The format of the Russian Basketball Championship of Division “A” of the male Super League was changed. The final decision on him was made at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Russian Federation of basketball (RFB). After coordination with clubs, on the eve of the RFB Executive Committee, approved a new scheme with an increase in the number of matches in the regular championship.

In the first half of August, some of the vehicles celebrate the day of the traffic light. The formal reason for this holiday is the appearance of 9 (according to other sources - on August 14), on August 1914, at one of the intersections of the city of Cleveland, a two -section traffic light, manually switched. However, this reference point is very conditional.

Employees of the Federal Migration Service of the FMS were captured by private guards after trying to conduct an audit at one of the food bases in Moscow. The guards of the private enterprise hold hostages at Kuskovskaya Street, 26/b. "The employees of the migration service came to the base for the audit, but the private security company employees who worked there opposed them," the ITAR-TASS department reports the press service of the department.

The Swiss pharmaceutical concern Novartis began testing the H1N1/09 flu vaccine. According to the company representative, the first injection to the volunteer from the UK was made 10 days ago. Previously on the topic They will begin to sell a pork flu vaccine until the end of clinical research The whole plot Pork flu The AP agency is also reported that the vaccine will enter the sale even earlier than the tests end (they are planned to be carried out for 6 thousand people within a year).

Bill Clinton has become the most influential American politician who visited the DPRK over the past 15 years. Western experts believe that this can be the beginning of direct negotiations on nuclear disarmament between the United States and the DPRK. On Wednesday, former US President Bill Clinton flew out of Pyongyan. Together with him, the DPRK left two American journalists, the release of which Clinton agreed at a meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Ir.

Moscow travel agencies send organized groups of children to the UK, despite the ban on the main sanitary doctor of the capital. This was convinced by the correspondent of GZT .ru . On Tuesday, August 4, the head of the Moscow, Nikolai Filatov, recommended traveling from organizing trips to countries with high incidence of the A/H1N1 flu. And in the UK, Mr.

Two Russian submarines have been plying for several days off the eastern shores of the United States of America, causing concern from American defense departments. Despite the fact that the actions of the crews of two submarines do not give a reason to suspect them of provocations, the US authorities express their alertness. “The Russian fleet always gives something out of the ordinary.

Details about the BMW-3 of the new model range of 2011 became known. The heir to the legendary family will be equipped with three -cylinder diesel engines, his aerodynamic resistance will be one of the lowest in the class, and the body contours will not have to age a whole decade. Details about the new BMW model of the third series, the debut of which will take place at the Paris Motor Show in 2011, published by the British magazine Autocar.

Workers of the American company Molex Inc. In the south-west of France, they beat their director after he announced them the upcoming closure of the plant and upcoming dismissals. Meanwhile, the trade union states that the workers did not beat the director, but simply threw eggs.

Without wires and even radio waves, the existence of computer networks is possible. American researchers for data transfer were proposed to use light, and connect to the Internet using a conventional LED lamp. The essence of the new technology is the use of super -tied LEDs. Typically, such devices are considered only as a light source, but scientists and engineers from a specialized center at the University of California found other use.

British scientists from the University of Cambridge announced that they developed a device for reading electronic books and newspapers ("Bukrider"), equipped with a flexible screen. As an ordinary newspaper, a bookrider can be turned into a tube and put in a pocket or bag. It is expected that the device will go on sale in the United States in early 2010 at a price starting from $ 299.

Microsoft has released a preliminary version of the program, which allows you to launch the XP under Windows 7. Thus, the company tries to facilitate the transition to the "seven", although it takes care of the COVILICAL giant primarily about the corporate segment. On Tuesday, August 4, the Microsoft Corporation published on its website Windows XP Mode, which allows you to simulate XP operating mode after starting Windows 7.

In Vladivostok, the training exercises of the Bi-200 amphibian aircraft caused a panic of the population observing this. Monitoring citizens fell asleep with phone calls of the salvation service, believing that the plane really falls into the water. "The townspeople reported that the plane flies very low over the Gulf of the Gulf of the Gulf, and suggested that he was in distress," the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies RIA Novosti reports.

On Wednesday, August 5, a movement of the Volokolamsk tunnel in the Sokol metro area opens. True, only one way - from the region to the center. By the end of the year, Leningradka is planned to completely deprive traffic lights. The movement along the Volokolamsk tunnel in Moscow, the construction of which was carried out as part of the Bolshaya Leningrad project, will open on August 5, confirmed GZT .ru in the Department of Road and Bridge Construction.

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