Rockstar Games has postponed the release of the shooter Max Payne 3 to May 2012. This was reported in a press release published on the official website of the Take-Two publishing house, which owns the company. The reasons for the transfer have not yet been reported; they will be published later. The VG24/7 portal has clarified the release dates of the game. Max Payne 3 for PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles will be released on May 15 in the US and May 18 in Europe.

The organizing committee of the American protest movement Occupy Wall Street announced a lack of funds to continue its activities. The Wall Street Journal writes about this on Tuesday, January 17. According to Occupy Wall Street accountant Carey Haywood, the movement has about $170,000 left in its accounts. At the current level of spending, he argues, protesters will be out of money within a month.

The head of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, read instructions in verse to the heads of city and municipal district administrations. As noted in a statement from Markelov’s press service, he wrote the poem himself. The work is written in iambic tetrameter, but the author allows numerous deviations from the meter. The press release provides the full text of the poem: Mysterious paths Unconditionally prescribed For the created in the flesh To fulfill a certain vow.

In Florida, a cypress tree estimated to be 3,500 years old burned down. The Los Angeles Times reports this. The fire occurred on the morning of January 16. It lasted for several hours. First the top of the tree fell off, then it fell apart. The fire occurred inside the tree - it was hollow. The cause of the fire has not been established. Authorities have ruled out the possibility of arson.

Training after the fight "Lenta.ru" visited the "exercises" of collecting signatures of a presidential candidate On January 8, a representative of the Democratic Choice movement and a journalist from the Ekho Moskvy radio station managed to record how, in the MIIT auditorium, some people falsified the signatures necessary to nominate the governor of the Irkutsk region, Dmitry Mezentsev, as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation.

Disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky addressed an open letter to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin , calling on him to leave. The text of the letter was posted on January 17 on the Ekho Moskvy website. Berezovsky writes that only Putin’s forces can avoid a bloody revolution. To do this, you need to fulfill the demand of the “intellectual part of society - the Square” - “Putin must leave.” “Now you can leave under any conditions. Take with you as much as you can carry.

When information appeared at the end of August 2011 that pop diva Beyonce was expecting a child, it became clear: from now on, increased attention to the singer’s growing belly is guaranteed. However, no one could have predicted what the media would turn into the birth of the first child of Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z. Because before, it seems, no other child has been so interesting to the media and their audience.

WBO (World Boxing Organization) world champion in the weight category up to 90.7 kilograms Marco Huck from Germany jokingly stated that he wants to weigh 150 kilograms before the fight with Russian Alexander Povetkin , who holds the WBA (World Boxing Association) heavyweight title weight The publication "Sport-Express" writes about this. Joking, Hook clarified that in fact he was going to weigh as much as he was comfortable with.

The English-language version of the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia will close for a day in protest against the anti-piracy bill SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). The promotion will begin on January 18 at 9 a.m. Moscow time, said in a statement . Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Gardner points out that SOPA could threaten the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia itself.

The supply of electricity to the Baltic Plant facilities is planned to be limited from January 30. This was reported in the official press release of the Petersburg Sales Company (PSK). The PSK noted that the debt of the Baltic Plant to the company as of January 15 of this year exceeded 130 million rubles, but the company does not fulfill its obligations to restructure the debt.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow, at the request of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, arrested a stake in the Investlesprom timber industry holding. The police believe that these securities were illegally alienated from the Bank of Moscow by its former managers Andrei Borodin and Dmitry Akulinin , reports . the law enforcement agency The fraud was revealed during an audit of a series of transactions with Investlesprom shares.

Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi announced that authorities will strengthen security for scientists working in the interests of his country's nuclear program, ISNA reports. According to the official, Iranian authorities and security services will take all necessary measures to protect these people from possible attacks.

In the United States, consumer credit card debt fell by 11 percent last year. This is according to CNNMoney, according to a report from CreditKarma, a consumer lending website. In 2011, the average amount of borrowed funds was 6.5 thousand dollars, while a year earlier the same figure exceeded 7.4 thousand dollars. As CreditKarma CEO Ken Lin said, Americans cut their spending last year amid falling consumer confidence.

Sukhoi has begun flight tests of the third serial multirole fighter Su-35S, RIA Novosti reports citing a representative of the company's press service. The Su-35S-3 took off from the airfield of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association and spent more than two hours in the air. The fighter was piloted by test pilot Taras Artsebarsky. During the first test flight of the Su-35S-3, various engine operating modes and control systems were tested.

The National Assembly, the lower house of Pakistan's parliament, adopted a resolution expressing confidence in the country's political leadership and calling for support for Pakistani democracy. CNN reports this. The resolution was adopted on the evening of January 16. It said the political leadership, which seeks to “strengthen democracy,” has the “full confidence” of parliament. Such a resolution was proposed on Friday, January 13, by one of the parties included in the ruling coalition.