The international team of scientists, having examined the remains of the bronze age collector, who lived about 4.5 thousand years ago, discovered one of the earliest evidence of cancer in an ancient person.

The Tver court of Moscow stopped the lawsuit of the Moscow resident Olga Gavrikova, who required compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 4.5 million rubles from the McDonald's leadership due to the loss of part of the finger when servicing in one of the restaurants of fast food.

The company "Yandex" acquired from the Runa Capital investment fund Metabar, developing the Advisor Service, which helps users make purchases in online stores, the newspaper Vedomosti writes with reference to the message of the Fund. The representative of Yandex confirmed the information about the committed transaction, which noted that the purchase cost the company of several million dollars. According to another source, the amount of the transaction did not exceed five million dollars.

The video, which recorded the brutal murder of 22 Syrian military militants of the Islamic State (IG), was removed with several dumches and subjected to significant installation, CNN reports. At the same time, at least 200 thousand dollars took the roller production of the roller - about the same cost professional equipment used for shooting.

Two large German automakers at once - BMW and Volkswagen, on December 9, distributed reports on the change of leadership. Volkswagen cars will be headed by the Director of the BMW Research and Development Department, a member of the Barbarian Company Board of Directors Herbert Diss. He will join a new position from October 1, 2015 and will become a full member of the board of directors of Volkswagen AG.

Pope Francis gave an extensive interview with the Argentine daily newspaper La Nacion, in which he answered a number of questions regarding the latest events from the church’s life, and also spoke a little about his personal life, the Radio of the Vatican reports. Speaking about the recently past Synod on the theme of the family , the pontiff noted that the Synodal Assembly is not a "parliament", but an open space that keeps the Holy Spirit.

The World Bank again worsened the forecast of the economic development of Russia - just a week after the last revision of scripts, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. As explained by the leading economist of the World Bank, Existles Hanzl, in 2015 Russia expects to reduce investment in the conditions of preserved geopolitical and economic uncertainty.

Moscow investigators decide the issue of initiating a criminal case against a man who is suspected of pedophilia and a daring attack on a girl. The attacker met the victim on the Internet and invited her to a photo shoot to the store. Directly in the fitting room, the alleged pervert began to pester the schoolgirl. The mother of the 14-year-old Lena E., on her statement, the suspect was taken into custody, writes Lifenews , to law enforcement agencies.

Passengers will not notice the abolition of Russian trains on a segment between Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. After the company "Russian Railways" (Russian Railways) canceled international routes in the CIS, Ukrainian "Ukrzaliznytsia" and Kazakh Kazakhstan Temir Zhola (KTZ) confirmed its readiness to carry out such transportation.

The Russian edition of Forbes magazine has published a rating of 12 sectors of the Russian economy with the highest paid leaders. It is best, as this study showed, oil and gas companies with revenue from $ 3 billion a year live. There, the average compensation for the highest leadership (General Director or President) in 2014 amounted to $ 3.74 million, a year earlier - $ 3.77 million.

The company "Ukrtransgaz" on Tuesday, December 9, announced the beginning of the supply of natural gas from Russia after almost a half -year break. Gas enters Ukraine from the territory of Belarus and the Russian Federation. Deliveries began two days ahead of schedule, which Kyiv announced the day before. "Ukraine began to receive Russian gas. Volume - about 43.5 million cubic meters per day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin abandoned sharp critical statements to the Ukrainian authorities, speaking to human rights defenders last week, due to attempts to reach a ceasefire with Kiev, says the American edition of Time . A review of the opinions expressed on this subject in the Western press is offered by Inopressa .

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) recognized the National Olympic Committee (NOK) Kosovo, whose representatives will now be able to take part in Rio de Janeiro games as a full member of the organization. According to RIA Novosti , IOC members voted for this decision at the 127th session of the International Olympic Committee, which takes place these days in Monaco. "Knock Kosovo unanimously chose a member of the IOC family," said the president of the organization Thomas Bach.

“NPO Energomash developed from a small group of rocket science enthusiasts, formed in 1921, and in 1929 called the Gas Dynamic Laboratory, the head there was Valentin Petrovich Glushko, who later became the general designer of NPO Energomash. The disk with a sphere in the center is not a model of the solar system, as I thought, but a model of an electric rocket spaceship. Solar panels were supposed to be placed on the disk.

8 billion hryvnias ($ 530 million) will be spent on the construction of the protective “wall” on the border of Ukraine with Russia. The government gives 4 years to the implementation of the project, which was called the European Val in Kyiv, said the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk. "Ukraine will continue cooperation with the European side, which contributes to the implementation of the project," the prime minister added. For this, a separate state agency is created.