rarely, which explains the high price for it.

Today the external audit of the financial reports of the Orthodox Church in America has begun over the past two years, which is expected to last until the end of March. Such a decision was made by the "smaller synod" of the Church, which is its working leading body.

On Wednesday, in the building of the Italian Consulate General in the Swiss city of Lugano, shooting occurred, there were no victims and there were no victims. According to the RSI radio station, an unknown person burst into the diplomatic mission building and demanded a meeting with the consul. Then he grabbed the gun and began to shoot, trying to break through to the office premises. Consulate staff were able to block an aggressive visitor and handed it over to the police call.

In the case of forced relocation, Muscovites will receive apartments in the territorial administrative area of ​​residence. This norm contains a draft law on the provision of housing rights of citizens during the resettlement and liberation of residential buildings, approved on Wednesday in the first reading by deputies of the Moscow City Duma. “This document must agree on the legislation of the capital with the Housing Code of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MART) has developed the concept of the bill "On the transfer of religious property to religious organizations." This became known to the Kommersant newspaper, which has published a prostrate comment on this subject today. According to the document, faiths will receive ownership of buildings and lands now in their free use.

The National Olympic Committee of Mexico announced on Wednesday to refuse to participate in the Winter Olympic Games in Turin.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office retrained the criminal case on explosions of the gas pipeline in North Ossetia, which goes to Georgia and Armenia, under the article “Terrorism”.