Javier Solan completed his work as the EU Supreme Personal Representative in connection with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The former Foreign Minister of Spain headed European diplomacy for more than ten years, having come to this position from the post of Secretary General of NATO. “My mandate is coming to an end today.

The Constant Chamber of the Arbitration International Court in the Dutch city of Gaaga on Monday made a decision in the case of the former owners of the Yukos NK. According to the court, the ex-owners of Yukos are entitled to protect their interests in the framework of the provisions of the energy charter, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, citing lawyers Group Menatep Limited (GML), said.

The German Audi Autoprine officer officially presented a new, fourth generation of luxury sedan A8 in Miami. Potential competitors of the novelty will be such premium representatives as Mercedes-Benz S-class, BMW 7 series, Lexus LS and Jaguar XJ, reports Worldcarfans . “The new A8 belongs to the sports sedan segment,” says Rupert Stadler, head of the board of directors of Audi AG.

The Indian peasant, a resident of Bihar Ramchandra Das for 14 years of hard work, stopped a tunnel in grief with one goal - to be able to park the car near the house. Otherwise, he believed, his car left for a mile can be stolen. According to ITAR-TASS , Ramcandra Dasa, the owner of the truck on which he works, a large space was required for through passage in the mountain-his tunnel turned out to be a width of more than 4 meters.

The infamous Arsenal of the Navy is planned to be taken outside Ulyanovsk until the end of 2010. This, according to ITAR-TASS, said the press secretary of the regional governor Sergei Morozov. Recall that in November, ammunition with tragic consequences exploded on this arsenal: 10 people died. The governor held a meeting with the leadership of Arsenal and called the specific date of withdrawal.

The financial crisis has hit Latvian borrowers hard, writes InoPressa.ru with reference to the German newspaper Die Presse. Two years ago, 33-year-old Santa Pole, a web designer by profession, was able to fulfill her old dream and buy her own house near Riga on credit. The area that Santa chose was considered elite, and the property she liked was valued at 300 thousand euros. Politicians then vied with each other to assert that there would be no end to the current economic growth.

For the first time in 17 years, the DPRK sharply increased the course of the national currency, the South Korean agency Renhap reported. The denomination of the North Korean won, as they believe in Seoul, is caused by the need to combat inflation and attempts to cover trade in the black market. The new exchange rate was 100 to 1 or, in other words, 1000 old ones are exchanged for 10 new ones, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Libyan Court sentenced two Swiss businessmen to Max Goledi and Rashid Hamdani on Tuesday to 16-month imprisonment for violation of the visa regime, tax legislation, as well as rules that regulate the activities of companies operating in Jamahiria. In addition, Switzerland citizens have a fine of 2 thousand Libyan dinars (about 1.7 thousand dollars), ITAR-TASS reports. The Libyan authorities banned two employees of Swiss companies operating in Libya to leave the country in July last year.

Belarus was an official visit by Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian Prime Minister has become the first Western leader to visit Minsk over the past 15 years. Nevertheless, experts believe, it is unlikely to be perceived as warming towards Belarus from Europe. Berlusconi came not as a politician, but as a businessman. The visit of Berlusconi to Minsk, ending the day before late in the evening, was planned for short - for only three hours.

The Minister of State Land and Transport of Japan, also the acting state minister for Okinawa and the north of Seiji Maehara on Monday publicly repeated the thesis about the "illegal occupation" of the southern smoking , emphasizing that this is "a single opinion of our country." The politician announced this at a press conference in Tokyo after the government meeting, ITAR-TASS reports.

The question of the transfer of the icon of the Toropetsky Mother of God to the temple at the Klutted village "Princess Lake" should be decided only by the Russian Museum, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky said on the Internet at the Internet conference, RIA Novosti reports.

The new general director of the International Nuclear Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukio Amano arrived at the headquarters of the agency in Vienna on Tuesday and officially began to fulfill his duties. During a brief photo shoot for journalists, Amano made a promise to be "objective, reliable and professional," Baltinfo reports.

Regular long -term physical activity prevents the aging of the body at the DNA level in cells, in addition to the provision of many other positive effects on human health, the authors of the study published in the journal Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

The Russian Bobsleist Irina Skvortsova, who received severe injuries after the collision of two beans in the German city of Koenigze, remains unconscious. According to the Vesti channel, it is threatened by amputation of the leg. Doctors have not yet decided completely whether the squint should be amputated, but such an opportunity is considered. The athlete remains in a coma, and her condition does not improve. The tragedy occurred on November 23.

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the MMEVB as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day has increased by 10.84 kopecks compared to the state of the previous trade day and amounted to 29,1771 rubles, the Finmarket reports.