The elected US President Barack Obama moves to the White House with his family "in an extended composition" - in addition to his wife and two daughters, Maryan Robinson will join him on the Capitol Hill. As informed officials reported this week, Michelle Obama at first will help girls - 10 -year -old Malia and 7 -year -old Sasha - adapt to new conditions. Whether Mrs. Robinson will remain in Washington on an ongoing basis or temporarily, she will decide later, reports AP.

The second largest manufacturer of aircraft in the world Boeing Co. It plans to reduce 4.5 thousand jobs, or approximately 3% of personnel, since the demand for its products by airlines falls against the background of weakening the world economy, the Finmarket reports with reference to the newspaper International Herald Tribune .

Barack Obama will apply the first foreign visit to Canada as the President of the United States. This, according to ITAR-TASS, reported on the conditions of maintaining anonymity the representatives of the transition team of the next owner of the White House, which proceeds to the execution of authority on January 20.

The News of the World London newspaper posted a video on its website, on which Prince Harry, the youngest son of Charles and Diana, while still a cadet of the Sandhert Military Academy, pronounces several very careless expressions. In some of them, journalists saw racist shades. Naturally, this added oil into the fire after Prince Harry previously provoked a scandal, putting on a dressing with a swastika to a costume party.

The snow storm fell on Saturday to the central and northeastern regions of the United States, causing strong ice on the roads. As ITAR-TASS reports, representatives of the National Weather Service reported this. The largest city in the United States New York fell into the "snowy blow" zone. After a long snowfall, it rained here, and the road covered with snow was covered with ice crust.

The information service of the Holy Filaretovsk Orthodox-Christian Institute (SPI) celebrated the 25th anniversary of the death of the outstanding representative of the Moscow Orthodox clergy, Archpriest Vsevolod Spiller, and a lengthy publication on the SPPI website. Here is the text of this article: "On January 8, on the second day of the bright Christmas of Christ, the 25th anniversary of the prescription of the Archpriest Vsevolod Spiller has turned 25 years old.

The implementation of the anti -crisis program in Russia is more slow than planned, and more slowly than the situation in the economy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday at a meeting at the Moscow enterprise Salyut. The head of state recalled that in October last year, he gave the government a number of instructions, of which now it was “executed 30”, RIA Novosti quotes.

The company "Gazfinance", the 100%Daughter "Gazprom REDERGAZAZ", signed an agreement on the financial recovery of the Soyuz Bank with the Deposit Insurance Agency (ASV), the Finance Resource holding (the main shareholder of the Union) and the bank itself. The DIA will lend to the Soyuz, the Vedomosti reports.

The process in the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya resumes on Sunday in the Moscow District Military Court. The court at the last meeting on December 29, 2008 studied the details of the telephone conversations of the ex-employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, who is charged with the murder of a journalist.

The Turkish development company ENKA requires Siberia from the air company to pay a half -year debt of $ 1.5 million for renting an office in a complex belonging to the developer, threatening to evict the tenant. According to Kommersant , in the ENKA of the ENKA Pavelutskaya Tower's high -rise building, there is the Central Moscow Office of Siberia, for which the airline rents almost two floors.

The Norwegian police detained about 130 people who took an active part in clashes on the streets of the capital of this state, the city of Oslo. Six of them are accused of violence against law enforcement officers. This was reported by the Norwegian Telegraph Agency.

The Mariinsky Theater will present in January the first premiere of the New Year - the opera Gaetano Donitnitti Lucia Di Lammermur in the production of the famous Broadway director John Doyle, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the theater press service. Spectators will see the performance on January 14, 17, 18 and 30, in the first two productions in the main batch will be the famous Russian opera diva Anna Netrebko.

Maxim Chudov in a brilliant style won the sprint race for 10 kilometers at the fourth stage of the World Cup in German Oberehof. The second place went to the owner of the highway to Michael. Chudov did not start very quickly. At the first shooting, which he conducted unmistakably, hesitated a little and lost quite a lot, so that he left the line 20 seconds from the decis. Maxim conducted firing at the "rack" faster and, as a result, inferior after the line only 3.8 seconds.

The future US administration will hold a new line against Iran, said the elected President of Barack Obama. According to him, Tehran’s policy will probably become a serious problem during his presidency. “The international community will focus on us in matters of attitude to Iran,” Obama emphasized during his first interview from the moment of moving to Washington. Obama pointed out "dangers" that will not disappear immediately.

In December, the combined index of business and consumer confidence in the eurozone economy fell to a record minimum, the unemployment rate in the region grew to the maximum value over 2 years, the Finmarket reports with reference to the Bloomberg agency. These factors, along with the weakening of inflation, increase the likelihood that the European Central Bank (ECB) will be forced to continue to reduce the basic interest rate, experts believe.