In the Sverdlovsk region, in the early morning of January 1, 18 freight cars derailed near the Maramzino station. Passenger train traffic in the area was suspended, but has now been partially restored. There were no casualties. The derailment of a freight train occurred at approximately 4:35 on January 1, local time (2:35 Moscow time) on the 63rd kilometer of the Khramtsovskaya - Maramzino section of the Sverdlovsk Railway.

The British police detained a man in Manchester, who arranged a massacre in the subway. Three people were injured from the knife of an attacker who shouted after the incident, including a law enforcement officer. The crime was committed at about 21:00 on December 31 at the Manchester Victoria metro station in the north of the city. Directly on the platform, the suspect caused stab wounds to a man and a woman, as well as a transport police officer, writes The Sun.

The strategic command of the United States, which oversees the country's nuclear arsenal, apologized for the joke in social networks that it was ready to drop something "much more than the New Year's ball in New York if necessary. The tweet with a dubious joke was posted on the network of the department’s microbles half an hour before the midnight descent at the Times Square of the illuminated New Year's ball, which marks the beginning of the New Year, reports Reuters.

The editor -in -chief of The New Times, Evgeny Albats, intends to leave his post in the near future and has long been looking for a candidate for replacement. She shared her plans on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. “Here somewhere there was a question about whether I suppose to leave the post of chief editor. Yes, and I will definitely do this this year, in the near future. And I think that this is absolutely necessary,” Albats said.

In the west of Germany, a 50-year-old man deliberately drove into a car into a group of people, on the night of December 31 to January 1 celebrated the New Year's offensive. After that, he went to knock people in another city. Investigators have data on a mental illness in a criminal. At first, at the entrance to the center of the beard, the man tried to knock down an accidental passerby, but he managed to run aside and thereby escape, reports Welt .

In one of the residential buildings of Orsk, the Orenburg region on the morning of January 1, a fire occurred. Seven people were killed, among them two small children and one baby. The prosecutor’s office is conducting an audit, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case. All the dead, allegedly, were poisoned by carbon monoxide, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office.

The head of the Kvartal 95 studio, artist Vladimir Zelensky, who occupies the second lines in the ratings of applicants for the president of Ukraine, officially announced his intention to participate in the elections of the head of state, which were scheduled for March 31, 2019. The showman stated this in the New Year's issue of the "Evening Quarter" on the "1+1" television channel. The politician promised only what he had already fulfilled to the citizens of Ukraine.

In the Russian Federation, the law on the regulation of the activities of Internet aggregators of goods and services entered into force (for example, Yandex.Market, “Products.mail.ru”). New norms began to operate on January 1. The law introduces the concept of a commodity aggregator and responsibility for providing them with obviously inaccurate information about the product (service) and the seller. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law in July 2018, Interfax reports.

US citizen Paul Wylan, whom the FSB officers detained in the Russian capital on suspicion of espionage, is a retired marine infantryman who came to Moscow for a wedding to friends. This was told on Tuesday by his twin brother David Wylan. “Paul is a retired marine. He was in Moscow because he was invited to a wedding,” David CNN quoted. Paul Wylan was born in Canada, and recently lived in the city of Novi (Michigan in the USA).

In Kemerovo on New Year's Eve, the 18-year-old member of the Libertarian party Valery Kazantsev was beaten. He was attacked when he, along with his girlfriend, returned from the guests home. The attack occurred at about 7:30 in the morning of January 1 at the entrance of the house in which he lives. According to Kazantsev, the two men who beat him called him a pedophile, according to the party page on the VKontakte social network. “There were two Bugaevs similar to the police in the entrance.

The Russian youth team in hockey, composed of players no older than 20 years, won the fourth consecutive victory at the World Cup, outplaying the owners of the tournament in the fundamental confrontation of Canada. Valery Bragin's wards went to the quarterfinals from the first place in the group. In the fourth round of the group stage, the Russian national team in Vancouver outplayed Canada with a score of 2: 1, inferior in the course of the meeting.

Voronezh police brought to the administrative responsibility of the rowdy, flying a flight from the Black Sea resort to Moscow. A business class air passenger, who turned out to be a hockey player, made a fight with a fellow traveler, and also caused injury to the flight attendant. After that, the crew had to plant a aircraft in Voronezh, where the police officers detained a drunken hooligan athlete.

On New Year's Eve, more than eight million people took part in the festive party. In total, more than 12 thousand festive mass events took place in the country.

During the collapse of the wooden bridge, 13 people were injured in the Moscow Park of Gorky. This happened in the first seconds of the new year. The design of a pedestrian crossing through the skating rink was hit, the website of the metropolitan city hall reports. This happened immediately after the chimes fight during the execution of the anthem of Russia, and there were many people on the bridge. All of them fell down, but from a relatively small height.

In Tokyo, a 21-year-old Japanese crashed in his car into a crowd of people celebrating the New Year. Nine people were injured. The driver thus protested against the execution of the leaders of the Aum Sinrikyo sect*. The attack occurred in the early morning of January 1 on Takesita Street in the popular tourist quarter Harajuu, CNN reports. As eyewitnesses said, people fell one after another. Moreover, the man attacked one of the victims, already leaving the car.