In the leadership of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Germany (Elsg), they have so far refused to comment on the Russian media reports about the intention of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to break relations with the largest Protestant church in Europe due to the fact that she elected a woman to her head.

The wife of the Musician-Metalist Ozzi Osborn Sharon Osborne apologized for the mockery of the Scottish pop star Susan Boyle, who suddenly won loud glory thanks to the Britain Seeking Talents and the performance at a similar competition in the United States, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the BBC British television.

A strong fire arose in the Leningrad Region in a warehouse of finished products of the pulp and paper plant in the village of Syasstroy. As Interfax reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Leningrad Region, a message about a fire on Zavodskaya Street arrived at about 17:40 Thursday, at 19:00 he was assigned a third difficulty number. There is no information about the victims.

The Cambodia police detained a citizen of Thailand, suspected of espionage. The 31-year-old Sivarak Chotipong, working in the air traffic control service of the Cambodian airlines, was transferred to the Thai embassy of the flights of the former prime minister of this country Taxin Chinavat, whom Phnopen refused to give Bangkokok. The new Thai administration, which came to power as a result of the coup , accuses the ex-Prime Minister of corruption and requires his extradition.

In Moscow, over the past nine months, 24% less housing and sale transactions were registered than in the same period of 2008, the Federal State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography Service (FSGR) counted. In September, the number of transactions, contrary to the expectations of market players, even slightly decreased, amounting to 4.4 thousand.

An employee of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk region, Major Tatyana Domracheva, distributed information about abuses in the department in local media. Her message, in particular, speaks of corruption in the leadership of the Verl of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, of which she is an employee.

The crew of the trawler "Fortune", which has a disaster in the Bering Sea off the coast of Kamchatka, failed to independently cope with problems in the fuel system. The Pagella border boat located nearby took the ship toward and deliver it to the port by Friday evening, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the press service of the northeastern border guard of the FSB of the Russian Federation.

The first Vice President of IBU and Vice-President of the Presidium of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia (SBR), four-time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov commented on the verdict issued on Friday by the Arbitration Sports Court (CAS) against Russian biathletes Ekaterina Yuryeva and Albina Akhatova. “I am upset,” said Alexander Tikhonov in an interview with the whole sport agency. “I can’t say that I had some big hopes, but I wanted to believe in the best.

The authoritative international agency Fitch Ratings has lowered the long-term rating of Ukraine on the national scale from the level of "AA (UKR)" to "AA- (UKR)". The rating forecast is "stable." According to Fitch, this is caused by a decrease in the long -term ratings of the default of the issuer (RDE) of Ukraine in foreign and national currency from the level of "B" to "B-" - the lowest indicator among the CIS countries.

The ex-first racket of the world, Yevgeny Kafelnikov on the blog on his official website, expressed his opinion on the scandal around the book by Andre Agassi, in which he confessed to the use of drugs and deception of ATP. In addition, the veteran of the Russian tennis accused the ex-first carriage of the world, Justin Enen of doping.

The US Federal Reserve will begin to increase interest rates somewhere in the area of ​​September next year. This opinion is shared by the leading American economists interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the Finmarket agency reports. According to 52 experts surveyed, unemployment will still grow this year - up to 10.3% from the current 10.2%, and then it will remain higher than the mark of 9.5% throughout the next year.

The Finnair airline offered her regular customers preferential plastic surgery for the program for the exchange of miles for bonuses, Bloomberg reports. Those who are involved in the bonus program are offered vouchers for the use of Nordstrom Hospital in Helsinki: facial lifting, hair transplant. For example, an operation to enlarge breast with implants will cost 120 flights by a business class from Helsinki to New York and vice versa.

The United States accumulates the largest reserves of monetary gold in the world, but a new wave of demand for yellow metal is risks for the market of American treasury obligations, writes Bfm.ru business portal with reference to the publication of CNNMoney . Gold prices are record high. And the largest amount of precious assets in the American government.

Abundant snowfalls in a number of provinces of Northern, Central and Eastern China, according to preliminary data, led to the death of 38 people, hundreds of people were injured, Interfax reports with reference to local media. Four of the dead are children. In the provinces of Habei and Henan, the roofs of school canteens collapsed under the weight of snow. The exact number of wounded schoolchildren is not called, but it is reported that "many children were injured and hospitalized.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine (GPU) was seriously scared after she decided to transport investigative materials on a regular passenger train "with an opportunity". As a result, data on the rape of boys in the exemplary Crimean health resort "Artek" disappeared.