The largest world social network Facebook introduced the potential “killer of Gmail” - its own message exchange service, Interfax reports. Facebook Messages includes the functionality of the postal service, a single post history and an intelligent filtering system for incoming messages, said the head of the company Mark Zuckerberg during a conference in San Francisco, broadcast on a social network blog on Monday.

The euro zone is now fighting for survival. This was stated today by the chairman of the European Council Herman Van Rompey at the conference of the Brussels Analytical Institute "European Political Center", ITAR-TASS agency reports. This statement sounded on the eve of a meeting in Brussels in the afternoon of the Eurogroup, which will follow the meeting of the EU Council at the level of finance ministers. “We are fighting a crisis that threatens our survival,” he emphasized.

The alleged organizer of the murder of 12 people in the village of Kushchevskaya, detained on the eve of the leader of the local organized criminal group Sergei Tsapk, most likely passed Rostov authorities, found out the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets" . According to the publication, the operatives had the addresses of three apartments belonging to the UKAPAK in Rostov-on-Don. On one of them he was captured.

As part of the implementation of measures to combat traffic jams, the Moscow government and owners of parking complexes of a number of large hotel, shopping and office centers agreed to reduce the cost of parking for temporary visitors. Prices for a car month are reduced to 50 rubles per hour, Yuri Roslyak, deputy mayor of the capital, told reporters on Tuesday. According to him, this measure is New Year and will last from November 15, 2010 for a period of up to one and a half months.

Apple is preparing to start selling the music of The Beatles through its ITUNES Store online store, reports Interfax with reference to The Los Angeles Times. The dispute between Apple Inc. And Apple Corps (a company representing the interests of The Beatles in the recording market since 1968) has been stretching since 1978, and the lack of songs The Beatles in the iTunes catalog negatively affects the Apple image.

Billionaires are fond of not only yachts, horses, antiques and super -expensive cars - sometimes their hobbies are akin to eccentricities, says Forbes magazine. So, the famous representative of the Rockefeller clan David collects Zhukov. Going on a trip, he always holds a container in the pocket in case he meets an unusual insect. In his collection there is also a unique appearance of a scarab beetle, deified by Egyptian pharaohs.

Inspectors of the Moscow traffic police detained the driver of the VAZ-21099 car, who on the eve shot down a woman with a stroller with a baby on a pedestrian crossing on Fonvizin Street, and then disappeared from the scene. The detainee is a citizen of Azerbaijan, who has repeatedly been involved in violation of traffic rules in the capital, a source in law enforcement told Interfax . Now the detained driver, at best, faces deprivation of rights for leaving the scene of an accident.

Residential real estate in the United States continues to experience an unprecedented decline in prices. The situation is aggravated by the problem of irrevocated mortgage loans, writes Prian.ru . According to the study of the Zillow.com portal, real estate prices in the country fell by 25% compared to peak indicators of June 2006. The current decline in its duration and depth approaches the indicators of the great depression, when prices decreased by 25.9% over five years.

Mazda engineers updated Mazda 3 diesel engine on the European version. Now, with a volume of 1.6 liters, the engine spends only 4.4 liters of fuel. At the same time, the power of the unit increased to 115 hp. and 270 nm torque. {pic_1 c} The modernized motor has become more powerful by 6 horsepower. He received a modified Common Rail injection system and, as a result, “fit” into the ecological norms of Euro-5.

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, increased by 19.28 kopecks and amounted to 31.056 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations of "Today" increased by this time by 4.66 kopecks - to 42.2129 rubles.

In London, with the help of drawing, the compositions of groups of the final male tennis tournament of the year, which is called World Tour Finals - 2010, were determined. The best tennis player in the world Rafael Nadal (Spain) has been in group A. The company will be the third racket of the world Serb Novak Djokovic, Czech Thomas Berdykh (6) and American Andy Roddik (8).

In Australia, the zoo is sold with animals. This unique proposal appeared in the real estate market in the city of Brisben. Local realtors are asking for $ 2 million for it, writes Prian.ru . The realtors, to whom the owner of such an unusual real estate object addressed, at first perceived the proposal to engage in the sale of the zoo as a joke.

Sberbank construction assets are allocated to a separate company Sberbank Development, which will be headed by the shareholder of the PIK group Yuri Zhukov, writes Gazeta.Ru with reference to its sources.

On Independence Square in Kyiv, a protest of representatives of small and medium -sized businesses and trade unions against the adoption of the Tax Code is held. More than 40 thousand people from various regions of Ukraine require the resignation of the government of Nikolai Azarov and the deviation of the draft of the Tax Code , reports Newsru UA . Protesters stand with banners and loudspeakers.

NATO no longer threatens Russia and does not consider it a threat to the West. Such a statement on the eve of the NATO summit, which will be held on November 19-20 in Lisbon, made the general secretary of the Alliance Anders Fogg Poprusen. “No one has doubts,” he said, “that we are not going to attack Russia, and I am sure that no one is going to attack NATO in Russia.” “We must be partners.