Perhaps the most expensive Christmas spruce in the world worth more than 11 million dollars appeared in Abu Dhabi in the fashionable Hotel Emirates Palace. The artificial tree, the height of which is 13 meters, is installed in the hall of the hotel and decorated with balls of gold and silver, as well as ornaments in the form of balls and small white bulbs, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Hotelier Middle East News portal.

IBM corporation has published its next annual forecast of the development directions of the technological industry, capable of completely changing the lives of people on the planet over the next 5 years, how they work and how they rest, reports CNews.ru . The list of the company is called Next Five in Five . The previous IBM forecasts, the publication notes, although they did not come true one hundred percent, but in many respects coincided with the development of the technological sphere.

In November 2010, the smallest number of seizures of housing for mortgage debts was recorded over the past two years. According to analysts, the reason for this decrease is that lenders throughout the country were forced to revise the procedure for withdrawing real estate for debts, writes Prian.ru . By the beginning of the fall of 2010, the number of alienated real estate objects sharply grew in the United States.

By mid -2012, the state plans to solve the problem of deceived equity holders, who are about 60 thousand in Russia, regional authorities should do this, the deputy head of the Ministry of Regional Development of Konstantin Korolevsky on Friday at a selector meeting with representatives of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation said. "The work must be organized so that by mid -2012 it is completed.

The American court ordered the acquirers of American depository receipts of the Russian company "VIMM-Bill-Dann food products" who bought them before the announcement of the transaction with Pepsico, to provide information about themselves as soon as possible. This is stated in the court ruling, which is cited by RAPSI .

The founder of the WikiLeaks site Julian Assange was in the place of officials whose secret documents, including correspondence, he presented to the public. Fragments of his personal correspondence are published. True, it is not business, but a love character. Excerpts from letters published a Gawker rumor website.

AvtoVAZ OJSC sent a letter to partners demanding not to invite its engineers who had previously been special training at the plant to work. This is stated in the message of the company. The essence of the claim is that suppliers lure specialists from AvtoVAZ, on which the company spends serious funds on training.

CNN showed on Sunday on December 12 a false report on the Saturday of the mass performance of the inhabitants of the Far East of Russia against the reduction of time zones. The story of this was accompanied by video frames from the Manezhnaya Square of Moscow, where on the same day about 5 thousand radical young people arranged riots in revenge for the murder of the football fan of Yegor Sviridov by Caucasians. As a result, the television channel had to apologize, reports Inotv .

In the Altai Territory, the police freed from the imprisonment of a programmer, whom the bandits turned into a "none hacker". The man was beaten, chained to the battery and forced to break the Internet sites of banks. Altai police detained suspects in the abduction of a Barnaul programmer, the official website of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Altai Territory reports. Criminals face up to 15 years in prison.

The average cost of renting a one-room housekeeper in Moscow in Moscow amounted to 27.8 thousand rubles, which is only 0.3% more than last month, the Incom-Real Estate report said. Stabilization of rental bets is traditional and determined by the action of the seasonality factor, analysts note. The cost of renting two -room apartments in the capital dropped by 0.8% - up to 37.7 thousand rubles per month.

The legendary American host, the highest -paid journalist in the world, the favorite of the public Larry King held his last program on CNN on Thursday evening. In Russia, the legendary TV presenter is known for his entertaining interview with Vladimir Putin, whose answer to the question about the submarine "Kursk" - "She drowned" - went down in history. "Good evening and welcome to the last broadcast of the Larry King show. I knew that this day would come.

The prosecutor's office of the Moscow region opened a criminal case against the army sergeant, who prolonged the colleagues of the bomb with a dummy. During the duty, the soldier decided to have fun, and at the same time earn encouragement, preventing the "terrorist attack".

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called back to the young Ivanovo doctor Ivan Khrenov , who complained on the air of the Ivanovo hospital. According to Life News , Putin called Khrenov’s mobile phone to ask what is actually happening now in Ivanovo. The doctor told the head of the government that he was called to the prosecutor’s office, but immediately stated that he would not go there without a lawyer.

The Simonovsky court of Moscow issued the arrest of one of the suspected organizers of the riots on Manezhnaya Square - Ilya Kubrakov. He will remain in custody until February 12, 2011. The decision can be appealed for three days. The defense has already announced the intention to file a cassation appeal, Interfax reports.

Interethnic unrest in Russia can continue on the coming weekend. According to unofficial data, repeated speeches of nationalists are planned near the Ostankino television center on Saturday afternoon. Representatives of the Caucasian youth are also going to go outside, but to the Kiev station, writes Independent Gazeta . After the events of the capital's shopping center "European" last Wednesday, it became clear that the police were able to quickly stop unauthorized performances.