The leaders of the UK, France and the European Commission supported the package of economic incentives for the European Union on Monday, Germany made it clear that it was not invited to negotiations, Reuters reports. The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosa said that a plan of 200 billion euros was widely supported, and that Germany will play an active role in it.

Adobe has created a trial version of the Time Machine for the Internet, which allows you to scroll back in time of any of the thousands of sites selected for testing, the CNews website reports. Access to fresh information on the Internet is easy to get, but it is more difficult to find material published several years ago. An article, blog or recording can be completely removed from the server.

The State Duma introduced a bill obliging employers to notify employment services about problems that can lead to the dismissal of employees or a deterioration in payment of their work.

Residents of developed countries on average spend 29% of free time on the Internet, according to the report of the Canadian company TNS . Experts studied the Internet residents of 16 countries of the world: USA, Great Britain, Germany, China, Canada, Australia and others (Russia was not one of them). It turned out that the Chinese spend the most free time on the Internet - 44%. The second place was taken by Koreans (40%), the third - the Japanese (38%).

There are not enough parking spaces on the streets of Moscow for ordinary drivers: parking along the roadsides, which became free since September 10, 2008, is illegally “reserved” by private organizations for their cars and is watched by security guards. And city authorities are trying to fight this.

Madrid Real Madrid approved Huanda Ramos as the head coach of the team instead of German specialist Bernd Shuster. According to Reuters , on Tuesday, at the press conference specially convened in Madrid, the sports director of Real Miyatovich announced in Madrid. Schuster headed Real Madrid since July 2007, and in the spring of 2008 he led the team to the Champion of Spain.

In London, a mini-sammit was held, in which the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosa took part. At the same time, at the meeting there was no German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This fact caused a wide public outcry. Experts believe that he may indicate a beginner split within the European Union. Inopressa.ru writes more about this with reference to the German newspaper Der Spiegel .

Polish Santa Klaus began to hunt extortion in order to deliver joy to the shelter children. Santa Claus returned the stolen excavator only in exchange for a bag with New Year's presentations. The curious crime was committed in the Polish city of Lublin, where the owner of the excavator Yaroslav Krivonos stole his expensive construction equipment, RIA Novosti reports. The cost of the stolen excavator was 4.5 thousand dollars.

The Russian embassy in Riga will have to pay a pensioner Vera Chesnokova compensation in the amount of 2307 lats ($ 4614), as well as compensate the damage. The apartment that the pensioner handed over to the Russian diplomat for several years, according to the victim, "turned into a pigsty." The decision in this case was made on December 9 by the Riga District Court.

The legendary football player Diego Maradona, the coach of the Argentine national team, has achieved a unique court decision, according to which local units of international search engines are required to block information about it, Inopressa reports on the materials of The Times . Maradona and at least seventy other Argentine celebrities filed a group lawsuit against the local versions of Google and Yahoo search engines.

The interest of tenants in office real estate in the capital disappeared. The premises are empty, discounts over the past two months of autumn increased to 25%. However, this is not the limit: experts expect that at the beginning of 2009 the discount for offices in Moscow will be as much as 40%. According to the IRN.RU website, the number of free office premises in finished buildings in Moscow increased by 2 months 1.5 times: from 1 million to 1.5 million square meters. meters.

According to the report of the Zenithoptimedia agency, advertising agencies around the world reduce budgets for the next year due to the crisis, primarily in North America and Europe. In the BRIC countries, the advertising sector will continue to grow, and Russia will become one of the leaders in the growth of income in 2009. The uncertainty of the situation in the advertising market forced the Moscow office of Zenithoptimedia to give two forecasts - optimistic and pessimistic.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a government decree, which provides for the possibility of reducing quotas to attract foreign labor.

The famous Briton Damien Hurst threatened the court for a 16-year-old teenager who used his work to create original collages. A young man named Kartrein sold his works on average 65 pounds ($ 100) apiece, reports The Independent . Some work, however, left at a greater price. In particular, for the collage using the famous work "for the sake of the love of the Lord", which depicts the skull inlaid with diamonds, the young artist received 200 pounds (almost $ 300).

The Institute of Modern Development (Incor), whose trusteeship is headed by President Dmitry Medvedev, modified a report on the Russian model of democracy. The report contains recommendations to the head of state about how to improve the political system in Russia. The main idea of ​​its authors: for movement towards innovative development, it is necessary to move from using the "manual control" of the country to the reorganization of the current political system.