The authoritative scientific magazine Lancet pronounced homeopathy: this is a pseudo -house -human, effective only as a placebo. In the article by Ben Goldecra, published in the last issue of the publication, one of the most popular types of alternative medicine is harshly criticized and data on five serious studies conducted in recent years are given.

The IL-62 plane, owned by the Kazakhstani Air Company, made an emergency landing at Tuesday at the Taraz airport (in the south of Kazakhstan), there were no victims and victims, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic said on Wednesday. "On Tuesday in the morning, at the airport of the city of Taraz, as a result of the first engine failure (sunbathing" chips "), the IL-62M (on-board number 86508) of the Air Air (Kazakhstan) aircraft (Kazakhstan)," the report said.

More than 60% of suicides in Belarus are committed by people in a state of intoxication, they reported on Wednesday in the General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus. About 3 thousand people end with them annually, but since 2004 the number of suicides in the country has gradually decreased. In particular, the number of suicides of minors has almost doubled, Interfax reports. "In Belarus, the dominant factor that contributed to voluntary care is the abuse of alcohol.

China intends to re -equip the Turkmen army: next year he will put a military equipment in the country, as well as a new uniform for officers and soldiers, providing Ashgabat for a military loan of $ 3 million. Experts note that lending is an element of Beijing’s sequential policy to disseminate its influence on the countries of Central Asia, writes an independent newspaper .

The largest financial company Citigroup, who seriously injured against the backdrop of a mortgage crisis, found support in the person of the state corporation from the United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia). CITI agreed to sell its papers for $ 7.5 billion, which is 4.9% of the shares of the entire company and makes the UAE capital one of the largest shareholders of the bank.

The solemn promise that the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave yesterday about the immediate start of negotiations and their completion during 2008, before leaving the political scene of George Bush, gives rise to hopes that few dared to talk about.

In Saudi Arabia, suspects were detained who prepared an attack on the country's oil facilities. Data on their number varies significantly. First, the AR, citing anonymous representatives of the bodies, reported eight terrorists. Then television spokeswoman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom of Mansur AT-Turki on the air of state television AL-Ikhbariya reported: 208 people, united in six cells.

The company "Investstroik" suits the residents of the house in the lane of the Sivtsev enemy on Arbat. 13 families prevent the developer from demolishing their house under an elite new building. The defendants in the lawsuit are recognized by children and the deceased woman. About this writes "Moscow correspondent." Arithmetic errors The confrontation of residents with the investor began back in 2005. By order? 38, the Moscow government allowed the "comprehensive reconstruction" at home? 42 p.

A criminal case has been instituted in Perm against a man from whom the police seized 500 fake absentee certificates for voting in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. It should be noted that in the Leningrad Region the fact of violation of elected law has already been established : the purchase and sale of absenteeisms.

The plenary meeting of the National Congress (Parliament) of Mexico was stopped on Tuesday after five deputies received calls demanding a ransom for allegedly stolen children. As the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Ruth Savalet later said, all threats to the parliamentarians were false. The incident became known when deputy Mirny Rinkon Vargas, who participated in the parliamentary session, became bad. Unknown people called the woman and said that they had one of her daughters.

The streets of St. Petersburg are flooded by riot police. According to Fontanka.ru , in an hour from 15 to 16 along the Pulkovo highway 10 cars with riot police drove in full equipment with shields. On Zagorodny Prospekt there are three columns of 10 riot police cars in each.

Salavat Karimov, an investigator for particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office, who previously headed the criminal investigation team against former shareholders of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, was questioned on Tuesday as a witness in the District Court of the Cyprus city of Nikosia.

The Metropol group plans to invest about $ 800 million in Vietnam Real Estate. With this money in the capital of the country, the company expects to build offices and elite apartments. Interest in Vietnam in Metropol is explained by a combination of a low cost of construction with high demand for real estate.

As already reported , the leader of the Buddhists of Tibet, offered the day before to conduct among the followers of his teaching around the world (there are from 13 to 14 million people) a referendum on whether he should undergo reincarnation. The Dalai Lama wants the referendum to be held until he left this world.

Popular publication What Car? And the British insurance company Warranty Direct compiled a rating of car reliability. The ten best and ten worst cars in terms of reliability in the British market were identified. According to the editor What Car? Steve Fowler, this rating is very useful to motorists who want to get relevant data on the reliability of new and used cars. He heads the top ten Toyota Corolla 2000? 2002 release. The second in the list was the 1997-2002 Honda CR-V .