A football match with the participation of elephants during the annual festival in the Chitwan National Park in the south of Nepal gathered crowds of spectators, Sky News reports. On a field the size of a football platform and with standard football gates, the elephants showed that they also know how to play a popular game around the world. On the back of each multi -ton player, a coach was sitting, who was ruled by a four -legged beast, but not people, but elephants were struck on the ball.

Israeli specialists in the secret research complex of Dimon tested the Stuxnet computer worm, which was first registered in the fall of 2010 on Iranian computer networks and, according to experts, was called upon to prevent the normal operation of Iran nuclear facilities, the New York Times reported on Sunday. In September, Iran said that the Stuxnet computer virus struck the computers of the NPP employees in the Bushera, but did not affect the work of the object.

Smoking harms the body in a few minutes, and not years, American scientists say. According to the report published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology , substances that cause cancerous diseases are formed almost immediately after the first puffs. The results of a small scale of research are a strict and unambiguous warning to smokers. The ASH charitable society, which is engaged in the fight against smoking, said that the study proves: it is never early to quit smoking.

The police on Saturday detained a group of young people in the Kirovsky district of Yaroslavl due to an unauthorized action in memory of the murdered fan Yegor Sviridov. “Within 25 minutes, 30 young people, having an attribute of the Shinnik football club and a poster with a portrait of the fan of the Spartak football club Yegor Sviridov, held a march inconsistent with the Andropov Street to Pervomaiskaya Street,” Interfax said on Sunday a source in law enforcement agencies.

The body of the third boy, who disappeared the day before in the Rostov region, was discovered on Sunday in the Taganrog Bay rescuers. "The body of the third child, the boy, was discovered. In these minutes, divers raise him to the surface," the representative of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the region told Interfax . Thus, the bodies of all missing babies - a three -year -old girl and two five -year -old boys were found.

Representatives of the opposition ahead of schedule completed the protest against the recent arrests of the rally participants on December 31 on the Triumphal Square, and wished Boris Nemtsov, a speedy recovery to the sick policy. As the Interfax correspondent reports, the action began at 14:00, but the picket participants began to diverge by 15:00, although the action was allowed by the prefecture of Cao of Moscow until 16:00.

A horse -drawn wagon with two residents of Chechnya, in which the metal parts of the artillery shells were transported, exploded on Saturday in the Grozny district of the republic, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Sunday.

The Russian team in sanitary sports became a silver medalist in the relay at the sixth stage of the World Cup in German Oberehof. The Russian team achieved such an achievement for the first time in recent history. Tatyana Ivanova, Viktor Kneib and Two, Vladislav Yuzhakov, Vladimir Makhnutin, shown such a high result together. Our team lost only the owners of the competition - to the Germans. Following the Russians, Italians, Americans and Austrians are located.

Doctors disconnected a member of the US Congress Gabriel Giffords, who suffered during the attempt last week, from the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs and will soon determine whether the patient can speak, AP agency said on Sunday. Giffords on January 8 received a severe wound in the head. The shooter killed six people and wounded 13, not counting Giffords. On Saturday, doctors replaced her her breathing tube with a tracheotomic one, which will allow a woman to breathe better.

For prisoners of the Moscow pre-trial detention center, an online store has opened, which in terms of goods is comparable to a supermarket. As the head of the capital's department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (Federal Penitentiary Service) Viktor Outzhurov said in an interview with ITAR-TASS, in the first months of work this new service has already gained great popularity.

The number of floods and landslides caused by rains in Rio de Janeiro exceeded 600 people. In Brazil, a national three -day mourning has been declared. In the state of Rio de Janeiro mourning will last a week. According to the number of victims in the territory relatively small in area, this is the most severe natural -climatic disaster in the history of the largest country in South America.

The Kamaz-Master racers for the tenth time became the winners of the most prestigious races in the automobile world. In the current raid, the Russians were able to maintain leadership at eight of 13 stages, and Vladimir Chagin is now a seven -time champion of rally. Chagin at the final stage of the rally, which was held in South America, finished the second, lagging behind his teammate and the chief pursuer Firdaus Kabirov for 1 minute 15 seconds.

Two citizens of Russia, accused of riots in Minsk on December 19, are called among the most active participants in the assault on the Government House and clashes by the police. In the issue of the newspaper "Soviet Belarus", published on Saturday, it is reported that two Russian citizens - Breus Artem Yuryevich, born in 1983, and Gaponov Ivan Igorevich, born in 1988, were active participants in clashes with the police.

In the center of the Tunisian capital on the main street - Avenue Khabiba Bungibi - a shootout occurred today. According to the information received, unknown in masks opened fire by law enforcement in the area of ​​the building of the Ministry of the Interior. Earlier, there was a shootout in the area of ​​the headquarters of the opposition progressive democratic party (PDP). After these incidents, helicopters with paratroopers for monitoring the situation were raised into the air.

The winner of the anniversary of the 90th beauty contest "Miss America", which was today in the city of Las Vegas (Nevada), was 17-year-old Teres Squanlan from Nebraska. It was recognized as the most charming, talented and resourceful of 53 participants in the competition, representing 50 states of the country, the Federal District of Colombia, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, ITAR-TASS reports.