NASA specialists on Friday evening decided to transfer the launch of the Atlantis spacecraft for another day. According to the American space department, the start is now scheduled for Sunday at 15:21 on the time of the east coast of the United States (23:21 Moscow time). The main problem remains the condition of the sensors of the external fuel tank "shuttle".

The Russian biathlete Ekaterina Yuryeva dedicated the second place taken on Friday at the second stage of the World Cup in the Austrian Hochfilzen in a 7.5 km sprint race, the senior coach of the Russian women's team Valery Polkhovsky. Recall that a few days ago, by order of the director of the Center for Sports Training of the Federal District, Nikolai Parkhomenko Polkhovsky, the team was removed from the leadership.

The Russian specialist must fly to Ukraine and attend the reciprocal match of the 1/4 finals of the Cup of the country between Dynamo and Tavria, which will be held in Kyiv on December 8. After that, the negotiations of Semin with the President of Dynamo Igor Surkis should take place. This year, 60-year-old Semin spent the president of the Moscow Lokomotiv, who took 7th place in the Russian Championship.

Five people, including three children, died on Saturday night in a fire in a private house in the village of Victory of the Volgodonsk rural region of the Rostov region, the representative of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the region told RIA Novosti . According to him, a message about a fire in a two -story house on Yubileinaya Street arrived the day before at 23:15 Moscow time, and the fire was eliminated only by 5:15 Moscow time Saturday.

The former striker of the Italian national team Dzhanluka Vially, who was familiar with the internal cuisine of the Premier League, supported the position of the trade union of the English championship players, who believes that the island football fell into a crisis due to a decrease in the number of homegrown youth in clubs. "Sean Wright Phillips costs 20 million pounds only because he is an Englishman. If he were, say, a Portuguese, he would be worth a bit cheaper.

A suspect was detained in a completely on Friday armed attack for two police officers and another law enforcement officer, Interfax was told on Saturday morning at the headquarters of a temporary group of troops in the North Caucasus. "A resident of Nazran was detained who is suspected of shooting and wounding three law enforcement officers. A criminal case was instituted against the detainee under Article 217 (providing resistance to internal authorities), and Art.

The French trade unions of transporters have decided today to hold a new national strike. According to the basic trade unions operating in the French Railway Directorate (SNSF) and the Parisian transport management (RATP), the strike will begin on the evening of December 12 and will last 24 hours. The purpose of the action is to force the government to abandon plans to cancel the special regime of transportation pensions, ITAR -TASS reports.

Member of the CEC with the right of advisory vote from the Communist Party Vadim Solovyov said that the Communist Party did not recognize the results of the elections to the State Duma. "The Communist Party is forced to declare the non -recognition of the results of the past parliamentary elections and appeals to members of the CEC with an appeal to recognize these elections as invalid," Solovyov said at a meeting of the CEC dedicated to the final results of elections to the State Duma.

Rosoboronexport and Troika-Dialog, owning 75% of AvtoVAZ shares, will sign a contract with the French Renault on February 25, which will receive a blocking stake (25%) of the largest Russian car manufacturer, the head of the Rostekhnology State Corporation, AvtoVAZ, the head of the Board of the Government of AvtoVAZ, said on Saturday. "The protocol about the intentions that we signed says that we must prepare a contract and it must be signed no later than February 25.

The units of the NATO headed by the forces of the international coalition conduct a massive attack on the South Afghan city of Musa-Kala. According to the Air Force television and radio company today, the British and government Afghan formations fired a city from heavy artillery guns. However, the decisive role in this operation should be played by American paratroopers, who were planted by helicopters before twilight. Two thousand armed Taliban strengthened in the city.

During the first stage of the military operation in the province of Helmen in the south of Afghanistan there are victims among the civilian population, the Minister of Defense of the Republic Abdul Rakhim Vardak told reporters on Saturday. According to the military, on the night of Friday to Saturday, NATO aviation bombed the city of Musa-Kala, which the Taliban turned into their fortified area. Currently, more than two thousand militants of the Taliban movement are concentrated in Muse-Kal.

The former absolute world world champion Bernard Hopkins joined the opinion of his friend and partner in the promotional business of Oscar de la Hoyi that the Briton Ricky Hutton has real chances of winning the WBC champion in the welterweight of Floyd Jr., appointed on December 8. “I saw something in Hatton and I think that he was more motivated,” Hopkins said. “Hatton will have already thrown out as many blows as the Mayweather has never seen.

Norway, New Zealand and Denmark took the first three places in the published rating of peacefully -minded countries and regions. The study conducted by the influential British publication The Economist headed the consulting and research unit of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) publication. The results of the study are published on the website www.visionfhumanity.com . The countries were evaluated on a scale where the 5th is the worst indicator, and 1 was the best.

Seven people were killed, another 35 were injured on Saturday in the Iraqi city of Bajei (located 180 kilometers north of Baghdad) with an explosion of a mined car, which was the deceit of a suicide bomber, Reuters reported with reference to representatives of the hospital, where the bodies of the dead and wounded were delivered. The agency operator, who was on the site of the attack, said that the explosion destroyed 11 cars, 15 residential buildings were damaged.

The soldier of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was injured in the explosion of the anti -personnel mines during reconnaissance events in the Shali district of Chechnya, RIA Novosti told RIA on Saturday law enforcement agencies of the republic. "As a result of the explosion of the anti -personnel high -explosive mine, the soldier was injured," the agency’s interlocutor said.