The Finnish team defeated the French team in the World Hockey Championship match. According to the website of the International Hockey Federation, the meeting, which took place on the evening of Thursday, May 10, ended with a score of 7:1 (1:0, 4:0, 2:1) in favor of the Finns. Jussi Jokinen scored two goals against the French team. Jarkko Immonen, Mikko Koivu, Janne Niskala, Niko Kapanen and Juuso Hietanen also scored. The only return goal was scored by Antoni Güttig.

campaign Barack Obama's raised nearly $15 million at a dinner hosted by actor George Clooney. The Los Angeles Times writes about this. The event took place on the evening of May 10 at the basketball court near Clooney's home in Los Angeles. It was visited by actors Barbra Streisand, Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr., Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as other celebrities. About 150 people paid $40,000 each for the right to attend the dinner.

The owner of the private Riga kindergarten “Pucite” (“Owl”), which recently became widely known thanks to the “patriotism lesson” held there , turned out to be nationalist deputy Imants Paradnieks. This, as Telegraph reports, is stated in the story of the First Baltic Channel. Paradnieks confirmed that he is the owner of the institution.

Rescuers have discovered the bodies of 14 people killed in the crash of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) aircraft in Indonesia. reported this on May 11 RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the crisis headquarters of the Indonesian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade announced the discovery of 10 dead. This information was confirmed by blogger Sergei Dolya, who is at the headquarters of the search operation.

The government will liquidate IDGC Holding and transfer its network under the management of the Federal Grid Company (FGC). RBC Daily writes about this with reference to a source familiar with the progress of the reform of electrical distribution networks. According to the publication, the transfer of the holding under the management of FSK should be completed within a month. Thus, the government is eliminating the two-level management system for power distribution networks in Russia.

The family of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will independently pay for her treatment in a Kharkov hospital, which is being conducted under the guidance of German specialist Lutz Harms. , the ex-Prime Minister's lawyer Sergei Vlasenko said this As reported by Interfax-Ukraine .

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich turned out to be a co-owner of the largest registrar in Russia - R.O.S.T., which maintains registers of securities and their holders. Information about the owners was first published on the registrar's website. According to the registrar, Roman Abramovich owns about 25 percent of the shares of R.O.S.T. About 23 percent of the shares are controlled by Mikhail Livergand, 24 percent by Irina Panchenko, and another 25 percent by Andrey Gorodilov.

The second largest US television broadcaster, Dish Network, presented on its website a service for its set-top box The Hopper, which allows you to skip commercials. The function is called Auto Hop. By turning on Auto Hop before watching TV using The Hopper, the viewer will see a black screen or the first frame of the commercial when the ad block starts, The Wall Street Journal reports. After this, the broadcast will continue.

The Kazakh government has announced its intention to purchase 20 EC725 Super Cougar tactical transport helicopters. As reported on the Eurocopter website, the helicopters are planned to be purchased for the needs of the Ministry of Defense. The amount of the possible contract and the timing of its conclusion have not been specified. The cost of one EC725 Super Cougar helicopter is estimated at $25 million.

The second launch complex of the reconstructed Moscow Hotel on Okhotny Ryad Street will be put into operation on May 31, 2012. As stated in the message of the Committee of State Construction Supervision of the City of Moscow (Mosgosstroynadzor), it includes 44 apartments, as well as emergency power supply, main and local security systems. Currently, Mosgosstroynadzor specialists have begun the final inspection of the second launch complex, which will end on May 29.

Ice Fishing What will you remember about the NHL conference semi-finals? On the night of May 12-13, the NHL determined its conference finalists: the New Jersey Devils will play with the New York Rangers, and the Phoenix Coyotes will play with the Los Angeles Kings. All of these teams (with the exception of New York) did not shine during the regular season, but in the playoffs they came together and beat the “paper” favorites.

The most popular game in April among American gamers was the action game Prototype 2, VG24/7 reports with reference to the research company NPD Group. The release of the action took place on April 24. Second place in the final chart was taken by another new product of the month - the game Kinect Star Wars from Microsoft, released exclusively for the Xbox 360 and Kinect consoles. It went on sale on April 3.

The American magazine Time published the cover of its new issue, showing a young girl breastfeeding her three-year-old son. According to The Guardian, the photo has drawn a lot of criticism online. The new issue of Time is devoted to the so-called “natural parenting” (attachment parenting) - a method of education when the child is breastfed for a long time, carried as close to the body as possible (for example, in a sling) and put to sleep in the same bed with the parents.

500-kilogram packages of pasta have appeared in the assortment of Turkish supermarkets Migros Ticaret, reports Reuters . You can buy a cardboard box with five hundred kilograms of penne - short tube-shaped pasta - for 999 Turkish lira (about $560). All proceeds from the sale of such packages will be donated to charity: proceeds from the sale of the paste will go to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund UNICEF.

Apple plans to release a TV that will be called iTV. Foxconn President Terry Gou spoke about this in an interview with the Chinese English-language newspaper China Daily. According to Gow, the iTV will be encased in aluminum. On this basis, the tech blog TechCrunch suggests that the TV will be similar to the iMac all-in-one computer. The device will integrate the Siri voice assistant, which is already present in the iPhone 4S smartphone, and FaceTime video chat.