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.

The Gagarinsky court of Moscow sentenced the 19-year-old car mechanic Anton Gurvits, who was found guilty of the murder of journalist and TV presenter Andrei Rybakin , who worked on the "360 degrees of the Moscow Region". By court a decision, Anton Gurvitz will spend 10 years behind bars. He will serve the deadline in a maximum security penal colony, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the court.

In St. Petersburg, the brutal murder of politician and businessman Dmitry Kornilov is being investigated. Almost two dozen stab wounds were inflicted on him. According to preliminary data, the cause of the reprisal was a household conflict. In the attack on the 48-year-old former deputy Kornilov, who recently led the construction of LLC UK Corte plus, Roman Kolyubaev, a visiting from the Kursk region. On Tuesday, the issue of his arrest was resolved.

Serbia is going to discuss with Russia a refusal to build the South Stream gas pipeline. This was announced on the air of the RTS channel by the president of the country Tomislav Nikolich. Assessing the damage to Serbia from this decision, the head of state said that he would be less than the imposition of sanctions against the Russian Federation.

The actor of French origin Gerard Depardieu, who last year became a Russian citizen , tore off the performance in Belgium, dedicated to the beginning of the First World War. According to the publication Corriere Della Sera , Depardieu appeared on the stage at a state of intoxication. The play "The Night belongs to us" with the participation of an eminent actor was supposed to be held at the Flagey Cultural Center in Brussels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.