Syrian oppositionists claim that Anisa Mahluf, the mother of Syria President Bashar al -Assad, left the country and went to the UAE for treatment, reports Newsru Israel . According to opposition sources, 78-year-old Anisa Mahluf suffered a nervous breakdown, after which she needed hospitalization in one of the clinics of the United Arab Emirates. Official Syrian sources are not commenting on this message currently.

In the hospital of the American city of San Diego (California), at the age of 92, the world-famous Indian musician, virtuoso playing Sitar, composer Ravi Shankar died, NDTV reports. The cause of death turns out: the musician was taken to the hospital with complaints of shortness of breath. Ravi Shankar made a great contribution to the popularization of Indian classical music in the West. The lessons of the game on Sitar were taken from him by the former guitarist of Beatles, George Harrison.

The great opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, who died on Tuesday in Moscow, had an amazing acting talent that permeated all her work, writes the British press. The great Russian opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya passed away in the 87th year of her life.

Half of all breakthroughs of oil pipelines in the world takes place in Russia, according to the environmental organization Greenpeace. Over the past twenty years, according to official figures in the country, more than 20 thousand gusts of trunk pipelines have been taking place annually. “In no country in the world, impulses do not occur with such a frequency as in Russia. Nigeria occupies the second place after the Russian Federation.

In 2013, Russia does not plan to issue loans to other countries, only Belarus, as part of a loan from the EU anti -crisis fund, said the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. "This is not inherent in our budget. Next year - to anyone but Belarus," Siluanov said. The Council of the Anti -Crisis Fund of the EU EXECES on December 7 approved the next, fourth tranche of the Belorussia loan of $ 440 million.

The Russian Gandball players will not be able to compete for the medals of the European Championship, which is held these days in the Serbian city of Novy Sad. At the second group stage, our girls tied with the team of Spain (25:25), and the Hungarians did not fail to take advantage of their misfire.

The CIA employee, who was the prototype of the main character of the film about the destruction of the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Ben Laden Zero Dark Thirty , is experiencing great problems with the promotion of service. Although a woman whose surname is not reported to reasons of confidentiality, in the general opinion, made a decisive contribution to the success of one of the most important operations in the history of the American special services, the leadership did not appreciate her.

The Egyptian-Copt, arrested on suspicion that he advertised an anti-Islamic film on the Internet, which caused a wide wave of protests in the entire Muslim world, was sentenced to three years in prison. This was reported to Reuters by a source in court. The 27-year-old computer science specialist Albert Sabber was arrested at home in Cairo on September 13.

The number of countries that recognized the national coalition of the opposition and revolutionary forces of Syria ( Nors ) the only legal representative of the Syrian people at one point grew by a hundred. Following the United States, the so -called "group of friends of Syria" , uniting about 100 Western and Arab countries, recognized the legitimate power of the Syrian rebels.

The United States officially recognized the national coalition of the opposition and revolutionary forces of Syria (Nors) as the only legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the American leader Barack Obama said on Tuesday in an interview with ABC News .

The 31-year-old daughter of former US President George Bush Jr. Jenna Haiger is waiting for the first-born. She reported this on the show "Today" on the NBS television channel. The future grandfather even broke on the air to express his joy. Replenishment in the family of the daughter of the 43rd president of the United States is expected in the spring of 2013. “I wanted it so much. I am a teacher, and I really love children,” said Jenna, adding that she was now extremely excited.

Specialists of the Center for Flight Management of the European company Thales Alenia Space have implemented the third of the four planned maneuvers to finish the Gazprom satellite of Yamal-402 to the calculated point in orbit, the owners of the apparatus, not very well launched with Baikonur on December 9. “According to preliminary evaluation, the maneuver was successful,” Interfax told Gazprom Space Systems, without specifying what height the spacecraft managed to raise this time.

The American company Skid Row Housing Trust , which is engaged in the target development of houses for the homeless, initiated the construction of 102 two-story modular buildings in Los Angeles. The main advantage of this "construction" is the speed of erecting houses: a two -story building can be assembled within a few days, writes Newsru Israel .

The Tver court of Moscow was detained by the head of the apparatus of the president of the Olympstroy state corporation Viktor Luchinkin. The official is suspected of large fraud, the Chuvashia GRK reports. At the same time, law enforcement agencies emphasize that this case is not related to the activities of Olympstroy, headed by Sergei Gaplykov. The reason for the arrest is the previous work of Luchinkin in Chuvashia as the head of the "communal technology", the message says.

In the Krasnodar Territory, employees of the investigative isolator put the criminal authority Sergei Tsapk, who headed the cruel gang of killers, put the investigation of the pre -trial detention center. The uncle of an influential mafioso was punished after he arranged a fight in a prison cell. In Kartsere, the culprit of the brawl Nikolay Tsapok will stay for 15 days, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the prosecutor Igor Kasyanenko.