The sequel "Irony of Fate-2" became the most cash desk of non-American ribbon at the world box office. The continuation of the cult comedy, filmed by the director Timur Bekmambetov, last weekend earned $ 9.2 million in 912 cinemas. The Irony, which is distributed by Twentietich Century Fox, in three weeks of demonstration brought its creators $ 35 million, becoming the most box office of Russian film, reports Screen Daily .

Two key departments of the Russian government - the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Finance - updated their sites at the beginning of this year, making them more informative and open to communicate with citizens. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . So, a separate resource appeared on the portal of the Russian Federation , which allows you to directly contact the Ministry on the Internet, which was not in the previous version of the site.

In Baghdad, a new opposition movement is gaining strength, which set a goal to shift from the post of Prime Minister Iraq Nuri Al-Malika. According to the newspaper Washington Post, this time the threat comes from the Kurds, which sent the head of the cabinet at the end of December the ultimatum, which said the need to change the current political course.

A minor road accident occurred in the Chinese university town of Nankai: a woman in a Buick car collided with a cyclist, as a result of which the car received a small scratch, and the cyclist got off with light bruises. But who would have thought that such a small accident would be angry with several dozen students and lead to rebellion.

Interfax resigned the head of Rosprirodnadzor Sergey Sai, saying that Viktor Zubkov allegedly accepted the resignation of the head of Rosprirodnadzor. However, as ITAR-TASS reports, reports about the resignation of the head of Rosprirodnadzor Sergey Saya are not true.

Russian artists and directors turned to the President of the Russian Federation with an open letter, in which they are asked to intervene in the situation around the building of the central house of the actor (Central House), which, according to them, by order of the Federal Property Management Agency, is transferred to the operational department of the Rossvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvyazhvazhvazhvazhvazhvazhvazhvih security culture, Interfax reports.

In the United States, the fisherman threw off four of his children from the bridge after a quarrel with his wife. In the area, large -scale searches are deployed, although they consider the kids to be dead. The 37-year-old Lama Louon from Alabam has already been charged with four murders, ASSOCIETED RRESS reports. Divers and rescuers are searching for corpses of children whose age was from several months to 3 years.

32% of Spanish schoolchildren aged 8 to 11 years have never tried spinach, 23% do not know what taste the tomato has, and 15% never ate oranges, the Mediterranean diet , which advocates the creation of culinary workshops in schools, writes La Voz de Galicia . These are only some of the results of polls conducted by students who participated in the work of these workshops (25 thousand throughout Spain).

US President George Bush held negotiations with the head of the Palestinian National Administration Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday morning in Ramallach (West Bank of the Jordan River). At the end, Bush expressed the hope that the Palestinian Peace Treaty will be signed until the end of 2008. This is the first , recall, the US president’s visit to the residence of the Palestinian leader.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez announced on Thursday that the rebels from the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (RVSK) freed two hostages. We are talking about two Colombian politicians - Consuel Gonzalez and Clara Rohas. The delegation of the International Red Cross Committee confirmed that both of these women were really released, Interfax reports.

The Georgian Prosecutor's Office brought the entrepreneur Arkady (Badri) Patarkatsishvili accusations of preparing the coup and other serious crimes. Earlier, similar accusations were made against his ally Valery Gelbahiani, and Patarkatsishvili himself charged an attempt to bribe one of the high -ranking Georgian security forces. The businessman’s personal account in the commercial “Standard Bank” in Georgia has already been arrested.

According to CarClub.ru , the Interregional Center "For the Security of Russian Roads" published a rating of the accident rate of Russian roads in the autumn-winter period. So, according to published data, Moscow, Tyumen and Arkhangelsk routes are recognized as the safest. According to the representatives of the center, an accident rate in Moscow in relation to the total number of cars is really small, but the capital of the capital's roads? The highest in the country.

In Moscow, a monument will be erected by the hero of the film by Vladimir Motyl "White Sun of the desert" to Pavel Vereshchagin. Its by order of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation will manufacture the Kaslinsky factory of architectural and artistic casting, RIA Novosti reports. According to the chief engineer of the plant Sergey Trofimov, the monument to Vereshchagin will be made of bronze in natural growth of a person. The weight of the statue will be at least 700 kilograms.

The chairman of the Fair Russia Sergey Mironov and five more deputies of the faction of the same name introduced to the State Duma a bill "On the centers of the historical heritage of the presidents of the Russian Federation, who terminated the execution of their powers." The task of such centers should be the study of the activities of each president.

The number of victims of violence in Iraq, which lasts from the moment of entering the United States headed by the US International Coalition in 2003, reached 150 thousand people. These are the results of a study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), BBC reports on Thursday.