According to the marketing company Jato Dynamics, in 2009, Volkswagen Golf became the best -selling car in Europe. For 12 months, Europeans bought 571,838 cars of this model, which is 23.9% more than a year earlier. The hatchback should be grateful to the recent update to his success, and mainly the German government program to support the demand for cars. Almost throughout the year, the Germans could receive a bonus of 2,500 euros, having handed over their old car in utilization.

As chairman of the Council, Aleksashenko, was replaced by the co -owner of the bank Yuri Kudimov, who recently headed the VEB -company VEB Capital, the newspaper Vedomosti writes with reference to the representative of the NRB. The Council made the decision on the new chairman at the end of December, Kudimov will remain the director of the NRB, the source said. Recently, the main owner of the NRB Alexander Lebedev took the position of president of the bank.

The Three Dialogue announced the departure from Pavel Teplukhin, who served as managing director of the group of companies and chairman of the board of directors of the Troika Dialog management company, Russian newspapers report. “Teplukhin built a stable company: all problems dates back to 2008, 2009 profitability has been more than worthy, the situation has become much more calm.

Russian tourists, forcedly accommodated in Cairo hotels due to flood, will be delivered to the resort in the charm of El-shih at two Boeing-757 "Orenburg Airlines". There they will continue their vacation or fly home, the general manager of the Pegas Tourist company Anna Podgornaya said on Tuesday Interfax .

The number of residential purchase and sale transactions in Tokyo and the three closest prefectures - Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba - fell in 2009 by 16.8% compared to the previous year - to 36.4 thousand, which was the lowest figure since 1992, writes RIA Novosti with reference to materials from the Tokyo Research Institute of Real Estate and Economics. The only exception was the central areas of the Japanese capital, where home sales increased by 5%.

In the Bryansk region, a verdict was sentenced to a student of a rural school who brutally dealt with his teacher of mathematics. As the convict himself admitted, the motive for the murder of an elderly disabled person was offense at the teacher, who constantly gave him unsatisfactory grades. The Pochepsk District Court sentenced 15-year-old Mikhail S. to 8.5 years in prison, the official website of the Investigation Department at the prosecutor's office of the Bryansk region reports.

The famous businessman Roman Abramovich will decorate his luxurious Eklips yacht (Eclipse) with works of contemporary art. A collection of 35 paintings and sculptures was purchased for a billionaire by designer Terent Disdeil, who created the interiors of the yacht. By all probability, his friend, Dasha Zhukova, who owns the center of contemporary art "garage" in Moscow, instilled in the love of modern art to Abramovich.

Planets Neptune and Uranus may contain oceans of liquid diamonds. Hard diamond icebergs swim along their surface. Such a hypothesis, Interfax reports, nominated British scientists. The fact is that Uranus and Neptune by 10% consist of carbon - building material for diamonds. To get a liquid diamond, it is necessary to achieve a very high temperature. (The melting temperature of the diamond, according to the Xumuk.ru website, is 3500 s). For this, scientists conducted an experiment.

About 10 billion dollars will require Haiti to carry out recovery work after a powerful earthquake. This opinion was expressed in Santo Domingo by the President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernandez after an international meeting there, dedicated to the Haitian disaster.

In the Moscow region, police officers will be judged, one of whom showed unusual lust in the process of extortion. The victims of racketeers in uniform became a girl whose acquaintance was taken into custody. The police convinced her that the fate of the arrested would soften the bribe and sex services. On suspicion of a number of official crimes, law enforcement officers from the city of Zheleznodorozhny near Moscow were detained.

The presidential election marathon in Ukraine joined the new phase. While the CEC of Ukraine sums up the official results of the first round of the election of the head of state, its winners are the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych and the Prime Minister of the government Yulia Tymoshenko essentially began the next stage of the election campaign. Already on the night after the elections, they joined the losers of the loser, asking for support.

France accused the United States, whose troops flooded the Haiti destroyed by the Earth , in the "occupation" of this Caribbean and asked the UN to clarify the role of the Americans. Having assumed the functions of dispatchers at Port-O-Prens Airport, US troops give priority to their own army flights, other aircraft, including with vital humanitarian goods, do not land, said Alena Zhuaanda, a Secretary of State of Cooperation and Francophony.

The volume of transactions of the purchase and sale of housing in Moscow, registered by the results of December, has become a record since the beginning of 2008 and exceeded the most optimistic forecasts by a third. Compared to November, the number of transactions in the secondary market increased in December by 72%. Buyers saw that the apartments had stopped cheaper for a long time, and decided to act, the realtors explain.

The cousin of Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known to the nickname "Chemical Ali", will be executed in the coming days. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , told Al-Iraqui's television channel Deputy Minister of Justice Iraq Ali Reda. "Ali Hassan al -Majid, after the fourth death sentence, will be executed in the coming days," he said.

The Paramount Pictures studio finally picked up the director for the sequel to paranormal activity - the horror specialist Kevin Grottor, known as the author of the horror “Pila -6”, will take care of the BBC . The continuation will be released on October 22, 2010, simultaneously with the seventh “saw”.