The World Boxing Council champion (WBC) in heavy weight, Ukrainian Vitaly Klitschko reached an agreement with the mandatory contender of the Cuban Odlaniel Solis on the title fight. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the German media, the match will be held on March 19 in Cologne. Negotiations were difficult, and on January 8, an auction was appointed in Mexico to determine the organizer of the fight.

Russia plans to carry out about ten launches of cosmic missiles in the first quarter of 2011, Interfax was told in the missile and space industry. "Five launches are planned to be carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome, rented by Russia from Kazakhstan, four launches - from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region and one launch from the positional region of the Dombar missile division of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Orenburg region," the source said.

The Court of Finnish Gorde Pori refused the Russian Rimma Salonen, living in Finland, to grant temporary right to custody of his minor son Anton. According to Johan Bekman, authorized Salonen, "the court ," the court made a strange decision that fully reflects the position of only one party - the father of the child and does not take into account the position of Rimma in Finland.

A partial collapse of the roof occurred on Monday afternoon in a sports complex in the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg, there are victims, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an employee of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the city. "Information about the emergency received at about 14:00.

The icebreaker "Krasin" on Monday morning approached Admiral Makarov, they together withdraw the transport refrigerator "Coast of Hope" from the Sakhalin Gulf. “They go with a caravan. Ahead of the icebreaker Krasin breaks through the channel, Admiral Makarov is coming close to it, which is in short towing the“ Coast of Hope ”,” the Interfax agency was told in the press service of the Far Eastern Shipping Company (DVMP).

On Tuesday, January 11, new shutdowns of electricity are expected in the Moscow Region, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow United Electric Service Company (MOESK). This time, the “planned de-energization of settlements related to the repair and restoration work to eliminate the consequences of technological violations in the distribution power supply” will affect nine regions of the region.

The world community should prepare for an imminent meeting with extraterrestrial civilizations. The British Royal Academy of Sciences made such a statement on Monday, which, as ITAR-TASS reports, published a special study on the existence of life in the expanses of the universe.

Doctors call on Russian tourists vacationing in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, to caution due to the risk of cholera. "Given the adverse development of epidemiological situations in the Haiti and the Dominican Republic, tourists must observe a number of rules when visiting areas with a high risk of disease," the Rospotrebnadzor said .

The southern part of the United States was covered by a powerful cyclone. According to the forecasts of American weather forecasters, the front of snow storms and, which is especially dangerous, ice rains will stretch out of the northeast Texas to North and Southern Caroline during the night.

At Nalchik airport there are about 100 passengers of Cosmos airline, who, due to strong fog, cannot fly to Moscow for the second day in a row, Passengers of the Spaces flight passengers told Interfax . According to one of the interlocutors of the agency, a number of other airlines transported their passengers by buses to the Beslan airport, over which there is no fog, and from there the plane was taken to the capital.

Russian biathlonists opened an account with medals at the fourth stage of the World Cup, having won two “bronze” in male and female races from the mass start on the final day of the competition in the German Oberhof. Svetlana Sleptsova, having shot without a miss, became the third at a distance of 12.5 km with four fire lines. The Swede Helena Ekholm, who was ahead of German Andrei Henkel, won with the exact shooting of 1.6 seconds, Sleptsova - 5.2.

A number of settlements of the Tver and Smolensk regions on Monday night due to strong, wet snow and snowstorms were left without electricity. In the four districts of the Smolensk region, 53 settlements in which almost 1,700 people live were de-energized today, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. According to the source, the power outages of power supply were recorded in Velizhsky, Gagarinsky, Sychevsky, Demidovsky districts.

The American police launched an investigation into the mysterious death of Ashley Terton - the Washington lobbyist, the wife of the deputy head of the White House department on legislative activities, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Washington media, the woman’s body was found early on Monday morning in a burned car in a garage near her house next to the Capitol building. The press service of the White House refused to comment on the circumstances of the incident.

In Iran, a rescue operation was practically completed at the crash site of the Boeing-727 aircraft with 105 passengers on board in the city of Urmia in the north of the country. At the site of the disaster, one of the on -board recorders of the airliner was found. In the near future, experts will begin to decrypt it. The main version of the disaster is called extremely unfavorable weather conditions. At the time of the tragedy, up to 70 cm of snow fell in Urmia.

The founder of the most scandalous Russian financial pyramid, Sergei Mavrodi, announced on his blog about the beginning of a new project called MMM -2011 - "We can a lot." In his half -hour video message, he promises to depositors a profit of 20% monthly, and to pensioners who invested money - 30%. Residents of any country will be able to invest money in a new pyramid.