In the headquarters of the World Bank, whose head Paul Wolfovitz today was embarrassed at the entrance to the Turkish mosque Semiliy in the city of Edirne, showing in holes socks, a report from the places of the Turkish television channel NTV , did not cause much surprise.

The United States plan to finish all tests within one year and bring their missile defense system (missile defense) to full combat readiness. It is reported by Reuters. According to Patrick O'rally, Deputy American Agency for PRO, the new system was successfully tested 14 times out of 15. He also claims that the US system is aimed at repeling possible attacks from Iran and North Korea. The tests of the US system forced after a nuclear explosion in the DPRK.

Throughout the world, the number of mentally ill people occurs. According to the World Health Organization, by 2020, mental disorders will enter the first five diseases leading to disability. In Russia, the indicators are worse than the mid -Issue. If about 15% in the world need psychiatric care, then in Russia their number reaches 25%. Experts note: in comparison with the 90s, the number of psychiatric clinics in Russia has almost doubled.

A girl who wants to conquer Broadway, named Lauren Nelson, received the Miss America title on Monday. For the second year in a row, the main American beauty contest has been won by a resident of Oklahom. 20-year-old Nelson from Loton is studying at the University of Central Oklahoma and wants to become a singer.

Moscow took 48th place out of 60 in attractiveness for foreigners interviewed by Global Market Insight , and St. Petersburg strengthened in 40th position. The first place in the ranking of cities was taken by the Australian Sydney. In second place London, Paris is the third. Next comes Rome, New York, Washington. A year ago, when 30 cities participated in the ranking, Moscow was the 26th. As noted by the Vedomosti newspaper, almost everything in the Russian capital for surveyed.

The State Duma entered a bill that offers to delete three holidays from the list of days of military glory. And last week, lawmakers, on the contrary, made a new memorable date on December 9. Experts are sure that manipulations with holidays are nothing more than a simulation of the activity of deputies before the upcoming elections. In 2006 alone, deputies approved over 20 new holidays and commemorative dates, the newspaper New Izvestia writes.

The Black Sea coast of Russia for the most part was left without electricity due to large-scale energy-starting. The reason for the disconnection of the settlements from Tuapse to Adler was, according to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, the power lines of power transmission due to squall wind and icing of wires. Two lines were damaged by 220 kW, as well as several power lines with a voltage of 110 kW in the Tuapse direction. To avoid overload, I had to turn off the Sochi TPP from the system.

The metropolitan government adopted the Muscovites - Affordable Housing program, according to which the developer must sell to Muscovites up to half the apartments, and sometimes also at reduced prices. This item is unlikely to help the homeless Muscovites, but it will complicate the life of developers and significantly increase the corruption capabilities of officials, experts surveyed by Vedomosti .

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation found that the current rules for registering vehicles contribute to violations of civil rights of owners who bought cars "from their hands" and thus, depending on their former owners, reports "Echo of Moscow" . According to the automobile observer Alexander Pikulenko, the drivers had such a right before, however, he was not actually implemented.

The famous Russian historian and journalist Arkady Vaxberg, who had access to unpublished archives, tells in his new book Le Laboratoire des Poisons ("Laboratory of Poisons"), as the Kremlin, starting with the revolutionary 1917, systematized the use of sophisticated poisons to destroy their opponents - both real and imaginary, the newspaper writes, the newspaper writes Le Figaro .

The election commission of the Moscow Region registered the election lists of the candidates of the Department of the Yabloko Party in the elections to the regional Duma on Tuesday, Galina Khovanskaya said, who heads the list. The elections will be held on a single voting day - March 11. According to the forecast of Khovanskaya, with good work, “Yabloko” can get 15 percent of trust, and with “very, very good” - and 20 percent.

In France, on the M-6 channel, a decision was made to remove the program from the air, which were leading to the former thieves. In the program "SOS robbery", which began to go out in December last year, two presenters explained in detail how the audience could better protect their homes from robbers. At the same time, the presenters demonstrated all the hacking methods that they themselves had to be used in the past.

The World Economic Forum in Davos ended. Within five days, its participants - heads of states and governments, world business leaders and prominent economists - discussed a wide range of problems of international life and global economy. The organizers of the meeting express great satisfaction with how impressively it was presented in Davos Russia, and a contribution to the work of the forum of the Russian delegation, headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The visit of the Iranian leader of Mahmad Ahmadi Nezhad in the countries of Latin America, undoubtedly, was supposed to arouse the anger of the United States, but now the Americans are concerned not so much by the diplomatic contacts of the Iranian president in Latin America, but to prepare the grounds for the deployment of the forces of the radical Shiis Ballla on the Lebanon of the Khizballs in the immediate vicinity From the United States, writes Maariv on Tuesday.

Teaching in a number of regions of the Russian Federation the subject "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" contradicts the Constitution of the country, said the head of the Council of the Muftis of Russia Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin . “We cannot but bother attempts to give new assessments of Russian history related to the exaltation of one people and belittling the role of others. In violation of the principle of the Constitution of our state, the subject of“ Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture, ”R.