The National Hockey League (NHL) will raise the salary cap before the start of the 2012/13 season. This was reported by The Toronto Star. Negotiations between the players' union and league officials agreed to set the payroll cap at $70.2 million. However, the minimum amount that one team can spend on player salaries during the season has not yet been determined. The NHL salary cap was introduced in 2005 and was initially set at $39 million per year.

Former top manager of the German bank BayernLB Gerhard Gribkowsky was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for accepting a bribe from co-owner of the Formula 1 auto racing Bernie Ecclestone , writes Spiegel with reference to the decision of the Munich Regional Court. Previously, he admitted to receiving $44 million for a deal to sell Formula 1 shares. Gribkowski was accused of abuse of power, receiving a bribe, and non-payment of taxes in the amount of almost 15 million euros.

The US Supreme Court on June 28 recognized the constitutionality of health care reform developed by the administration of President Barack Obama . reports this Reuters Five out of nine judges spoke in support of Obama's proposed reform package. In accordance with the court decision, by 2014 the vast majority of US citizens will have to acquire health insurance policies. The court's decision was hailed as a victory for the Democratic Party ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

The head of the State Maritime Administration of Azerbaijan, Gudret Gurbanov, denied information about Iran’s intention to send its submarines to the Caspian Sea. 1NEWS.AZ reports this. According to Gurbanov, there is no possibility for submarines to operate in the Caspian waters. “In this regard, we consider all reports about sending Iranian submarines to the Caspian Sea absurd,” he emphasized.

The authorities of Hildburghausen in Thuringia allowed to open the grave of the “Countess of Darkness” - the presumed heiress of the French kings, MDR reports. Historians are going to exhume the remains to finally establish her identity. This information was confirmed in an interview with Mitteldeutsche Zeitung by the head of the city department for culture, Margitta Stange.

28.06.2012, 17:40:19 version Print | PDA/PDA Clients of Vitas Bank. Photo by RIA Novosti, Anna Klimenko Greetings from the USSR Vitas Bank suspended operations due to Soviet debts Vitas Bank suspended operations due to the outflow of funds and actions of the Central Bank. The financial organization, fulfilling the requirements to increase capital adequacy, placed funds in USSR bonds, which became the reason for the scandal.

The Belgorod Regional Duma adopted amendments to local legislation introducing a fine for using the services of prostitutes, reported on June 28 on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Clients of prostitutes will now be held administratively liable and fined five thousand rubles.

The smallest Lukashenko Boy Kolya has become an integral part of Belarusian life In 2007, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, answering a question about his possible successor from among his sons (and at that time it was known that Old Man had two offspring - Victor and Dmitry), said that both of them were not fit to be heads of state. But the third, according to Lukashenko, is a unique person, and perhaps he will one day lead Belarus.

New Yorker Anthony Pinder asked his beloved to marry with the help of a short animated film, which he worked on himself, writes The Daily Mail. The main characters of the video were Lego men. They “played” lovers and depicted various romantic situations. According to 24-year-old Anthony, to create the film, he purchased sets with children's construction kits, and then gradually photographed frame by frame to eventually assemble a one-and-a-half minute video from the resulting photographs.

Participants in the conflict at the Eye Microsurgery International Scientific and Research Center refused to agree to a peace settlement, Interfax reports . Thus, the Ministry of Health and MNTK, on ​​the one hand, and the former head of Eye Microsurgery, Hristo Takhchidi, on the other, will resolve the dispute in court, which will resume on July 20. Hristo Takhchidi was fired in November 2011 on the initiative of the Ministry of Health and Social Development.

McDonald's has unveiled details of its "We All Make The Games" advertising campaign for the London 2012 Olympics. According to Marketing Week, £10 million was spent on the campaign. The campaign aims to show people taking part in the Olympics, but doing so "away from the glare of the stadium lights". In other words, the campaign will highlight the lives and work of service personnel, in particular McDonald's workers, as well as fans.

At a conference in Manchester to mark the centenary of Alan Turing's birth, Garry Kasparov played chess with a program that the scientist had written on paper in 1950. This was reported by The Huffington Post. Alan Turing created the TurboChamp program in the same year when he proposed the famous test of his name, designed to distinguish between man and machine. Turing initially wrote down the entire algorithm on paper.

A judge in Rome dismissed the case against former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , in which he was accused of evading taxes when purchasing film rights for Mediaset, writes ANSA. Eleven other people were involved in the case with him, including his son Pierre Silvio. All of them are also no longer considered persons involved in the case. The case against the then head of government was initiated in October 2010.

Police officers detained a girl in Grozny, recruited by extremists to commit a terrorist act on the territory of Dagestan. The official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya reported this on June 27. As noted, the detainee is a 19-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria. Extremist literature was found and confiscated from her, as well as a suicide note addressed to her relatives.

The Russian tour operator "Around the World" has suspended its activities due to the inability to fulfill financial obligations to clients. This was reported on the company’s website on June 28. The company's management apologized to the tourists and promised to pay them compensation "in accordance with the procedure established by law." The repayment of debts of Vokrug Sveta LLC will be handled by Alfa Insurance OJSC, where the tour operator was insured.