An appeals court in France has cleared American Continental Airlines of blame for the July 2000 Concorde crash near Paris that killed 113 people. reports this The BBC . The decision was made two years after a court in the Parisian suburb of Pontoise found the American company guilty of the incident and ordered it to pay a fine. Two years ago, Continental Airlines, which now operates under the United Airlines brand, appealed the decision.

The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, proposes to hold accountable those who noticed a child in the company of an adult who aroused suspicion, but did not report it to the police. As reported by RIA Novosti , Bastrykin cited the following case as an example: a man brought a child to a store, bought him sweets, and then sexually assaulted him 600 meters from the store. “Then “oh, oh, I felt it, my soul was worried.” Was it difficult to call “02”?

November 29, 2012, 11:00 Opinions Salary insufficiency Two minimums - the subsistence level and the minimum wage - should not be increased, but revised Georgy Osipov close 100% The minimum wage in Russia has never been real before ITAR-TASS The authorities promise to think about increasing the minimum wage to the subsistence level, as well as many other promises, finally reducing economic policy to the performance of curtseys to the population.

November 29, 2012, 17:32 Cars The secondary market appreciated the new models Experts have named the most profitable cars for resale in the 2013 model range Sergey Gusarov close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos American experts from Kelley Blue Book have compiled a rating of cars from the 2013 model range that will lose the least in price on the secondary market. The top ten leaders were occupied by cars of the Japanese brands Honda, Toyota and subsidiary brands.

The ex-leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya Muammar Gaddafi proposed to the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to create a “Muslim atomic bomb” and even promised to allocate money for it. This was stated by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, and now the Deputy Secretary General of the UN , Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, reports RIA Novosti .

73 flights were delayed at Moscow Domodedovo Airport on Thursday night, RIA Novosti reports . On Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Moscow region announced a storm warning due to strong winds and snowstorms. According to forecasters , heavy snowfalls are expected in Moscow and the region, which will be accompanied by a decrease in air temperature and strong winds - 9–12 m/s with gusts up to 15–20 m/s.

In the southwest of the Moscow region, freezing precipitation and freezing rain are already observed in places; by the middle of the night this zone will reach Moscow, a representative of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia told RIA Novosti . “We have a temperature inversion (cold air at the surface and warm air at altitude), that is, there are conditions for supercooled precipitation, although the process is very slow,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

In the third quarter of 2012, US GDP grew by 2.8% in annual terms, forecast analysts surveyed by Bloomberg . Previously released preliminary data indicated that the growth rate of the US economy accelerated in July-September to 2%, compared with a 1.3% increase in the second quarter. The rise in the PCE Core (Personal Consumption Expenditures, Excluding Food & Energy) index, which the Federal Reserve tracks when assessing inflation risks, was expected to be 1.3% in the past quarter.

November 29, 2012, 19:40 Science Text size A A A “The Ministry of Education and Science is on our side” Organizational problems in science are provoked by the Ministry of Finance, and not by the relevant ministry Aleksandra Borisova close 100% Scientists and science officials discussed together the problems associated with the excessive bureaucratization of science.

In England, students at 30 universities took off their clothes in a protest that will force schools to pay attention to the harsh working conditions for those who sew university uniforms. reports this . The Guardian “We would rather walk around naked than wear these sweatshop (made through heavy, non-mechanized production) clothes,” one demonstrator wearing a cardboard banner told reporters.

Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev said that the cost of construction of the Dzhubga - Sochi highway in the Krasnodar Territory is estimated at at least 300 billion rubles. “After the Olympics in 2014, in the summer, all the forces that were at the Olympic construction site are transferred to the Dzhubga - Sochi route, and we begin to build it. There will be a complex road with a large number of tunnels, bridges and overpasses, ” Interfax quotes Tkachev .

November 30, 2012, 19:18 Society Major Shchegol's order Vladimir Lukin: facts of violation of the rights of prisoners in Kopeisk IK-6 are confirmed Maxim Solopov close 100% Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that based on the results of an inspection carried out in IK-6, where prisoners staged a protest last weekend, facts of extortion on the part of the administration were confirmed. Now the HRC commission is working on site, preparing an off-site meeting of the working group.

Judge Brian Leveson, who led the investigation into the wiretapping case used by journalists at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, presented his findings and called for the creation of an independent press regulator in the UK, whose work would be regulated by a special law. writes about this Reuters .

According to a survey conducted by the Levada Center , approval ratings for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev are falling. reports this Interfax . According to sociologists, over the past seven months, Putin’s rating has decreased by 6% (from 69% to 63%), Medvedev’s by 10% (from 64% to 54%). The number of people dissatisfied with Putin increased from 30% to 36%, with four percent added to this number in the last month alone.

November 29, 2012, 11:13 Politics The Syrians returned to Lavrov The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry will meet with Syrian oppositionists on Thursday Farida Rustamova; Zhanna Ulyanova close 100% Representatives of the internal Syrian opposition arrived in Moscow. According to the official statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the purpose of the visit is to continue the negotiation process between opposition groups and the government of Bashar al-Assad.