Mercedes-Benz is going to use Renault-Nissan engines in the production of its cars. In particular, a 1.6-liter Renault turbodiesel engine with a capacity of 128 horsepower will become installed on the Mercedes A- and B-LASS models. In turn, Renault-Nissan will receive a 2.0-liter gasoline engine and more powerful V6 and V8 engines from his German alliance partner, which can be found on Infiniti cars, Autocar reports with reference to French sources.

Scientists from the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris with the help of computer graphics portrayed what the visible universe would be if the observer was immediately in front of the so -called black hole. In front of him would have appeared an incredibly strange and frightening picture, they decided. According to theory, black holes are spatio -temporal areas of huge mass and incredible density of matter.

Hyundai Motor announced the intention to open its own luxury brand to compete in the market with Audi, Lexus, Infiniti, BMW, Acura. In the model range of the new South Korean luxury brand, which will be called Genesis, at the first stage the luxurious sedan of the Equus representative class and two more models said, the president of the Hyundai Motor USA unit John Kraffchik.

The Moscow City Duma deputies on December 8, despite the distrust of forecasts of the city hall on budget revenues in 2011, unanimously approved the seriously rewritten budget of the capital for the next year. His income will amount to 1.24 trillion rubles, expenses of 1.39 trillion rubles.

Beijing and Washington exchanged sharp statements about tension on the Korean peninsula. The American admiral Mike Mallen criticized the PRC authorities for allowing the DPRK to behave "recklessly", and urged Beijing to restore his ally. China took criticism as an accusation.

The fans of the Spartak football club require the authorities a thorough and impartial investigation of the case of the murder of Yegor Sviridov, who died in a fight with Caucasians in the north of Moscow on the night of December 6. Fans promise to hold protests until the guilty people in the tragedy are punished. The police, in turn, are going to work to prevent mass riots from the fans.

For three years, the price of oil can drop up to six months lower than $ 60 per barrel, said Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. Speaking in the Accounts Chamber, the minister noted that in his forecast comes from the analysis of the market and all available materials: "This can really happen, we must be prepared for this," he said.

The new mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin promises to resume auctions for the sale of plots for integrated building housing. The last time the metropolitan authorities conducted such trading in 2007. The volumes of construction will grow with the resuscitation of auctions, which can restrain the further increase in housing prices, Kommersant writes.

The former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicts that in the countries using a single European currency, the crisis will break out at the beginning of next year, the Finmarket agency reports. As Brown said in an interview with the Air Force, he feels that "in the first few months of 2011 we will have a major crisis in the eurozone." In his opinion, there are more problems of the euro than just the problems of the debt of the governments of the Eurozone countries.

The Russian stock market on Thursday after a decline on the eve began to rise again. The growth began after the rebound of world stock platforms on statistics from Asia and news from the United States, Interfax reports, the risks of a new decline remain due to fears of a possible increase in interest rate in China.

Russia needs to revive not ideology, but a Christian worldview, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is convinced. "Sometimes they say that the country cannot live without ideology, that I would certainly need an ideology. I asked myself a question: is it so? And I thought it is not true. Ideology lives for three, four generations of people.

The UN Security Council, after many hours of discussion, accepted the application for elections to the Cot-D'Ivoire after the Western countries were forced to agree with the comments of the Russian delegation on the text of the initial draft of the document. The day before, Russian diplomats blocked the adoption of a statement for the press of the chairman of the Security Council.

In the Tuzka city of the Russian Northern capital in the United States, a new musical was prepared for showing in the pre-science season. There would be nothing unusual in this if the production of American Stage Theater in the American St. Petersburg (Florida) did not talk about uyentology - and, in the “very cheerful”, as the name of the production, the spirit.

The inhabitants of the textileshift called on the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin to take under personal control the situation around the construction of the mosque in textiles.

The presidents of Russia and Belarus Dmitry Medvedev and Alexander Lukashenko held a separate meeting before the meeting of the highest body of the Customs Union in Thursday in Moscow. This meeting took place behind closed doors, media representatives were not allowed even for a protocol shoot. Medvedev and Lukashenko "discussed the interaction of the two countries as part of the Customs Union," said Natalya Timakova, spokesman for the President of the Russian Federation.