More than 300 residents of Yakutsk during the New Year holidays sought medical help in connection with alcohol poisoning. The chairman of the city health committee, Yegor Borisov, announced this on Wednesday at a meeting at the city hall. "During the first days of the New Year, the ambulance received 450 calls associated with the adoption of a certain part of the population of alcohol in large quantities.

The head of the Norwegian energy concern, Statoilhydro Helga Lund, announced the future growth of oil and gas production by 2012, presenting the company's development strategy for 2008 and subsequent years. The presentation took place in London as part of Capital Markets Day.

The weekly report of the US Department of Energy on the state of raw oil and oil products in the country of reserves, published on January 9, may record a decrease in reserves, and cites RBC . The report will submit official statistics on hydrocarbons in the country as of January 4, 2008 with their changes in the week. In the United States, a reduction in reserves of raw oil and boiler fuel continued.

People who feel broken after the New Year holidays will recover in the next two days, said Zurab Kekelidze, deputy director of the Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry. “Over these days of rest, part of the people, based on their psychophysical constitution, managed to relax, that is, they no longer consider these days as a holiday, when it is necessary to visit, drink a lot and eat.

The growth of the global economy in 2007, despite the shocks in the financial markets, will slow down only from 3.9% in 2006 to 3.6%, the Global Economic Prospects report reported in the World Bank. In 2008, the world economy will grow by 3.3%, and in 2009 - by 3.6%, the bank predicts.

Representatives of the German Porsche concern on Monday at the company's headquarters in Stuttgart reported that the future Panamera model, in addition to traditional engines, will be produced with hybrid motors. So, the four -door sedan of the Gran Turismo class will be equipped with the same power plant, which is used in the hybrid version of the Porsche Cayenne SUV. The fuel consumption for the hybrid motor of sports Panamera will be less than 9 liters per 100 km.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case after dangerous pairs of mercury were discovered in the office of Deputy Prosecutor General of Nikolai Golomshi, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Prosecutor General of Yuri Boychenko. In addition to other duties, Golomsha controlled the investigation of criminal cases of the murder of journalist George Gongadze and the poisoning of President Viktor Yushchenko.

The Greek police expelled a group of women from the border of the Monastic Republic of Athos who violated a millennial ban on visiting the Holy Mountain, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Athenian News Agency. The violators arrived at the so -called "gates of Athos" not far from the ancient Byzantine monastery of Ziga, now abandoned. Women said that they made a "symbolic violation" of the ban on access to the male monasteries of Athos.

Former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Distribvili was taken on Wednesday to Paris and taken into custody by the French authorities. This was announced by the representative of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs Gerard Gasha, ITAR-TASS reports. Okabashvili was arrested last November in Germany at the request of the Georgian authorities and was detained in the Berlin deportation insulator of temporary maintenance.

Victoria Beckham headed the list of the most tastelessly dressed celebrities according to the version of the American designer and critic Mr. Blackwell. In addition to the spouse of the football player, the British singer Amy Winehouse fell into the dubious list, the factnews reports with reference to Showbizspy.com.

The Senator-Democrat and the former first lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and the Republican Senator John McCain won the intermediate presidential elections-the “primaries” in the state of New Hampshire, which are traditionally considered as an important indicator of the popularity rating of candidates from the republican and democratic parties. At 09:30 Moscow time, the Democrats processed the results of the vote with 96% of the polling stations.

In NATO they agreed to the approval of Dmitry Rogozin as a permanent representative of Russia in this organization. This was reported by Interfax with reference to its source in the constant representative office of the Russian Federation in NATO. They stated that the "official note of consent" for approval was received. However, there is no official confirmation of this information yet.

On Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkosi openly hinted that he was preparing for a wedding with his girlfriend - an Italian singer and former top model Karl Bruni. He did not deny the reports that appeared in the press about the upcoming marriage, but did not call the dates of the celebration, reports Reuters.

The Norway police decided to finish the captain of the Russian trailer "Neman" (port of the registration - Kaliningrad), detained last weekend by the Norwegian coast guard. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Consul of the Russian Federation in Kirkenes Yuri Nikiforova. According to Nikiforov, today a preliminary interrogation of Captain Trauler Andrei Salmin took place, during which the investigation contacted the lawyer to set a fine on the phone.

Hollywood calculates the losses associated with the cancellation of the Golden Globe Award ceremony and the decision to hold a simple press conference instead, which some stars still promised to appear.