Manchester United midfielder Paul Skowles, who completed his career in the summer, changed his decision and signed a contract with the Red Devils until the end of the season. The midfielder, which turned 37 in November, already took part in the match of the Cup of England against Manchester City (3: 2) on Sunday. The veteran appeared as part of the "Mankunians" in the second half with a score of 3: 1 and spent 35 minutes on the field. “It is wonderful that the floor decided to return.

Seps of the UFSB Dagestan on Sunday neutralized a home-made explosive device and components for making bombs with a total capacity of 30-35 kilograms in TNT equivalent, the representative of the operational headquarters in the Republic of Dagestan told RIA Novosti . On Saturday evening, in the forest, three kilometers from the village of Nechaevka, Kizilyurt Dagestan, law enforcement officers discovered a car in which there was a home -made explosive device.

New Zealand experts warned of a new threat of pollution of the naval water area of ​​the port harbor Tauranga: the Rena naval containership on October 5, who was sitting in reefs, broke in two after a strong storm. Last year, after the crash of Rena, almost 350 tons of fuel oil hit the sea. After the current storm from a vessel 236 meters long, a 30-meter section was torn off, and according to experts, there was a leak of 100 tons of fuel remaining aboard, ITAR-TASS reports.

The leader of the Just Russia party, the head of the Socialist Revolutionary faction in the State Duma, Sergei Mironov, demanded that deputies at all levels at each meeting report falsifications at the elections last December 4, 2011. During the speech, it is necessary to show a specific protocol and call the heads of precinct election commissions guilty of violations. “I give the introductory of the CR of any level to all deputies - at each meeting give an example of falsifier.

Rescue ships managed to “pick up” the emergency transport refrigerator “Irina” drifting in the Sakhalin region , ITAR-TASS reported in the State Sea rescue and coordination center of Rosmorrechflot. Previously, a strong storm interfered with the rescuers for more than a day, which attributed "Irina" to the open sea.

In the village of Bronniki, the Rivne region, a 76-year-old mother-in-law during a quarrel cut off his son-in-law with an ax, TSN reports. According to the police, the woman wanted to protect her daughter and grandchildren from the bullying of the 46-year-old Russian. As the fellow villagers said, the man had not the best reputation in the village - he constantly quarreled and beat his wife. Peter spent the New Year holidays with his family.

The prosecutor's office of New York recommended refusing to appeal to Viktor Butu The recommendation of the prosecutor’s office was signed by the prosecutor of the Southern District of New York, moreover, Bharara.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, spoke about the special operation in the mountains in the south of the republic on Sunday: he stated that the operation was in extremely difficult conditions, in snow and fog, and the militants suffered losses. “In the vicinity of the village of Tazen -Kala, Vedensky district on Sunday morning, the active phase of a special operation against the NVF participants began.

In North Korea, the birthday of Kim Jong -un was celebrated by a display on state television of a documentary film glorifying the new leader of the country. In the film he is extolled as an exceptional supreme commander in chief of the country's armed forces, calling the "most ingenious among geniuses," the Air Force reports. The film shows how Kim Jong -un inspects the troops, runs a tank and visits military plants.

The prisoners of the Venezuelan prison "Los Tekes" in the southern suburbs of Karakas took 680 people hostage, who came on a date with their deprivation of imprisonment by relatives. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to local television, there are many women and children among hostages. They are forcibly retained for the day. Prisoners put forward to the authorities the requirements related to the conditions of their maintenance in prisons.

About 100 people gathered on Sunday on Bolotnaya Square to take part in the rally of the unregistered movement "Volya" against the results of the elections to the State Duma. The attitude to similar rallies on December 10 and 24, the organizers of the action called "took out" at the very beginning - they were called "paid", thereby solidarized with Prime Minister Putin. The organizers explained the low turnout for today's action with a shortage of information.

The Ministry of Emergencies praises the Russians for caution: significantly fewer people died in New Year's fires than on past holidays For the period from December 31 to January 7, 404 people were killed from fires in Russia, and 521 people over the same period last year. Two fires with victims occurred on the night of January 8 in St. Petersburg and the Moscow Region.

In the case of the murder in Israel, the leader of the Orthodox Christians Jaffa Gabriel (Gabi) Cadiz, members of the Abu Mani family clan were detained. According to one version of the investigation, the cause of the murder was a dispute about real estate. Yesterday, at the request of the police, the court extended the arrest of five detainees, another member of the Abu Mani family was placed under house arrest, NEWSRU Israel reports with reference to the Kol Israel radio station.

Scandal in Belgium: government members raised their salaries, directly violating the promise to reduce expenses. The scandal is all the more noteworthy that on the eve the same government froze for several months more than a billion euro of the federal budget for several months.

The technical design of the promising transport complex of the new generation will be completed by mid-2012, after which the project documentation will be submitted for consideration by the Roscosmos, the President of the President of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia Vitaly Lopota announced in an interview .