At the age of 74, the famous French film director and producer Claude Berry died on Monday. He died in a Paris hospital as a result of a violation of cerebral circulation, Interfax reports. Recall that a few days ago, Berry was urgently hospitalized and placed in the intensive care unit of the neurosurgery department of the Paris Hospital "Salpetrier". Claude Berry is one of the elders of French cinema. He was born on July 1, 1934 in Paris.

Daniel Petrich, 17 years old, was recognized by the County by the County Lorein (Ohio, USA) guilty of killing his mother and causing physical injuries to his father for trying to take a computer game from him. The verdict in this case has not yet been issued, the agency of AR reports. The accusation claims that Petrich decided to kill his parents for the reason that his father did not allow him to play Halo-3? A video game in which the player destroys alien monsters that seized the Earth.

In connection with the situation with the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine, the prime ministers of Bulgaria and Slovakia are urgently traveling to Moscow. The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin personally agreed with both. First, this Russian agencies reported this with reference to the press service of the head of government.

CHIMICS engineers in the United States created the most compact in the world an element of fuel-based power cell, 3 mm in size. Future modifications of a tiny hydrogen power module can replace batteries in portable devices, reports 3dnews.ru . The new device has only 4 elements. The thin membrane separates the water tank on top of the chamber with a metal hydride located under it. Electrodes are even lower.

In the Zhulebino area, in the southeast of the capital, a fire in the underground garage occurred. At least seven people died. "The bodies of the seven dead were discovered during the extinguishing of a fire that arose in the underground garage complex on a bastard on Podnolnaya Street, house 53," ITAR-TASS said Yevgeny Bobylev, head of the press service of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies.

US President George Bush ordered the admission of a number of NATO recruits, including the Baltic countries, to closed "atomic information". In a official note addressed to the US Minister, widespread by the White House, he indicated that he decided to satisfy the August Pentagon’s request on this issue. The decision applies to Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Estonia.

The Investigative Committee under the prosecutor’s office of the Russian Federation plans to incur a new charge to the St. Petersburg entrepreneur Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin). The authoritative businessman, who is considered the leader of the "Tambov" organized criminal group and accused of raiding and murder, now intend to incriminate extortion, said the head of the SCP, Alexander Bastrykin. "The case is investigated in the framework of a large criminal case in raider seizures in St.

The next breakdown of Russian gas transit to Europe is a force majeure situation caused by Ukraine’s actions. Gazprom sent a corresponding notification to European partners, said Deputy Head of the concern Alexander Medvedev. He also said that Gazprom asks the European community to call Ukrainian colleagues to fulfill the signed documents, ”ITAR-TASS reports.

More than a third of Russians (38%) believe that the media is not frankly and fully illuminate the economic crisis and do not give the necessary information about what is happening. Such data are published on the day of printing, the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ) on the basis of the results of a public opinion poll conducted in 42 regions of the country in early December 2008.

Several dozens of Russian emigrants more precisely and, most importantly, cheaper they cope with the calculation of the Times Cquerry Square in New York than any electronics, reports the Web Planet with reference to The New York Times . The meaning of counting people on the street is approximately the same as in the counting of visitors to the website or pages - these numbers are important for advertisers. After all, a crowded square?

Almost two thousand accidents occurred in Portugal’s electric networks from Thursday, when this southern European Union country entered the period of unusually harsh cold weather. According to the representative of the Company of the EDP, numerous incidents are explained by overloading networks caused by increased electricity consumption. The largest number of accidents was recorded in the capital of Lisbon. The company did not report how many people were touched on.

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) summed up the results of the survey of their experts, who chose the best among the head coaches of national teams in 2008. In the first place was 70-year-old Luis Aragones, who led the team of Spain to the title of European champion.

On the eve in the north of the gas sector in the Ali-Atatra area, four Israeli soldiers were wounded by Israeli reservists as a result of the inconsistency of the Israeli units operating in the Gaza sector as part of the ground stage of the anti-terrorist operation "Lita Lead", Newsru Israel reports. The reservoir soldiers fired at the unit of the soldiers serving in the landing brigade, taking them for Palestinian militants.

Ukraine does not interfere with the transit of Russian gas renewed on Tuesday and does not steal fuel, said President Viktor Yushchenko. The Russian side claims that Ukraine does not miss transit gas through its gas transmission system. Ukraine, in turn, stated that the resumption of supplies is a matter of more than one hour.

In the coming year, many employees of the internal affairs bodies will increase the salary . Especially for those who, as they say in the police, work "on Earth" - directly communicate with citizens. The earnings of those police officers whose work is related to daily risk, especially intense service conditions and increased liability will become tangible.