Despite the global economic crisis, the value of real estate in Israel continues to grow. The second quarter in a row Israel is recognized as the world leader in the restoration of the real estate market in a crisis, writes Zagranhouse with reference to the study of Global Property Guide. The cost of real estate in the country increased by 13.7% relative to the same period last year.

The Nevsky Express catastrophe that occurred on Friday will not affect the time of the launch of the Sapsan high -speed train. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, said Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin. According to him, measures that Russian Railways "exclude the possibility of inhibiting the introduction of" Sapsan ". Recall that the first flight of the new high -speed train should take place on December 18.

The night before, the Pope Benedict XVI performed in the Vatican Basilica Vespers on the occasion of the beginning of Advent. In his sermon, Pontiff called on believers to conduct this period "in silence and hope." Dad urged Catholics aside those affairs, entertainment and public interests that “possess us” and “can lead us to the side” from the search for signs of the presence of God in this life, the Blagovers-Info reports with reference to Kipa-Apic .

Recently, Yandex.Money and WebMoney joined the Electronic Money Association to lobby for the interests of the industry at the legislative level, but inside the market the motives and goals of its participants, as well as ways to achieve them, as it turned out, are far from the community. On November 26, WebMoney Trasnfer, Yandex.Money introduced electronic currencies with which it forbids to work as its exchangers.

Regions that will not fulfill their obligations under the program for the overhaul of apartment buildings and the resettlement of citizens from the emergency housing fund will pay funds allocated to them from their budgets, the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said at a meeting in the situational center of the Government of the Russian Federation. “2011 will come, and failure to fulfill the programs will entail a refund at the expense of the budget.

The last work of Vladimir Nabokov “Laura and its original” (The Original of Laura) finally came out in Russia, in the homeland of the famous writer. Despite the last will of the author, the unfinished novel saw the light and has already entered the sale, ITAR-TASS reports. On Monday, November 30, the presentation of the novel will be held at the Nabokov House-Museum on Bolshaya Morskaya Street in St. Petersburg.

This year, investing in garlic in China turned out to be more profitable than in gold or silver. The Chinese always loved this vegetable, but there has never been such a jump in prices, in comparison with which even a boom in the real estate market will fade, writes Bfm.ru with reference to the Western media. According to the Chinese Ministry of Trade, the average price of a kilogram of garlic increased from 1.6 yuan in March to 6.14 yuan at the moment.

In Moscow last Sunday, the police recorded the hijacking of the Hummer brand SUV, the third since the beginning of the year. Unknown people abducted a foreign car in the east of the capital, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . According to him, on Sunday morning, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory turned to the police, who said that at the parking lot at the shopping center at 51 Street Saltykovskaya, unknown people stole the Hummer H2 SUV belonging to him.

The next week has passed, and the top of the North American box office remained unchanged: despite the serious competition with the “Invisible Party football bypic”, the vampire melodrama of “Twilight. The New Moon” managed to earn $ 42.5 million and again lead the film support rating, AP reports. The second week of the rental of Novomnoi was an extremely successful period - from Wednesday to Sunday, the inhabitants of the USA and Canada rested and celebrated thanksgiving.

A sharp decline in investment and lending threatens a new fall in GDP in 2010, writes Independent Gazeta . The fact that the economic growth rates next year will be lower than the government landmark of 1.6%, and "in the recovery growth in recent months, there has been a failure," experts of the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short -term forecasting said. Firstly, investments in fixed assets were sharply reduced.

Italy Prime Minister Silivio Berlusconi called "unreasonable and insulting" rumors about his connections with the mafia and assured that he always fought organized crime, Interfax reports. “I am accused of what I never had in my thoughts,” said Berlusconi.

On Monday morning in Makhachkala, unknown people shot the head of the administration of the Magaramkent district of Dagestan Abrek Gadzhiev, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a source in the city law enforcement agencies. According to the source, the 35-year-old official was shot from a machine gun at 6:10 Moscow time, when he left the entrance of a multi-storey building number 101 on Imam Shamil Avenue.

The Emirate Dubai government is not a guarantor of the debts of the Dubai World State Fund, said Dubai Abdurahman Al Saleh, director of the Finance Department in an interview with Dubai TV, Bloomberg reports. According to him, the State Fund received financing not by a state guarantee, but in accordance with the project plan. Thus, the responsibility for the financial condition of the fund is primarily investors.

The famous sculptures of Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective farmer", since 2003, has been on restoration, on Saturday was installed in its rightful place - the pedestal of Entrance to the VVC in Moscow. A huge sculptural group was returned to the pedestal using a special crane. It is planned that the grand opening of the sculpture in its original form will be held on December 5.

In China, they again found a pork flu virus A (H1N1) in animals - this time in two dogs, reports Computer . The virus is 99% identical to the human. Ten days ago, in the province of Heilongjiang, in the northeast of the country, he was found in four pigs. At the Beijing Municipal Agricultural Bureau, they believe that the dogs probably became infected from an already sick person who was in close contact with them. Doctors are convinced that the virus can be transmitted from one dog to another.