The German government has changed the position in relation to the possible exit of Greece from the eurozone, says the German weekly Spiegel . The Chancellor of Germany Angel Merkel and the Minister of Finance Wolfgang Shoible, if necessary, are ready to allow such a development of events and believe that the pan -European currency will cope with this, says the publication with reference to sources in government circles.

Vice-Chancellor Germar Sigmar Gabriel warned the West against further weakening of Russia as a result of tightening sanctions. Distribution in Russia is dangerous for all of Europe, although the world has the forces that they want, he said in an interview with Bild Am Sonntag weekly. “Those who want to destabilize Russia even more in economically and political terms are pursuing completely different interests,” said Gabriel, who heads the Ministry of Economy in the Government of Germany.

Several thousand police officers came on Sunday to the funeral of their colleague Wanjiang Liu, who was shot dead from revenge in December last year in New York. At the end of December, his partner Rafael Ramos was buried , and the ceremony, which gathered tens of thousands of people gathered, turned into a scandal: dissatisfied with the reaction of the mayor of the foundation to the murder, the police turned to him with their backs during a mourning speech.

The police in Kyiv detained some young people from the interpretation of the Inter channel on the eve of the night. After giving, they were released, UNIAN reports. On the fact of an attack on the office, which was thrown by stones, criminal proceedings were open. On Saturday evening, about 20, unknown in masks, attacked the office of the Inter channel, which on New Year's Eve showed the Ukrainians on the air of Joseph Kobzon, declared by Persona Non-Grad for his political position.

The DPRK authorities called the US intention to introduce new sanctions by the manifestation of "avid hostility", the official Central Telegraph Agency of Korea said.

Video games competition must be included in the Olympiad program. This, according to Interfax , said in an interview with BBC the creator of the game Warcraft Rob Pardo. "Video games have reached the level to become sports. You can create anything with graphics, making them really exciting and competitive sports," the creator of the popular game is sure.

In Kamchatka, the highest active volcano of Eurasia - Klyuchevskaya began to erupt, the height of the fountains of Lava reaches a kilometer over the crater, TASS was told in the Volcanological Observatory of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the RAS in the village of Klyuchi. “Klyuchevsky crater is filled with fresh lava. Rare and low emissions. The volcano is gradually growing,” the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted.

Representatives of the Ukrainian security forces and separatists of the self -proclaimed "Donetsk People’s Republic" began negotiations on a new exchange of prisoners, the Commissioner for the Rights of Human Rights of the DPR Daria Morozova told the TASS agency. Earlier on Sunday, President of Ukraine Poroshenko ordered to activate work. In the DPR, they considered that 30 security officials remain in captivity, and Kyiv holds more than 200 people.

The Pope Francis called the names of 20 new cardinals, among which there are clergymen from Tong, Ethiopia and the Republic of Myanmar, the Russian BBC service reports. 15 of the newcomers of new cardinals younger than 80 years, which will allow them to be part of the conclave to choose the new Pope. In his speech, the pontiff especially noted the fact that representatives of 14 countries will become cardinals.

The famous anonymous in the USA, known for the Instagram account "Tips for Jesus", left a record even for himself in the amount of 11 thousand dollars in Arizona in Arizona. The account has been conducting for more than a year, but usually the amount of incentives to the waiters does not exceed $ 7,000. Good luck overtook the workers of the Italian restaurant Crudo in Phoenix.

The Government of the Russian Federation approved the lists of vital and most important drugs for 2015. Prices for medicines from the List of the GUNLP are regulated, the Ministry of Health assures that there will be no deficit: for the needs of beneficiaries from the federal purchase budget, they were carried out 9 months in advance, and in the regions, on average for 4.5 months.

Five people, including a child, died after a collision of two foreign cars on the highway in the Leningrad Region, Interfax reports with reference to the regional traffic police department. They reported that Hyundai and Daewoo Nexia cars collided on 165 km of the St. Petersburg -Pskov highway around 18:45 in Moscow Sunday. “As a result of the accident, the Daewoo car caught fire,” the agency’s source said. “The driver and four passengers in his salon, including the child, died at the scene.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron seeks to quickly hold a referendum on his country membership in the European Union. The head of the British government said this, speaking today on the air of the Air Force television and radio corporation . Immigration issues are key to voters on the eve of the elections in May of this year. The referendum promised to the Cameron of the British must encourage the European Union to negotiate the reform of migration legislation.

The British tabloids of the Daily Mail and Mirror in the Sunday issue claim that they recognized the name of the woman who accuses Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, of the molestation of the minors . Namely, in the fact that he allegedly entered into a connection with her when she was 17 years old. The Buckingham Palace refutes all assumptions, and, as Skynews notes, he did it twice.

The Martysk Russian Emergencies Ministry with humanitarian aid for the Donetsk and Lugansk regions went from the Moscow Region to the Rostov Region, TASS reports with reference to the Office of the Organization of Information of the Population of the Ministry of Emergencies. The column emerged from the Noginsk rescue center of the Ministry of Emergencies at 06:00 Moscow time. It includes more than 60 cars with humanitarian goods.