The 14-time Olympic swimming champion American Michael Felps uses drugs. The British edition of News of the World has published a 23-year-old director athlete. The picture was taken a few days after the summer Olympics in Beijing. Felps, who had just won eight gold medals, went to a party at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia. “He knew few people there, but behaved very loudly and defiantly,” the source told the publication.

Frosts in the Moscow region got up to minus 20 degrees. According to the metropolitan hydrometeorological unit, at 18:00 Moscow time, the thermometer columns reached this mark in the area of ​​Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports. “In the area of ​​Vnukovo and Bykovo, frost is three degrees less, it was minus 17 here,” said the hydrometeorological unit.

In the 24th round of the championship of England, Manchester United on Old Trafford with a score of 1: 0 outplayed Everton. On the eve of the meeting, the goalkeeper "Mu" Edwin Van der Sar was awarded the Prize League prize for a record of 11 "dry" consecutive matches. The impressive series of the Dutchman in the championship was 1032 minutes , which is 7 minutes larger than the Chelsea goalkeeper of Peter Czech, set in 2005.

The head of the Israeli government, Ehud Olmert, threatened the Palestinian militants on Sunday with a “disproportionate” response to the ongoing missile shelling from the gas sector, RIA Novosti reports. During the day, at least three reactive shells and five minutes were released to the south of Israel. The shelling did without material damage and victims. One of the missiles fell next to the kindergarten, but did not explode.

In Moscow, a well -known TV presenter, Nonna Bodrova, announcer of Central Television, died in a clinic, the Russia TV channel said on Sunday. Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Soviet Union for many years, Nonna Bodrova conducted the Time program. She came to television after the Moscow Art Theater School, preferring the scene to the scene, and, as she said, she never spared about it. Millions of spectators remember their duet and Igor Kirillov, the TV channel reports.

A woman and two teenagers were wounded in the village of Goyta, Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, as a result of the operation of an unidentified explosive structure in the courtyard of one of the residential buildings, Interfax was told on Sunday to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. "The residential building located in one of the large settlements of the Chechen Republic of Goyta got an unidentified explosive device.

Italian women earn four thousand euros per year less than men with the same employment. Thus, the difference in the salary between the floors is 16%. This is stated in the report of the Italian Research Association "Eurisse". Men in Italy earn an average of 28 thousand euros per year, while women are 24 thousand. The difference between floors is more significantly felt with an increase in qualifications.

The number of those killed in a fire in a boarding school for the elderly in the Republic of Komi was, according to various sources, 23 or 24 people. It is also unclear how many people were in the building. Some sources talk about 27, others - about 29. In the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, ITAR -TASS reported 23 dead. The building was completely burned out. The total area of ​​the fire was more than 1 thousand square meters. meters.

The DPRK leader Kim Jong Ire inspected the unit of the Korean People’s Army (KNA) and was satisfied with the training of fighters, calling the military personnel of his country "invincible", reports on Wednesday AFP with reference to the CTAC - the official news agency of the DPRK. Details of the visit and, in particular, its time and exact place are not reported.

The first of February - on the day of the 78th anniversary of the birth of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin - his Yekaterinburg student friends received special certificates "Self -Counter Yeltsin", RIA Novosti reports. Special certificate - "Yeltsin's fellow student" allows its owner to be in the scientific council of the UGTU -UPI named after Yeltsin, as well as attend all the celebrations held at the university.

The Google search function on Saturday gave a technical failure: for about an hour, users could not use the results found. All search results were marked as potentially dangerous for the user's computer, the Air Force reports. When trying to open the necessary link, a warning was displayed "The site can damage your computer." Users who click on the search result for them were advised to choose another. The system brings up about 40 minutes.

The prosecutor's office of the Swiss Basel is investigating the International Handball Federation (VES) on suspicion of fraud. This is written by the German magazine Spiegel . The thing concerns the 1999 World Cup, which took place in Egypt. Then the VEST listed the organizers of the planet’s championship (the Egyptian Handball Federation) 1.6 million Swiss francs (1 million euros) for the competition. Part of this amount was sent to one French bank, and then suddenly disappeared.

The male and female teams of Russia in Biathlon went to Korean Pionchan, for training and the World Cup. The lesson plan for the coming days has not yet been drawn up, since there have been problems with the hotel. “There was a small pad. We had to live in Greenpia, which is five minutes from the stadium,” says the words of the senior coach of the Russian national team Vladimir Alikin “All Sports”. “It was in it that the World Cup was located last year and everything was arranged there.

The head of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Jose Suleiman said that the WBC will give his consent to conduct a champion of this heavyweight organization Vitaly Klitschko and the owner of the WBA title in this weight category Nikolai Valuev, if Vitaly successfully protects his title in the battle against the obligatory applicant of Juan Carlos on March 21 in Stuttgart. Gomeza, reports Allboxing.ru .

The Federation of A car owners of Russia (PHA) will hold a protest on Sunday in Moscow against raising customs duties on the import of used foreign cars.