Apple has sued Samsung for $548 million for technology patent infringement. The corresponding agreement of the parties was sent to the California court. According to the document , Samsung agrees to pay 548 million if Apple sends them an invoice within December 4, KST. Apple declined to say whether this was done, reports Reuters. Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung in 2011. In 2012, the court ordered the defendant to pay Apple a billion dollars.

Metrojet Airlines (formerly Kogalymavia) has suspended flights due to the closure of tourist destinations to Egypt and Turkey. As a company representative told Vedomosti, the entire flight crew went on paid leave. The company hopes to resume flights when new tourist destinations are developed. The airline operated its last flight on November 25, reports Gazeta.ru . The last flight from Domodedovo, where Metrojet is based, was made on 20 November.

The FBI is investigating a California massacre as a terrorist attack. This was announced by a representative of the bureau at a press conference in San Bernardino. According to him, the suspects in the attack had "telephone contacts" with people whose activities the FBI is investigating. He did not rule out that they were planning a second attack.

Belgian police launched a search for two suspects in organizing the attacks in Paris on November 13. According to investigators, in September they accompanied Salah Abdesalam, a participant in the attack, on his trip to Budapest. They are reported to be dangerous and may be armed. The real names of the suspects are unknown. On September 9, when checking documents at the Austro-Hungarian border, they presented false Belgian identity cards in the names of Samir Bouzid and Sufyan Kayala.

Photo: @rogozin / Twitter Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin published a picture with a bear on his personal Twitter and a shuttle cap and automatically lying next to him, accompanying it with a signature: “Russia has only three allies: the army, fleet and a military-industrial complex.” Thus, Rogozin, who oversees the military -industrial complex, reinterposed the quote from Emperor Alexander III - in the original it was only about the army and navy.

State Duma deputies, who previously worked in the prosecutor's office, came out in support of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. As Anatoly Vyborny told United Russia party, a group of deputies prepared a special appeal. He did not specify how many deputies signed the statement.

The European Court of Human Rights found several violations in the Russian law on wiretapping. As stated in the decision on the suit of the St. Petersburg journalist Roman Zakharov, law enforcement officers can start wiretapping without even explaining to the court its necessity; the law does not spell out the situations in which wiretapping should be terminated, and the supervision of the procedure for gaining access to negotiations is not streamlined.

Photo: Maks Vetrov / Sputnik / Scanpix Vladimir Konstantinov, the speaker of the Crimean parliament, is calling on parents in the currently blacked-out peninsula to name their newborn sons "Generator," in defiance of Ukraine's blockade. "The current emergency has spawned not only problems, but jokes, as well. Yesterday, we heard that people are now calling us megavatniki [a play on the word "vatnik"—a pejorative for Russian patriots].

Shot: Kreosan / YouTube A group of extreme experimenters Kreosan from Lugansk published a video about the "simplest heater per 100 kilowatts." Their idea is to connect several meters of steel wire to a 220 volt network. A few seconds after the connection, the wire heats up red. The heat from it is felt in several meters, the experimenters say: “Immediately after turning on, heat is felt, and after a minute the walls and furniture warm up. This is not within the power of an ordinary heater.

Ilya Zhegulev tells the story of Demyan Kudryavtsev, who bought the newspaper Vedomosti Photo: Alexandra Mudrats / TASS By the end of 2015, the main business newspaper of Russia “Vedomosti” will finally turn into the hands of the only owner - Demyan Kudryavtsev. All foreign artists of the publication - Sanoma Magazines, FT Group and Dow Jones - sold his shares to him. Kudryavtsev claims that he will develop the publication at his own expense.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), headed by opposition activist Alexey Navalny, has filed a lawsuit against Russian Attorney General Yuri Chaika, according to a Facebook post by Navalny.

Real Madrid have been excluded from the Spanish Cup. This happened after Real Madrid released the Russian striker Denis Cheryshev on the field in the 1/16 final match, although he had no right to do so. The fact is that in the last cup Denis received three yellow cards and, according to the rules of the tournament, he had to miss the next game, but the club forgot about it.

Photo: Marco Restivo / Demotix / Corbis / Vida Press The central crater of the Italian volcano Etna threw the Lava fountain on December 3 - its height reached one kilometer. The stream of ash, thrown out with Lava, rose three kilometers above the volcano. Etna's eruption was short -term, but one of the strongest over the past two decades. During the eruption, one could observe a weather phenomenon, which is called a “dirty thunderstorm” - lightning formed in the cloud of ash.

Tashfin Malik, a participant in the San Bernardino massacre, swore an oath of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. According to CNN, the text of the oath was found in her Facebook post, which was published under a different name. How exactly the investigators found out that she wrote the post, the channel's sources did not specify. On December 2, Tashfin Malik and US citizen Siad Farouk attacked a developmental disability center in San Bernardino, California.

The Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation has filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. As stated in the statement of claim, Chaika insulted the authors of the FBK investigation about the family of the Prosecutor General, calling it false. The lawsuit was filed with the Presnensky District Court of Moscow. Today, the legal department of FBK prepared and filed a lawsuit against the General P...