World Press Photo 2012 Salila Bera’s picture became a winner of World Press Photo 2012 in the Hot News category.
The male leopard jumps on the forester. The wild animal ran out of the forest and ended up in a small Indian village of Siliguri. The leopard was shot by a tranquilizer, but the animal died as a result of a “rescue” operation. This is one of the 260 leopards who died in 2011 in India due to the fact that a person is increasingly entering the habitat of wild animals.
Protective of Obama Jim Yong Kim, the 52-year-old president of the Dartmut College, whom US President Barack Obama nominated a candidate for the post of head of the World Bank, began a two-week world tour. Its goal is to achieve support in developing countries. Most likely, the candidacy of Kim, a leading specialist in the field of international health, will not cause objections. Another American candidate of a mere nominee, Jeffrey Sax, wrote in his microblog: "Kim is an excellent candidate."
Moscow, who wants to become one of the world financial capitals, so far takes only 65th place in the Z/Yen Group Ltd. Moreover, over the year, the Russian capital lost four more points. In total, 77 cities were ranked, they were evaluated by financial services. The rating of London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo is headed.
Scouting in a hijab Association of Scouts - the British branch of the World Organization of the Scout Movement is preparing to release a form for girls professing Islam. It will be a “kangaroo” dress with a long sleeve and a sheath dress. According to the Association, existing since 1907, Muslims are more than a third in the International Scout Movement, and in the UK there are 2 thousand, and the number of scout girls is growing faster than young men.
Mobile investigation The Investigative Committee resumed the investigation of a high -profile criminal case of smuggling mobile phones to Russia in the amount of about 1 billion rubles, which were sold through the Euroset, Dixis, Digirograd salons networks. At the end of 2011, the case was closed due to the decriminalization of criminal articles related to commodity smuggling. The former co -co -owner of Euroset, who was passing in the case, Evgeny Chichvarkin, who is constantly living in London, in a conversation with The New Times suggested that the re -opening of the case is associated with the unwillingness of the law enforcement agencies to return the “evidence” seized from them for $ 35 million.
Subscribed by five The informal association of five leading developing states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) should gradually transform into a full -scale mechanism of world politics. Such an idea was expressed at the Brix summit in Delhi President Dmitry Medvedev. However, the initiative was met with restrained: there are enough political problems between states. In the meantime, the parties agreed to create a BRICS development bank that would allow them to credit each other in their national currencies.
Equipment for DSK “Do you want to try on July 4 a magnificent club in Madrid with me and with“ equipment ”? -This is and dozens of other SSMECs sent by the Dominik Struss-Kan, the former head of the IMF and the failed competitor of Nicolas Sarkozy, can cost 20 years of prison. The court of Lille accuses the DSK (it is customary to reduce his name and surname in France) of "active consolidation and organized crime." Strauss-Kan himself does not deny his participation in Swinger parties, but declares that he was only an invited guest and did not at all know about the profession of girls who took part in them. The lawyer of the suspect said that at such events, guests often find themselves, and in this form it is very difficult to distinguish a prostitute from a secular lady.
These are the results of the survey, which in March conducted a recruiting company HeadHunter among employees of domestic companies in large cities. The survey showed: 39% of women flirt in order to brighten up the boredom of the working day, while for 37% of the men surveyed, flirting is a direct expression of their sympathy. 17% of women believe that flirting is the usual form of communication with other people. 37% of respondents are sure that flirting does not interfere with the working process, and 16% believe that it is good for him.
Moscow Region Emergency Situations The head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu with a probability of 99% will become the governor of the Moscow region. In the short list, which United Russia introduced to President Dmitry Medvedev, the competition by Shoigu is made by knowingly weaker candidates: the first deputy chairman of the Moscow Region Igor Parkhomenko and mayor Reutov Alexander Khodyrev. Shoigu will be replaced by General Boris Gromov, who led the region since 2000. From the White House on the eve of the large-scale update of the government announced by Medvedev, the minister-long life is leaving-to replace one of the governors-debtors. Before entering into force, the Kremlin is in a hurry to put their people to the key regions of their people. Simultaneously with the list of candidates for the post of Governor of the Moscow Region, the United Russia introduced the president lists of potential candidates for posts of governors of the Saratov and Omsk regions. But if in Saratov the former head of the region Pavel Ipatov left due to the conflict with the chief Kremlin ideologist Vyacheslav Volodin, about which The New Times wrote in the last issue, then in Omsk the permanent head of the region Leonid Polezhaev managed to bring his successor to power: all three candidates for his replacement-people from the team of the outgoing governor.
