Specialists of the European Space Agency have not yet received signals from the Bigl-2 scientific module, which more than two days ago had to land on Mars. Scientists will continue attempts to contact the module, ”said Project Head Colin Pillinger. Bigl-2 was launched six months ago. The 34th kilogram module was supposed to explore the surface of Mars. Project cost is 300 million euros.

In the US state of Washington, additional measures are being taken to prevent the distribution of the so -called "cow's rabies" on the livestock farms. On the farm where this week the first case of the disease was discovered in the United States, another herd was sent to quarantine. Experts are trying to determine the source of the disease. The US authorities say that there is no danger to consumers. The White House the day before said that President George Bush continues to eat beef.

Melanie Bachin: To participate in the elimination of the consequences of the earthquake in Iran, Russian rescuers arrived on Saturday. Here is what the Radio Liberty correspondent Andrei Trukhan told an employee of the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Irina Andrianova. Irina Andrianova: This afternoon, at 15 o’clock in Moscow time, Russian rescuers arrived in the city of BAM, which suffered from the strongest earthquake in the province of Kerman.

In China, a man was hospitalized with suspicion of atypical pneumonia. If the diagnosis is confirmed, this will be the first case of the disease in China since July this year, when the World Health Organization has announced the end of the epidemic of atypical pneumonia. Recently, two cases of disease were registered in Singapore and Taiwan. However, both sick people worked in laboratories to study the atypical pneumonia virus.

Victoria Munblit , Tel Aviv: Bethlehem was preparing for Catholic Christmas for a long time and carefully. Firstly, because the municipality of Bethlehem, which is in a state of huge budget deficit, hoped to correct affairs thanks to Christian pilgrims, and secondly, the Palestinians wanted to return to the atmosphere of the holiday, which was not in Palestinian autonomy for so long.

The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Tatyana Valovich: Khlebnaya New Year's fairy tale or carnival of Christmas trees - this is the name of the exhibition, which opened in the only Petersburg Museum of Bread in Russia. Today, our guest is the director of this museum Marina Yakovleva.

In the Iranian city of BAM, rescuers continue to search for the survivors in the strongest earthquake, which, according to the latest data, claimed the lives of 20 thousand people. Rescuers from around the world arrive in the catastrophe zone. Thousands of people left without shelter spent this night on the street at a temperature close to zero.

In the east of Afghanistan, a high -ranking employee of the government special services was killed in the province of the Taliban. According to local authorities, during the persecution, the American military shot three attackers.

The world community offers help to Iran, who suffered from a catastrophic earthquake. All European countries and the United States, which do not have diplomatic relations with Iran, announced their readiness to help. The UN has already allocated 90 thousand dollars and sends its experts to Iran. Russia sent rescuers, doctors and essential items. According to preliminary data, up to 6 thousand people died in the southeast of Iran, where the earthquake occurred on Friday early in the morning.

Today, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party is being held in Moscow, which discusses preparations for the elections of the President of Russia on March 14 next year. It is assumed that the Plenum will decide on the strategy of the Communists - to boycott the elections or nominate a candidate.

Jan Runov , New York: The first completely European space mission has failed. The hopes that the British space probe "BIGL-2", the probe of no more than an open umbrella, cost 375 million dollars, successfully landed on the surface of Mars was almost no left. Contact with the probe cannot be restored. The first disappointment came when the Odyssey NASA, in the orbit around Mars, failed to accept the signal from the Bigla-2 immediately after the programmed landing.

The parliament, which received the chairman of the European Commission Romano Prodi on Saturday, was, apparently, filled with explosives. After Prodi opened the parcel, flame flashed, but the explosion did not happen. The head of the European Commission was not injured. The incident occurred in Bologna, where the prodi lives. An investigation has begun. On December 21, two small bombs laid down in garbage tanks exploded near the house of the house. There were no victims.

In the Pakistani city of Ravalpindi, an explosion occurred near the capital of Karachi. Several people are injured. The cause of the explosion is still unknown. In December, in December, two attempts were made on the president of the Musharaff Perepa. The latter occurred on Thursday. 14 people were killed, including two terrorists. Musharraf was not injured.

Three days after the Duma elections, December 10, on the International Human Rights Day, Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin met with a group of individual human rights activists. On December 15, Anna Politkovskaya in Novaya Gazeta to her own question: “Why did Putin meet with human rights defenders?”, The Kremlin was acutely needed by the Kremlin as an entourage, which should close the hole of the missing parliamentary democratic front.

Libya, apparently, was not close to the creation of nuclear weapons, ”said the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed El Baradey. He announced this before departure to Tripoli, where he would conduct negotiations on international inspections of Libyan nuclear facilities. Last week, Libya announced the termination of the development of all types of weapons of mass destruction.