Senator-Democrat Hillary Clinton unexpectedly won the primaries in the state of New Hampshire. She scored 39%, while her black rival in the party of Barack Obama got only 36%, although according to the polls on the eve of the vote, he was 10%ahead of Clinton. Former South Carolina Senator John Edwards scored 17%. Obama admitted his defeat and congratulated the former first lady on the victory in the “hard struggle”.

James Bond will play the new girlfriend of James Bond from Berdyansk Olga Kurilenko, model and actress. In the 22nd film about agent 007, she will have to play the role of a fatal beauty named Camilla, who will first challenge Bond, and then try to cope with the consequences of her betrayal with him. Olga Kurilenko was born in Berdyansk, at the age of 15 she moved to Moscow, where she became a model. At 16, Olga was in Paris, where she signed a contract with the Madison agency.

A record of $ 100 set on January 2 for a barrel of oil may be overcome, experts surveyed by the Vedomosti newspaper are sure. The reasons for the growth in prices have not disappeared, explains the chief economist of the Three Dialog Evgeny Gavrilenkov: oil is getting more expensive due to the weakening of the dollar, the increase in demand, especially from the rapidly developing economies of Southeast Asia, as well as on the news about the unstable situation in the Middle East.

The number of deaths of domestic gas in Kazan has increased to two people. This was stated in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Republic of Tatarstan, RBC reports. The second deceased is one of the women saved during the parsing of the rubble. From the injuries she died in the hospital. Her identity is established, this is a 56-year-old resident of a destroyed house.

On December 14, 2007, an unusual event was held at the Center for the Development of the Information Society (Rio Center)-the organized “Polit.ru” is a kind of public collective reflection of the participants of the Sigma network expert project .

In the period from September 1 to December 28, 2007, the Presidium of the highest certification commission (VAK) recommended suspending the activities of 5 dissertation councils in connection with the violations in the activities of the Soviets, as well as the unsatisfactory quality of the examination of the dissertations, the VAK press service reports .

In the center of Makhachkala, a car was blown up today, Echo Moscow reports. The car belongs to the deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan Gazi Gazieva. He himself and the driver are hospitalized. In what condition they are not specified.

The World Court of the Kalininsky District of St. Petersburg issued a verdict in the “case of Nikolai Valuev”. The famous boxer was found guilty of beating the guard of the Spartak sports complex Yuri Sergeev (115 Criminal Code - intentional infliction of easy harm to health) and must pay 30 thousand rubles of a fine. In addition, the court recovered 100 thousand rubles from Valuev “for the physical and moral suffering caused,” RSN reports.

According to Reuters , in 2008, China plans to launch 15 missiles, 17 satellites and one spaceship. This was announced to reporters by the Secretary General of the Committee of Defense Science, Technology and Industry of China Juan Tsyan. In October this year, it is planned to launch the third manned spacecraft "Shenzhou VII". The expedition will include the release of astronauts in outer space. China’s participation in the Russian Space Program for the Study of Mars in 2009 is also planned.

The strongest fog caused a collision on the US speed highway of 50 cars, as a result of which at least 3 people were killed and many were injured in varying severity, Prime-Tass reports. Arriving rescuers could not immediately assess the scale of the incident, due to poor visibility. For a long time, they were forced to go around the car behind the car, almost by touch. “I could not see my hand when I pulled it forward,” admitted one of the eyewitnesses, who miraculously escaped the accident.

The united opposition announced the beginning of a series of mass protests from January 13 if the Central Election Commission of Georgia does not decide on the second round of the presidential election. This was announced yesterday at a briefing, presidential candidate Levan Gachechiladze, reports News-Georgia. January 9 , at 14.00, the combined opposition begins a preventive action of the hunger strike.

The prosecutor's office of Vladivostok protested the sentence to the former mayor of the city Vladimir Nikolaev. He received 4.5 years in prison. The court found the official guilty of excess and abuse of authority and immediately freed him from custody. From the ex-mayor, they took a recognizance not to leave. In addition, the court deprived the ex-mayor of the right to occupy senior positions for a period of three years. The prosecution considers the sentence too soft.

The police in Moscow stopped the action of the activists of the “ours” movement from the representative office of the European Commission, reports Echo of Moscow. About 40 people were detained by all of them, they are charged with participation in an unauthorized picket. In total, about 300 people came to the protest. The “Nurses” protested against the ban on entry into the EU countries, which was introduced for some of their representatives after the events in Estonia.

Konstantin Sutyan: I opened the law of worldwide gravity: "The power of attraction is directly proportional to the work of the masses attracted to each other, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them." That is, I, in fact, did not discover the law itself (Newton did this), namely its university. In particular, as it concerns beauty: Fragment of the picture of K. Sutyagin.

The Parliament of Kosovo elected the president of the region for the second five -year term Fatmir Seidiu, the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo. The Prime Minister was approved by the former field commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, now the head of the Democratic Party Kosovo - Hashim Tachi, reports Radio Liberty .