Armed robber Ralph Tokaho, detained in Latvia on September 4, was detected using a thermal imager. Mixnews reports this with reference to the representative of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gunta Skrebele. According to Skrebele, a Latvian Border Guard helicopter was involved in the search for the criminal, which was equipped with a thermal imager - a device that shows the temperature distribution on the surface of an object in the form of a color field.

American actor Eddie Murphy recorded a song in a duet with rapper Snoop Dogg. this The actor himself announced on his official Twitter. The musical composition entitled “Red Light” was recorded in reggae style. It is possible that this is precisely why the invitation of Snoop Dogg, who has recently been performing under the pseudonym Snoop Lion with a reggae program, as a second vocalist. Murphy himself sings and plays guitar on the recording.

Internet company Yahoo! introduced a new version of its logo. A message about this appeared on the official Yahoo! blog on September 4. The main changes affected the font in which the word “Yahoo” is written - the letters became thinner, but at the same time they look more voluminous. The logo retained the traditional purple color, as well as the exclamation mark, which became the company's trademark. As representatives of Yahoo! note, the changes are intended to show loyalty to Yahoo!

The G20 summit takes place on September 5 and 6 at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg. Over the past few months, the city has been actively preparing for the meeting of top officials of world politics: putting the streets in order, getting rid of migrants, limiting the activities of oppositionists and the work of “controversial” museums. Lenta.ru studied the chronicle of controversial and scandalous events in St. Petersburg that preceded the G20 summit.

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen sang a cover of The Kinks' "All Day And All Of The Night" in an H&M commercial. this on September 4 . reported The Hollywood Reporter A black and white video featuring Bundchen became part of the advertising campaign for the H&M fall collection, the face of which was the supermodel. You can download the full version of the song on the website of the Swedish brand hm.com , as well as through iTunes .

Malawian authorities intend to feed a million hungry people with money raised from the sale of the presidential plane. reported this on Thursday, September 5 Reuters . According to the Malawi Treasury, the sale of a Dassault Falcon 900EX business jet purchased by the country's previous president Bingu wa Mutharika in 2009 boosted the state budget by $15 million. All this money will go towards purchasing maize and beans for the hungry.

Chilean judges apologized to fellow citizens who lost loved ones during the reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet. reports this Agence France-Presse . In a statement, the Association of Judges of Chile acknowledged that the judiciary "has failed to fulfill its role as guarantor of fundamental human rights." In particular, the apology is addressed to Chileans who turned to the courts in an attempt to find relatives killed or kidnapped during the period of political repression.

RT TV channel editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan denied information that appeared in the media about the appointment of former Press Minister Mikhail Lesin as head of the Gazprom-Media holding. the corresponding message on September 5 on her Twitter. She posted According to Simonyan, Lesin is now in a different time zone and learned about his intended appointment to this position from the media.

Australian television channels refused to broadcast a video critical of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and several publications owned by him. The Guardian newspaper reported this on Thursday, September 5. The authors of the video offered it to three commercial TV channels, but two of them immediately refused to show it, and another one first aired it and then removed it. Channel managers explained that they consider it unethical to show a video with sharp criticism of other media.

Students from at least ten schools in the city of Molodechno (located 73 kilometers from Minsk) were evacuated on September 5 due to reports of bombs allegedly planted there. Euroradio reports this. The exact number of educational institutions that received such messages is still unknown.

A criminal case has been opened in Moscow for fraud related to a TV show on one of the central channels. This was reported on September 5 on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. It was established that at the beginning of 2013, a 75-year-old resident of Yaroslavl called the phone number indicated in a television program about psychics. She stated that she would like to know the fate of her seriously ill sister.

Pope Francis addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin with parting words before the start of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg. The text of the pontiff's message, sent on September 4, is provided by Vatican Radio. “The G20 leaders cannot remain indifferent to the dramatic situation in which the Syrian people have found themselves for too long and which threatens further suffering for a region mired in strife and in need of peace,” the pontiff wrote to Putin as host of the 2013 summit.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that relations between Russia and the United States will require another “reset.” reported this on Thursday, September 5 RIA Novosti . Peskov admitted that Russian-American relations are currently going through hard times, and noted that this state of affairs does not meet expectations from the “reset” of bilateral relations announced under Dmitry Medvedev.

The Russian Ministry of Finance proposed reducing all expenditures of the country's budget, with the exception of mandatory social expenses, by five percent. The head of the department, Anton Siluanov, announced this on September 5, RIA Novosti reports .

Without a piece of paper - a person Do you need a residence permit in Tokyo or Paris to get the right to vote? Voter in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections (India), February 28, 2012. Photo: Parivartan Sharma / Reuters In the Moscow mayoral elections, which will take place on September 8, several million city residents will not be able to vote. Nobody knows their exact numbers, but official statistics suggest 2.1 million Russians who live in Moscow but do not have official registration.