The judicial authorities of Spain may launch an investigation against the legendary bicycle driver Lance Armstrong as part of a doping scandal associated with the name of the American, RIA Novosti reports with reference to ABCNews . Armstrong was convicted of the use of forbidden drugs following the investigation of the American Anti -Doping Agency (USADA).

Another message came from China about the noteworthy case of game addiction, from which a significant part of the population of the great country suffers. In the city of Chanchun, in the north-east of the PRC, it turned out that the 31-year-old man lived in the last six years in Internet cafes, playing online games, Vesti.ru reported with reference to Business Insider. From a computer, an obsessed gamer named Lee Maine was distracted for a short while - only to eat and take a shower.

The Audi A3 sedan, created as a competitor to Mercedes-Benz Cla, was introduced in the Pavilions of the New York Auto Show , Interfax reports. A relatively light model - only 1250 kg - is offered with three engines: two gasoline volumes of 1.4 and 1.8 liters, with capacities of 140 and 180 hp. respectively. The new A3 with these engines will accelerate in 7.3 and 8, 4 seconds. The third option would be a two -liter diesel engine with a capacity of 150 hp.

Many players of Argentina’s national team felt bad due to oxygen starvation during the match of the qualifying tournament of the World Cup-2014 with a team of Bolivia, which was held in La Pas at an altitude of about 4000 meters above sea level. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to local media, the leader of the Argentines Lionel Messi during the break of the meeting felt malaise and nausea.

The author of the songs of The Jackson 5 and The Supremes, de Richards, died at the age of 68, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the NME publication. According to the portal, the musician who had cancer of the esophagus died in one of the Washington hospice on March 24. Richards was the head of the Corporation Corporation creators, on the account of the famous hits I Want You Back and ABC The Jackson 5 group.

Krishnaites around the world on Wednesday are celebrated by Gaurapurnima, or the phenomenon of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who revived the tradition of Bhakti. Gaurapurt is considered the most important event in the tradition of Bengal Vaishnavov (Krishnas). In the West, this holiday is sometimes called the "Bengal New Year." Literally “Gaurang” means ”the one whose body shines like gold,” and “purple” is “full moon”.

The director of the US Secret Service, which protects the first persons of the state, will become a woman for the first time in history. The President of the United States Barack Obama announced his intention to appoint Julia Pirson for this post. Fifty -three -year -old Parson began work in secret service 30 years ago. Recently, she held the post of head of the department of the department, notes ITAR-TASS.

The sensitive situation has developed around Novaya Gazeta and the VKontakte network after the publication published a letter allegedly confirming the secret cooperation of the most popular social network with the Kremlin in the fight against the opposition. At the end of 2011, the founder of VKontakte Pavel Durov and his then spokesman Vladislav Tsyplukhin allegedly wrote to the former deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov, the newspaper claims.

The investigating authorities of the Amur Region check the circumstances of the death of a little boy, who was bitten by the dog. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday evening in the village of Sadovo in the city of Blagoveshchensk, reports on Wednesday the SUSK RF SUSK website in the Amur Region. According to the investigation, at about 19:00 the child’s parents were engaged in work on the territory of the agricultural production cooperative (SEC) "Astrakhanovsky".

Hackers forced millions of Internet users around the world to suffer from a slow connection, a long download of sites and unwanted mail. According to the non -profit organization Spamhaus, the collapse happened after the temporary inclusion of the Cyberbunker Dutch resource in the blacklisted list. Spamhaus withstands this cyberataka because it has a whole network of 80 servers distributed between different countries.

Two weeks after the authorities of Shanghai began to catch the carcasses of dead pigs from the river, the number of which still continues to grow, the corpses of ducks were found in another Chinese river. As in the case of pigs, the authorities are trying to calm the population that the incident does not pose any threat to a person, writes Xinhua .

The British actor Clive Mantle, known for his roles in the series "Game of Thrones" and "Disaster", almost lost part of the ear as a result of an attack in one of the hotels of the city of Newkasl, BBC reports. The incident occurred last weekend, at the Travelodge Hotel. It is reported that Mantle asked one of the hotel guests not to make noise. In response, the 32-year-old bully attacked a 55-year-old actor, knocked him down and bit him off part of his ear.

In the Primorsky Territory, police arrested the offspring of the people's chosen one from the United Russia party, which is suspected of brutal rape. For several hours, the man beat the girl in the hotel room. The detained relative of the regional policy faces four to 10 years in prison, reports PrimaMedia.ru with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the regional administration of the RF IC Aurora Roman.

The American found her camera after almost five years of separation. The underwater camera, which a 32-year-old resident of Georgia Lindsay Skanen drowned in the ocean during a vacation in the Hawaiian islands, sailed almost 6 thousand kilometers, after which she was found off the coast of Taiwan, Daily News America reports. “I just can’t believe it that the lost camera swam so far and did not deteriorate,” Skanen admitted in an interview with journalists.

The hockey players of the Moscow Dynamo won a strong-willed victory over SKA from St. Petersburg and were in a step from repeating the result of last year's final of the KHL Western Conference, in which the Moscow Club of the Vosukha beat Petersburgers in four matches.