In Hungary, a 23-year-old student opened firing at the Technical University of the city of Peca. As a result, two people died, three more were seriously injured. The incident occurred for about noon, the Nepszabadsag Hungarian newspaper reports. The tragedy was played at the Department of Biophysics, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the official representative of the university.

The newly elected European Union President Herman Van Rompey begins to win hearts in Japan - so far as a poet. As a politician, he is so far much less. According to Reuters, Van Rompey loves to compose hockey - three -line Japanese poems, consisting of only 17 syllables. The following lines of the president are especially notable: The wind in the hair Years have passed, he blows There is no hair anymore The 62-year-old Belgian prime minister has its own site.

Several hundred people had to leave the house in the southern part of London on Thursday due to a strong fire, the British television radio corporation of the Air Force reports. According to her, the fire broke out at the place where construction work was carried out, then he began to quickly spread. Because of this, 310 people had to evacuate. The victims were avoided, but 10 victims required medical care, Interfax reports.

Marat Safin, who this year completed his career as a professional tennis player, will fight for the post of vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR). This was announced on Thursday at a press conference in ITAR-TASS by the President of the Russian Tennis Federation (FTR) Shamil Tarpishchev. “Marat is the legend of Russian and world tennis,” Tarpishchev noted. “He did a lot for our sport, for its popularization both in our country and around the world.

In Brussels, on Wednesday, agreements were parafed between Georgia and the European Union on simplifying the visa regime and reaidmission, Interfax reports with reference to the Georgian Foreign Ministry. As it became known, the agreement signed in confirmation of the preliminary agreement of the parties involves simplifying the issuance of visas to several categories of Georgian citizens.

The United States hopes to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 2017, Washington reported shortly before President Barack Obama must announce his new Afghan strategy. The operation, which has been going on for eight years, will not last another eight, Robert Gibbs pressed the White House spokesman. In the nearest Tuesday, Barack Obama will make a television aircraft with statements about the Afghan war.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon signed a decree of the government of the republic "On approval of the procedure for reimbursing to bodies and organizations of expenses related to the provision of information." The resolution was published on Thursday on the website of the state news agency "Hovar". "The concept of" providing information to interested parties "means access to information contained in official documents, except for information constituting a state secret," the resolution says.

The court of St. Petersburg did not satisfy the request of the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation in the northern capital to arrest the policeman Roman Burkov, suspected of beating the detainee who died in the hospital. "SCP will appeal this decision," the representative of the Investigative Committee told Interfax . Earlier on Thursday, the UKP stated that the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation for St.

In 2009, the income of Chinese hackers can amount to 10 billion yuan ($ 1.47 billion) or more. This, according to Interfax , said in an interview with Central Chinese television the president of the Chinese Computer Security Company 360 Qi Syandun. "Based on this amount, we can calculate that today in China in this" industry " 100 thousand people are busy, ”said Qi Syandun.

A resident of California Nile Felachi found himself guilty of the command of the US fleet of fake microcircuits. Now he faces up to 51 months of imprisonment, as well as multimillion -dollar fines. The verdict in his case will be issued by the Court of Colombia next year, according to GZT.ru with reference to the publication Computrerworld .

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation approved a pilot project to dispose of cars in 2010. It will enter into force on January 1, 2010 in different regions and will last one year. We are talking about a program for stimulating the purchase of new cars in return for the old ones. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , 19 regions will participate in the experiment: Moscow and Moscow Region, St.

The salvation of the American financial system costs the US government in astronomical amounts, said Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russian and Asian programs of the Washington Washington Center for Defense Information. He gives the results of calculations in his blog .

One of the famous journalists of Northern Ireland was attacked in the center of Belfast. This was reported by the electronic news agency BreakingNews . The editor of Northern Ireland of the Irish newspaper Sunday World Jim McDowell was brutally beaten by a group of men just a few meters from the city town hall building.

Almost three million pilgrims, including 20 thousand Russian Muslims, today go to the Arafat Mountain Valley near Mecca , where the culmination of Haja will take place - a great standing. - How Hajj is doing According to RIA Novosti , from early morning believers began to arrive in the Arafat Mountain Valley. Here at noon, immediately after passing the zenith point and before it entered, the main rite of pilgrimage will be held.

Significant harm to the global economy can cause excess production in China, since it leads to conflicts in the trade sector and increases the risk of increasing "bad" loans, experts of the Chamber of Commerce of the European Union believe, Finmarket reports with reference to Bloomberg .