An unusual traffic accident occurred on one of the roads in the south-west of China. A wild Asian elephant entered the track, reports South China Morning Post . At first, the animal attacked a tourist bus, standing on the road, and then attacked another car. As a result, both vehicles were damaged, notes China News Service . According to media reports, the incident occurred on Saturday, December 9th.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland confirmed the information that had appeared earlier in the media that on the night of December 10 under Lviv under a bus with Polish tourists, explosives were laid down. Representatives of the department believe that their fellow citizens not just turned out to be the goal of the attackers. “On the night of December 9 to 10, under Lvov, it reached damage to the Polish bus, under which an explosive device was fed.

Netflix published a trailer for the second season of the series Jessica Jones, based on the comics of Marvel Publishing House. The new season starts on March 8, 2018. Jessica Campbell Jones Cage, also known under the names Treasure, a warrior and a woman -breastwide, is a character of the comics of Marvel Comics. This image was invented by Michael Gaidos and Brian Michael Bendis.

The International Olympic Committee should consider the possibility of holding games without national flags at all. According to Samuel Schmid, the head of the IOC commission to investigate the use of doping by Russian athletes, this would help make the Olympic games more honest. “Maybe it would be worth considering the possibility of holding the Olympic Games without flags at all,” said the former President of Switzerland to the local Watson.ch local publication.

India police detained a man who is suspected of sexual harassment. A minor star actress Zaira Vasim suffered from the actions of the attacker. According to the girl, a man sitting behind during a flight from Delhi to Mumbai pulled his naked leg forward and touched her neck and back of the actress. The incident occurred on December 10, BBC reports. To prove her words, 17-year-old Zaira Vasim posted on the social network Instagram videos.

The Stockholm International Institute for Peace Research ( Sipri ) has published another annual report on the sales of 100 largest weapons manufacturing companies in the world and came to the conclusion that the volume of arms sales in 2016 increased for the first time since 2010. Compared to 2015, world sales of weapons increased by 1.9%, and from 2002 - by 38%. The total weapons sales in 2016 amounted to $ 374.8 billion.

A few hours after the Khmeimim of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation from the Arab Republic of the Russian Federation, the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, said that the military had already begun to return to their homeland in Syria. According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, the terms of return will depend on the situation.

The Australian musician Keith Urban called "ridiculous rumors" the news about the road gift in the form of an elite mansion near Broadway, which he allegedly bought for his wife Nicole Kidman. The Australian musician wrote about this on his Twitter. “I heard that I allegedly bought apartments in New York. I have no idea who distributed these ridiculous rumors. But this is complete nonsense,” Keith wrote on his Twitter page .

The average Russian will spend 17,600 rubles for the celebration of the New Year - 4% more than a year ago, the Vedomosti newspaper is eating with reference to the study of New Year and Christmas - 2018 "Deloitte company. Last year, the average New Year's budget of the Russian amounted to 16,900 rubles, which was 2% higher than the 2015 indicator (16,500 rubles). The study also showed that the behavior of Russians before the New Year is increasingly similar to the consumer habits of Europeans.

Gennady Gudkov “If 40% need a“ firm hand ”, and another 38% admit that it can be useful in the current conditions is a sentence. First of all, to those who think so,” the politician on Facebook writes, commenting on the results of the freshire -public -publication of Levada Center. "Citizens, did you actually survive the mind? Or simply did not understand the question?" A solid hand "and" strong, effective power "is not the same thing at all, just the opposite!

The International Football Federation (FIFA) plans to conduct a second check of the doping industry of Russian football players in early 2018, which can throw a shadow at the hosts of the upcoming mundial, says the British edition of the Daily Mail . According to the source, in the winter, a "court analysis" of samples for their autopsy and substitution will be carried out.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation proposed to the government since 2018 to increase the utilization fee for cars by 87-125% depending on the volume of the engine, Kommersant reports with reference to sources in the car market. According to experts, an increase in the collection against the background of excise tax growth will raise the prices of new cars by 10-17%, the newspaper writes.

On Monday, a draw was held in the Swiss Nyon, the draw of the first round of the second most important football European Cup - the UEFA Europa League. According to its results, four Russian teams recognized their rivals. Moscow "Spartak" received Athletic from Bilbao, the capital's "Lokomotiv" will play with the French "Nice", CSKA will fight for the place in the next round with the Serbian "Croven Star", and the Petersburg Zenit - with the Scottish "Celtic".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, being Monday in Brussels, expressed hope for the transfer of European countries to Jerusalem in the future of the embassies after the United States.

The Executive Committee of the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU), according to the results of the meeting in the Austrian Hochfilzen, limited the Russian Biathlonists Union (SBR), but Russian athletes retained the right to participate in international competitions.