12 August 2010, 05:32 Sport Paraguay beat Costa Rica On Wednesday, in a friendly match, the Paraguayan team met with the Costa Rica team and won with a score of 2:0. Goals: Vera, 7; Riveros, 74.

August 12, 2010, 21:42 News Former dictator and smuggler becomes president of Suriname Former dictator and cocaine smuggler Desi Bouterse took office as president of Suriname. Last month, Suriname's parliament elected Bouterse, who twice seized power in the country through military coups, as head of state. This happened after Bouterse's party coalition won parliamentary elections in May this year.

Sport Torubarov left Khimki Alexander Volodin The management of FC Khimki decided to relieve team manager Igor Torubarov, who had worked at the club for 14 years, from his position. “Sometimes it’s useful for people to change jobs, shake themselves up, look around,” Sport-Express quotes Khimki General Director Sergei Gorodnichuk as saying. – We talked and by mutual agreement decided to stop cooperation.

12 August 2010, 15:50 Business FAS fined Russian Railways JSC more than 68 million rubles The Federal Antimonopoly Service ( FAS Russia) fined Russian Railways OJSC 68 million rubles for abusing its dominant position in the market for the provision of bed linen for use on Russian trains.

August 12, 2010, 11:21 News Izvestia: high-rise buildings interfere with ventilation of the city The townspeople had long suspected that Moscow was turning into a not-so-favorable climatic zone - the heat of this summer and the smoke from the fires near Moscow only strengthened these suspicions. Have skyscrapers changed the capital's wind rose?

Sport “The “townspeople” now have a rich Pinocchio” Andrey Kanchelskis about the start of the English Championship Andrey Kanchelskis Gazeta.Ru expert, former Manchester United midfielder Andrei Kanchelskis predicted on the eve of the start of the English Championship that the current champion Chelsea and Manchester United will again fight for first place.

12 August 2010, 20:41 Cars Management the Texas way GM CEO resigns Evgeniy Shipilov General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre is resigning. He headed the company for less than a year, but during this time he managed to consign the legendary Hummer brand to history and brought the concern out of a deep financial crisis. 68-year-old General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre Jr. said he will leave his post on September 1, AP reports.

Scientists have shown for the first time that infecting cancer cells in a living body with harmless doses of Salmonella bacteria triggers the appearance and destruction of cancerous tumors throughout the body outside of the immune response, the researchers report in an article published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

12 August 2010, 14:38 Society The preliminary investigation into the murder of lawyer Markelov has been completed The preliminary investigation into the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova has been completed , said the lawyer of one of the accused, Anatoly Zhuchkov. “We were told that the preliminary investigation had ended, and we are currently getting acquainted with the case materials,” Zhuchkov said.

August 12, 2010, 4:21 pm Sport Carvalho signed a contract with Real Madrid Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho , as expected , signed a two-year contract with Real Madrid, the official website of the Madrid club reports. As previously reported , the Londoners received €8 million for the 32-year-old Portuguese.

12 August 2010, 13:02 News Chef's body found in refrigerator in France The Frenchwoman confessed to the murder of her partner, a former chef, and also to hiding the corpse in the refrigerator, writes The Australian . Ghislaine Colober, a 51-year-old resident of the French city of Lyon, admitted to police that she killed her partner, 71-year-old Jean-Francois Poinard, during a family quarrel. Wanting to hide the crime, the woman hid the body of the deceased in the refrigerator.

After the friendly game with the Bulgarians, Russian fans probably were left with an incomprehensible aftertaste. It looks like we won, but the quality of the game was not impressive. However, you shouldn’t draw global pessimistic conclusions based on just one game. We are at the stage where Dick Advocaat is just getting to know the players, and the players, in turn, are learning the requirements of the Dutch coach. This is the grinding process.

12 August 2010, 13:35 Business Air Malta passengers will contribute €1 towards the restoration of Shakespeare's books Passengers traveling on Air Malta will contribute €1 towards the restoration of the oldest collection of William Shakespeare's works in Malta, reports the Times of Malta . The books, located in the National Library in Valletta, date back to 1782.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared a draft order introducing a fixed interest rate to compensate banks for car loans with state support: the department proposes to abandon the floating rate of 2/3 of the refinancing rate established by the Central Bank , and to compensate banks issuing preferential car loans at 6% per annum.

August 12, 2010, 11:20 News The vice-governor of Primorye provided “inaccurate information about income” One of the Primorye vice-governors provided inaccurate information about income. This is stated on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Far Eastern Federal District.