Alenia Aermacchi has completed the delivery of four C-27J Spartan military transport aircraft to Morocco. This is reported on the company's website. The contract for the supply of aircraft worth 130 million euros was signed in 2008. The customer received the first aircraft in July 2010.

The number of referrals to Facebook from the professional social network LinkedIn has increased 10-fold after the microblogging service Twitter severed ties with the latter. Mashable reported this on September 20, citing a study by the analytical company PageLever. PageLever examined more than 500 Facebook pages with followers ranging from 100 thousand to a million. Transitions to them from LinkedIn in July 2012 increased by a thousand percent compared to the previous month.

Lawyers for Real Madrid head coach Jose Mourinho have filed a lawsuit against Roberto Palomar, editor of Marca, Spain's leading sports newspaper. The coach demands 15 thousand euros as compensation for moral damages for Palomar’s material dated September 17. The Marca journalist compared Mourinho to a driver who caused an accident and wants to flee the scene.

FSB officers conducted a search in the Voronezh City Duma, Interfax reports , citing a representative of the department. According to Kommersant - Voronezh, the search took place on September 19. FSB officers seized documents related to business trips of legislative staff. They were interested in trips from 2008 to the present. Earlier, City Duma deputy from A Just Russia Galina Kudryavtseva asked the FSB to check the business trips of her colleagues.

Financial speculation is much more important in setting commodity prices than fundamental factors. This conclusion was reached by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Platts reports. The actions of speculators lead to sharp price fluctuations that are divorced from the real relationship between supply and demand, especially in markets such as oil.

The Ministry of Finance agreed to slow down the growth of the mineral extraction tax (MET). The corresponding proposals of the department are spelled out in the draft (.zip file) of the law “On Amendments to Article 342 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation.” In accordance with the document, from July 1, 2013, the mineral extraction tax on gas for Gazprom will be 622 rubles per thousand cubic meters, in 2014 - 700 rubles, in 2015 - 788 rubles.

Moscow "Spartak" lost to the Spanish "Barcelona" in the away match of the first round of the group stage of the Champions League . During the meeting, Spartak led with a score of 2:1, but in the end they were defeated (2:3). scored two goals for Barcelona Argentine forward Lionel Messi . Barcelona opened the scoring in the 14th minute - Cristian Tello scored.

The organizers of the exhibition “Spiritual Warfare” decided to sue the administration of the Winzavod center for contemporary art, where the opening of the project was supposed to take place on Thursday. One of the organizers, Natalya Pelevina, reported this to the Ekho Moskvy radio station. According to Pelevina, after speeches by Orthodox activists and people dressed as Cossacks at the entrance to the exhibition complex, its security blocked access to visitors.

The most expensive one-room apartment on the secondary housing market in St. Petersburg as of mid-September is offered for 32 million rubles. portal reports this with reference to its own data The Real Estate Bulletin . The total area of ​​the studio apartment is 78 square meters. It is located on the embankment of the Moika River, on the fifth floor of a six-story old building. The apartment is for sale after a major renovation, but without final finishing.

In Halifax, Canada, the owner of a cat named Stan in a tuxedo (Tuxedo Stan) nominated his pet as a candidate for mayor of the city, Metro reports. Despite the fact that local laws prohibit animals from participating in elections in any capacity, the popularity of the black and white cat is growing day by day. On September 19, a cat support group came to listen to the mayoral candidates debate.

Marriage in Apocrypha Scientists have discovered the "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King spoke at the Coptic Studies Congress about a new find: a papyrus that mentions Jesus saying “my wife.” The fragment received the code name "The Gospel of the Wife of Jesus." King's discovery - even if it is recognized by the scientific community, which has already expressed doubts about the authenticity of the papyrus - has no particular significance for theology and

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which is responsible for transportation in New York State, has allowed public service advertisements criticizing jihad to be placed in the subway. CNN reports this. The posters, which will be placed in ten New York subway stations starting next week, read: "In any war between civilized people and savages, support the civilized people. Support Israel. Defeat the jihad." The ad was created by The American Freedom Defense Initiative.

The Russian government will pay for the organization of web broadcasts only from the gubernatorial elections, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on September 20, citing its sources. It is proposed to transfer funding for Internet monitoring of lower-level elections to regions and municipalities.

In 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense will begin modernizing the Tu-95MS strategic long-range bombers to the Tu-95MSM version, the Izvestia newspaper writes, citing a source in the Air Force High Command. The updated aircraft will serve until 2020-2025, after which they will be replaced by a new bomber, the development of which is currently underway as part of the Advanced Long-Range Aviation Complex (PAK DA) program.

In the Maps application in the iOS 6 operating system, Airfield Park in the suburbs of Dublin is marked as an airfield, The Irish Times reports. The park area, where the farm, gardens and cafe are located, is marked on the map in purple and has an icon with an airplane on it. Perhaps Apple was misled by the name of the park: airfield translated from English means “airfield” or “airfield”. Maps Google , which was used in previous versions of iOS, did not experience this kind of confusion.