US President Barack Obama found the new head of the Pentagon: the deputy head of the department, the “technocrat” of Ashton Carter, will resign the place of Chuck Heigel, the American media said. Reuters reports that the issue with the candidate has been resolved.

It took about an hour to extract the body of the passenger of the Moscow metro, which fell under the train at the Schukinskaya station Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. The movement of trains around the station was discontinued, the Violetovaya "branch" branches for the entrance of the passengers were not closed. As Interfax was informed in the press service of the subway, at about 23:00 on Tuesday on Schukinskaya a passenger fell under the train. The passenger died of injuries.

In Khakassia on Wednesday night, December 3, during the transportation of special equipment, a bridge on the Matur - Nizhny Matur road in the Tashtyp district of the republic fell. One of the spans could not stand it and collapsed during the excavator’s hanging, which returned to the base after the reconstruction of the neighboring road. Fortunately, no one was injured.

The State Duma discuss the possibility of ruble denomination. The First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy Roman Khudyakov (LDPR), discussing in an interview with the radio station "Moscow" says the possibility of a further fall in the national currency of the Russian Federation, did not exclude the possibility of such a measure. At the same time, according to him, the population will only win from the denomination of the ruble.

At least 150 people became victims of attacks by militants from Boko Haram on the city of Damature in the northeast of Nigeria. Among the dead are both civilians and police and soldiers. In addition, when attacking the settlement, the capital of the state of Yobe, some administrative buildings were completely or partially destroyed. Thousands of local residents were forced to leave their homes.

In the United States, a legislative point has been delivered in the history of millions of dollars of benefits to Nazi criminals in exchange for a voluntary departure from the country. Since 1979, at least 38 out of 66 Nazi criminals who have forced to leave the United States received millions of dollars from the social security department. The total amount of payments from the US budget by the end of the 90s amounted to at least $ 1.5 million.

Russian troops of the 201 military base, deployed in Tajikistan, post photos of burials front -line soldiers and their coordinates on a free cartographic service Google Maps. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official representative of the Central Military District, Colonel Yaroslav Roshchupkin. "Currently, at the Orthodox cemetery of Dushanbe, soldiers and Officers are photographing graves and removing geodetic coordinates.

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned that artificial intelligence "could outsmart us all" and called on humanity to create colonies on other planets to avoid a man-made disaster, the Financial Times reports. Hawking noted: in the near future, artificial intelligence may become truly dangerous if it learns to improve itself, as recounted by journalist Sally Davis.

The Los Angeles Kings Club Club was fined 100 thousand dollars for the emergence of a disqualified Russian defender Vyacheslav Voinov in the team’s training, according to the official website of the League. Voinov rode along with his teammates on Tuesday during the training of the team. This is a direct violation of the conditions of disqualification, which was imposed on it on October 20.

The Target Australian retail chain of Australian stores refused to sell Grand Theft Auto 5 because of the “violence of women” who are in the game, Kanobu reports. Target Corporate General Manager Jim Cooper said that they received many complaints from buyers concerned about the Grand Theft Auto 5 content. Of course, there were those who were pleased with the game, but, according to the heads of the retail network, the first were the first.

Police of the French Department Val de Marn is investigating a sexual crime committed on the basis of xenophobia. A group of attackers burst into the house located in the Jewish quarter, and abused the girl while her boyfriend was connected in the next room. A 19-year-old girl of Jewish nationality was rape, BFMTV reports. To date, the police managed to detain two alleged rapists and robbers. They turned 19 and 20 years old.

The Minister of Finance of Great Britain George Osbourne on Wednesday announced the long -awaited transition to a new, more a flexible system for calculating the co -fee of real estate transactions, reports Bloomberg . Instead of six wide range of real estate costs for which Different gathering rates operated, now a progressive The calculation of the bet.

In the Bering Sea off the coast of Chukotka, an operation to search for sailors who disappeared during the collapse of the South Korean fishing trawler Oryong 501 continues. The searches are conducted by an American aircraft and five fishing vessels. “The search area is examined by the Hercules S-130, which carried out these works on December 2.

The Rosselkhoznadzor announced that he revealed the scheme of large smuggling pork supplies and bacon from the EU countries. According to the department, we are talking about 7.5 thousand tons of meat sent to Kazakhstan from the European Union through the Belarusian checkpoints for fake Brazilian and Lithuanian veterinary certificates. The agency claims that meat raw materials were shipped to the recipient in Kazakhstan according to documents issued for products produced in the EU.

US President Barack Obama on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s speech with a message to the Federal Assembly expressed the opinion that the nationalist approach is more and more guessed in the actions of the Russian president, Reuters reports. "President Putin now uses" a nationalist, looking into the past approach to Russian politics, which terribly scares the neighbors and inflicts great damage to its economy, "TASS cited the words of Obama with reference to his own correspondent.