The international team of astronomers, led by specialists from the University of California, discovered 10 new planets rotating around stars located outside the solar system - exoplanets. The uniqueness of the find is that almost all stars or stellar systems rotate planets, but not all of them are large enough for modern telescopes to detect them.

A group of Indonesians who protest against the broadcast on the Internet of the anti -Islamic film "Fitna" ("Troubles") broke into the territory of the Consulate of the Netherlands in the city of Medan. 50 students of one of the Islamic schools tore the Dutch flag and threw the building with stones, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Associated Press.

The Vatican is the most prosperous state in the world. This is stated in the report of the British information company Jane's Information Group , which compiled a rating of stability and prosperity of 235 countries in 2007. These studies were transmitted today by Vatican radio, reports ITAR-TASS. According to the rating, the most comfortable living conditions in the dwarf states of Europe.

American intelligence services recruited Google, which allows them to better process operational information about the suspects and exchange it. Structures such as the National Security Agency have purchased servers on which Google search technology is used to process information collected using the agent network around the world, the The Times writes (full text on Inopressa.ru ).

The Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri al-Malika returned from Basra to Baghdad on Tuesday evening. In this southern city, he spent a week and personally controlled the course of the operation of the Iraqi army against the Shiite militants. The head of the government decided to return to the capital due to the fact that the situation in the Basra after a week of fierce clashes stabilized.

During the intensive election campaign in Pennsylvania, where the Democrats should take place on April 22, the next primary election, the former first lady of America, Hillary Clinton, compared herself to the famous film hero - boxer Rocky.

The monthly unaccounted income of Moscow policemen reaches 1 billion rubles, said Mikhail Pashkin, head of the police officers of the city of Moscow.

Dmitry Dovgi, the head of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, believes that the customers of the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya are entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky and one of the leaders of Chechen separatists Khozha-Ahmed Nukhaev. According to Interfax , the interview Dovgia will be published in the issue of Izvestia newspaper for April 3. At the same time, it is clarified that the interview from D.

The Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Achaern, whom the opposition accuses of bribery, announced that he would leave his post on May 6, RIA Novosti reports. Achaern headed the Irish government since 1997. "This is my personal decision. What I announce today is explained by the desire to change the direction of politics in the country," Achaern said in circulation and the nation. He also said that the post of the head of the Fianna Fail party is also leaving.

The Union of Hollywood Actors will begin negotiations with the studios regarding the terms of the new employment contract on April 15. The Guild of the Actors of the screen (SAG), representing the interests of about 120 thousand people, will discuss the new 3-year contract with the Alliance of the producers of the film and television films of the United States (AMPTP), Reuters reports.

In the city court of St. Petersburg on Wednesday, the parties will be held in the case of preparing an attempt on the governor of the Northern capital Valentin Matvienko, a lawyer of one of the accused said. "The debate of the parties should take place on Wednesday. In addition, it is possible that on the same day the defendants will perform with the last word, and the jury will be a verdict," the lawyer said.

The largest in Europe Deutsche Post agreed to sell the real estate portfolio to the American company Lone Star Funds, specializing in the ransom of shares. The amount of the transaction will be 1 billion euros (1.6 billion dollars). Deutsche Post said that she can focus on her main type of activity? Delivery of correspondence. It is reported by "Lessee.ru" .

Professor Michio Kaku from City University of New York said that the principle of operation of "invisibility caps" and the mechanism of telepathy can master in this century, writes Guardian (full text on the website inopressa.ru ). “Very often, some phenomena are declared impossible, and one or more decades pass-and it turns out that they are possible,” says one of the most outstanding theoretical physicists of the world.

With the advent of spring and in connection with the holding of the traffic police "Clean car", the queue in the capital's car wash is built simply giant. But would they become even more if drivers learned about the imminent appearance of new items in the Russian market? A special spray that sprays soundproofing polymeric material to the surface of the car, including glass, and makes the car "invisible" from police radars.

In the American city of Luisburg (North Carolina), a man during a household quarrel at the temporary employment agency opened shooting, there are victims. As a result of open shooting, an agency’s employee was killed, another woman received gunshot wounds. After the reprisal against women, the killer shot himself. The head of the local police, Rick Lassiter, reported to journalists about the tragedy. According to the policeman, the incident occurred at eight in the morning local time.