The threat of a terrorist attack with the use of weapons of mass destruction "is real." It comes from terrorist groups striving to cause "maximum harm as many people as possible." The general director of the National Police and the Civil Guard (militarized police), Hoan Meskid, made such a warning on Tuesday evening in Madrid.

The editor -in -chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov received the International Freedom Press Freedom Award - for work in dangerous conditions. The ceremony was held in New York, it was attended by about 800 people, the newspaper website reports. Among the guests were prominent representatives of the US media industry. Among them are the publisher of The Wall Street Journal Gordon Kravitz, the publisher of The National Katrina Vanden Hevel, editor -in -chief of Reuters David Schlezinger.

At the Russian stage of the World Cup in Ski Racing in Demino on December 15-16, the first male and female races in history with a common start will be held, which will be allowed to change skis during the distance. This was announced by the Executive Director of the International Sports Sports Federation (FIS) Yorg Capol.

The Australian pop singer Kylie Minog released her new album on the Internet. Fans gained access to the tenth studio album Minogu X on the website of the Nokia Music Store online store. On physical media, the singer’s new work has not yet been released. For downloading the album, fans are invited to pay $ 16, or 1 dollar 60 for separate tracks. The singer first released the digital version of her album before he began to be sold on disks.

The acting head coach of the Kyiv Dynamo Oleg Luzhny believes that almost half of the players do not meet the requirements of the team and the club has a "personnel revolution". “Frankly, I already have the so -called“ black list ”of football players who, in my opinion, do not meet the requirements of Dynamo. This is almost half the current composition,” Lyuzhny said in an interview with the newspaper “Blik”, the text of which was published on the official website of the football club.

The British police continues the investigation in the case of serial crimes of the sexual maniac Peter Tobin. He was charged with two murders of girls whose remains were found next to his house. Forensicists continue to explore the house in Margate (County Kent), where Tobin lived in 1991, BBC TV channel reports. Currently, 61-year-old Peter Tobin is serving a sentence for rape and brutal murder of Angelica Cup.

As a result of the mass boycott of the elections in the Assembly (parliament) and local controls of Kosovo, which took place last Saturday, the Serbs lost power in five regions of this region as part of Serbia, where their representatives still had a majority, Belgrade news agencies from Protina reported on Wednesday. We are talking about the areas of the Novo Brdo, Strpce, Zubin Stream, Leposavich and Struly.

In Switzerland, more and more revolutions are gaining a sexual scandal associated with the former and current players of the Tun football club, who are accused of intimate relationships with the minor fan of the club. Judging by the information common on the eve of the Swiss media, in total, only 14 people may be criminalized in the form of imprisonment for up to ten years, reports Newsru.ua .

As a result of a powerful flood in the northern province of Oro in Papua-New Guinea, caused by the Pacific cyclone of the “lip” 153 people, dozens continue to be missing. As a result of the spill of the rivers, dozens of settlements are flooded, with many of which there is completely no connection, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Australian Agency of AAR . Among the external world cut off from the province of Popendatta.

In Dagestan, an attempt was committed to a candidate for deputies of the State Duma Farid Babaev. He was the first leader in the Dagestan election list of the Yabloko party. As Interfax reports with reference to Ruslan Salalabekova, who occupies the second number on this list, the attempt was made when Fabaev entered the entrance of his house. Now he is now in a hospital in serious condition, he is being done.

The key witness in the case of Madlen McCan recognized Robert Murat's friend as the alleged kidnapper of the girl: they were seen together in Morocco. The detectives suggested that she helped pedophiles take the child to Morocco. The 60-year-old Spaniard Isabelle Gonzalez admitted to the police that she saw the alleged Madeleine in Morocco, along with 34-year-old Michael Valzuh, writes The Daily Mirror .

The head coach of the Russian national team HUS Hiddink made it clear that he does not really count on the help of the Croatian team in terms of entering the 2008 European Championship in football. Such an opinion was expressed on Tuesday in Andorra at a press conference, preceding the final meeting of Russian and Andoric football players as part of the Euro-2008 qualifying cycle.

The Deputy Minister of Defense, the State Secretary of the Army General Nikolai Pankov, was subjected to sharply criticism, the Department of Department of Department of Department of Department for insufficient, in his opinion, attention to the problems of ensuring social protection of military personnel and paying their money, RIA Novosti reports. “It seems that the Ministry of Finance is working in rural accounts, not state -owned men,” the general exclaimed.

A terrible crime against humanity was called the chairman of the European Parliament Hanss-Gaert Petering Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine. According to Interfax , the head of the European Parliament made a special statement in memory of the victims of mass hunger, which devastated Ukraine 75 years ago.

An explosion occurred in a residential building in the village of Zemetchino, ITAR-TASS. This happened on Wednesday at 9:50 Moscow time. From the explosion, a three -story four -entrance brick house on Lermontov Street suffered. Presumably, household gas exploded, according to the Ministry of Emergencies. According to preliminary data, there were no dead and victims. The explosion occurred on the third floor in the first entrance.