The British capital set a historical record for size rental rates among commercial real estate. As it became known on Wednesday, the pension fund NFU, Owning home number 24 for the famous Old Bond Street in British capital, raised a rent for the use retail premises from 600 to 1059 pounds (from 947 to 1671 dollars) per 1 square foot (0.093 sq m), reports ITAR-TASS.

The well-known TV presenter and creator of the Soul Train Cycle Cycle Don (Donald) Cornelius was found dead in his house in Los Angeles. The police said that the 75-year-old Cornelius committed suicide, shooting himself in the face.

The Yakutia Airlines terminated the employment contract with the crew commander An-24 Anton Volobuev, who allowed obscene behavior in one of the Magadan hotels, Interfax reports. According to the head of the press service of the company Tatyana Samsonova, Volobuev was fired for discrediting the image of the company. A service check against other crew members is still carried out, the decision has not yet been made.

The court in Munich on Wednesday this week refused to impose a ban on sales of two Samsung mobile devices, Galaxy Tab 10.1n tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Apple's claim, accusing a competitor to violate a patent for technology related to sensory screens, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the agency Bloomberg.

Snowfall led to the formation of strong congestion on the roads of the capital on Thursday. At 18.50, the Analytical Center "Yandex-Proki" assesses the situation as a critical. The maximum value has been reached in the capital: 10 points, reports Interfax . Multi -kilometer traffic jams were formed on the Moscow Ring Road. The movement on almost all radial streets and a significant part of the third transport and garden rings is difficult, the speed does not exceed 10 kilometers per hour.

The motorcade of the General Secretary of the United Nations Pan Gi Muna threw dirty shoes, sand and stones in the gas sector. As Newsru Israel reports with reference to the Palestinian media, the Secretary General arrived in the sector in the morning on Thursday through the Erez checkpoint. He was met by relatives of the Palestinian prisoners, who at the same time shouted offensive slogans, threw stones and shoes (the latter, recall, is considered to be an expression of extreme contempt).

In the monograz of the Republic of Karelia, where the ex-head of the Yukos company Mikhail Khodorkovsky is serving its term, the “PAILEVO script” may be repeated, the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Housing Policy and Housing and Communal Services, member of the United Russia party, Alexander Sidyakin, warns. The local city-forming enterprise OJSC Segezhsky Central Bank is forced to stop production due to a lack of wood raw materials, Interfax reports.

The former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov gave an interview with the newspaper Vedomosti , in which he expressed a sharp criticism of the "capital fallen" "United Russia" ( video ), spoke about his relations with the new mayor Sergei Sobyanin, first gave him the council , and also commented on the accusations of corruption in his address.

Skoda begins the sale of a special version of Fabia Monte Carlo Edition, dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the Czech brand in racing, Autonews.ru reports. The car is equipped with black plastic moldings over the wheel arches and along the lower part of the body, a black roof, black rear-view mirrors, a radiator black grill and darkened headlights, as well as 16-inch light-luminous discs.

Garik Sukachev commented on a recent scandal when the traffic police officer took away his rights after leaving for the oncoming lane, Interfax reports. "I admit, of course, I violated the rules, but I do not repent in this. In this place, it is almost impossible to cross the" continuous ". The traffic cop stood 200 meters from this place, from turning to Eisenstein Street. Human vision is not arranged in such a way as to see 200 meters.

On Thursday, early in the morning at the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, a plane from London with a newcomer Lokomotiv , the forward of the Russian national team, Roman Pavlyuchenko, landed. Half an hour later, the striker went to journalists, having previously received a red-white-green scarf from his hands from his hands, and explained the reasons for his return to his homeland from the English Premier League. “I didn’t have concrete proposals from Europe,” Sport -Express quotes the striker.

The American state of Georgia neutralized the dangerous gang, which forged plastic cards and caused damage to millions of dollars. Studying the habits of the bandits, the investigators came to curious conclusions - the leader of the group came up with a special rite of “initiation”, during which it was necessary to participate in sex orgia.

Ex-Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin believes that a qualitative leap in the economy and a return to GDP growth of 6-7% per year is possible no earlier than five years later. According to him, such growth is completely impossible without updating the market institutions, legal system, and public administration, and this takes time, Vedomosti reports.

The head of the Presidential Council of Human Rights did not satisfy the response of the chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova to an expert report in the case of the ex-head of the company Yukol Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In his opinion, she did not introduce to the company of counterarguments in response to the conclusion of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Human Rights, Interfax reports. "We would like to hear answers in content, and not on the procedural part.

The male sprint race, in the framework of the seventh stage of the Biathlon World Cup in the Norwegian Holmen Clmon, was won by Russian Evgeny Garanichev, for whom this gold became the first in his career at the stages of the World Cup. Garanichev, not allowing a single miss on the firing lines, finished first with a result of 25 minutes 22.2 seconds. The second was the German Arnd Pifffer (+0.7 seconds, 0 mistakes), the Norwegian Emil -Hegle Svenden - the third (+11.8, 2).