By 2015, Mazda plans to increase the fuel economy of its models by 30 %. “Donor” units for the future hybrid car Mazda can be provided by Toyota. According to Bloomberg with reference to the Nikkei newspaper, Toyota Corporation can help their fellow countrymen solve the issue with hybrid technologies. So, it can supply Mazda motors, batteries and other nodes and units. Nikkei reports that two automakers are negotiating, while the publication does not indicate its information source.

During the excavations carried out on the territory of Novgorod, scientists found fragments of birch bark scrolls with drawings for more than a thousand years. The find that RIA Novosti talks about was one of the first in the 2009 season. Scientists suggest that next to the Trinity excavation (named after the nearby church) a school used to be founded in 1030 by Yaroslav Wise.

A pack of cigarettes cost a resident of New Hampshire in 23 quadrillion dollars. Such an amount was mistakenly written off from his account, after he paid a credit card at the gas station. In total, about 13 thousand people were damaged with a technical failure in the VISA system. A resident of Manchester (New Hampshire, USA) Josh Mushinsky was surprised to find that the bank wrote off more than 23 quadrillions (million in the fourth degree) of dollars from his credit card.

The contract for the launch of the QUETZSAT-1 satellite using the Rossi Rocket Proton-M was signed today, July 16. They will launch the device in 2011. The signing of the contract is reported by the press service of the State Space Scientific and Production Center named after M.V. Khrunichev, a developer of a launch vehicle.

The number of rounds in Kamchatka this year was halved. In other firms, this figure reaches 90%. The number of foreign tourists visiting Kamchatka beauties decreased significantly. Among the permanent visitors are only the Japanese. The number of tourists from the country of the rising sun, on the contrary, has grown up.

One of the most anticipated autumn cars “lit up” on the Nyurgurging racing highway. The well -known racer of the DTM championship was instructed to pilot. Recently, the Internet is cracking at the seams from the abundance of espionage and almost official photos of the SLS AMG supercar, based on the 1954 SL300 GULLWING. So far, the car could be seen in statics. Now there is also a “combat” video on the Nyurgurging racing highway, which is located in Germany.

BankRot bank customers were forced to share A large corruption scandal occurred at the deposit insurance agency (DIA). The chief expert of the Department of Liquidation of the banks of this organization 24-year-old Ekaterina Merzlyakova is suspected of extorting bribes from customers of the Siberian-Moscow Commercial Bank (SMKB), which is in the competitive department of the agency.

Two dozen merchants tried to break through on Thursday into the territory of the Cherkizovsky market closed by the authorities - one of the largest in Russia. The guards lined up with a chain stopped people who had penetrated the territory of the market and ousted them for the fence. According to RIA Novosti , the incident occurred near the entrance to the clothing market LLC Iviev, one of the divisions of the Cherkizov market, whose work was suspended by court decision.

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the RFU, a list of arbitrators for matches of the second round of the Russian Football Championship was approved. According to the championship.ru , an arbiter Alexander Guardis is included in it, removed from work after the match of the first circle Lokomotiv - Zenit, to which he made a violation of the limit for the legionnaires from Zenit.

The California prosecutor’s office began an investigation against several doctors who treated Michael Jackson. The State Prosecutor General of the State said that the investigation has already managed to “find something”. The California prosecutor's office as part of the investigation of the causes of the death of Michael Jackson is studying the state data database on drugs sold according to recipes.

One person died, two were seriously injured and four received easier injuries when collapsing the scene installed at the Madonna American pop star stadium in Marseille. The incident occurred at the Velodrome stadium, which is the second largest in France after the Parisian Stad de France, AFP reports. Madonna's concert was scheduled for July 19. The Madonna concert is canceled due to the inability to fix the scene, reports Associated Press .

The Ministry of Economic Development published recommendations for raising tariffs for communication services. Although the increase in prices for a fixed local connection is designed to ensure the break -in the industry, in fact, this leads to the fact that residents of the regions refuse a fixed phone and completely switch to mobile communications.

Charles Frank Bolden was approved by the US Senate with the new NASA administrator. The aerospace agency, thus, was headed by a war veteran in Vietnam, a test pilot and who made four flights into space an astronaut. The first assistant Bolden was Lori Garver - political scientist and economist by education. Space topics have been in the circle of professional interests of Garver since 1983: at first she worked together with Senator John Glen, then in the National Space Society.

What conclusions can be drawn from the preliminary results of a single state exam (USE), which was first everywhere in Russia this year, which is necessary to increase the level of education in universities, what innovations await the field of education and science in the near future - these and other issues of journalists, readers of the Gazeta and the GZT.ru website, at the editorial office, answered the Minister of Education and Science of Russia Andrei Fursenko.

The Japanese company plans to turn its British plant in Sanderland into the largest European assembly enterprise. The debut of a “green” first-a-first car will take place in 2011. According to the British magazine Autocar , the Japanese company can show an electric car at the end of July. The first serial car, according to preliminary information, will roll out onto the roads of the United Kingdom in 2011.