In Novokuznetsk, the Kemerovo region, two people died and eight more suffered as a result of an explosion and fire in a residential nine -story building. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to the regional State Emergencies Ministry. According to ITAR-TASS, a woman born in 1954 and a child died. All victims, including three children, are hospitalized in local hospitals. The condition of two of them is of moderate severity, another received slight injuries.

Three fire brigades arrived to save the squirrel, which fell into the reservoir in the British Watford - the town northwest of London in the Hartfordshire county. To do this, the rodent, which could not get ashore independently, offered to use the impromptu bridge from the fire brigade, writes Daily Mail . It would seem that three meters to the shore and depth along the ankle, but for the protein the situation was catastrophic.

In Irkutsk, an earthquake with a capacity of 3-4 points occurred. In the epicenter of the earthquake, which was at the bottom of Lake Baikal 73 kilometers from the administrative center, the capacity of the underground shocks was 5.6 points, the Baikal 24 portal notes. Earthquakes in Irkutsk are not uncommon, Komsomolskaya Pravda notes with reference to the information of the Baikal branch of the geophysical service of the SB RAS.

Ringing in a huge ball of Zorbe on the slopes of the Caucasus in Dombai ended in a tragedy for two Russians who exchanged skis for dangerous fun. Pyatigorskan Denis Burakov found his partner Vladimir Shcherbakov, along with whom he, not without the help of the instructor, climbed into a huge ball, which was allowed from the slope. However, Zorb rolled not along the trajectory along which it was supposed, but went straight to the abyss.

Gerard Depardieu "remains a Frenchman, despite the Russian passport." He said this in an interview with the French sports television channel L'Equipe in Zurich. At Switzerland, the actor arrived at the invitation of President Fifpa Blatter to the Golden Ball annual prize ceremony. “I have a Russian passport, but I still am a Frenchman and, most likely, will also be a citizen of Belgium,” Depardieu said. "If I wanted to avoid taxes, as many media now present it, I would have done it 20 years ago.

On long New Year's holidays, inevitably accompanied in Russia by the use of a large amount of alcohol, tragedies occur every year. Not without the death of people this time. As it became known, a drunken resident of the Sverdlovsk region killed a neighbor, outraged by a noisy Christmas feast. Another Russian woman living in Kamchatka, while intoxicated, committed self -immolation.

The Russian Football Premier League took 19th place in the ranking of national championships in 2012, the press service of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) reports. The Spanish League was recognized as the strongest national tournament, the Brazil championship took the second place, and the German Bundesliga closed the three. Even in the intermediate ranking of IFFHS, which was published in July 2012, the Russian Premier League occupied only the 53rd line .

The only detained in the case of an attack on the Consulate General of the United States in Libyan Benghazi on September 11, 2012 Ali Harzi was conventionally released due to insufficiency of evidence, Interfax said. The case of an attack during which the US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three more American citizens died in Tunisia, since the Libyan government does not control the situation in its country.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the truck blocked the road to trains, hanging from the railway bridge. For what reason the car carrier rammed the metal fence, remains to be found out. Special equipment was pulled to the scene, notes Interfax . “To prevent the fall of the truck, the police adjusted the Kirovets tractor, grader and crane.

Pakistan citizen Abid Nasir, extradited last week from Great Britain to the United States, did not plead guilty to the ties with the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and the preparation of terrorist attacks. He stated this at a meeting of the federal court in the New York district of Brooklyn. The judge, the presiding judge, decided to leave the 26-year-old Nasir under arrest without the right to exemption on bail, ITAR-TASS reports. The next meeting in his case is scheduled for March 7.

At the airport of the American city of Boston, the Boeing-787 Dreamliner airliner caught fire at the parking lot, which manufacturers call the "Dream Aircraft." The fire began shortly after the landing of passengers, reports Reuters. A fire on board the aircraft belonging to the Japanese airline Japan Airlines found a mechanic who checked the state of the liner after the flight. As established, the cause of the fire was the explosion of the accumulator of the auxiliary energy installation.

Investigators in the case of the death of the British singer Amy Winehouse for the second time came to the conclusion that the famous performer died of alcohol poisoning. More than a year ago, investigators in this case were replaced by a scandal with an unskilled woman-kingner, appointed husband to this post. New investigators in the case came to the same conclusions as the previous ones, notes the BBC .

In the United States, a criminal who had opened in the spring of last year the college of college in Auckland (California) will not be judged due to insanity established by doctors. A native of Korea Van Go killed seven people - six women and a man, immigrants from South Korea, Nepal, Philippines and Nigeria.

In the United States, more than 500 American families were counted at different stages of adoption of Russian orphans and did not manage to settle all formalities before the entry into force of the "anti -magnetic act" . The State Department intends to defend the rights of its citizens, although he receives a tough rebuff from Russian officials. “We continue negotiations, we would like to end the adoption process, but we have been informed that the agreement is suspended.

US President Barack Obama called candidates for two key posts in his new administration: the Minister of Defense proposes to make a former senator, Republican Chuck Heigel, the head of the CIA, the current presidential adviser to combat terrorism John Brennan. Previously, it was Highgel and Brennana who was considered the most likely applicants for these positions.