The representative of The Abu Dhabi Group Akbar Mohammed stated that the offer to American Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the amount of $ 120 million for the battle with the Philippine Manny Pacquiao. At the end of November last year, the Investment Fund from the UAE proposed Floyd to hold a fight in Abu Dhabi with Manny Packeo, while the Mayweather would be guaranteed to receive a record amount in the history of boxing for this battle.

Law enforcement officers detained a man suspected of killing a wife and a young son in Moscow. Their decapitated bodies were found on January 6 in the apartment of one of the houses on the Storozheva Street. “Citizen Goryachev was detained, previously wanted for double murder,” Moscow was told in law enforcement agencies on the night of January 7. According to Interfax , the man was caught in the lobby of the Aviamotornaya metro station.

According to the results of 2014, experts note the growth of emigration moods among representatives of the Russian middle class. Some of the experts believe that we are talking about a new wave of Russian emigration, the main difference from the previous ones is that all current immigrants decided to move abroad after March 2014, when the Crimea was joined by Crimea, writes DW-depend .

In New Zealand, the passenger aircraft of the Skydive Taupo airline crashed, there were no dead and seriously injured - everyone who was aboard managed to leave it until the crash. The aircraft collapsed into the Taupo lake, AP reports with reference to the representative of the local police Kim Perki. Thirteen people - six passengers and seven crew members - jumped out of the aircraft with parachutes and successfully landed on the ground.

The Spanish police discovered 1.5 tons of cocaine on a ship, which was supposedly followed from Venezuela to Spain, 16 people were arrested, including a famous drug dealer, the La Voz de Galicia newspaper reports. The ship following the Venezuelan flag was detained in the Atlantic Ocean, 80 miles west of Cabo-Verda. Nine people were on board.

The head of the FMS Konstantin Romodanovsky told reporters that in the early days of 2015 there was a strong decrease in Russia by the number of migrants of Central Asia, with the exception of Kyrgyzstan. "In 2015, compared with 2014, we record a decrease in almost 70% of the number of entrances and trips of foreign citizens, " Interfax reports it.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah As-Sisi became the first head of the Egyptian state to visit the festive Christmas worship. On Tuesday evening, he unexpectedly arrived in the Cathedral of St. Mark of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the center of Cairo, where thousands of Egyptian Christians - Kopov gathered, and personally congratulated all believers on the holiday of the birth of Christ .

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko visited the Cathedral of the Holy Dukhov Cathedral in Minsk on January 7, noting the great contribution of the Belarusian Orthodox Church to the strengthening of peace in the country. He expressed confidence that the state would always be peaceful and calm. “You can rely on the state, power. You can always be sure that in our country it will be peaceful and calm. We guarantee it,” TASS quoted the president’s words.

At least two people were killed and 30 went missing on January 7 after a collapse at the jade mine in the northern part of Myanmar (Burma), near the city of Khpakan, Reuters reports. This region of the country is the center for mining and precious stones. An employee from a mining company told reporters on the terms of anonymity that the number of dead could reach 50.

After a terrorist attack on the editorial office of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, which occurred on January 7, during which 12 people were killed, including the editor -in -chief of the magazine, thousands of people went to the Square of the Republic in Paris to hold a “Mars of Silence”. The action in memory of the dead was scheduled for 19:00 local time, according to the official group of the march on Facebook . More than 30 thousand people announced their desire to attend the event.

The representative of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) Alexei Karyakin expressed the opinion that Kyiv is ready to "part" with the territories that are under the control of Lugansk separatists. "Ukraine has already announced that two checkpoints have been operating on the line of contact with the LPR. Border services are already working on them. This suggests that at the moment they are ready to part with the territories controlled by the LPR," the portal reports .

Participants in the Orthodox movement "Forty forties" together with the Oplot fighting club held in Moscow on the first day of the New Year a match in football and a run "from the temple to the temple! From the heart to the soul!".

In December, the eurozone economy demonstrated sluggish growth. The study shows that the IV quarter in terms of indicators turned out to be the worst in the last year, writes BBC . The business activity index of purchasing managers (PMI) of the analytical company Markit and the Royal Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) in December reached 51.4 points, which turned out to be lower than forecasts, but above the November level of 51.1.

The US State Department urged Russia to immediately release the Ukrainian pilot and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko, who has been holding a hunger strike in the Moscow pre -trial detention center No. 6 (Pechatniki) for a fourth week. This is stated in a statement by the representative of the State Department of Jen Psaki, made at a briefing on January 6 and published on the official website of the American Foreign Ministry.

Two people died as a result of shooting that occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the clinic of the US Department of Veterans in the city of El Paso, Texas. This was announced at the press conference by Major General Stephen Twitti, a representative of the Fort Bliss army base, near which the clinic is located. Earlier, information was extended that the incident occurred in a military hospital next to the clinic, but Twitti denied these messages, TASS reports.