Microsoft is developing software that will allow remote monitoring of the productivity of office employees, their physical fitness and the degree of compliance with professional requirements. Thus, the “office plankton” will be “under the hood,” writes The Times (full text on the website InoPressa.ru ).

Japanese scientists said that in the near future people will be able to control robots with the help of brain impulses without making any physical efforts without even pressing the buttons, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Japanese media. The Japanese Directorate for Science and Technology and the American University of Duke (North Carolina) conducted an experiment during which the robot reaching one and a half meters in height imitated the gait of the monkey.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez invited the authorities of Honduras to compensate for the agro -industrial complex with 40% fuel cost, which they will purchase from Karakas. Hydrocarbons will be delivered to the Central American country as part of the Petrocarib Alliance, which she joined at the end of last year. Chavez and Selya signed a preliminary agreement according to which Honduras will buy from Venezuela for two years a majority of oil products consumed by the country.

In Tajikistan, a sentence was sentenced to the former people's assessor of the country's Supreme Court. The court of the Rudaki district sentenced a resident of the village of Zavtepp in this district, Bekmurod Kholikov. The defendant was accused of committing 9 murders, several episodes of rape of minor girls, as well as in three -time.

The number of victims of bird flu in Indonesia increased to 96 people. As confirmed in the Ministry of Health of the country, on Tuesday from this viral disease transmitted to people from infected birds, a 16 -year -old resident of Bekasi, one of the suburban areas of Jakarta, died. The girl fell ill with more than two weeks ago, but got to the hospital only on January 4. It took a few more days to laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Russians should show an active civil position in the future presidential elections in the Russian Federation, otherwise the continuity of the current course may be at risk, said the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov, who until recently was considered one of the possible successors of Vladimir Putin as president, but in the end did not become them.

The metropolitan government agreed with the decision of the Interdepartmental Commission to streamline the activities of city cinemas on the exhibition of the building of the Planet cinema for an investment competition. This was reported in the city administration. The object on Nezhinskaya Street, house 11, building 1, will be put up for auction, a prerequisite for which will be the preservation of the main type of activity - the film.

The largest British network of supermarkets Tesco refused to use Uzbek cotton in the production of its textile products, the Air Force reports. The reason is simple: the British learned that children's labor is used on cotton plantations in Uzbekistan. Human rights activists say that Uzbek cotton is given too expensive. According to them, Uzbek schoolchildren are still attracted by the authorities to clean cotton, although the official Tashkent refutes this.

In the Oryol region, the newspaper Krasnaya Line, which printed the translation of the article by the British The Guardian , had problems with the prosecutor's office, the Favorite website reports. The translation of this article is also on the website inopressa.ru .

The head of the Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov presented the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II Satellite navigator of the Glonass system as a Christmas gift. “This technique is still necessary to master,” said 78 -year -old Alexy II, thanking Perminov for a gift during a meeting on Wednesday at the Patriarchal Residence in Pure Lane in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. Perminov noted in response that the specialists of the Federal Space Agency are always ready to help.

Detectives of the public security department of the Tokyo police department (TPU) searched the research bureau of the Prime Minister in connection with suspicions that one of his employees transferred secret materials to the Russian embassy to Tokyo. This was reported by the Kyodo news agency. In TPU, information about the allegedly taking place of secret materials is not commented.

As part of the Detroit car dealership, the American company AFS Trinity Power introduced the new XH-150 crossover. According to Membrana , the peculiarity of this car is its super -economic? At 100 km, it spends on average 1.57 liters of fuel. The model is not equipped with a simple hybrid installation, but connected, that is, the engine gets part of the energy for movement not from the tank, but from the electric outlet.

The prosecutor's office of Bashkiria opened a criminal case against non -profit partnership "Ufa Center for Dianetics and Scientology ". This was announced today by ITAR-TASS Deputy Prosecutor of the Leninsky District of Ufa Tatyana Ovchinnikova. According to her, it was "established that the employees of the Center for a long time implemented drugs of various groups of vitamins for a long time.

From January 1, 2008, the norms of Euro-3 entered into force in Russia, according to which the production in the country and the import of cars that do not comply with this environmental standard are prohibited. The same applies to used machines that do not correspond to Euro-3 at the time of their production.

Last year, the divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic destroyed more than 70 militants and detained several hundred, said on Wednesday the head of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs Ruslan Alkhanov.