The English "Everton" negotiates with the Moscow Lokomotiv on the acquisition of Nigerian striker Peter Odemwyvy, reports The Sun. Railway workers want to help out at least 6 million pounds for the player, and the Irisks insist on rent for six months with the right to further buy off. Last season, the 27-year-old Odimworky became the best scorer Loko, scoring 10 goals in 27 matches.

The residents of Grozny on Monday will again gather a protest on the parole (UDO) of the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted of the murder of the Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, said the head of the regional youth public organization Patriot , Isa Hadzhimuradov. “On Monday (December 29) at 11:00 in the square of journalists (in the very center of the city), a protest rally against the liberation of Budanov will again be held,” the interlocutor said.

The Israeli army sent the summons to several thousand reservists to participate and ensure surgery in the gas sector under the code name "cast lead". According to Ynet, the Minister of Defense Ehud Barak at a government meeting, today requested permission to call several thousands of reservists. Meanwhile, to the border with the gas sector, armored vehicles are transferred and reserves of infantry units are tightened.

On Sunday, Palestinian militants set a record for missile launches from the Gaza Strip, for the first time firing the Israeli city of Ashdod with a population of over 200 thousand people, an employee of the Israeli defense army was told by RIA Novosti . In the vicinity of the city, located 38 kilometers north of the borders of the Palestinian enclave, two reactive shells of the Grad type exploded. Neither the military nor the police disclose the exact place of their fall.

The number of people who died as a result of Israeli air strikes for the Gaza Strip increased on Sunday to 282 people, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. About 800 people were injured. The Hamas Islamic movement does not allow Palestinians who were injured to enter the Egyptian territory to receive the necessary medical care. This was announced today by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt Ahmed Abul Gate. "We are waiting for the wounded Palestinians.

President of Poland Lech Kachinsky fell into the rating of the most stupid acts of Polish politicians in 2008, compiled by the weekly “Enter”, in history, when he flew to the discussion of the EU leaders in Brussels in October with great difficulties, but the debate did not appear, RIA Novosti reports. Then the head of the office of Poland Prime Minister Tomash Arabsky decided to take the state special dosper from the president and not let him go to the EU summit in Brussels.

Near the Georgian village of Ditsi, located near the border with South Ossetia, a Georgian policeman was wounded on Saturday evening, Interfax was told on Sunday at the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the interlocutor of the agency, within half an hour from South Ossetian positions, shelling of the village of Ditsi was fired. The wounded policeman in serious condition was taken to the hospital in the city of Gori, added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Manchester United midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo and striker Wayne Runi can be punished by the English football Federation for violations in the game against Stock City, who remained unpunished through the fault of the main referee of that meeting - Chris Foy. The story is as follows: Runi pushed Abdulai Faye into the chest, and Ronaldo tried to kick Wilkinson, and did it in a rather rude form.

REGNUM correspondent in Karachay-Cherkessia Zhanna Akbashev was attacked. This is stated in the statement of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Journalists, which on Sunday was submitted to the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" . Zhanna Akbasheva writes articles on corruption and freedom of speech in Karachay-Cherkessia.

The capital’s authorities intend to sue the Miraks-Group, “whose negligence led to the death of people in a fire in a hostel on Kulnev Street, Interfax said on Sunday a spokesman for the Moscow government and metropolitan mayor Sergei Tsoi. "The building, adapted to the hostel where the fire occurred, was checked by the metropolitan authorities in the summer, in the month of August, and numerous violations were noted there, this premises were revealed for people to live," Tsoi said.

A citizen of Ukraine with a child was wounded as a result of Israeli air strikes by gas sector, they were taken to one of the local hospitals, the UNIAN Ukrainian Agency reports on Sunday with reference to the press service of the Ukraine Foreign Ministry. They were injured with glass at the time of the explosion of one of the bombs, the report said. There are no other details in the document.

The DPRK leader Kim Jong Ir inspected two units of the Korean People’s Army, Interfax reports. Last Saturday, the DPRK Kim Jong Ir inspected two units of the Korean People’s Army (KNA). According to the State Information Agency of North Korea, the head of the country visited the headquarters of the unit number 323, as well as part of the air forces number 1017.

The main world events of 2008 were the global financial crisis, the victory of Dmitry Medvedev in the presidential election in Russia, the election of Barack Obama, the US President and the conflict in the Caucasus, Russian political scientists surveyed by Interfax agency believe.

In the resort area of ​​St. Petersburg on the Scandinavia highway on Sunday morning, a car collided with a bus, five people were killed, they told Interfax to the city Ministry of Emergencies in the city. "The accident occurred at about 6:00 Moscow time on 43 km of the highway, Toyota and Neoplan bus collided. Five young people of the age of twenty were killed in a passenger car," the source said. He added that two more people who were on the bus were hospitalized.

The traditional New Year sales that began in Britain, contrary to expectations, will not save stores from the threat of ruin. As the British retailers consortium predicts, 2009 will be very difficult for the industry. Having celebrated Christmas, thousands of British rushed into a traditional shopping campaign in the hope of using New Year's discounts, reaching 70%in some places.