The Russian striker of Columbus Nikolai Zherdev in the guest match of the regular championship of the National Hockey League against Chicago nearly cut his throat to his opponent. At the beginning of the second period, in the turmoil near the gate of the “Black Hawks”, the striker “Blue Jacks” accidentally hit the skate with a blade in the throat of the fallen role for the role of Chicago Rene Burka.

The capitalization of Rosneft overcame the psychologically important mark of $ 100 billion. On November 9-10, at exchange trading in London and Moscow, the prices of companies of companies rose by 8%, and compared with the cost of placement, the cost of shares increased by more than 25%, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. Interest in the company is caused by the confidence of investors that Rosneft will be able to purchase Yukos assets and get into Morgan Stanley indexes in growing markets.

An accident involving a police car and a minibus occurred last Sunday morning on Rublevskoye Shosse, an officer of the traffic police suffered, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies said on Monday of Interfax. The minibus driver followed in the extreme right lane and crashed into a police Mercedes with flashing lights turned on. As a result, the police car ran into the traffic police standing in front of him, and then crashed into a Hunday Accent car.

The Foreign Ministry of the Palestinian Autonomy (PA) officially notified international agencies about the consent of the leadership of the Hamas movement to hold a “peace conference” on the problems of the Middle East, the purpose of which will be to search for ways of the unarmed conflict with Israel.

The Pope Benedict XVI spoke out for the creation of a nuclear zone on the Korean Peninsula. Accepting treasured letters of Japan under the Holy Throna today, Pontiff said: “I encourage your country to continue the serious efforts to promote the fair and long world in the Far East.

Although the counting of the votes in the referendum in South Ossetia continues, the local authorities confidently summarize the results, saying that the people voted for the independence and extension of the powers of the current president Eduard Kokoita. A referendum in the European Union is not recognized.

The Japanese government is going to begin an active fight against suicides in schools. This was announced on Monday by the Minister of Education of Japan Bummei Ibuki. The minister made such a statement after last weekend committed suicide 12-year-old girl in Osaka and a 14-year-old teenager in one of the suburbs of Tokyo. Presumably, both were depressed due to the constant ridicule of classmates.

The Moscow City Court recognized the extension of the term of detention to the healer Grigory Grabovo, who accused of fraud, by March 20. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the complaints of Grabovoy lawyers who insisted on the illegality of extending the detention of their client, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva.

The Constitutional Court of Karelia recognized the regional law on the expert commission that examines the candidates for posts of heads of district administrations not relevant to the Republican Constitution, Kommersant reports.

A resident of Krasnoyarsk, driving a car while intoxicated, drove into the supermarket trading floor right through the window. According to the supermarket directed on Monday, the car drove through the hall several tens of meters, until he rested the bumper on one of the supporting columns. The incident occurred on November 11 in the Leninsky district of Krasnoyarsk in the Alpi-Zvezdny supermarket. As the "News Laboratory" notes, the drunk driver was accompanied by a passenger in the same state.

On Monday, the final release of the championship race of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in the 2006 season was light. Maria Sharapova completed the season in the rank of the second racket of the world, losing the first line to the winner of WTA Championships, Justine Enen-Ardenne. Belgian was rightfully the first in the championship race: during the season she spent almost less than all tournaments - 13, but she won six of them, and she was in the final in the final.

Spanish journalists discovered in the garbage of their Foreign Ministry a secret protocol of a closed meeting of the EU leadership and leaders of the EU member countries, which was held on the eve of their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Finnish city of Lahti. At this meeting, the participants behind closed doors agreed on a joint strategy, “to confront the Russian president together,” the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to the Friday article in El Pais .

The Palestinian government of national unity will be headed by the former President of the Islamic University in Gaza, academician Muhammad Schbyir. The agreement on this was reached on Sunday evening during a meeting of the joint National Committee as part of representatives of the FATH and Hamas movements in Gaza, the Al-Jazeera TV channel reports.

Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed extreme concern about the complication of the seismic situation in the Far East. This year, 450 earthquakes occurred in the Far East - twice as much as in the past. Shoigu said this on Monday at a selector meeting. Over the past week alone, 14 underground shocks were recorded in the Far East. A special alarm among the minister caused an earthquake on Sakhalin by a force of 5 points, which occurred on November 10-11.

In the city of Kiselevsk, the Kemerovo region at mine number 12, a coal collapse occurred, said on Monday RIA Novosti in the territorial department of Rostekhnadzor. “Due to the incident, five miners were behind the blockage in a dead end for an hour, all this time they were supplied with air,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, mines -rescuers and mine workers conducted a rescue operation, freeing the miners blocked underground.