Last year's finalist Australian Open, the second racket of the world, Russian Dinara Safina, could not break into the quarterfinals of the current Australian championship. The 23-year-old Muscovite met with her 22-year-old compatriot and fellow countrywoman Maria Kirilenko and, with a score of 4: 5 and 30:40, on her submission due to her back injury, refused to continue the dispute. Tennis players spent exactly an hour on the court. “Again the back.

President UEFA Michel Platini said that he intends to leave contractual matches in European football in the past. On Friday, the Russian Football Union received a letter from UEFA, in which he was notified of the suspicious nature of the match of the first SKA -Energy division - FC Krasnodar. "At the previous Congress of UEFA, 7 million euros were allocated to the warning system, mainly for matches of the teams of the first or second division.

Specialists of the Russian Center for Flight Management (TsUP) today held the second correction of the orbit of the International Space Station in the week. According to ITAR-TASS in the Central Administrative District, "the main maneuver was regular." The first, test correction took place last Friday.

Chinese and European candidates for participation in an experiment on imitation of flights to Mars will come to Moscow to pass a medical examination for the future week, the press secretary of the Institute of Biological Problems (IMBP) Pavel Morgunov told Interfax . "At the end of January, a group of candidates from China and Europe will come to the institute to undergo a medical examination. The passage of all doctors will not take more than a week.

11 days after the Haiti earthquake, a 23-year-old young man was extracted alive from under the rubble. This was announced on Saturday by the French lieutenant colonel Christoph Ren, who takes part in a rescue operation in the country injured from the destructive earthquake. According to him, the condition of the young man is evaluated as satisfactory. Immediately after he was taken out of the rubble, the French doctors provided him with the necessary medical care, ITAR-TASS reports.

A naked passenger was detained in the Moscow metro on Sunday night. According to Life News , citing a source in law enforcement agencies, a message was received on the police remote control that three absolutely naked men were traveling in the train carriage following from the Novogireevo line station towards the Novogireevo line. "The law enforcement officers were already waiting at the nearest Porovo station. Seeing the police, all three rushed to run.

Pfizer's pharmaceutical giant announced that the drug he had previously developed for the treatment of cancer diseases of the kidneys is successfully used to support patients with pancreatic cancer. The report on the new property of the drug called Sutent was presented on Saturday at the medical oncological symposium in Orlando.

On the Internet, the collection of signatures has begun with a demand to prevent a possible disaster at the SS of the hydroelectric power station, the Echo of Moscow reports. According to the text of the open letter published on the site of the dam.net , now the water supply is damaged by a huge mass of ice, overwhelming on it during the winter. This can lead to a breakthrough of the dam in the spring.

At the end of the upcoming week, atmospheric pressure in Moscow will drop sharply. According to the metropolitan, by the end of the next week, the anticyclone over Central Russia will give way to the cyclone from the West. At the same time, there will be a sharp decrease in atmospheric pressure, especially on the night from Wednesday to Thursday, by about 15 units and will be compared with the Middle January.

The Russian Gandball male team suffered a second defeat at the European Championship in Austria, losing to the Croatian team. The final match of the preliminary group stage ended with a score of 30:28 in favor of the vice-champions of Europe (2008) and the world (2009). Croats, having won all three matches, take place in the main group round from first place, but the team of Nikolai Chigirev from the third.

Two unemployed are suspected of kidnapping a patient of a psychiatric hospital in the Pingzhsky district of Karelia, whom they held to take possession of his apartment, RIA Novosti told RIA Novosti on Sunday the regional law enforcement agencies by telephone.

Russian Albert Demchenko became the champion of European sport among lone crews. At the competitions that took place in Latvian Sigulde, Demchenko took first place with the result of a minute of 36.748 seconds - this is the best time in the history of the highway. For Albert, this victory became the second, won at European championships. “Silver” went to the Austrian Wolfgang Kindlu (1.36,974), and “bronze” to his compatriot Daniel Pfister (1.37.062).

In Kabardino-Balkaria, 16 thousand inhabitants in the cities of Nalchik, Baksan and five villages of the Zolsky, Baksansky and Chegem districts of the republic remain without light. The emergency regime is preserved, introduced on January 22 due to mass power outage due to damage to icy wires. This was announced today by the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for Kabardino-Balkaria Kantemir Davydov.

In the central part of Nigeria, the bodies of one and a half hundred people who died as a result of clashes between Christians and Muslims were found. The riots swept through the so -called "middle belt" of Nigeria, dividing the Muslim north and the Christian south of the country, reports the British television and radio broadcasting corporation of the Air Force .

The ribbon of the cult director of Quentin Tarantino "inglorious bastards" is called the Guild of Film Akaters of the United States "The Best Film" of the past year. Already the 16th annual ceremony of presenting awards of this largest Hollywood trade union, which unites more than 120 thousand professionals on the Western and East coasts of the United States, was held on Saturday in Los Angeles.