The Russian spacecraft "Union TMA-12" with the First South Korean cosmonaut ( UNZHYUN ) of the 29-year-old Lee and the 17th crew of the International Space Station (ISS) consisting of Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko went on Tuesday to the ISS.

Iran began the installation of 6000 new centrifuge for enriching uranium. This was announced on Tuesday by the President of the Islamic Republic of Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad after visiting the Uranus enrichment plant in Natanze (Central Province of Isfagan). Thus, the application announced on the eve of the new achievements of local nuclear workers took place. "Today, the stage of installation of six thousand new centrifugs has begun to enrich uranium at the factory in Natanze," said Ahmadi Nezhad.

The Japanese company NTT Communications (NTT) announced the conduct of a new service for mobile phones from April 10 to 20 Mobile Fragraph Communication, thanks to which you can feel smells produced by a special device during a conversation, RIA Novosti reports. During the conversation, users of the new service will be able to send codes to each other on mobile phones, which will be transferred to the “production” device built into the phone and create a fragrance of the interlocutor.

In the Stavropol Territory last night, about 03:00 Moscow time, unknown people threw a hand grenade into the courtyard of the house, where the deputy head of the Novo-Aleksandrovsky district Viktor Shivyakov lives, Interfax reports with reference to the law enforcement agencies of the district. According to the interlocutor of the agency, there were no injured during the explosion. "The manual grenade was supposedly blown up.

{Pic_1 C} Nissan's concern announced the release of a new sports model-the "hot" Livina C-Gear, which will be called X-Gear in some markets. Its premiere will be held as part of the Beijing car dealership on April 20. The LIVINA hatchback has become a platform for the car, and it will be produced in the Chinese city of Huada at the Nissan - Dongfeng stall plant. This is written by the newspaper "Houckom" .

The father of the deceased, together with Princess Diana, her friend Dodi al-Faida, businessman Mohammed al-Faid, is considering challenging the jury verdict about the death of the couple as a result of the illegal actions of the driver and paparazzi, the businessman’s spokeswoman Michael Cole.

The Japanese company Toyota predicts the aggravation of the competition of its premium Lexus brand with German automakers. In this regard, it prepares not only the updating of existing cars, but also a significant expansion of the model range. The first step towards this will be the development of the "f" line: the emergence of sports versions of the IS-F sedans, as well as a more expensive GS-F, is expected.

According to the results of the preliminary investigation, the cause of the explosion in a residential building on Korolev Street in Moscow was a bonded explosive device filled with ammonia nitrate, the capacity of which was 25 kg in Trotyl equivalent. This was written by Komsomolskaya Pravda with reference to an unnamed source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, the explosive device that worked in the apartment could not come spontaneously.

The American military prison of Guantanamo in Cuba, which contains suspects in terrorism, can be closed already in 2008. According to RIA Novosti , this was stated by the Belgian senator, a special representative of the ANN-Marie Lisen OSCE parliamentary Assembly. According to her, one of the obstacles is the fate of 23 prisoners of Guantanamo, considered by the American authorities as potentially "non -hazardous", but which cannot be repatriated, since the danger in their homeland is in danger.

The Radical Shiite Group "Hizballah" on a monthly group monthly sends up to 300 people to Iran to participate in military exercises. In total, from November 2006, 4,500 Hizballlah members were sent to three -month missile and artillery exercises, which should form the core of combat detachments for the “next” war between Hizballlah and Israel, writes Independent .

Haruki Murakami, the most famous in the world of modern Japanese writers, is now working on a new very large novel and is trying to take an example from Fedor Dostoevsky. He stated this in an interview with the Kyodo news agency - extremely rare, since the illustrious fiction writes usually avoids communication with journalists. “Every day now I am sitting at a table for five to six hours,” said Murakami.

The aircraft of the Bangladesh Airlines airline made an emergency landing at the Bangkok Don Mueang Airport: a mentally unhealthy person threw himself at other passengers with a knife, Bangkok Poste reports. It became known that the attacker of the Malaysian was mentally unwell and tried to hide the plane. Pilots, fearing that the situation would get out of control, immediately requested an emergency landing in Thailand.

The price of the "oil basket" OPEC for the first time in three weeks exceeded the mark of $ 101 per barrel. As of April 7, the price of the "basket" amounted to $ 101.16. The "basket" went up in price compared to the previous day by $ 2.53, and its price reached the highest value since March 17 of this year, when it was $ 101.41. The historical maximum for the "basket" OPEC is a price mark of $ 102.88 per barrel, registered on March 14, 2008.

According to the new survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion , the ruble enjoys the increasing trust of the country's population. Most (92%) prefers to store their savings in rubles (in 2006 a little less - 89%). Compared to 2006, respondents less often began to store funds in US dollars (only 2% instead of 7%) - the place of this currency gradually occupies the euro (6% against previously recorded 2%).

Nine out of 50 terrorists convicted of involvement in the organization of explosions in Kasablanca escaped from the Moroccan prison, BBC reports citing local authorities. The administration of the prison of the city of Kenitra, 40 km from the capital of the country of Rabat, found that the prisoners had fled the morning the day before - after the morning prayer. It turned out that the prisoners dug a hole. The decree is given to establish how the prisoners managed to dig a passage.