Internet giant Yahoo! confirmed the leak of its users' passwords, which was previously reported by hackers. A link to the text of the statement was published on the company’s official microblog . The report says that hackers stole an "outdated" file from Yahoo! Contributor Network, content publishing platforms. The file contained approximately 450 thousand Yahoo! passwords and usernames. and other companies (you can log in to the service using your Google and Facebook accounts ).

The President of the International Chess Federation FIDE, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, together with the British Ashmore Group, will create an investment fund of up to $10 billion. According to the Kommersant newspaper, the fund will invest money in projects in the CIS, as well as in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. The money of the fund, which will be created on a parity basis, will go primarily to the fuel and energy complex, metallurgy, telecommunications and the food industry.

The administration of the Krasnodar Territory spoke about the appearance of provocateurs in Krymsk, spreading deliberately false information about plans to disinfect the city using aviation. This was reported on the official website of the emergency response headquarters in Krymsk.

For a former employee of the Volgograd prosecutor's office, Elena Ivanova, they demanded two and a half years in a penal colony for an accident in which six-year-old Alexander Kolokoltsev died. According to state prosecutor Sergei Pitenko, “the defendant’s guilt has been proven and was fully confirmed in court,” Interfax reports .

Scottish police have contacted local residents and warned them about the emergence of scammers pretending to be filmmakers. According to The Scotsman, law enforcement agencies were forced to make such an announcement after several dozen Scots received an email offer to star in a horror film that was not actually being worked on. The letters sent out on behalf of the pseudo-creators of the film "Wood Evil" say that those who wish can take part in the filming of the film.

In Austria, the investigation into the kidnapping of Natasha Kampusch will resume, writes Kurier. On Friday, July 13, a group of experts will begin work on it, which, together with the Austrians, will include representatives of the FBI and the German Federal Criminal Police (BKA). They should evaluate the progress of the initial investigation and fill in any gaps where possible. The parliamentary investigative commission previously made such a proposal.

LG Display, part of the LG holding company, one of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD displays, agreed to settle claims from US authorities by paying compensation in the amount of $380 million. The Wall Street Journal writes about this. American authorities accused LG Display, as well as a number of other equipment manufacturers, of inflating prices for LCD displays. LG denied price fixing but decided to pay the fine to avoid further court proceedings and associated costs.

In Kushchevskaya, a sentence was passed against Evgeniy Gurov, who was part of the entourage of Sergei Tsapok , who is considered the leader of a local gang and the organizer of the simultaneous murder of 12 people. The investigation considered that Gurov was not involved in the massacre, so he was sentenced to 12 years for other crimes, taking into account the fact that he had previously been prosecuted, Interfax reports .

Due to the debt of utility companies to the Baikal pulp and paper mill, there has been no hot water in the city of Baikalsk, Irkutsk region, since Thursday, July 12. This was reported by the Transbaikal News Agency. 14 thousand people live in Baikalsk. According to BPPM , the debt of the Baikal public utilities (Heat Networks LLC) to the plant amounted to more than 43 million rubles.

Based on an analysis of fossilized excrement and arrowheads found in Paisley Caves, archaeologists have determined that the inhabitants of these caves came to America before representatives of the Clovis culture. Two groups of ancient people lived in America 14-13 thousand years ago parallel to each other. The work was published in the journal Science , with a summary provided by Nature News.

The Olympic Committee has banned advertising from mining conglomerate Australian Mining featuring Olympic champion Anna Meares ahead of and during the London Olympics. According to Australian Mining (an independent online publication with the same name as the conglomerate), the ban was introduced because in the video Meares appears in a sports uniform with the logo of the mining company BHP Billiton. The company is a competitor to Olympic sponsor Rio Tinto.

In South Africa, more than 30 people died as a result of a train crash on July 13, Agence France-Presse reports , citing local authorities. The accident occurred near the town of Malalane in Mpumalanga province. The train collided with a truck carrying dozens of county farm workers. Jeff Wicks, a spokesman for the South African ambulance service Netcare911, confirmed to News24 that 19 people had died. According to him, 24 people were injured.

Dutch coach Dick Advocaat , who left the Russian national football team after the 2012 European Championship, denied information that he is demanding 300 thousand euros from the Russian Football Union (RFU). This was reported by the publication "Soviet Sport". The Lawyer’s contract with the RFU ends on July 15, and the Dutch specialist has the right to the 300 thousand euros stipulated in the contract, which is half the monthly salary.

Engineers from the American military agency DARPA have developed a way to extinguish fires without the use of chemical agents - using sound or electricity. A description of unusual fire extinguishers is given on the agency's website. The developers explored the possibility of suppressing fire using various physical methods, two of which turned out to be promising: exposure to an alternating magnetic field and acoustic irradiation.

The mechanism of discounts on fuel and lubricants for agricultural producers will be abolished, support will remain only within the framework of subsidies. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich at a government meeting, RIA Novosti reports . Dvorkovich added that the subsidies should be enough to purchase fuel at market prices. Innovations will be adopted in 2013; they are recorded in the state program for agricultural development for 2013-2030.