Facebook refused to pay a reward to a Palestinian programmer who discovered a security vulnerability in user pages and wrote about it directly on the personal page of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reports (No. 66 on the Forbes global list of billionaires, worth $13.3 billion), The Drum .

Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group is in talks with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to create an ownership structure that would allow the largest player in the Chinese e-commerce market to list its shares there, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing its sources. Alibaba, which operates online shopping, information and payment services, could raise billions of dollars with an initial public offering as early as this year.

One person died when the light-engine sports training aircraft Yak-52 crashed in Yakutia, according to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to the ministry, three more people were injured as a result of the accident. There were a total of four people on board the plane. RIA Novosti , citing a representative of the operational headquarters at the scene of the emergency, notes that a passenger on the plane died. The pilot and two people on the ground were injured.

Acting Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin will receive 67-68% of the votes in the elections of the capital's mayor, which will be held on September 8, and will take first place, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a statement by the general director of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery Fedorov. “As experts admit, even those in the service of the non-systemic opposition, the capital has turned from a center of protest into a center of loyalism.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, in a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy, condemned acts of violence by the government and demonstrators occurring in the Arab state during protests, according to a statement on the British Foreign Office website. Haig called the government's actions to disperse the demonstrators disproportionate, and the actions of the demonstrators violent.

A criminal case has been opened into an attack on A Just Russia activists in Kalmykia, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kalmykia. The case was opened under the article “intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm committed by a group of persons.” The police are searching for suspects and establishing the causes of the incident. As noted in the report, on the night of August 17-18, three young people with various injuries were taken to the republic’s hospital.

On the island of Phuket in Thailand, unknown persons fired at a car with three Russians, the Phuketwan portal reports , citing its correspondent. According to him, the attack occurred on Sunday night near Rawai Beach. A rented Toyota Vios, with three Russians inside, was fired upon by unknown motorcyclists. As a result, one of the tourists, 32-year-old Maxim Gradnkov, who was in the back seat, was wounded in the stomach. His friends did not try, the portal notes.

The international rating agency Moody's Investors Service changed the forecast for the sovereign credit rating of Kazakhstan - "Baa2" to "positive" from "stable" and confirmed this rating, the Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reports with reference to a message from Moody's.

The Information Policy Commission of the Federation Council wants to receive information from representatives of Google Inc. to verify compliance with the rights of Russian citizens when processing their personal data and mechanisms for filtering and reading emails of the Gmail service, Senator Ruslan Gattarov told the Interfax agency .

Google has refused to participate in a privacy complaint filed in London's High Court by several UK residents, writes The Sunday Times . The American company said that it operates “outside local laws.” A group of Britons have sued the web giant, claiming Google is bypassing security settings on their iPhone and Macbook. This may have allowed Google to track user data online without their knowledge, the newspaper notes.

The European Union intends in the coming days to reconsider its relations with Egypt, where more than 800 people have been killed in clashes in recent days, Reuters reports citing a statement by the heads of the bloc. In a statement, the head of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, and the head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, called on the warring parties to show restraint and prevent a further escalation of violence.

The Anglo-Dutch concern Royal Dutch Shell has denied rumors that it will cease its activities in Egypt, Daily News Egypt reports , citing a company statement. Ahmed El-Gabry, a spokesman for the company's local office, said the company's operations were suspended on Thursday due to "escalating violence" in the region, but the company resumed operations on Sunday.

Colombian footballer Radamel Falcao is disappointed in Monaco and wants to leave the club, reports Marca. According to the publication, Falcao was disappointed that the club's management did not acquire any more star players due to high taxes on the income of highly paid players. In his opinion, he was hired under false pretenses: the footballer believed that the club intended to gather “star” players. The footballer intends to change his team during the current transfer window.

The captain of the Polesie-8 motor ship, which collided with a barge on the Irtysh on Saturday, refused to testify, RIA Novosti reports , citing a statement by the Governor of the Omsk Region, Viktor Nazarov. According to him, the captain of the ship is currently under arrest. He refused to testify. Speaking to reporters, the governor also noted that vacationers provided great assistance to rescuers in rescuing victims of the accident.

Candidate for mayor of Moscow, oppositionist Alexey Navalny decided not to take part in further pre-election debates, which will be held on the Moscow-Doverie TV channel and two radio stations - Moscow FM and Moscow Speaks, which he wrote about in his LiveJournal. The Moscow-Trust debate will begin at 8 a.m., during prime time, the oppositionist noted. “All of this is more like a strategy for wasting candidates’ time by providing “broadcasts” that no one watches/listens to.