The head of the Palestinian autonomy, Mahmud Abbas, returned from the UN General Assembly to the triumph - in Ramalla it was met by a jubilant crowd, which he announced that the Palestinians now "have a state." The UN General Assembly increased the status of autonomy to the observer state.

For the last two transfer windows, the clubs of the English Premier League spent only a huge amount of 77 million pounds on the intermediary services of football agents. According to the financial report published by the Premier League, which lives in the last place in the Kuins Park Rangers standings in this rating, which “unimportally” when coordinating transfer transactions - 6.8 million pounds (from October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011).

Ex -Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik once again responded to the accusations of the creators of the film "The Open Owl" of the embezzlement of 39 billion rubles in the Rosagrolysing Corporation - this time not from the French mansion, but from the Russian studio. In an interview with the REN-TV channel, Skrynnik did not hold back tears, said that she would not leave Russia, answer all the investigation questions, although now she can hardly answer questions from her own children.

On November 30, in Sanraise (Florida, USA) , a battle was held for a vacant WBA world champion title in the first welterweight between the Russian boxer Khabib Allahverdiev and the ex-champion of the world in two weight categories by the Dominican Hohan Guzman. Immediately after the fight, Guzman was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a double rupture of ligaments of his right hand, as well as the rupture of the ligaments of the left knee.

In Japan, a car tunnel was hit, located on the high -speed highway of the TUOO to the west of Tokyo. A fire broke out at the scene, people blocked inside. According to the latest data, analyzing the rubble, rescuers found five charred bodies. At least one person was able to get out of the tunnel - a young woman, whom rescuers urgently taken to the hospital. According to her, at least five people remain in the tunnel.

On Saturday evening, December 1, in Arab blogs and social networks, including the Twitter microblog network, a rumor has spread that Syria President Bashar Assad had fled to Moscow. This was reported with reference to several sources, while even a suspicious flight, flying out of Damascus, was called.

Drivers stuck on the Russia in the Tver region report a traffic jam of 100 km, thus refuting the Ministry of Emergencies about the complete restoration of traffic on the Moscow -St. Petersburg highway. Two drivers standing in traffic in different directions told the Russian News Service that the stream was almost not moving. At the Ministry of Emergencies, it was first stated that the speed on the snow -cleaned highway is standard - 50-60 km/h.

At least 15 people died on Sunday as a result of the explosion of a mined car in the large Syrian city of Homs, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Syrian agency Sana. According to AR, the explosion has thundered near one of the mosques of the city. As a result of an explosion, at least 24 people were injured, some of them are in critical condition. In addition, residential buildings located near the explosion are badly damaged.

Frenchman Martin Fourcade became the winner of the persecution race at the first stage of the Biathlon World Cup in the Swedish Estersund. The second place was taken by the German Andreas Birnbacher, and Russian Anton Shipulin closed the top three winners. “In the course of the race, I enjoyed the buzz, saved my strength to the finish circle,” the official website of the Russian Biathlon Union reports the words of Anton. “I was aimed at fourth place and the struggle with Svendsen.

Police in Yekaterinburg prevented the suicide to the rehabilitant of the city without drugs on Sunday, the head of the press service of the GUMVD of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk region Valery Gorelykh told RIA Novosti . The incident occurred in the Kirovsky district of Yekaterinburg. The message came from citizens who said that an unknown man with a bloodied knife in his hands, half -hearted, walks in the courtyard of a multi -storey building along Syromolotov Street.

Football stars Ivoarian DEDIE DROGBA, Camerines Samuel Et'o, South African Stephen Pyenar, as well as six presidents of African countries will take part in the campaign to combat malaria during the final part of the African football championship, which will be held in South Africa from February 10 to next year.

The Minister of Finance of Israel, Yuval Steinitz, announced during the Sunday meeting of the government that the state would not transfer the Palestinian autonomy of taxes in the amount of about 92 million dollars. "The debts of Palestinians for electricity will be repaid from these funds," Steinitz said.

In the 18th round of the Anji football championship in Makhachkala, CSKA won and equalized with the army team in the standings. At the end of the first half, the Moscow club remained in the minority due to the removal of striker Alexander Tsaani, who received the second yellow card.

The Ministry of Defense will allocate up to 80 apartments in ready -made houses in Tomsk for the resettlement of victims from the explosion in a multi -storey building on Siberian Street on Friday, the governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin told reporters. The first families will move on Sunday, he said. According to him, residents will be in these houses built for reserve officers until the end of the restoration of the house destroyed by the explosion, Interfax reports.

Four tourists from Germany and three Egyptians accompanying them were killed today in an accident in the south of Egypt: two minibuses collided in Hurghada, one of the main tourist cities of the country. Two more foreign citizens received serious injuries. According to the police, the collision of two minibuses occurred on the Hurghada - Safag highway at the entrance to the tourist complex of Soma Bey. The causes of the accident are clarified.