The black-and-white painting "Artist" of the French director Michel Khazanavichus, the "Battle Horse" by Stephen Spielberg, the drama "The descendants of Alexander Payne and" The Service "Tate Taylor were among the ten ribbons put forward to the awards of the A America producers in the most prestigious category" Best film "of the year. The list of nominees is published by a guild, uniting more than four thousand producers working in cinema and on television, ITAR-TASS reports.

Most of the inhabitants of the village of Omsukchan in the Magadan region on Wednesday morning, January 4, were left without electricity due to an accident on a high-voltage line. "The specialists did not find damage to the power transmission line, which belongs to the" Magadanenergo ". The second part of the 6 KV VL belongs to the regional energy company. The repair team of this company is currently busy searching for the cliff," the words of the Magadanenergo OJSC quotes the Interfax agency.

The camera, in which the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was placed in the Kharkov colony, meets all European requirements and standards of content. This was stated in the State Penitentiary Service of the country in response to the accusations of Tymoshenko’s supporters of being held in "terrible" conditions. "Today, during the briefing of the defense of Yulia Tymoshenko, the conditions of its content are called terrible. These words are in no way correspond to reality.

Police officers in the UK are recommended to be “carefully” to flirting with journalists and avoid joint drinking alcohol with them in order not to allow closed information, even unintentional, RIA Novosti reports. Alcohol "unleats the tongue", so it is worthwhile to remain vigilant. New recommendations are the result of a scandal that erupted in the summer of 2011 due to illegal methods of work of British journalists.

On Wednesday, the London Court of Old Bailey sentenced to the murder of the black young man of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, which then shocked the whole of Great Britain. 18 years after the commission of this crime, the court sentenced the British Gary Dobs and David Norris to life imprisonment with the minimum time in prison of 15 years and 2 months and at 14 years and 3 months, respectively, ITAR-TASS reports.

The US military responded to the harsh statements of Iran, who threatened the Americans with troubles, if the John C. Stennis aircraft carrier, who had left the Persian Gulf, decides to return to the Persian Gulf. The Pentagon will continue to send an aircraft carrier to the Strait of Ormuz. "The placement of US military forces and funds in the Persian Gulf region will continue as it happened for decades," said the representative of the Ministry of Defense George Little.

International consultants from Eurasia Group and the Japanese investment bank Nomura made an assessment of the main geopolitical risks that are waiting for the world in 2012. Among them are the presidential elections in Russia and the new course of Vladimir Putin, the “false” threat of the collapse of the eurozone and the possible re -decrease in the Credit rating of the United States.

Antonio Vasquez Alba, better known as the Great Sorcerer Mexico made forecasts for 2012. In particular, he predicted that in the coming year, oncological disease would be discovered by two leaders of South America, that Barack Obama would lose the election. From good news - the magician promised that there would be no end of the world, which supposedly should step on the Mayan calendar. However, he said, you can’t call the upcoming year a calm year.

In Prague, on Wednesday, Urna was buried with the ashes of the former president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Gavel, who died on December 18, 2011 after a serious long illness at the age of 75. The ceremony was attended by his widow Dagmar, brother Ivan and other family members, ITAR-TASS reports. Now the urn will be stored in a family crypt in the cemetery on the grapes, where the first wife of Vaclav Gavel and his parents also rest.

Only 17 minutes were required by the authorities of the Fredericton - the capital of the Canadian province of New Brahcuik - to dismantle the last tent camp in the country, created as part of the campaign "occupy Wall Street." On the first day of the New Year, the inhabitants of the camp “occupy Frederikicton” were awarded a request to dismantle tents in the Central City Square, since their existence right in front of the Town Hall to the dunes on the Phoenic Square violated a number of

A resident of Saudi Arabia named Saud Bin Nasher al-Shahri sells his own son to get rid of poverty. This, as reported by Newsru.co.il , told the Arab newspaper "Ash Shark Al-Ausat" on the eve of the Arab newspaper. Nasser Ash Shahri put up a child for sale on a social network Facebook, setting a price for him-$ 20 million. He told reporters that he decided to sell his son in order to ensure a worthy existence of his mother and sister - instead of living in poverty together.

Islamic extremists from Mauritania declared the sacred war of France. Hamada Uld Mohamed Keira, or Abu Kumkum - the head of the Al -Qaeda Mauritan branch - distributed a video of his appeal via the Internet, in which he said that "France is hostile to the interests of Islam," ITAR -TASS reports. The “Movement for Unity and Justice in West Africa” grouped by him in October last year abducted two Spaniards and Italian in the Sahara desert, which he still holds.

A bullet wound in the head of the metropolitan police, trying to resolve a household conflict in a hostel in the south of Moscow on Wednesday. One of the participants in the shooting of the emerging shooting was wounded, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow.

In one of the military units of Yekaterinburg, a soldier soldier hanged himself for the New Year.

Argentina President Kristina Fernandez de Kirschner successfully performed an operation to remove the thyroid cancer tumor, local television reports. According to him, the operation was held in the Austral hospital in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, which was literally surrounded by her supporters who came to support her in difficult times, ITAR-TASS reports.