Scientists have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus has existed for more than ten years among domestic birds of the southeast of China. Extensive genetic tests conducted by scientists have shown that the source of this virus is mainly poultry. In addition, wild migratory birds transfer this virus from the southeastern provinces of China to Turkey. This is written on Tuesday by The New Scientist (full text on Inopressa ).

Former European Parliament from Germany Ilka Schroeder in an interview with the newspaper Standard accused the EU of financing the Palestinants' terrorist attacks. The deputy believes that, in all likelihood, the international monetary assistance of the Palestinian autonomy, including EU money, went to corruption, as well as to financing anti -Semitic terrorist attacks in Israel, writes the Austrian newspaper Standard (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

In Moscow, members of the so -called "Orekhovsky" organized criminal formation were detained. According to the REGNUM IA in Moscow State University of Internal Affairs, the OBOP OBOP of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Western Administrative District of Moscow on the morning of February 7 during the operational-search measures in the apartment on the Rublevsky highway detained two active participants in the "Orekhov" group.

The audit conducted by the metropolitan prosecutor's office helped to free cats walled up in the basement of one of the Moscow houses. The Zyuzinsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office conducted an audit after publication of the media in late January information that the DEZ officers "wasolated" homeless cats in the basement of a residential building 47, building 1 on Admiral Lazarev Street.

The radical Islamic movement "Hamas", which won on January 25, the victory in the parliamentary elections in the Palestinian autonomy, confirmed that the state of Israel intends to recognize.

A new case of human infection with a dangerous bird flu virus is marked in the southeast of China. This was reported today by the Ministry of Health of the PRC. The H5N1 virus was found in the blood of a 26-year-old resident of the Uyezd Zhanpu Province Fujian. The woman felt signs of ailment in the tenth of January of this year, after which she was hospitalized.

The State Duma on Wednesday adopted in the third, final reading amendments to the Law "On Communications", canceling the payment of incoming calls to mobile phones. The innovation should enter into force on July 1 of this year, Interfax reports.

In the coming days, severe frosts in the territory of the European part of Russia are significantly weakened, the temperature gradually rises in the east of the country. On Wednesday in the afternoon in Moscow, the thermometer columns will not drop below 17-19 degrees, in the region to minus 17 - 22. In the morning in the city from 28 to 30 degrees below zero, in the vicinity - from 27 to 32. In places there will be fog, visibility at which will be 300-500 meters.

As the Catholic Church entered into an alliance with democracy at the end of the 19th century, so Islam , “It's time to do the same,” said the French philosopher Andre Count-Sponville. "However, he (Islam - approx. Ed. ) Should not agree that human law is above the divine law, with which it is impossible to agree with the believer, but he must admit that no one has the right to impose his point of view in the name of God," the thinker said.

Soufers in Amsterdam drag signs from the streets of the Dutch capital on a ban on smoking drugs, after the police and the municipality introduced a ban on smoking marijuana on the street in certain areas of the city. These signs, on which two fingers are depicted, in which a cigarette cloth is clamped, and three clouds of smoke in the form of marijuana leaves quickly became the subject of collecting.

The most famous representative of "intellectual Islamism" Tarik Ramadan advocated the ceasefire of the parties in the "caricature war", calling them to restraint and civilized dialogue. In an interview with the French newspaper Liberation, he spoke about his vision of the conflict and the way out of it. In October, when the first demonstrations began due to the scandal around the cartoons in Denmark, Ramadan was in Copenhagen and was actually a witness to the development of a caricature epic.

The army is harmful to human health, scientists found out. The more deaths a person saw in the war and the younger he was when he entered military service, the higher the likelihood that later the former soldiers will have serious health problems. The conclusion about the dangers of the army was made by American medicine historians who analyzed the personal affairs and biographies of soldiers who participated in the North and South War in the United States in 1861-1865.

In Ulyanovsk, the guard of the furniture factory is suspected of committing a murder of a 37-year-old employee of the factory. According to the prosecutor's office of the Zavolzhsky district of the city, the 21-year-old detainee claims to commit a murder out of revenge. As the investigation established, during the joint drinking of alcohol, the suspect began to share with the woman that he served in the North Caucasus.

One miner died, another was injured as a result of a methane explosion at the Tomsk mine in the city of Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Region, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Siberian regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies in Krasnoyarsk. According to the operational duty officer, the gas explosion occurred today at 02:30 Moscow time, after which a fire occurred in the mine. At that moment there were 45 miners in the face.

The court of the city of Krasnokamensk in the Chita region transferred to Thursday the decision on the complaint of the lawyer of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky to the penalty imposed on him in the form of a reprimand. This was reported to "Interfax" by the lawyer of Khodorkovsky Natalya Terekhova. According to her, the announcement of the decision was scheduled for Wednesday, but today the court did not make any decision.