100 thousand homes in France were left without electricity.

About 100 thousand households in the central regions of France on 14 December were without electricity because of the ongoing second day of snowfall, said Le Figaro, referring to dannyt power company Electricite de France (EDF).

More than other affected departments of Puy-de-Dôme (Puy-de-Dome), Aveyron (Aveyron), Lozère (Lozere), Cantal (Cantal), Haute-Loire (Haute-Loire) and Corrèze (Correze). In some parts of the Massif Central fell to 60 centimeters of snow.

Repairman often can not get to the damaged power lines due to strong snowdrifts. Movement on the roads extremely difficult. Residents recommended time limit for travel. In the aftermath of the disaster, hundreds of people employed.

British Prime promised money to Pakistan to fight terrorism.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged to Pakistan nine million dollars on a program to combat terrorism. With this statement the head of the British Government made during a visit to Pakistan, reported AFP.
As noted by Brown, three-quarters of the most serious cases involving terrorism, which are investigating British law enforcement agencies related to the activities of extremists in Pakistan, the website reported BBC News. In doing so, Brown said that Pakistan is also victim of terrorism. According to the British prime minister, for the year in Pakistan occurred 50 terrorist attacks involving suicide bombers.
Referring to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, where the victims were 172, Brown supported the position of India, which claims that the attack is a group "Lashkar-e-Tayba, based on Pakistani soil. Pakistan categorically rejects accusations of involvement in terrorist acts.
On Sunday it was reported that British police offered to interview the sole survivor party's attacks on Mumbai. Now he is in the hands of Indian security services. Britons are interested in information concerning the activities of extremist groups in Pakistan.

Greek demonstrators smashed the camera of journalists channel "Russia".

Members riots in Greece damaged camera film crew "Russia", RIA Novosti.
According to the channel correspondent Vyacheslav Duhin, the incident occurred on the night of 9 to 10 December. He and his colleague Eugene Poloyko operator tried to agree on a shooting at the University of Athens.
The journalists themselves are not affected. They were able to negotiate with the attackers, that they take away the tape with footage material, but returned to reporters chamber.
Earlier it was reported that the same night Athenian youths attacked a correspondent for NTV Vadim Gluskera and operator Eugenia Kovalev. Hooligans stopped beating of journalists, when realized, that they were Russian, but still took away and destroyed the tape.
At the moment, unrest in Greece are continuing. Now clashes occurred near the walls of Greece's largest prison, located in the capital, tells AFP. Also, Greek students blocked the main roads in Athens. However, police said, compared with Monday and Tuesday, the streets of Athens became calmer.
Now about 10 universities and schools engaged protesters. Some groups of students designated to conduct large-scale demonstrations Friday.
Unrest in major Greek cities began on Saturday, Dec. 6, after police shot dead a 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropolusa. Testing found that the bullet hit the teenager in the rebound. Police officers have been indicted.

Drinking and obesity hampered by German soldiers in Afghanistan.

German army, serving in Afghanistan are difficult to cope with its responsibilities due to the fact that too much drink.
The data contained in the report of the German parliament, which is referred to the newspaper The Daily Mail. According to the "shocking" statistics, 3500 Bundeswehr soldiers in Afghanistan in 2007, drank about 1.7 million pint of beer and 90 thousand bottles of wine.
As the newspaper writes, the drinking did not add to Germans pride for the Bundeswehr soldiers that were found earlier, too much smoking, too little train and had come from fellow NATO vast quantities. Up to 40 per cent of the troops suffer from obesity.
And in Afghanistan, says the report, the German military beer and sausages prefer vegetables and fruit.

The President of Somalia dismiss the Government.

In Greece, renewed unrest.

Raul Castro made a first foreign visit after the election to the presidency.