Kim Jong-un, chosen by the readers of the American magazine Time by the man of the year, praised the achievements of scientists and technologists, and also expressed gratitude to them on behalf of the Central Committee of the Korea Labor Party (TPK) after the successful launch of the Earth’s artificial Earth satellite 3 (“Shining Star-3”). This was reported by the TSAC news agency.

Against the backdrop of joyful news of the two Polish elephants saved from death in Siberia in Siberia, tragic news of these animals came from Nizhny Novgorod: the elephant Rada, brought on tour as part of the troupe of the circus dynasty of the Filatovs, died there. “She died here yesterday, at five o’clock in the evening from cardiac arrest,” Interfax reported in the Nizhny Novgorod circus on Friday.

The task of the Russian national team at the Winter Olympiad in Sochi is the first communal place. The president of the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR), Alexander Zhukov, said this at the Olympic Assembly in Moscow. "The preparation of Russian athletes for the home Olympiad goes as part of a comprehensive program, which was developed jointly by the OKR, the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, as well as the center of sports training.

All the achievements of the Argentine football player Lionel Messi can be called into question in a week: the Bookmaker of the Fonbet office, anticipating the end of the world on December 21, 2012, offers a bet that on this day, Messi will declare himself an alien. According to the calendar of the ancient civilization of Mayan, on December 21, 2012, the so -called cycle of a long account of the fifth sun era, which began in August 3114 BC, will end.

The highest representative body of Germany Bundestag banned sexual contacts of people with animals. Cathedrality was recognized as an act that harms animals, and from now on will be punishable by a fine of 25 thousand euros. However, lawmakers refused activists to prohibit such painful procedures in relation to animals as castration or applying the stigmas, the German television channel reports. "Sexual intercourse with a person is unnatural for animals and causes suffering in them.

The member of the Russian team in swimming Ksenia Moskvin was disqualified for 12 months for violation of anti -doping rules. The athlete did not provide reliable information about the one-hour interval of absolute accessibility for conducting doping tests. She was absent three times in the place indicated by her to pass the doping control, the press service of the All-Russian Swimming Federation said. “This is a logical outcome with this attitude to doping -checking.

The prestigious "journal of epidemiology" (International Journal of Epidemiology) published the results of the study of Scandinavian scientists on the study of the connection between the emergence of tumors of the brain and spinal cord and radio frequency radiation of cell phones. In Northern Europe, cell phones were massive before many other regions of the world, and Nokia and Ericsson have recently been leaders of the cell market. So, back in 1997, mobile phones had 40% Finns.

The American Brett Doar invented a device that he determined how "a series of small Goldberg cars connected by a number of athletes." The mechanism named in honor of the cartoonist of the Goldberg Rub, who depicted a car in the 1950s, which performed simple actions in a surprisingly complex way, set up 11 athletes, reports The Daily Mail .

The US Permanent Representative to the UN Suzan Rice no longer claims to be a Secretary of State after the resignation of Hillary Clinton. Rice has already sent the corresponding letter to US President Barack Obama, the American media said. "I am convinced that the process of approving my candidacy will be very long, destructive and costly for you and the US priorities in the international and internal arena," the Message of Rice of the head of the White House says.

A group of employees and teachers of the Moscow Architectural Institute (Markhi) ordered a special prayer service. They will pray for the exclusion of a march from the list of ineffective universities and for the restoration of a reputation in order to in this way save an educational institution. "A prayer service, which will be held on December 19 in the Pokrovsky temple in the Big Horde, ordered an initiative group of employees.

The volume of cars of cars in the European Union in November decreased by 10.3% compared to November 2011 and amounted to 926.486 pieces. Sales of cars in Europe are falling on the 14th month in a row, reports Autonews with reference to the report of the European Association of Automobiles (ACEA). Against the backdrop of a clear crisis, the sales of Jaguar Land Rover, Hyundai and Mazda were increased. BMW was able to maintain positions, for other manufacturers, a sales fall reaches 30%.

The United CIS Football Championship can be held already in the 2014/15 season. This was announced at a press conference in Moscow by the President of the Moscow CSKA Evgeny Giner. “Now we have a 2012/13 season, and in my subjective opinion, a minimum of a year and a half is needed to prepare the championship,” Giner quotes RIA Novosti . The owner of the Army Club specified that UEFA is ready to resolve the unification of national championships.

The investigating authorities continue to investigate the circumstances of the coin of the Robinson R-44 private helicopter, which broke up on December 8 in the forest in the closed territory of the military training ground in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow Region. On the eve of the UK confirmed that the helicopter belonged to the 41-year-old entrepreneur Fedor Tsarev, and on board at the time of the disaster, in addition to the owner, were two passengers.

The Official Sales of the iPhone 5 in Russia, which began on Friday, starting on Friday, start quite modestly, reports Daily RBC . By December, according to the publication, from 20 thousand to 30 thousand devices were officially imported into the country.

The Moscow Arbitration Court registered the lawsuit of ZAO ZAO ZAO Transstroy (part of Oleg Deripaska’s construction holding) to the Olympstroy state corporation to recover 1.491 billion rubles, RAPSI said. According to Dmitry Oleinik, Director General of PSK "Transstroy", the requirements relate to the construction project "Engineering Protection of the Imeretinsky Lowland of Sochi".