According to Vice President Fifa Jack Warner, there will be no age restrictions for FIFA arbitrators from the New Year. Earlier, according to the regulations of FIFA referee, who turned 45 years old, could not serve international matches. Warner, President of Conkakaf, noted that he proposed to discuss this issue at a meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee, which took place in Madrid on December 17, and this decision was approved.

The credit rating of the largest Italian industrial group FIAT was lowered by Moody's agency to a speculative due to a loss-making automobile unit. Moody's experts reduced the Fiat C Baa3 rating to BA1. Fiat sales decreased every month this year, the company's management reported that the automobile unit would bring 1.2 billion euros of losses by the results of the year. “This is another negative news for the company.

In the Tver court of the capital, on Tuesday, a trial should begin in the claims of 24 victims of the terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka . The claims were presented to the Moscow government and relate to the payment of non -pecuniary damage for a total of 23 million 450 thousand dollars. This was reported by lawyers Igor and Lyudmila Trunov, representing the interests of the victims.

Members of youth organizations of the largest Muslim associations of Indonesia will help the police in ensuring security during the celebration of Western Christmas . About this, as RIA Novosti reports, the metropolitan newspaper Jakarta Post reported today. In recent years, in a number of regions of Indonesia there has been an increase in tension in relations between Christian communities and Muslims, which make up almost 90% of the country's country more than 200 million people.

The Israeli troops began to leave today the central regions of the city of Bethlehem on the western coast of Jordan on the eve of the celebration of Christmas. At the same time, military units remain in the rest of the city and completely control it. According to available information, tanks occupy all strategic roads and intersections and are not going to leave positions.

The Briton, who has cold -blooded killed five members of his family, offers a reward of $ 1.6 million for any information that would help to prove his innocence. The 41-year-old Jeremy Bamber in 1986 received a life sentence for the murder of his foster parents, sisters and her twin sons in one of the most infamous incidents in the legal practice of modern Great Britain, Reuters reports.

In the Pakistani Province of Belujan, the police, as a result of a shootout with drug couriers, detained caravan of camels loaded with drugs. As established, animals transported 1 thousand 200 kg of opium. According to preliminary estimates, in the black market of Europe, the cost of drugs would be more than $ 50 million, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Pakistani Agency of App.

In accordance with the long -standing American tradition, on Christmas Eve and New Year, US President George Bush abolished previously sentences against seven criminals and offenders. The "presidential pardon" announced on Monday in Washington relate to persons who have committed offenses many years ago and have already served punishment.

The outstanding Russian opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya on the eve was awarded the International Prize of Jakomo Puchchini for his contribution to the development of world musical art. The creativity of the singer is well known in Italy.

Three Kenyan schoolchildren were brutally avenged by a cat, who was suspected of theft of their Christmas dinner. According to Reuters , they considered that the cat stole the chicken that was waiting for her fate - to be fried for Christmas. The teenagers caught the thief that had spoiled the thief, killed, freshened up - and scolded her instead of chicken. In this form, they ate their Christmas dinner.

Three illegal immigrants drowned, others (about 130 people), managed to get to the shore of the Greek Island of Corfu after the ship transporting them sank not far from the island. This was reported on Tuesday by the Ministry of Sea Trade of Greece. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports, the victims were found on the shores of the island. The coastal guard carefully examined the place in search of other possible victims, but, as it is believed, the rest managed to swim to the shore.

For opening passwords for access to commercial computer networks, two fourth -year students of the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the Amur State University were sentenced by the Annunciation City Court to large monetary fines. The court reported on Tuesday that this is the first trial in the Amur region about the hacking of computer networks, ITAR-TASS reports.

Today, a court session was held in the case of the former chief financier of Media-Most Anton Titov. The court found him guilty under article 159, part 3, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation . The court sentenced Anton Titov to three years in prison and applied the act of amnesty to him, that is, he freed him from serving his punishment. Titov was released in the courtroom. This was announced by Newsru.com Lawyer Anton Titova Yuri Bagraev.

The State Duma on Tuesday revised the previously adopted decision and decided not to disturb the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with the idea of ​​introducing a state of emergency in Chechnya. During the refinement of the document "On measures to normalize the situation in the Chechen Republic," Leader of the People's Deputy group "Gennady Raikov and the deputy from Chechnya Aslambek Aslakhanov proposed to delete the mention of the emergency, remove the issue of emergency.

The book about the capture of hostages in the theater center on Dubrovka was published. Its author is the former hostage Tatyana Popova. The book is published by a circulation of 30 thousand copies. The volume of the book published by the Vagrius publishing house is 238 pages. The first ten signal copies have already been printed, Interfax reports.