In Kabul, at a checkpoint in the Paikub Nashvar control point, an egregious case occurred: a road policeman shot a young driver for not obeying his requirements, RIA Novosti reports. According to the International Human Rights Office "Reporters without Borders", the 20-year-old journalist of the private Afghan television channel Emruz Munir Ahmad Amal on Wednesday evening, while driving his car, did not respond to the policeman’s signal to stop and was shot from a machine gun.

The Irish group U2 is going to process and release some early compositions, which include the Boy's debut album in 1980, which included the first hit of the I Will Follow group, Reuters reports.

Construction on the territory of the Tver outpost at the Belorussky Station in the center of Moscow does not stop, the general director of the Stroyinkom company Alexander Khalsey and the head of the Moscow Department of Road-Most Moscow, Alexander Levchenko, told reporters on Thursday. Haldeus said that the construction was not stopped and that the money has Afi Development is for these purposes, reports Interfax .

Scratched car paint can become a thing of the past thanks to an innovative development by US scientists, The Times reports. Having studied the properties and features of various paint coatings for cars, they created a self-healing paint that itself will mask any scratch on the body. The polyurethane coating developed by scientists can recover from damage in less than an hour. To do this, he only needs sunlight.

At least one person died, 50 received injuries and burns as a result of a strong fire in the largest shopping center of Dacca - the capital of Bangladesh. According to AP, the defendant turned out to be the dead. The fire occurred on the 18th floor of a 20-story building. According to police, thousands of buyers left the store in a panic, reports CNN . According to Interfax , the upper floors of the shopping complex are currently burning.

The National Bank of Moldova urged the population to "not take rash actions" and not to buy currency, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the NBM press service. In recent days, the Moldavian Lei began to fall in relation to the dollar and the euro, and near the exchange points began to appear unusual lines for Moldova. If in early March 10.4-10.5 lei was given for one dollar, now at the official rate of the National Bank of Moldova 1 euros costs 13.75 lei, 1 dollar - 10.77 lei.

Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev once again stated that the United States was needed by a new restructuring, BBC reports. “We need a new model of capitalism, in which the old would combine with socialism,” the British newspaper The Financial Times is highlighted by Gorbachev’s phrase, which he said at a meeting with journalists in the editorial office of the Evening London newspaper Evening Standard.

25% of the shares of the aluminum plants of Russian aluminum, owned by Oleg Deripaska, are pledged by VEB on a loan of $ 4.5 billion, in an interview with the newspaper Financial Times said VEB Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev. The Rusal also laid the Norilsk Nickel blockpack in the fall of last year. "From the point of view of security, the VEB may be in a more favorable position than any other foreign or Russian creditor," said Vladimir Dmitriev.

However, applicants who were contacted by the publication using their mobile phone numbers from resumes posted on the MGTS website reported that they did not consent to the publication of their resumes in the public domain and did not know that this information was available from the site MGTS.

Japan considers itself the right to knock down the North Korean missile in the interests of security if it falls into the country. However, if it simply flies over the archipelago, Japanese legislation does not allow any military actions to take any actions, the general secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Takeo Kawamur told reporters today.

Over the past six months, the situation in the personnel market has changed dramatically: the vacancies have become almost half as much, and the flow of resumes has many times more. A year ago, one vacancy published on the website of Headhunter accounted for 14 resumes, in the fall - 105, and now 330, they write Vedomosti .

Construction companies have not yet received state guarantees on loans - an interagency working group under the Ministry of Economic Development has sent their applications for revision, they write Vedomosti .

The architectural bureau of Michael Rosenthal Associates (Miami, Florida) presented a project of the egg form - Envision Green Hotel, which is partially chickenpox, partially? urban eco-hotel, writes Prian.ru . In the central part of the building, wind turbines will be located, providing its inhabitants with energy and fresh air. The exterior of the skyscraper will be covered with photoelectric panels capturing the energy of the sun.

Climate warming has already begun to influence food chains. In any case, this is noticeable in Antarctica. The population of phytoplankton - algae and bacteria capable of photosynthesis - is noticeably reduced in areas near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and increases in the southern part due to global climate change. This affects the populations of the Antarctic penguins, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Science magazine.

Production at the Toyota plant in St. Petersburg will be suspended for 6 working days - from March 30 to April 6, 2009, the company's press service said. This is the first stop of the conveyor since the launch of the plant. "Due to the long difficult economic and market situation, Toyota Motor Manuephacchoring Russia (TMMR) LLC decided to temporarily suspend production for 6 business days," the factory reported.