As reported by the National News Agency , specialists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and engineers from General Motors, as part of the “Car for the Big City” project, have created a compact two-seater electric car, the City Car. The back of such a mini-car folds, which allows you to place it like a trolley, and place parking near metro stations, train stations and other crowded places, where anyone can rent it, and then also leave it at any other City Car parking lot.

Bishop Artemy - the head of the Rashki -Grazrel diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church , the department of which is located in Kosovo, called on Kosovo Serbs to boycott the parliamentary elections in the region, scheduled for November 17. This was reported the day before by Belgrade news agencies.

For the first time in its history, the St. Petersburg Zenit became the Russian football champion, having won the day before the victory over Saturn in Ramensky near Moscow. The consequences of the celebration of this victory were eliminated all night by employees of the St. Petersburg metro.

The new president of the Moscow Lokomotiv will be the deputy head of the legal department of Russian Railways OJSC Alexei Naumov, the publication "Sports Today" reports. Recall that on November 12 at a meeting of the board of directors of FC Lokomotiv (Moscow), which, according to the results of the end of the season, took only seventh place, it was decided to send Yuri Semin to resign from the club’s post. Semin instead of an adviser was proposed in the Russian Railways OJSC.

NVIDIA published a financial report for the third quarter, which ended in this company on October 28. For the first time in its history, the NVIDIA turnover crossed the bar one billion dollars and amounted to 1.12 billion, reports The Register . Over the same period in 2006, the company's revenue increased by 36%. Then it amounted to $ 820 million. NVIDIA net profit for the reporting period increased by 121% and amounted to 235.7 million dollars.

On the coast of the Krasnodar Territory in the Kerch Strait area, where the tanker broke into the water and more than a thousand tons of petroleum products spilled into the water, mass death of birds was recorded, a representative of the administration of the Krasnodar Territory told RIA Novosti . "According to the latest data, 30 thousand birds died on the coast and are as much stained with fuel oil, that is, most likely, they will also die," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The successful launch of the scientific satellite of the remote sensing of the Earth was carried out on Monday, November 12, in China. About this with reference to the information agency Sinhua reports ITAR-TASS. The spacecraft weighing 2.7 tons was delivered to the orbit of the Changzhen 4-s launch vehicle, which started at 1:48 in the night of Moscow time from the Tayyuan cosmodrome, which is located in the northern province of Shanxi.

At the Sheremetyevo customs "without any explanation", the paintings by Pablo Picasso, Edward Mane, Henri Matisse, Pierre Auguste Renoir are detained - a total of 41 work. This is stated in the official statement of the Federal Service for Supervision of Mass Communications, Communications and Protection of Cultural Heritage. According to experts, the total value of works of art is about $ 20 million, ITAR-TASS reports.

Nissan will present in the United States as part of the Detrox car dealership in January 2008 the latest version of the model of its luxury brand Infiniti QX56. According to JD Power, American motorists recognized this car as the best in their class. This was reported by Autonews.ru . The volume of the car’s interior is considered the largest in the second row of seats. For passengers, it is equipped with a powerful entertainment system with a 8-inch screen, a DVD player and wireless headphones.

Iraq Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika accused the US military command of the fact that they prevent the execution of three associates of the country's ex-president, including the cousin of Saddam Hussein-Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as “chemical Ali” and demanded to transfer to the Iraqi authorities to fulfill the death sentence. The Americans explain their delays in the Iraqi leadership on this issue, they say what awaits when Iraqi representatives will come to a common opinion, BBC reports.

The taxi driver was killed in Baghdad by employees of the American private security company Dyncorp, in the task of which the protection of American diplomats in Iraq was imputed. According to the Iraqi policeman, who witnessed the incident, "the guards left the scene as if nothing had happened," Interfax reports. According to a series of media outlets, Dyncorp is registered in Virginia, it is mainly working in it from the elite units of the US Army or CIA employees.

The editor -in -chief of the Azerbayzhanskaya Opposition newspaper Azadlyg (Freedom) Ganimet Zhidov, detained last weekend, was taken under arrest by the decision of the Yasamal district court Baku, Interfax reports. As previously reported, Zakhidov "on the basis of a complaint from a certain person" was called to the Yasamal district police department Baku and was taken into custody as a suspect. He was placed in the chamber of preliminary conclusion of this management.

There is now a video that has recently been demonstrated in the Ramadán TV Show Lebanese Television program. In the video, the radical clergyman explains to the young Muslims how, in accordance with the canons of Islam, it is necessary to punish their future wives. This is told today by the Spanish newspaper Voz de Galicia (full text on the website inopress.ru ). The representative of the clergy recommends hitting his narrowed toothbrushes, because the wife is not camels or donkeys.

According to the wheel portal "Wheels" , a strange case occurred at one of the gas stations in Germany, which surprised both gas station workers and the police. According to the representative of the police department of the Western city of Vuoppeal, one driver, having arrived in his car for a gas station, filled a full fuel tank, after which he left the car and went home.

The Georgian United Opposition decided on a single candidate for early presidential elections on January 5, 2008. This is 43-year-old deputy Levan Gachechiladze , announced the National Council of Opposition Parties after the meeting on Monday evening.