Brabus, specializing in Mercedes car tuning, announced the world's first whale for the diesel engine of the Mercedes S-Class sedan, which ensures its compliance with Euro-6 environmental standards. Such requirements for engines will enter into force in Europe only in 2014. In addition, the whale increases the power of the motor by 55 horsepower.

In the center of Cairo on Thursday, fierce clashes of opponents and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak resumed. In the central square of Tahrir, the army, which led the tank brigades, is restrained by them, but violence occurs on the adjacent side streets. There, opponents throw each other with stones, and the confrontation is tightened, reports Reuters.

In the Omsk region, a preliminary investigation was completed in the case of the murder of a pensioner who quarreled on the road with a former military personnel from the marine corps. Oleg Korchagin, who beat the pensioner to death, is accused of the murder of the 62-year-old Omsk motorist, the official website of the Investigative Committee of Russia reports. As follows from the case file, a fatal quarrel occurred between drivers on November 14, 2010 about three in the afternoon.

The volume of housing construction in Russia in 2010 decreased, compared with 2009, by 3% to 58.1 million square meters. In total, according to the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), 714.1 thousand apartments were commissioned in the Russian Federation last year. The highest volumes of housing construction were carried out in the Moscow region (13.3%of the total area of ​​housing in Russia), the Krasnodar Territory (6.1%), St.

Another attack on police officers was committed on Thursday in Kabardino-Balkaria. In the Zolsky district of the republic, unknown people shot two traffic police inspectors who tried to stop the car to verify documents. The police believes that this episode may be connected with yesterday's execution of five policemen during lunch in the cafe of the city of Chegem: in the morning it became known that the fifth traffic police officer who fell on Wednesday under fire died.

The Ministry of Finance approved the standards for the maximum costs of maintaining officials in 50 subsidized regions of Russia. According to the Budget Code, those regions whose income share is more than 20% formed at the expense of federal transfers, cannot spend on the maintenance of their officials from above this standard, the Kommersant newspaper writes. Compared to 2007, the norm has grown in those regions in which the highest unemployment rate is recorded in Russia.

Convicted in the case of the capture of the Arctic Sea, the head of the pirate group Dmitry Savins gave on Thursday the first testimony in the Arkhangelsk Regional Court, where the process is underway against the rest of the accused of attacking the ship, calling the demand for security services in the Baltic Sea, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom. The Moscow City Court earlier sentenced the head of the invaders, a native of Latvia Dmitry Savins, to seven years in a maximum security colony.

The Russian Military Military Sputnik "Geo-IK-2" found in orbit cannot be used for its intended purpose, as it is too far from the estimated orbit. And he simply does not have enough fuel for his return, the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to sources in the rocket and space industry. Meanwhile, the information is confirmed that the satellite is in working condition, so it will be used for test purposes.

The Astrakhan District Court will consider the criminal case against the head of the traffic police department of the Public Security police department of the Volodarsky police department Viktor Afanasyev, who was accused of committing an accident, in which one died and suffered four people. The prosecutor's office demands to deprive him of freedom for seven years, on Thursday the Interfax agency reports.

Softkey’s Internet Software Software has launched a “social shopping project” in the most visited social network of Runet VKontakte. Now VKontakte users will be able to purchase on the site in the usual interface right from their page. The project catalog is about three thousand items, according to a press release from a social network. For the selection and payment of the product, additional authorization will not be required.

President Dmitry Medvedev sent a telegram to the Russian Buddhists on Thursday, in which he congratulated them on the onset of the New Year according to the lunar calendar. The text of the congratulation is given by the Kremlin press service : "I cordially congratulate you on the onset of Sagalgan - the New Year in the lunar calendar.

The police of the Moscow region detained two employees of private security enterprises (SOP), who are suspected of false reports on the preparation of explosions in shopping centers. The motive for criminal acts was the desire of the security to attack the authorities because of the poor working conditions.

A plane with a group of Russian students studying in Cairo (Egypt) safely landed at 5:10 Moscow time Thursday at the airport of the capital of Bashkiria Ufa. In total, 132 people arrived from Cairo by this flight, including 20 preschool children. Among the arrivals of 37 residents of Bashkiria, 28 - Tatarstan, the rest - from Kabardino -Balkaria, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Penza, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions.

The main agricultural products are rapidly getting more expensive due to adverse weather conditions around the world, BFM.ru business portal reports with reference to the Financial Times. The cost of sugar is growing due to the Yasi cyclone that has swept over the Australia, which threatens to destroy the crop of the sugarcane of this country, which is the world's third exporter of sugar. On February 2, sugar prices reached a 30-year-old maximum.

Penny Lane Realty specialists called five areas of the capital, best adapted for families with children. When compiling the rating, it was taken into account the presence in the area of ​​kindergartens, schools, centers of additional education, parks and recreation areas, landscaped courtyards and house territories, as well as a good environmental situation.