Toshiba, together with the American Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), is recalling about 1,400 defective laptop batteries, DailyTech reports. All defective batteries are assembled in China based on batteries manufactured by Sony. CPSC recommends that you immediately stop using laptops with defective batteries due to the potential for fire or explosion and contact the manufacturer for a free replacement.

Former British intelligence officer David Shayler, who served six months in prison for selling secret documents, declared himself a messiah, writes The Daily Mail. Shayler stated this on the British cable channel More4 News. He said that he had a vision in which Mary Magdalene “anointed him to be king,” calling him a god. He also claims that an anagram of his name and "title" - David Shayler, Righteous King - appears on Aaron's rod in the Old Testament.

In North Ossetia, an enhanced version of duty has been introduced for law enforcement officers. As Interfax reports with reference to the acting head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, Soslan Sikoev, this is due to a special operation in neighboring Ingushetia.

Additional units of internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs have been introduced into Ingushetia, RIA Novosti reports . According to a high-ranking source in the republic's security forces, in total, about 2.5 thousand additional military personnel and several dozen armored vehicles have been deployed to Ingushetia, which are stationed in the Sunzha and Malgobek regions.

Cuban boxers Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara , who escaped from the national team on July 22 and were deported to their homeland on August 5, spoke about the reasons for their escape. According to the athletes, the night before the fights they ate and drank a lot, and in the morning they were afraid that they would not “make” the required weight and ran away, reports the Associated Press.

On Friday night in Poltava, unknown persons poured red paint on a stone installed near the regional state administration on the site of the future monument to a native of these places, the head of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) Simon Petlyura. According to ProUA, after the discovery of the stone, it was guarded by police around the clock for some time.

On the website of the St. Petersburg City Agency for Real Estate Operations, a mansion, which is a monument of federal significance, is offered for sale for five million dollars. reports this The newspaper "Fontanka.ru" . However, in the description, which can be downloaded additionally, the price is three million dollars. The publication found out that the 19th century palace advertised by the agency overlooking the Gulf of Finland at Shkipersky Protok, 21, lit.

Lithuania is sending military experts to Georgia: two Lithuanian specialists will fly there on August 11 to take part in an independent investigation into the air raid on the village of Tsitelubani, which Georgian authorities blame on Moscow. reports this Interfax with reference to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense.

On Friday evening, a minibus overturned in the South-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, Interfax reports . The Gazelle driver lost control at the intersection of Verkhnie Polya and Belorechenskaya streets. Five passengers were injured of varying degrees of severity and were hospitalized in various city hospitals. Traffic in the area of ​​the accident is limited. Over the past 24 hours, three similar incidents have occurred in Russia.

More than half of US residents are dissatisfied with the work of the media, AFP reports . Americans believe they are given incomplete and inaccurate information and news workers do not think about the people they work for, according to a survey released Thursday. A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center also showed that Americans who use the Internet as their main source of news are especially harshly critical of the media. There were about a quarter of those surveyed.

In the Khasansky district of Primorye on August 9, a six-year-old boy driving a KamAZ truck lost control and hit a pedestrian, RIA Novosti reports . According to the agency, an employee of one of the regional enterprises, born in 1981, who was driving a KamAZ, decided to put a child behind the wheel on a busy highway. The driver was not injured in the incident. The pedestrian was hospitalized with a concussion.

The Political Council of the Opposition Coalition of Belarus has developed a plan to counter the authorities’ attempts to close some opposition parties. As Telegraf.by wrote on Friday, according to opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko, the country's leadership has launched “another crusade” against parties with the aim of liquidating them.

Rosprirodnadzor will not allow development of the territory of the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Culture, the Interfax agency reports , citing a statement by the deputy head of the department, Oleg Mitvol. He recalled that almost the entire park is a specially protected natural area, of which there are 149 left in Moscow.

Electronic Arts has entered into an agreement with Hasbro, reports Reuters. As part of this agreement, electronic versions of some of the latter's games will be published. Founded in 1923, the American company Hasbro is a manufacturer of Transformers toys, but in this case we are talking about board games. In particular, EA will work on electronic versions of Monopoly, Scrabble and Yahtzee.

A massive fire broke out at the world-famous Roman film studio Cinecitta on Thursday evening, AFP reports . There are no reports of casualties. The fire broke out around 10:00 pm (midnight Moscow time) in a movie set storage facility. The hangar with a total area of ​​two thousand square meters burned out completely, after which the fire spread to nearby buildings. Some of them are wooden, the agency notes, as are the decorations stored in them.