The head of the OSCE mission in Georgia Teri Khakala accused the Russian media of spreading provocative and false information regarding the work of the mission, emphasizing that such actions create a direct threat to the security of the OSCE personnel, RIA Novosti-Georgia reports.

The reason for the breakdown of the large Adron Collider ( BAC ), which led to an early stop of the accelerator until the spring of 2009, could become the "human factor", said the project manager of the BAC LIN Evans. “I believe that there could be a human mistake,” Evans' words quoted the Swiss media.

In the very center of Moscow, on New Arbat Street, a serious accident occurred at about seven o'clock in the morning, as a result of which Mercedes Autombil burned out to the ground. According to Life.ru , the Mercedes- Benz C200 under the control of a 25-year-old girl named Alexander rode along the Novoarbat bridge towards the center in the extreme left lane.

Some of the central figures of the French political and business elite appeared on Monday before the trial in connection with the scandal about transactions with weapons, which could cast light on the most unpleasant deeds of the French state, writes The Times . Recall that the case (the so-called " Angolagate ") was initiated in connection with the illegal sale of Russian weapons and equipment to the Angolas government in the amount of almost $ 800 million.

The Chinese authorities expressed the hope that the Laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World, the owner of which will be announced on Friday, will be a "right person." The Government of the PRC was worried after a prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia fell into the list of nominees. Last month, China warned that he was opposed to the award of a human rights activist, whose victory was predicted by Norwegian analysts, Reuters reports.

The Main Directorate of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District sent a criminal case to the court against members of the gang of Shamil Basayev, who attacked Budennovsk in 1995.

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp will receive a record fee for shooting in the fourth part of Jack Sparrow's adventure - $ 56.5 million. This figure was called the British tabloid Daily Mail , citing an unnamed Hollywood source.

The famous rock performer Carlos Santana announced that at the end of his musical career, he was going to become a preacher, BBC British television and radio corporation reports. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, a guitarist, who is now 61, spoke about his desire to establish his own church in Maui in Hawaii and described how Vera helped him go through difficult periods of his life.

The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences on Tuesday will name the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008. Last year, the awards were awarded French Albert Ferth and the German Peter Grunberg for developments that made radical comparing information on computers hard disks: a method called “giant magneto -resistance”. This nomination is the most successful for Russian scientists: ten times they were called the Nobel Prize winners in it.

In the Republic of Udmurtia, the police arrested a woman suspected of killing her husband. The instrument of the crime was an enameled circle. The detained 40-year-old resident of the Mozhginsky district, Valentina P., was charged with causing grievous bodily harm that caused the death of the victim, the Susanin news portal reports. According to the investigation, the spouses P. periodically quarreled. And conflicts were especially frequent when relatives abused alcohol.

After the negotiations of the United States with North Korea on nuclear disarmament, which took place last Thursday in the town of Phanmunj in the demilitarized zone, Pyongyang took a wait -and -see position. Nothing is known about the specific agreements of the parties, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea said that the United States and the DPRK are ready to show flexibility and compromise.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States approved a deal to acquire shares of the Morgan Stanley investment bank with the largest Japanese Mitsubishi UFJ holding. The published statement notes that the Fed approves the request of the Japanese corporation for the acquisition of up to 24.9% of the voting shares of the American Investment Bank.

The Supreme Commander of NATO, General James Craddok, requested the alliance’s political leadership to develop a defense plan for a meeting in Budapest at the end of the current week, writes The Daily Telegraph . After the Georgian-Yugooseta conflict, during which Russian troops invaded Georgia, the political leaders of the Baltic and Eastern European countries demanded that the alliance fulfill the obligations to protect the territorial integrity of all its members.

The new version of the Tagoo system, represented by the network users in early 2008, is gaining popularity and expanding the capabilities of a standard Internet search engine, writes a complicate . In its first version, this resource, specializing in the search for a media content, was a MP3-specify. Now the Tagoo media navigator helps to find and listen not only to music files, but also books, podcasts, performances, lectures? Both in audio and video format.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a sentence was sentenced to the 19-year-old son of a deputy of the city Duma Oleg Semashko. The offender raped young children and removed crimes on a mobile phone camera. The pedophile pleaded with his guilt only in relation to an 11-year-old girl. The Avtozavodsky Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced the son of a deputy of the City Duma, accused of violent acts of a sexual nature.