The best children's book of all time, according to the results of the vote, was recognized by the novel by Clive Lewis "Leo, sorceress and a wardrobe." The story of three brothers and sister, who fell through a magic cabinet into a once peaceful country of Narnia, was written in 1950 and has since fascinated more than one generation of readers, notes The Times .

A drunk motorist from the Canadian city of Wetaskiwin did not take long to find himself for local law enforcement agencies - he, being drunk, arrived at the police building and parked his car in front of the entrance to the station, after which he went inside and wandered aimlessly around the building.

Only 10% of Americans have a positive attitude towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, and 47% negatively, showed the last sociological survey of the Rasmussen Reports research company. 44% of the US residents have no certain views on this.

The process in the lawsuit of the ex-chairman of the board of directors of the Image bank Valery Motkin for entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky about compensation for 38 million rubles begins on Friday in the Simonovsky court of Moscow, said the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva. The former banker believes that by the fault of Berezovsky, he spent 37 days under his arrest, which caused him significant moral harm.

For the first time in Russian, the diaries of the great director Andrei Tarkovsky were published. The presentation of the book "Martirologist", which includes texts, drawings, photographs and diaries of Tarkovsky, took place in Moscow, Interfax reports. “There are many books about Tarkovsky, but no one read it. This book will answer many questions,” the son of director Andrei Tarkovsky said at the presentation of the book.

In Moscow, the section of Kosovo is not excluded on the Serbian and Albanian units. According to Interfax , this option was not excluded by the Deputy Director of the Fourth European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, who oversees the Balkan, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko.

The latest cases of theft in Europe puzzled even the police. A multi-ton railway bridge has been stolen in the Czech Republic, and in the UK, the prey of criminals became the albino peacock. The steel bridge stolen to an abandoned railway line connecting the city of Cheb with Old Grozenkov in the east of the Czech Republic. At the same time, the design weighed four tons, which, however, did not stop the attackers, writes the Czech newspaper The Prague Daily Monitor .

Computer games due to their inevitably high popularity in the youth environment should become a mechanism for educating moral values ​​in young people. Thus, the participants of the section "Computer Games as a new factor in education" of the XII World Russian Folk Cathedral in Moscow noted, Interfax reports.

Negotiations between Mikhail Shishkhanov and Vadim Moshkovich were completed on the sale of Binbank, Vedomosti said. The senator from the Belgorod region, the owner of the 840 millionth state (75th place in the Forbes rating) will transfer control over 99% of the bank's shares.

The Party "Our Georgia", established by the late businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, will continue to exist - it will be headed by the parliament of Georgia Gochi Jojing. This decision was made at a meeting of the party council, RIA Novosti reports with reference to one of the founders of the party David Shukakidze.

In the Samara region, three adolescents aged 13, 15 and 16 are accused of group rape and robbery of a 24-year-old disabled person. As the investigation established, on January 14, teenagers came to the apartment to their friends - two mentally inferior brothers. There was no one except the brothers at home. Taking advantage of this, the teenagers raped the older 24-year-old brother.

In the United States, a verdict was issued to the widower, who was found guilty of the insidious murder of his own wife. The woman managed to write a letter before death about the planes of the noble. The Visconsin Court found 48-year-old Mark Jensen guilty of the intentionally murder of his wife, perfect ten years ago, CNN reports. The seven women and five men entering the jury spent 32 hours discussing the issued verdict. The discussion lasted more than three days.

Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region detained a suspect in the murder of 10-year-old Hatashi Rubtsova , which occurred in the city of Pikalavo. As it became known to Interfax , on suspicion of killing a schoolgirl, a 19-year-old non-working resident of the city of Volkhov was detained.

The question of the separation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from Ukraine will not be raised if the Ukrainian authorities respect the rights of the Crimean Tatar people. This was stated by the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev on Friday during the "round table" in the representative office in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.

The musical of the West-end theater "Hair Lac" won the record seven awards "Theatregoers' Choice Awards). Among them, the prize in the nomination "Best Actress of the Musical", which was a Lynn Jones, who played the role of Tracy Turnb, and the "best actor of the musical", who was received by Michael Ball, who played the mother of the heroine Edna, reports BBC . The play "Horse" received three awards, including "Best Novice" (Daniel Radcliffe).