Eighteen potential Iraqi Al-Qaeda suicide suicide bombers surrendered to multinational forces in the north of the country. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, the representative of the coalition command said. According to him, relatives and religious figures convinced this step to take this step who forced them to stop the preparation of terrorist attacks.

In the American state of Indiana, the oldest woman of the planet died. Former school teacher Edna Parker died on Wednesday in a nursing home in the city of Shelbiville. She was 115 years old and 220 days, reports Reuters with reference to the Gerontologist of the University of California at Los Angeles Stephen Coles. Edna Scott Parker was born on April 20, 1893. For a long life, a woman had two children. She was married once, but her husband died back in 1941.

Most Russian banks heard the signal sent by the authorities about the need to ensure the real sector of the economy with loans and refusal to transfer money allocated for these purposes to currency, said Arkady Dvorkovich, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, speaking at a meeting of the reign of the RSPP.

The working group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation will arrive in Tomsk to verify the application of the General Director of CJSC TV Radio Company TV-2 Arcadia Mayofis on pressure on a television company. TV-2 announced that they were crushed due to the coverage of the business of entrepreneur Vakhnenko , who was thrown out of the window of the fourth floor during the interrogation in the police, and then the body was buried in the forest.

The Government of the Russian Federation may return to the issue of reducing tariffs for the services of natural monopolies at the beginning of next year. This was stated on Friday to journalists by the Executive Director of TNK-BP Victor Vekselberg after a meeting of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. "The government decided in the direction of increasing the tariffs of natural monopolies in 2009.

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badavi said that Muslims can engage in yoga if they do not sing mantras. So he responded to indignation, which caused the decision of the National Muslim Legislative Council that this Indian practice could lead to a faith, reports.ru reports with reference to the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post . After the decision of the Muslim Legislative Council, many Malays indignantly stated that they practiced yoga, remaining Muslims.

A mandatory contender for the world champion in the version of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), Alexander Povetkin, will hold another intermediate fight before the fight for the title of the world champion, in which he will meet with the winner of the fight between Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko and American Khasim Rahman. “Despite the injury, Sasha is kneading, we play some combinations on the paws with him,” said Valery Belov’s personal coach of Povetkin’s personal coach .

The French company Renault stops production of Logan cars at the Avtoframos plant in Moscow for two weeks: from December 12 to 31. And taking into account the 2-week New Year holidays, cars will not roll off the assembly line for virtually a whole month. This information was confirmed to the Kommersant newspaper by the head of the Russian office of Renault, Jean Michel Jalinier.

General Motors's largest American car concerns with enviable regularity reports the possible sale of their brands. Following Hummer and Suzuki (the Japanese themselves will buy their shares from GM), the turn of three more marks came - Pontiac, Saab, Saturn. The company is ready to abandon these brands as part of a plan to attract a government loan of more than $ 11 billion, Bloomberg reports.

14 thousand residents of Estonia expressed a desire to leave the country as part of the state program to assist the voluntary resettlement of compatriots living abroad to Russia. Recall that the practical implementation of the program began in September 2007. This was discussed on Friday at the conference organized by the Russian Embassy in Tallinn.

The Vedomosti newspaper managed to find out how the Russian government intends to increase duties on foreign cars. The scale developed by officials assumes that imported cars will rise in price by at least 8-10%. Let us recall that the general principles for increasing customs duties on cars were approved on November 7 by the government commission on protective measures in foreign trade. According to the protocol, rates on new cars will be increased from 25% to 30%.

The sports arbitration court in Lausanne (CAS) confirmed that he received an appeal from the International Association of athletics federations (IAAF) to the decision of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) on two years of 2007 seven Russian athletes accused of substitution of doping industry.

The Opposition Labor Party of Georgia demanded to arrest foreign banking accounts of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and other government members. The funds stored on these accounts belong to the state and are the property of the Georgian people, said the political secretary of the Labor Party Georgy Gugawa.

Three people were killed and four were injured as a result of a fire in a cafe in the southeast of Moscow. About this, according to ITAR-TASS, said the head of the press service of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies, Evgeny Bobylev. Four more people before the firefighters arrived, fleeing the fire, jumped out of the window of the second floor. They received fractures of the legs, all the victims were taken to Moscow hospitals, ”he said.

Due to the established warm weather, white bears cannot migrate to the north and are forced to get food on landfills located, in particular, at the village of Beluhya of the lip in the Arkhangelsk region. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund. Seasonal migration of bears is associated with the formation and melting of ice. When the ice is melted and destroyed, white bears shift north to the border of the Arctic basin.