North Korean scientists who participated in the successful launch of the Yunh-3 rocket with three objects were solemnly fed. At a banquet with the participation of the head of the DPRK Kim Jong -un, the young leader of the country gave the missilers a new assignment: the country needs more powerful carriers for the development of the space program, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official agency of TSAC.

The senior Minister of the North-West Pakistani Province of Haiber-Pakhtunhwi and one of the leaders influential in the northwest of Pakistan "Avami Neshnl Party" Bashir Ahmad Bilur died at the hands of extremists as a result of a terrorist attack in the city of Peshavara, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to local media. Together with Bilur, another 11 people died, 25 people were injured.

In Tyumen, a drunken driver on Lada Priora drove into a parking lot near the club, seriously crippling three girls who were waiting for a taxi, the press service of the UGBDD in the region . The emergency occurred in the morning of December 22 on the Republic Street, near the Adam and Eve club. The driver "Priora" demolished five cars - Mitsubishi, Subaru, BMW and two "frets". There were three girls who tried to sit in a taxi.

The head coach of the German football team, Joachim Leo, six months after the lined Evro-2012 semifinals, the Italian team with a score of 1: 2 admitted that he made a mistake in the starting lineup for this match. After the game, Lev was criticized for releasing Tony Kroos and Mario Gomez, not Thomas Muller and Miroslav Klose.

The Spanish "Barcelona" leads in the list of clubs for the average earnings of football players. Statistics were conducted according to the leading championships of Europe - Spain, England, Germany and Italy. The leadership of the Catalan club on average pays its players 6.46 million euros per year.

State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov proposes to give the right to the authorized under the President of the Rights of the Child Pavel Astakhov to allow adoption. With such an opinion, the deputy made the Russian News Service live. “The question of adoption of children fell on a large political agenda. Now our business is in order to really move this problem. It is necessary to give Astakhov the right to resolve his adoption.

The Tyumen schoolboy baseball bat, scored his girlfriend from jealousy to death, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Region. According to the investigation, a student of grade 11 in Tyumen, learning from his friends that his girlfriend was not faithful to him, took a baseball bat and came to her house. He struck the girl at the entrance and saw how she left the house with a young man.

Russia and the EU called on the Palestinians and Israelis to enter into direct negotiations without preliminary conditions. This is stated in a joint statement by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Supreme Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Katherine Ashton on the situation in the Middle Eastern peaceful process.

Several dozen district pediatricians of Izhevsk went to the picket on Saturday, demanding a reduction in the workload and surcharge for overtime work. Doctors came to the picket, despite the 25-degree frost. In their hands, doctors held posters with an appeal to reduce their workload: "It is unbearable to work in two areas!

In the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, the main Christmas tree of the country, installed on the central square of the city of "Ala-Too" fell. The design of 23 meters high at about 2:30, reports Kyrgyztode . There are no victims, but the toys are broken, and it is not clear how long the main spruce will be restored. The Kyrgyz publication reports the close attention of the authorities to an unusual incident: Vice-mayor Bishkek Vyacheslav Krashenko immediately left for the Ala-Too Square.

The third racket of the world, 31-year-old Serena Williams, defended the Danish woman Caroline Vozniatski, who was criticized for her parody of an American during an exhibition match against Maria Sharapova in Brazil. "Caroline is my friend. I did not see anything racist in her actions. However, if some people reacted so much to her act, then she needs to be more accurate," Williams quoted Tennisworldusa.org as saying.

The Bolid of the Toleman TG184-2 team, driving which the legendary Brazilian Airton Senna played at Formula 1 in 1984, was put up for sale on one of the British sites , according to F1news.ru . The designers of this machine were Rory Bern and Pat Simonds. Sellers assure that it was at the wheel of a copy of Ayrton Senna that the Monaco Grand Prix of the Grand Prix of Monaco finished. The machine is sold along with the turbocharged HART engine, which requires repairs.

The Pope Benedict XVI protested against same -sex marriages, calling them the manipulation of an individuality with this god, Interfax reports.

Yuri Fedotov, Deputy General Director of Petersburg Zenit, spoke about the methods with which the club from St. Petersburg intends to fight the pyrotechnics fans to the stadiums. “We at Zenit found out that no one is able to find better dogs and pigs of pyrotechnics,” Fedotov quotes Sportbox.ru .

The interests of the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko in the United States are lobbying specially hired people, including through the State Department of the country, said Renat Kuzmin, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine. "Nikolai Melnichenko (former guard of ex -president Leonid Kuchma), who returned to Ukraine, testified to investigators what kind of people were. He named the names of the persons who participated in this conspiracy both from Ukraine and from the United States.