The night before, after the sunset, with the onset of the Jewish calendar of the 14th day of the month of Adar, the followers of Judaism will begin to celebrate Purim (the holiday of the lot), established in memory of the salvation of Jews from extermination, whose attempts were made in the Persian kingdom during the reign of Tsar Artaxerxes (5th century BC). These events are described in detail in the book Esther (Esther).

The world's largest mobile phones manufacturer, Nokia, is one of the first to begin the release of mobile devices with support for fourth -generation cellular technology. At the same time, the company decided to give preference to the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard and plans to start manufacturing devices based on it in 2010, reports CNews.ru with reference to Gigaom. True, according to James Harper, the Nokia marketing director, it is not yet known which operators will sell such devices.

In Saudi Arabia, the road police arrested a woman who, contrary to the prohibitions of her country, led a car. The incident occurred last week in the city of Mecca. The name and nationality of the arrested driver was not disclosed, but according to the inspectors, she is about 20 years old, CNN reports. As it became known, the woman, seeing a car of law enforcement officers, tried to hide, which attracted attention. Very soon, an excited motorist crashed into another car.

In Murmansk, they began to investigate the case of illegal agitation in favor of a candidate for mayor from United Russia in the March 1 elections. Several people have already been detained and have given confessions. Underground "PRers" took up after a number of complaints to law enforcement agencies from the voters themselves.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko believes that in a situation of the current crisis, Europe needs the leadership of France, which has repeatedly taken responsibility in difficult periods of history. Last week, Tymoshenko paid a visit to Paris, where she held negotiations with France President Nicolas Sarkoi, Prime Minister Francois Fion and other representatives of the French government, recalls RIA Novosti .

The former football player of the England national team Paul Gaskein will once again undergo a course of treatment for alcoholism, reports Newsru.ua with reference to the British edition of Mirror . This time, Hasquena is subjected to cryotherapy (cold treatment). The football player will be placed in a special chamber filled with gas, the temperature of which is minus 125 degrees Celsius.

For the first time, a large Russian weapons transaction fell due to fears that the buyer would violate intellectual property rights. Russia refused to sell Su-33 deck fighters to China, the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper writes. Negotiations were held for a long time - China wanted to buy up to 50 aircraft for its aircraft carriers. But initially the Chinese side intended to purchase only two Su -33 - “for a test”. This has become the main stumbling block.

In Germany, a bus with children fell into the riverbed from a six -meter height. Ten children were injured, two of them were seriously injured, RIA Novosti reports, but there is no threat to their life. The accident occurred in the early morning in the area of ​​the town of Bonndorf, writes ITAR-TASS. The bus moved along a snowy road and flew out of the road at a steep turn. Many children were able to get out of the river bed on their own. Then the police and doctors arrived at the scene.

A large terrorist attack was committed in Iraq on Tuesday: at least 28 people became victims of the explosion, carried out by a suicide bomb terrorist in a suburb of Baghdad, another 28 people were injured, reports Reuters with reference to statements by local police.

US President Barack Obama canceled in 2001 in 2001 a ban on state financing for studies of human embryo stem cells. At a special meeting in the White House, the head of state also instructed one of the agencies of the Ministry of Health to study all related ethical and legal issues, RIA Novosti reports. “It is not known what the study of stem cells can bring, so the prospects should not be exaggerated,” Obama admitted.

The launch of the first Iranian national satellite Omid ("Hope") was detained for several hours due to "hostile actions" of external forces, said the President of the Islamic Republic of Mahmad Ahmadi Nezhad on Monday. According to the Iranian president, the unmanned aerial vehicles of a certain "hostile state" reached the launching pad and damaged the communication system. Engineers were forced to use the duplicate launch system.

The German automobile magazine Autozeitung.de conducted a comparative analysis of all -wheel drive cars. For such a test, 10 models were selected, which were sent in pairs to the test drive. The tests took place in Austria in the Snow Valley of Tsilleral, Drom.ru reports. All cars had to go through three test tasks in the snow: lifting, braking and passing the track for a while.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul during a visit to Tehran to his Iranian colleague Mahmud Ahmadi Neszhada Washington’s message to his Iranian colleague. This was reported by the Iranian news agency Fars. The essence of the message is not revealed, but the agency recalls that the other day in Ankara, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited.

The media continue to publish discussions of experts of the plans of the Barack Obama administration of Relations with Russia. According to experts, an attempt by the US President to propose an “exchange” is doomed to defeat - as previously reported, Obama invited Medvedev to forget about about in Europe in exchange for joint pressure on Iran.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree providing for the provision of state support in 2009-2011 in the amount of 595.3 million rubles a year of a number of higher educational institutions in the field of art, Rosbalt reports with reference to the Kremlin press service. Among educational institutions that will receive state support are the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov; St.