The Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia destroyed hundreds of Shiite rebels who invaded Yemen to its territory, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the statement of the assistant Minister of Defense Khaleda Ben Sultan to the local Al-Barium information television channel. Earlier, he already said that four Saudi military personnel died in these clashes with Yemeni rebels.

The British company Plastic Logic at the CES 2010 household electronics exhibition in Las Vegas, which has been completed the other day, demonstrated its new development-a device for reading Electronic Books Que Proreder . In fact, this is the first product for the general public, created using organic transistors, reports Membrane.ru with reference to Technology Review .

The Kenyan authorities suspect that part of the funds received by the inhabitants of Somalia as a result of marine robbery could be "washed" through investments in real estate, writes Prian.ru . According to experts, over the past two years, Somali pirates received more than $ 100 million as a ransom for captured vessels. They could legalize part of these funds in neighboring Kenya.

In Moscow, on suspicion of fraud, the secretary of the Housing Commission of the Main Auto -Bonian Administration of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was detained - he is suspected of receiving 100 thousand rubles for an extraordinary allocation of an apartment to a soldier, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the press service for the fight against economic crimes (UBEP), Philip Zolotnitsky.

Since 2010, the Ministry of Defense will begin to plan to provide Russian military personnel with a new uniform, the newspaper "News Time" reports. Leading heraldmasters, designers and fashion designers worked on the current military uniform. The main requirement is functionality. The manufacture of a new form took more than two years.

The United States will be useful to go bankrupt, according to The Financial Times . When Winnie the Pooh was asked what to smear on bread - honey or condensed milk, he replied: "Both that!" The Americans are equally infantilized, requiring both taxes, and increase social payments, and the largest defense budget in the world, quotes the article in the FT site inopressa.ru .

Belarus unilaterally requires an increase in the payment for electricity transit from the Russian Federation by more than 5.5 times, and the Interfax reports on the oncoming offers of the Russian exporter of Inter RAO UES OJSC with reference to the Inter RAO representative. The next round of negotiations with the Belenergo GPO on issues of Russian electricity supply to Belarus, as well as on transit conditions, is scheduled for January 12 in Minsk.

The President of the European Kerling Federation, Andrew Ferguson-Smit, has arrived in Moscow, who inspects the preparation of the Russian capital for the 2011 Cerling Championship. In particular, he must choose the arena for competitions. He will also meet with the Deputy Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Gennady Aleshin and the first deputy head of the Moskomport, Yuri Nagorny.

In the north of Yemen, about 20 Shiite militants were destroyed by the regular army of the country. The strip was held in the city of Saad, which is considered a stronghold of Shiite rebels. Another 25 militants are captured, reports on Tuesday with reference to the Local Safety Forces of ITAR-TASS. The armed confrontation between the military of Yemen and the militants of the Shiite organization Al-Khuthi has been going on for five years.

The ex-head of the Tax Code of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has been serving a sentence behind bars for several years, became the laureate of the literary prize of the Banner magazine, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the lawyer of Khodorkovsky Natalia Terekhova. According to the defender, Khodorkovsky was noted for "dialogues with Lyudmila Ulitskaya", published in the room for November 2009.

Activists of the organization "Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region" demanded the immediate arrest of the director of Avatar James Cameron, who stole stories from Soviet fiction. In the statement published on the Klo website , the outraged statements of some communists are given.

The suspects of 250 million rubles were identified at the Rostov branch of the Rosselkhozbank. The money received by the withdrawn at the bank was allocated to him for the federal target program "Development of the agro -industrial complex". The criminal group consisted of six people. They used ten limited liability companies controlled by them, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Southern Federal District.

One of the leading Iranian specialists in nuclear physics Masud Ali Mohammadi died on Tuesday as a result of a terrorist attack near his house in Tehran. As the Iranian English -language television channel Press TV , a professor at the University of Tehran, “a devoted supporter of the Islamic Revolution”, was killed by an explosion when he got into his car. The bomb was attached to a motorcycle parked next to a nearby and, apparently, was controlled remotely.

The State Assembly of the Altai Republic - El Kurultai - on Tuesday at an extraordinary session in Gorno -Altaysk endowed Alexander Berdnikov with the powers of the head of the region for a second term. 33 out of 39 deputies (six - against) voted for him. In total, in the republican parliament, 41 deputies: 20 of them were elected in single -mandate districts, 21 - according to party lists.

On the territory of the state of California, same -sex marriages can be allowed. This issue is currently being resolved in the Federal Court of the city of San Francisco. To date, marriages between representatives of sexual minorities in California are prohibited - residents voted for this during the referendum two years ago. Now the decision of the authorities can be revised. The initiators of the lawsuit were two same -sex couples, reports BBC.