A strong explosion thundered on Friday evening in the very center of Novosibirsk, in a multi -storey residential building at 17 Krasny Prospekt, according to preliminary data, one person was injured as a result of the explosion. "The victim is a pharmacy worker, she received a cut with fragments of glass of a window, knocked out by an explosive wave, a woman was hospitalized," ITAR -TASS was told in local law enforcement agencies.

The year of the tiger in China began a tragic way for this representative of the cat family, reports the website inopressa.ru . At least 11 Siberian tigers were exhausted by hunger in a private zoo, in the city of Shenyan in the northeast of China. The owners of the zoo ended money, and over the past few weeks they kept predators on a hungry ration, writes the British newspaper The Times . Six animals recently died on the same day.

In the elections to the Tula City Duma "United Russia" buys votes for money for money. The leader of the Tula Yabloko, Sergei Filatov, recorded in the photo and video how the voices in favor of United Russia are acquired right next to the selective sites, writes Kommersant . A voice for United Russia cost 500 rubles, for “fair Russia” - 100 rubles, the Yabloko website reports. According to Filatov, buying up in Gazelle, located next to the voting sites at school No. 52.

Strong floods in Kazakhstan led to numerous destruction and human victims. According to Interfax , in one of the victims of the villages, rescuers found the bodies of 20 dead, in the other the searches of two people, who were washed away by a mudflow stream.

The double terrorist attack in the Pakistani city of Lahor southeast of Islamabad on Friday took the lives of more than 50 people, including 15 military personnel. More than a hundred people were injured, ITAR-TASS reports citing local media. The purpose of the terrorists was supposedly a column of army trucks. The police are afraid that the city has accomplices of extremists who can carry out new attacks.

The parishioners of the Nizhny Novgorod Church of the Nativity of the Virgin helped the police to detain a man who intended to abduct the icon and donations. About this agency "Blagovet-Info" was told today in the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate in Nizhny Novgorod. According to the detainee, he followed one of the monasteries of the Nizhny Novgorod region. On the way he stopped in Nizhny Novgorod.

On Friday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozaku within ten days to deal with the reasons for the sharp growth of utility bills and heat in a number of Russian cities and take measures to resolve this problem.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozaku within 10 days to deal with the reasons for the sharp growth of utilities for water and heat in a number of Russian cities and take measures to resolve this problem.

Anfisa Boldyrev and Lilia Burganova, who suffered, preventing the demolition of the cottage Muromtsev, are still in the Botkin Hospital. Both doctors noted a concussion. Lilia Burganova also dislocated a hand - from the beatings, she is all blue from brush to the elbow - the thigh is also in hematomas. In Anfisa, bruises of ribs and chest were found. According to the girls, they were on the second floor of the house when the police arrived.

More and more rebels of the Taliban movement are refused to cooperate with the militants of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

For the third time in a row, the American skier of Lindsay Vonn became the owner of a large "crystal globe", which is awarded for victory in the overall standings of the World Cup. On Friday, Vonn won the final stage of the World Cup in the German Garmish-Parthenkirhen in supergant slalom, and her main pursuer of German Maria Rish took fourth place and lost the chances of catching up with the leader. In the third position, Swede Anya Person.

Four Brazilian troops died as a result of the helicopter disaster, which occurred in the Matu-Gross-Du-Sul border with Bolivia. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Brazil. We are talking about the Army Nun-Winged ACPLISE HB350 ESQUILO, which performed the training flight, ITAR-TASS reports.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation on Friday adopted in the final third reading the bill introduced by the Government aimed at improving the order of serving the sentenced sentences contained in colonies-settlements. In particular, the bill establishes the separate content of persons who previously served a sentence of imprisonment and persons who were not previously held in correctional institutions of the penal system.

Following Nissan, the review of 58,420 of his cars in the United States was announced by another Japanese auto -building - Mitsubishi. The company's service was 56,113 Mitsubishi Endeavor SUVs of 2004 and 2,307 Mitsubishi Galant sedans released this year.

The Ambassador of Russia to the UK Yuri Fedotov the day before handed the head of the Anglican Bishopal Church to the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowean Williams Order of Friendship for his contribution to the strengthening and development of Russian-British relations. One of the leading theologists of the Anglican community, Williams is also the author of works on the religious philosophy of the Russian classic Fedor Dostoevsky and Russian theologian Vladimir Lossky, RIA Novosti reports.