A resident of the American city of Newport (Rhinod Island) 81-year-old Luizu White won the Powerball 336.4 million lottery in the USA popular in the USA. According to the organizers of the lottery, thereby she became the owner of one of the largest jackpots in the history of the country. Local media notes that the woman came for money only a few weeks after she found out that her ticket had won, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Ministry of Finance prepares proposals to limit cash calculations, said the Minister of Finance of Russia Anton Siluanov. He expressed them in an interview with Izvestia newspaper Siluanov said that the Ministry of Finance is preparing proposals for the mandatory use of cashless payments in transactions such as large purchases, payroll and others. A number of countries use similar restrictions in cash settlements, he added.

The emperor of Japan Akihito, who successfully suffered aorto -hunkering on February 18, was again hospitalized today for another operation - this time doctors should remove the liquid from his lungs. This was reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of the Directorate of the Imperial Court of Japan, in the hospital of which today's procedure will be carried out.

In Russia, following other countries, they created a humanoid robot-cosmonaut capable of working in orbit. The SAR-400 device has become the first Russian space robot over the past 20 years. In November 2011, the robot was tested in a star town at the Cosmonauts training center, and in the next two years they will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS), and then, possibly, to the moon, Mars, etc.

The court in Tyumen sentenced to 21 imprisonment of realtor Vyacheslav Mironov, who was found guilty of illegal privatization and sale of apartments in the amount of about 15 million rubles, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. "Mironov found an empty municipal housing in the city, after which scammers were illegally privatized and sold.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, on the eve of International Women's Day, met in his residence near Moscow and complained that it is harder for them to break through in life than men, ITAR-TASS reports. In total, 15 representatives of the beautiful half of humanity were invited to a meeting with the head of state, including the director of the A.S.

US President Barack Obama announced a decrease in mortgage commissions secured by government guarantees, Reuters reports. According to the head of state, this will help millions of homeowners refinance debt. About 11.1 million Americans should be more than their house costs. According to the plan, a loan borrower, which is subsidized by the Federal Housing Construction Department (FHA), can save a thousand dollars a year when refinancing a loan.

The plasma clot, thrown out on March 5, flew to the ground, as a result of which the second -class magnetic storm began on our planet, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the US National Oceanic and ATMICTION Forecast Center ( Noaa ). According to him, to date, the geomagnetic disturbances index KP, measured by the network of ground magnetic stations, reached the level of 6 units. Starting with KR = 5, indignation are considered a storm.

In the Amur Region, an extremely mild sentence was sentenced to a previously senior employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who was convicted of brutal beating of convicted women. Crimes of the overseer were recorded by video surveillance cameras. On Wednesday, the Ivanovo District Court sentenced the former deputy head of the correctional colony No. 4 of Sergey Zychkov to three years and eight months of conditional imprisonment, RIA Novosti reports.

In the American city of Jacksonville (Florida), the Spanish teacher of the private episcopal school, dismissed from it in the morning, returned there after a few hours and shot it of its director Dale Rigan. According to representatives of the police, the man came to school at lunchtime, hiding the rifle in the case for the guitar. In his office, he shot the director several times, after which he shot himself, Iar-Tass reports. As a result of the incident, none of the students were injured.

The weighted medium of the US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the Interbank currency exchanges as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the dollar course has increased by 21.13 kopecks and amounted to 29.6621 rubles, “Finmarket” reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 grew by 12.32 kopecks - to 39.0063 rubles.

The head of the Transition National Council (PNS) of Libya Mustafa Abdel Jalil defended the threat of applying military force against the Bark (Kirenaika) in the east of the country who announced his semi -autonomous region. “They should know that they are trying to use the leaked outbuildings of the overthrown of Gaddafi. We are ready to prevent them, even with the use of force,” Jalil said on the air of national television on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports.

The voters league , created after the issues of the December elections to the State Duma, presented a lot of issues, presented in Moscow the promised analysis of the results of the vote, held on March 4. The “Consolidated Protocol” system, which made it possible to compare the protocols obtained by observers with the official data of GAS “Elections”, revealed several regions where the protocols following the results of the presidential election were systematically falsified , the League claims.

In San Francisco, a presentation of the third model of the Apple iPad tablet computer, designed to confirm the leadership of the Apple Corporation in one of the most promising segments of mobile equipment, RIA Novosti reports. The device was presented to the public by the senior vice president of Marketing Philip Schiller. Its sales will begin on March 16 in the first 10 countries, on March 23, 26 countries will be added to them, but Russia is neither in the first nor in the second list.

Members of the British Olympic delegation at the 2012 Games will still be allowed to hands, but with the condition that after each such greeting they will thoroughly wash their hands. Recall that earlier the British Olympic Association (VOA) shocked athletes and sports lovers a recommendation for members of the national team to refrain from handshakes with their colleagues from other countries and high guests of the Olympics.