The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth, the second annulled the award of the former world champion among professionals in the lightest weight of the Prince Nazim Hamid, the Order of the British Empire. According to ITAR-TASS, the decision was made due to the fact that Hamid left the prison last year for dangerous driving. Being driving the sports Mercedes, the former boxer became the culprit of a heavy accident, as a result of which another motorist was seriously injured.

The Russian youth hockey team entered the semifinals of the World Cup, defeating 5: 0 Finnish team. Ilya Zubov and the 17-year-old forward of the Omsk Vanguard Alexei Cherepanov scored two goals, Gennady Churilov also distinguished himself. The future rival of the Russian team has not yet been defined, RIA Novosti reports.

The Henro-Office is investigating the version connecting the murder of the ex-officer of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko in London with two unsolved poisoning, the London newspaper The Sunday Times claims. One of them is the death of the former bodyguard Vladimir Putin Roman Tsepov, who, according to some reports, intervened in negotiations on the fate of Yukos.

Police officers detained two minors who tried to set fire to a transformer substation providing electricity to the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples in Moscow, a law enforcement source told Interfax on Monday. The detained adolescents are checked for involvement in the informal youth associations of an extremist sense, the source emphasized.

The new UN Secretary General Korean Pan Hi Moon officially takes office from January 1. The former head of the Ministry of Foreign and Foreign Trade of South Korea, Pan Hi Moon, will go to work on January 2 and in the morning plans to meet with employees of the World Organization Secretariat.

Maestro Valery Gergiev became the main conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra since the New Year. The artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater, People's Artist of Russia replaced Sir Colin Davis, who headed the orchestra since 1995. The Petersburger, in accordance with the contract, will annually oversee 12 symphonic programs, including the orchestra's performances in the famous Barbican London Cultural Center, as well as perform one world tour.

Five -year -old girl Ellie Lorenson was to death to be bitten by a pit Bulterier in the house of her grandmother in the British town of Eccleson near Liverpool. According to the police, the girl died on the spot. Jackie Simpson, Grandmother Ellie, received serious but non -hazardous injuries and is in the hospital. She may need an operation, reports Sky News .

In the Novosibirsk Regional Maternity Hospital on Monday, the first child was born, whose mother can receive maternity capital. "A resident of Novosibirsk gave birth to a boy at 3:45 local time (0:45 in Moscow). The child’s weight is 2 kilograms of 950 grams, a height of 50 cm. This is a second child in a family, an older girl of 10 years old, " RIA Novosti said in the emergency room of the regional maternity hospital. According to the doctors, the birth passed normally, mom and boy feel good.

The agreement between Belarus and Russia on the division of export duties on oil products is finally planned to work in January of this year, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky told reporters on Monday. On January 2, experts will be entrusted with work on this document. According to him, so far it was not possible to agree in what proportion the duties will ultimately be distributed.

In Kaliningrad, the consequences of a hurricane are eliminated, which caused serious violations of the region’s energy system, they told Interfax on Monday in the on -duty service of Yantarenergo OJSC. After a hurricane, one and a half hundred electrical substations, as well as several power lines of various capacities, failed. On Monday, 53 still did not work.

The Armed Forces of the "Union of Islamic Courts" were knocked out of the last major city of Somalia. The militants are scattered and go to neighboring Kenya. Somali authorities invited ordinary soldiers to pass weapons, promising them not to punish. On the leaders of Islamist groups, the amnesty does not spread. The forces of the Provisional Government Somali, with the support of tanks and aircraft of the Ethiopian troops, were stormed by Jilib and Kismayio in the south of Somali.

In Indonesia, Boeing-737 disappeared, operating a flight between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi. On board the aircraft, which disappeared from the radar screens and does not get in touch, according to preliminary data there are 102 people, including 11 children. A source in the Ministry of Transport of Indonesia said that, most likely, the plane fell into the sea. The search has begun, aviation will join the ships with dawn.

In Iraq, a three thousandth American soldier died. On December 28, 2006, the United States reached a sad anniversary in Iraq. According to the counting of the journalists of the AR, the number of killed American troops reached three thousand people. Despite the fact that the US Army faced much more serious losses in the military conflicts of the past, an increase in the number of deaths is an extremely unpleasant signal for the Bush administration.

George Bush and his wife returned to Washington from Texas on Monday to honor the memory of the 38th US President Gerald Ford in a ceremony in the building of Congress. On Tuesday, they will take part in the State Panchid under the 38th President of the United States in the main temple of the American capital-the National Council, ITAR-TASS reports. Hundreds of Americans come to the Rotonta of the Capitol, where the coffin with the body of Ford is installed.

On Monday, January 1, the first tennis tournaments of the 2007 season started. Successfully began competitions in Doha (Qatar), whose prize fund is $ 1 million, Russian tennis player Mikhail Yuzhny. But Anastasia Myskina lost the first match - not only that, she was injured. The Russian, sown in competitions under the fifth number, in the first circle in two sets outplayed the representative of Italy Daniela Brachchii - 7: 5, 6: 3.