The Moscow Patriarchate states that there are currently no negotiations regarding the possibility of a meeting of Patriarch Alexy II and the Pope Benedict XVI . Once again, this topic was raised the other day by the head of the Papal Council for the assistance of Christian unity by Cardinal Walter Casper, but no terms of such a meeting were named.

In the north-east of Brazil in the city of Salvador, the football stadium Fonte Nova fell. According to the police, during the collapse of the sector for fans at the football stadium, seven people were killed, about 30 more were injured of varying severity. According to Major of the Federal Police Edmilson Tavarezov, at least nine people fell from the highest sector at the stadium in the city of Salvador.

The Disney film "Enchanted" , telling about the fairy-tale princess (Amy Adams), unexpectedly in a completely real New York, took first place in the North American and Canadian box office, earned $ 35.3 million, BBC reports.

The forensic examination of the body of Princess Diana, who died 10 years ago in a car accident in Paris, along with a friend of Dodi al-Faidom and the driver, did not reveal any evidence of her pregnancy. The British medical expert Dr. Robert Chapman, who conducted the opening of the princess’s body after the British Medexes, was reporting in London, the British medical expert after it was delivered from France to the UK, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Moscow, on Monday, another traffic accident occurred with the participation of "minibus". Passenger Gazelle overturned on Zelenoy Prospekt. According to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, four people were injured as a result of the incident. According to him, this happened at 11:30 at the intersection, where Green Prospekt converges with Plekhanovskaya and Perovskaya streets.

To release the participants of the opposition "marches of disagreements" in Russia, the US President George Bush, the AFP reports. His special statement, read out by the press secretary of the White House Danah Perino, was the spectacular completion of a number of similar statements made by the West for Monday. Recall, the USA, France, Germany, the EU and the European Commission took turns condemning Harry Kasparov and other opposition deals.

The level of world oil prices has already come close to $ 100 per barrel. However, oil produced in the Middle East should cost no more than $ 20 per barrel, said the chief economist of the international energy agency Fatih Birol. The increase in oil prices is explained by an increase in global fuel demand, a reduction in oil reserves, an increase in the cost of oil production, political instability in the Middle East, and a drop in the US dollar rate.

The Russian premiere of the Lexus LX 570 took place: in Moscow, Lexus officially presented its new luxury SUV. As Gazeta writes, outwardly this car is similar to the recently introduced Toyota Land Cruiser 200, however, in terms of internal equipment it is significantly superior to it. Under the hood, the LX 570 has an eight-cylinder V8 engine with a volume of 5.7 liters and a power of 367 hp.

In Bolivia, five people were killed as a result of an accident, among them a BBC British Broadcasting Corporation. Four people, including the journalist of the Reuters news agency, were injured, local media said. Two journalists in the car were heading to the official capital of Bolivia - Sukher - to cover mass manifestations, ongoing there for the third day in a row. Suddenly, two trucks with fruits left for them, it was not possible to avoid a collision.

More than a third of Russians do not count on a fair decision when applying to the court. Such data are given by VTsIOM in a study conducted on the initiative of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. The work entitled "Activities of the Courts in the Representations of Russians" was attended by 1,600 people from different regions of Russia, RBC Daily reports.

The Russian national team in almost complete composition began preparations for the final of the Davis Cup for tennis, which will be held from November 30 to December 2 in Portland (Oregon) in the Arena "Memorial Colizumuum, holding 12 thousand spectators. The first of the players of the Russian national team in the United States arrived on November 22, Mikhail Yuzhny. On November 24, Igor Andreev and Dmitry Tursunov joined South. On Monday morning, Nikolai Davydenko flew to the USA.

In the Kirovsky district of Yekaterinburg, a mass fight occurred, during which a 16-year-old schoolboy died. As Interfax was told in the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region, at about 4:00 on Sunday, Alexander Antonov, along with his friend, went to his girlfriend. On the way, they met a company of peers of seven people who attacked friends. Teenagers brutally beat Antonov and his friend. One of the attackers inflicted an injury with a knife.

We found confirmation of reports of sending the Kemerovo branch of United Russia to a large business with a request to sacrifice a large sum for the election campaign. In case of refusal, the "United Russia" promised to complain to the governor of the region (also "United Russia") to the administration of Vladimir Putin.

According to the Forbes study, the city of Salt Lake City is the most rapidly developing real estate market. For the third quarter of 2007, the average cost of housing in this city increased by 14%. To date, the average price of the house in Salt Lake City is 246 thousand dollars, writes kvadrom.ru . On the second line of the rating is the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Here, prices were 11%. The average cost of a residential building in the city is 220 thousand dollars. In third place?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has no doubt that the transformations, called the Putin Plan, implement the new head of state and the future government. The president stated about this, as ITAR-TASS reports, answering a question from journalists about how Putin’s plan without Putin would work. The president said that he had no doubt that he would be able to realize him.