Photo: In New York, more than 400 teenagers staged a pogrom at the Kings Plaza shopping center. Young hooligans broke into the mall, smashed windows, attacked people with their fists - and all this in the midst of traditional post-Christmas sales. The destructive action took place on Friday, December 27, at about 17:00 in the Brooklyn district of New York, local media write. According to police, teenagers aged 15-16 years old planned their action through Facebook and Twitter.

Photo: El // Mathematician from Kingston University Gordon Hunter has developed instructions for choosing a Christmas tree that are very relevant today. This may be the first time we know of a British scientist trying to do something useful. The instructions that the mathematician posted on the Internet look like... you won't believe it - a Christmas tree. With balls. The large ones have questions written on them, the small ones have “yes” or “no” answers.

On December 28, it became known that, according to the results of a Levada Center survey, Vladimir Putin became “Person of the Year”, Alla Pugacheva was recognized as “Woman of the Year”, and half of Russians find the outgoing year successful and no different from the previous one. According to the results of a December all-Russian poll, Vladimir Putin was named “Person of 2013”: 26% of respondents voted for him, sociologists from the Yuri Levada Analytical Center reported on December 28.

Photo: In Moscow, on December 28, the trade in black caviar, sturgeon and other fish products obtained by poaching was stopped, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. The trade was carried out by a criminal ethnic group. During a raid to decriminalize trade objects on December 28, investigators discovered the sale of poached fish products on a market in the southwest of Moscow.

Photo: A passenger train traveling from Nanded to Bangalore caught fire in southern India. At least 23 people were killed, including two children. A possible cause of the fire was an electrical short circuit. The tragedy occurred on Saturday, December 28, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in an express train, media reports. There were 72 people in the burning carriage. Most of the passengers were asleep at the time of the fire. To escape the fire, many jumped out the window.

Alexander Emelianenko announced his engagement on December 28. He plans to buy rings after the fight with Ukrainian Dmitry Sosnovsky, which will take place on January 25 Photo: Mixed style fighter Alexander Emelianenko announced on December 28 that he intends to marry a girl named Polina, with whom he has been living for a year. The athlete also noted that he would like to revisit the monastery on the Greek Mount Athos, where he stayed from January to March 2013.

The incident on board the plane occurred on Saturday, December 28 Photo: A plane carrying Russians flying to Thailand made an emergency landing due to a heart attack in one of the passengers. The I Fly airliner made an emergency landing in the Pakistani city of Lahore. The incident on board the plane occurred on Saturday, December 28. The media reported this with reference to the commercial director of the Tez Tour group of companies, Alexander Burtin .

Photo: A nine-year-old rock climber from the United States has conquered the highest peak in the Argentine Andes, Mount Aconcagua. The boy climbed accompanied by his father and one representative of the Tibetan Sherpa people. On Saturday, December 28, it became known that nine-year-old Tyler Armstrong from the United States climbed to the top of Mount Aconcagua in the Argentine Andes. The BBC reports this. The ascent was made on the eve of Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar.

Photo: Fortune telling // It's no secret that even in the old days, girls loved to tell fortunes on New Year's Eve. Fortune telling does not tolerate fuss - you need to approach it with feeling, sense, and balance. What should you remember and know first? We have selected 5 main rules of fortune telling. 1. When fortune telling, it is recommended to ask questions that require only an affirmative or negative answer. For example: will I get married this year? Will my salary increase?

Photo: Alena Babenko // In recent years, I no longer work on New Year’s Eve itself. Although everything was different before, once, in the millennium, I even reincarnated as the cosmic Snow Maiden. My classmate Pasha Aksenov then acted as Santa Claus. I was dressed in a fantastic costume, a purple velvet jumpsuit with a transparent iridescent hat, stretched over some kind of metal rim, reminiscent of a bell. Now I remember this with laughter.

Photo: In the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, an accomplice of Doku Umarov was killed. As a result of preliminary identification, the identity of the deceased was established; he turned out to be 23-year-old Islam Atiev. On December 28, in the village of Petrovskoye near Khasavyurt, a member of the bandit group Doku Umarova was eliminated during a special operation, writes Gazeta. Ru " with reference to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee of Russia.

According to political observers, the Chinese authorities are forced to take measures to soften demographic policy. The “one family – one child” rule is extremely unpopular in the country, and every year the outrage in society only grows. In addition, the government is concerned about the rapid pace of population aging. On Saturday, December 28, information appeared that the Chinese authorities are planning to soften the demographic policy in the country.

You can create a fabulous composition on the windows After you decorate the Christmas tree, you will probably want to transform the apartment itself. We have selected 7 main tips on how to decorate your apartment in an unusual way for the New Year. 1. For windows, the simplest thing is to cut out snowflakes from paper. But try to create a whole fairy-tale composition on the windows! Take an illustration from any children's book as a basis. Preferably with a winter theme.

How to attract luck and love in the year of the Horse? Photo by Shutterstock On New Year's Eve, all people, regardless of their age, gender, social status, belief or disbelief in mystical stories, still want miracles. But the most important universal miracle is man himself, therefore all his desires can be fulfilled, as the hereditary sorceress Alevtina Kirillova believes. She does not recognize horoscopes and assures that this is alien to the residents of Russia, and therefore useless.

Photo: In Moscow, on the Moscow Ring Road, a collision occurred between two cars, after which a Hyundai car crashed into road barriers. As a result of the incident, two people were killed and two were injured. On Saturday, December 28, an accident occurred on the Moscow Ring Road, as a result of which two people were killed and two more were injured, the press service of the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate reports.