Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has proposed opening a $10 billion line of credit to Latin American countries to support infrastructure projects in the region. BBC News reports this. According to The Santiago Times, following his six-day visit to Latin American states, Jiabao also proposed creating a special fund for the development of the industrial sector.

Images have appeared online that are believed to be concept art for the game Half-Life 2: Episode 3. They were posted on Facebook by the fan site Valve Times. You can view the drawings here . The drawings include Alix in winter clothes, two figures in an arctic landscape standing next to a downed helicopter, and a view that is extremely reminiscent of the world of Xen. According to the site's management, the images date back to approximately 2008. They were provided by an anonymous source.

Former striker of Real Madrid and the Spanish national football team Fernando Morientes will take over as coach of the Madrid youth team. This was reported by the Spanish publication Marca. 36-year-old Morientes, who retired from sports in 2010, will head Real Madrid, where the son of the famous midfielder of Madrid and the French national team Zinedine Zidane , Enzo Zidane, plays. Morientes is currently commentating on European Championship matches for one of the Spanish TV channels.

Deputies of the Lermontov City Council in the Stavropol Territory elected self-nominated mayor Igor Bukhlaev, Interfax reports . All nine deputies present at the meeting voted for Bukhlaev. In total, the City Council consists of 15 deputies. The Lermontov City Council itself was formed based on the results of the elections that took place on June 17. The council has not worked since the fall of 2011.

Armed people on the morning of June 27 broke into the headquarters of the Syrian television channel al-Ikhbariya, which the Syrian opposition accuses of pro-government bias. reports this Reuters . Three TV channel employees were killed. The militants planted explosives in the canal premises. According to Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi, the explosive devices were detonated. His words are quoted by the Associated Press .

At the I/O conference in San Francisco, Google presented a new version of the Android operating system - 4.1 , codenamed Jelly Bean. The event is broadcast on YouTube. The system interface is in many ways similar to the Android 4.0 interface, but version 4.1 has several innovations. Graphics are now rendered more smoothly thanks to Project Butter technology. The OS will feature a new keyboard with predictive input and an expanded dictionary. Google has introduced support for new languages.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed a law that significantly toughens the punishment for “telephone terrorists.” This was stated in a message from the press service of the head of state. As the Segodnya newspaper reminds, corresponding amendments will be made to Article 259 of the Criminal Code.

Vitas Bank was “artificially bankrupt” by the actions of the Bank of Russia and the Ministry of Finance. The former co-owner of the financial organization and former State Duma deputy Artem Tarasov stated this in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. At the end of June, the financial institution stopped issuing deposits and answering phone calls. According to Tarasov, on June 26 he was forced to vote for the bankruptcy of Vitas Bank, and then resigned from its shareholders.

Universal electronic cards (UEC) will be issued at Goznak. As the RBC daily newspaper writes in its issue dated June 27, the company can earn from 4 to 15 billion rubles from the production of UEC if it maintains a monopoly on the issue of cards. According to Nikolai Ulyanov, president of OJSC UEK coordinating the issue of cards, Goznak is so far the only company ready to produce universal cards in accordance with government requirements.

of the pension reform from the Russian Ministry of Labor that hit the press earlier this week The version is outdated. Representatives of the Ministry of Labor stated this to Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The ministry told the publication that the draft from working correspondence with the government is not final, and the ministry’s real proposals are still being worked out and will be presented for public discussion in the near future.

In Dagestan, on the seventh kilometer of the Khasavyurt-Babayurt highway, a policeman was killed on June 26, according to the website of the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A police officer's car was fired upon by unknown assailants. The policeman died from his injuries. The deceased Karamdin Abukadzhiev was the deputy commander of a special company of a separate battalion of the patrol service. He was 35 years old.

Just defending the monument Guardian of the frescoes of Dionysius about paintings and work in Ferapontovo In 2012, the Museum of Frescoes of Dionysius (Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Ferapontov Monastery) celebrates the 510th anniversary of the paintings created by the Moscow icon painter Dionysius, which in the spring were almost left without their custodian. They wanted to reduce this position, but after the order of the Ministry of Culture they “changed their minds”.

Posters of the Ukrainian travel agency Multipass, which advertised tours to Asia, led to the company being accused of racism. At least two major publications devoted articles to this at the end of June: the British The Daily Mail and the American portal The Huffington Post. The advertisement used special fonts that could only be read by pulling the corners of the eyes with your hands. This is exactly how Europeans usually show Asians.

Scientists analyzed the DNA characteristics of dolphins and identified those genes that allowed their ancestors to dramatically increase brain volume. The work was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and is summarized by ScienceNow. Geneticists compared the DNA sequences of ten thousand protein-coding genes in dolphins with their sequences in other mammals. After this, the rate of evolution of individual genes and the genome as a whole was determined.

Russian stock indices rose after Standard & Poor's decided to upgrade Russia's short-term foreign currency rating by one notch to A-2. The MICEX index by 17:45 Moscow time rose by 1.21 percent, and the main RTS indicator by 1.03 percent. The growth of indices was not prevented by the unfavorable external environment, in particular, a slight decline in oil prices. During trading on June 28, Brent settled at around $93 per barrel.