According to the results of the count, having gained 57.5% of the votes in the universal parliamentary elections in Canada, the conservative party, headed by the current Prime Minister Stephen Harper, won. Conservatives can count on 142 deputy mandates in a 308-seater House of Commons. This should be enough for Harper to remain in power.

The leader of the first division of the Russian Football Championship FC "Rostov" prematurely won a ticket to the Premier League. In the 39th round, Oleg Dolmatov’s wards outplayed the Alania from Vladikavkaz with a score of 3: 2 on their field and became inaccessible to the closest pursuers. Five rounds before the finish of the championship, the Krasnodar Kuban and KAMAZ from Naberezhnye Chelnov also claim the second ticket to the elite of the Russian championship.

A study was conducted in the United States on the effect of the Internet on the memory of older people. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have found that internet use develops the brain centers that control decision-making and reasoning. The Internet allows older people not to lose their ease of thinking, reports the BBC . According to experts, these data will help counteract age-related physiological changes that slow down brain function.

The drunk passenger tried to capture and steal to Strasbourg plane airline Turkish Airlines, which executed the TC 3102 flight along the Antalya-Sancti-Petersburg route. The criminal was neutralized by fellow travelers, and the plane did not even get out of the schedule and safely sat at Pulkovo-2 airport, Interfax reports. According to the latest data, an attempt to seize a passenger aircraft was made by a Russian of Uzbek origin Yasa Rashidov (born in 1956).

In the United States, a free nationwide wireless Internet access network may soon appear. This became possible after the Federal Communications Agency (FCC) allowed to put free radio frequencies to the so-called AWS-3 spectrum. The other day, during the specially conducted tests, it was proved that their use will not interfere with the operation of mobile devices in the adjacent range, reports AFP.

The economic collapse threatens Russia - a country with a transition economy - not only a decrease in purchasing power, mass layouts and a reduction in salaries, but also an increase in social unrest associated mostly with labor migrants left without work. This was warned on Tuesday was warned by experts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). Domestic experts believe that this warning should listen, write "New Izvestia" .

The official representative of the American pop diva Madonna Louise Veronika Chikon on Wednesday announced her divorce from the British director Gay Richie. “Madonna and Guy Richie decided to divorce after seven and a half years of marriage,” the representative of singer Liz Rosenberg told reporters.

The Russian government is ready to once again reconsider the inflation forecast for 2008 - how much, it will become known according to the results of October, when its growth, as the Ministry of Economic Development expects, will directly approach the upper threshold of the current forecast. As the newspaper "News Time" writes on Wednesday, if prices fall, then along with the incomes of the population.

The novel "White Tiger" by Indian Aravinda Adigi, telling about the dark side of the life of India, was recognized as the jury of the Buker prize as the best literary work of 2008. At the award ceremony held in the town hall of the London City, the chairman of the jury Michael Portillo warmly congratulated the 33-year-old author and assured him that the jury had no disagreement regarding the choice of the winner of the Boker this year. “This work is perfect in many ways,” said Portillo.

The American National Aeronautics and Space Development Directorate (NASA) will attempt to restore the ability of the Hubble orbital telescope to process and transmit accumulated information to Earth. The computer unit that has been responsible for this failed on September 27. Hubble has a backup unit. The task of NASA is to include it using commands from the flight management center and put it into operation. “Perhaps nothing will succeed.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II criticized the Nobel Prize of the World of the former President of Finland Marty Akhtisaari, the author of the Cosovo peace plan from Serbia. “Injustice was the award of the international world award to Mr. Akhtisaari, who contributed to the rejection of Kosovo from Serbia,” Alexy II said at a meeting with Serbia Ambassador Stanimir Vukichevich at the Patriarchal Residence in Moscow, Interfax reports.

Deputies of the State Duma will intervene in the investigation of the circumstances of two tragic events actively discussed in the media during the last days- the death of the 19-year-old hockey player Omsk Vanguard and a 9-month-old baby in the Khabarovsk Territory. Recall that the young hockey player Alexei Cherepanov lost consciousness during the match in Chekhov near Moscow with the local "Vityaz". He later died of heart failure.

The ex-National Bolshevik, and now the activist of another Russia, Denis Os, was invalidated in the regional parliamentary elections. The Guryevskaya Territorial Electoral Commission (TIK) of the Kaliningrad Region came to this decision, Interfax reports with reference to the TIK press service.

The State Duma adopted immediately in the second and third, final readings the Law on the use of the words "Russian Federation" and "Russia" in the company names of legal entities, RIA Novosti reports.

The Besson Besson film studio Europacorp SA stopped shooting the new film "From Paris with Love", the main roles in which are played by John Travolta and Jonathan Rice Myers. Filming was supposed to be carried out in the Bosk quarter - one of the densely populated suburbs of the city of Monfermey, which has a “problematic” reputation, Newsru Israel reports citing Bloomberg news agency.