On New Year's holidays, Muscovites may be able to arrange salutes and fireworks. The metropolitan administration of the Ministry of Emergencies expressed against the free sale of any type of pyrotechnic in Moscow due to the fact that its independent use often leads to fires, writes the newspaper Gzt.ru.

In 2008, the construction of a new transport interchange will begin at the intersection of Pyatnitsky Shosse and the 1st Mitinsky Lane. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , the project plans to reconstruct Pyatnitskoye highway, build a six-lane overpass and an underground pedestrian crossing, and expand to five lanes a section of the 1st Mitinsky lane to the Putilkovo highway.

One of the most popular dating services in Runet conducted a mass study and made up a sociological portrait of its users, which are about 9 million, Komsomolskaya Pravda writes. In parallel with the official study, the psychologist and sexologist Vladimir Shahijanyan spent his own, having studied 20 thousand profiles. “The young age of girls who place the profiles are in a hurry to escape from loneliness - 24 years. Lonely boys living on the network, on average of 26.7 years,” the expert said.

Today, the Pope Benedict XVI with the king of Saudi Arabia Abdalla was first held. Observers called it historical. The Vatican has no diplomatic relations with this country. During the conversation, the pontiff and the Saudi monarch discussed the possibility of resolving the situation in the Middle East through dialogue between Christians, Muslims and Jews, ITAR-TASS reports.

The prosecutor's office of the Chita region filed a lawsuit with a lawsuit to suspend the construction of a sports complex in the old cemetery in Chita, said Anatoly Uskov, senior assistant to the regional prosecutor, RIA Novosti . In September, several local media published reports that the sports complex is "built on the bones" of the military.

The new, previously unknown to science, the kind of wild pig was discovered by scientists in the Brazilian jungle, writes The Daily Mail . A large animal reaches about one and a half meters in length, and weighs almost twice as heavier than her closest relative. The creature of the "giant bakers" in Latin America is considered long ago extinct, but recently the remains of animals killed in the region attracted the attention of the Dutch biologist Mark Van Rusmalen.

On Tbilisi, the fifth day of the opposition continues, requiring the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili, the appointment of parliamentary elections not in the fall, but in the spring of 2008, changes in the electoral code in terms of majority elections and the composition of election commissions, as well as the liberation of political prisoners.

The head of the Russian Imperial House Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna granted noble titles to a number of modern figures of Russian politics and secular life, thanks to which the company of a dozen generals awarded the Order of Nikolai Wonderworker were the secular lioness Ksenia Sobchak, Patriarch Alexy II, Nikolai Patrushev.

On Azerbaijan, the President of Turkey Abdula Gul arrived in Azerbaijan with a three -day official visit. This is his first visit to this country as the head of the Turkish state. According to Interfax , a tet-a-tet with Ilham Aliyev has already met Baku, laid wreaths at the grave of ex-president Heydar Aliyev and the Eternal Flame memorial in the Shekhids Alley.

The producers of the new film about Batman abandoned the filming in Hong Kong Scenes with the diving of the hero into the Harbor Victoria because of too dirty water. Arriving at Hong Kong, the creators of the last series of the tape about the adventures of the “Human Mouse” at the last moment abandoned the idea of ​​filming such a “risky” episode.

Eight matches in groups A, B, C and D started on Tuesday the fourth tour of the group stage of the football league of the 2007/2008 season.

The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Tbilisi Vyacheslav Kovalenko was called on Tuesday evening to the Georgian Foreign Ministry to clarify the statements of Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov about the situation in Georgia. The head of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, we recall, called the Fars, the statements of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili about the relationship of the protest of the Georgian opposition with Russia.

The All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) is under the full control of the presidential administration, says The New Times magazine.

Google introduced software for mobile devices - Android. Thus, rumors about the creation of a “Google”, GPhone and the like - Google will work on the software for mobile phones, CNET reports. Google intends to cooperate with Samsung, HTC, Motorola and LG. Moreover, the first mobile phone CO from Google should appear in the second half of 2008. The Android operating system is based on the Linux core and open code components.

A unique operation began in the Indian Bangalore: doctors save a girl born with four arms and legs, reports factnews . The girl was named Lakshmi in honor of the four -handed goddess of prosperity and good luck. A unique child in eight limbs was born in the poor state of Bihar just a day dedicated to the honorary of the four -armed Indian deity Vishnu.