10 August 2011, 03:46 Business Oil futures price in London fell to $102.57 The cost of September futures for North Sea Brent crude oil on the London ICE Exchange fell by $1.17 following trading results. Thus, its price was $102.57 per barrel.

Facebook has introduced the Facebook Messenger application for mobile phones with iOS and Android operating systems, reports Mashable . “This is a mobile app for real-time communication,” said app developer Ben Davenport. He also added that all messages will be sent without refreshing the page. Chat history from Facebook will be automatically imported when you log into the app. Users can send messages to each other using SMS. Photo sharing is also available, Mashable notes.

It is necessary to create a large airline in the Far East, believes the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian President in the Far Eastern Federal District Viktor Ishaev .

Arnold Schwarzenegger was reminded of his June visit to his former homeland: it turns out that he smoked at the airports of the Austrian cities of Salzburg and Graz outside the designated area for smokers, and the authorities issued him two fines - they assessed such a flagrant violation of the established rules at 400 euros, 200 for each happening.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow found the assistant to the head of Rosrybolovstvo, Igor Bakulin, guilty of trying to receive a bribe for ensuring the entrepreneur's victory at a salmon fishing auction and sentenced him to three years in prison, an Interfax correspondent reports. The second defendant in the case, businessman Alexander Vasiliev , was found guilty of complicity in the transfer of a bribe. ''The crime was not completed due to circumstances beyond their control,'' the judge said.

10 August 2011, 22:01 Sport Vidic: I was very pleased with how Russian fans greeted us Serbia national team defender Nemanja Vidic commented on the defeat in a friendly match against the Russian team (0:1) . “In the first half, we controlled the ball well, had several good chances to score, but in the second half we slowed down the game, conceded goals and, as a result, lost,” the Gazeta.Ru correspondent reports his words. — Of course, I was very pleased with how the Russian fans greeted us.

August 10, 2011, 00:37 News US stock markets recovered their decline: Dow Jones rose by 4%, NASDAQ by 5.29% As a result of trading on Tuesday, the Dow Jones index increased by 3.98%, amounting to 11,239.77 points. A day earlier, it fell by 5.42%. The NASDAQ index, which collapsed by 6.83% on Monday, also rose on Tuesday – by 5.29%, amounting to 2482.52 points.

10 August 2011, 14:40 Sport Chairman of the RFU Ethics Committee Alkhanov resigned Alu Alkhanov resigned from his post as chairman of the RFU ethics committee. “I wrote a letter to Sergei Fursenko , in which I said that I was resigning, ” Sovetsky Sport quotes Alkhanov . “My main job (Deputy Minister of Justice) takes up all my free time.” Alkhanov has served as chairman of the ethics committee since its creation - since April 2010.

The Supreme Court of India has ruled in favor of turning the Tataguni estate, which belonged to Svetoslav Roerich and his wife Devika Rani, into a museum, ending a 15-year-long legal battle. Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin called the court's decision an event of international proportions. “This is an important event of international scale, and the Roerich community has been waiting for it for many years.

10 August 2011, 21:20 Sport "Lev" beat "Tršinec" On Wednesday, a friendly match of hockey teams took place, in which the Czech Třinec met with the Slovak club Lev and lost with a score of 3:4 (1:3, 1:0, 1:1). Pucks scored: 0-1. Shpirko (Migalik), 01:22 0-2. DaSilva (Gunkes), 01:44 1-2. Zib (Bank, Queton), 03:50 1-3. Fabricius (Gunkes), 16:48 2-3. Peterek (Orsava), 28:35 2-4. Novotny (DaSilva), 41:11 3-4. Grabal (Zib, Bank), 51:17.

In Tomsk, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was banned from installing billboards with the slogan “Against the power of swindlers and thieves,” and similar problems arise with both “A Just Russia” and the LDPR , writes Kommersant . “Party of crooks and thieves” is a slogan coined by famous blogger Alexei Navalny . He uses this expression when talking about the United Russia party. In Tomsk, the installation of billboards was prohibited by order of the mayor's office.

10 August 2011, 13:56 Society An-12 scattered for kilometers An-12 plane missing in Kolyma was found, no one survived Alexandra Koshkina The cause of the An-12 crash, which disappeared from radar screens on Tuesday after a report of an engine fire, could have been a fuel explosion. The wreckage of the plane was found 80 km from the village of Omkukan in the Magadan Region. Fragments of the An-12 are scattered within a radius of five kilometers. All 11 people on board were killed.

10 August 2011, 12:36 News Prokhorov returned to the national issue: I am for Russians, but not against Chechens, Jews and Tajiks The chairman of the Right Cause party, Mikhail Prokhorov , in his blog returned to the “Russian question” again after a loud scandal with the head of the Moscow region branch of the party, Boris Nadezhdin, who called for dialogue with nationalists. “Yes, I am for the Russians.

Eleven cars collided on the 80th kilometer of the outer side of the Moscow Ring Road, one person was injured. This was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. “On the outside of the Moscow Ring Road, a semi-truck trailer skidded and hit eleven cars. One person was injured,” the press service said. He noted that traffic on the Moscow Ring Road is difficult. officers are on site Traffic police .

An armored Ural vehicle carrying military personnel fell off a mountainside in the Republic of Dagestan on Tuesday evening, killing one person and injuring at least two. This was reported by an employee of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region. “Near the village of Khapuri in the Republic of Dagestan, a military man lost control and the car overturned from the mountainside, one died, two or three people were injured,” the source said.