Sony paid millions of euros to the inventor of Walkman - German Andreas Pavel. For 20 years, a patent dispute was drawn to the right to invent a Walkman player between a Japanese concern and Pavel. The fact is that Andreas Pavel in 1977 patented a portable device, which he called "Stereobelt", which has a stunning constructive resemblance to the products of the world -famous manufacturer of household electronics, which appeared on the market only in 1979.

In Salekhard, the residents of the house in the construction lane found a disfigured corpse of a man. The neighbors of the murdered replaced that the door of the apartment was ajar, and entered it. On the floor lay the corpse of the owner with a broken head, cut with his throat and groaned eyes. The operational-investigation group of the Salekhard GOVD removed two bloodied knives from the crime scene. In addition, the fingerprints of the suspect in brutal murder were taken, reports.ru reports.

In connection with the repair work in Moscow, from June 1 to 1August, traffic along the Rublevo-Uspensky highway will be closed from 22:00 to 7:00 on the site from 14 to 22 km. RIA Novosti was reported in the press service of the capital's traffic police. The detour of vehicles was organized by the Moscow-Riga, Mozhaisk, Krasnogorsk, Podushkinsky, Ilyinsky, as well as the first and second Assumption highway.

In the Amur Region, 37 senior police officers, including twenty - with the rank of colonel, turned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with a letter regarding the unlawful, in their opinion, the actions of the head of the regional police department of the police general Yuri Fokin.

The German nun, Anna Katarina Emmerich, the recording of the mystical visions of which inspired Mela Gibson to create the film "Passion of Christ", will be reckoned with the blessed Catholic Church on October 3, the Blagoverst-info reports. The State Secretariat of the Vatican informed this news to the leadership of the diotser of the German city of Munster, where the Emmerich’s diocesan investigation was conducted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid for the treatment of a British girl with his personal doctor, reports The Sun. Louise Longman was sent to Moscow after the British doctors desperate to cure the rare genetic disorder that the girl suffered. Longman's Syndrome von Hippel-Lindau Disease has a rare deadly genetic disease that causes cancer. In the muscles of the girl, tumors grew up, which threatened to become fatal if the metastases reached bone marrow.

The wife of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Tuesday still visited one of the Georgian villages in South Ossetia.

As a result of a hurricane, which passed on Tuesday evening in the southern regions of Udmurtia, according to preliminary data, 10 people were injured. This was reported to the Interfax in the Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the Udmurt Republic. "In the capital of Udmurtia - Izhevsk, the movement of electric vehicles was temporarily stopped, and electricity was disabled in certain areas of the city," said the representative of the Republican Ministry of Emergencies.

The World Bank promised to help Russia double the GDP by 2010. The discussion of how exactly the bank can help in this difficult matter will be the main goal of the visit of the head of the bank James Wolfenson to Moscow. The visit will be held on June 2-4, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Moscow office of the WB.

The state will require about $ 5 billion to acquire 16.5% of Gazprom shares, which are on the balance sheet of subsidiaries of the company, Olga Pavlova, a member of the Board of Gazprom, said on Tuesday at a meeting with the company's shareholders in New Urengoy. The head of the Ministry of Education German Gref previously stated that the state plans to increase its share in Gazprom. “There are such plans, but how and in what form it will happen, I can’t say yet,” he said.

In an effort to fit into the age of commerce, the Kremlin began to offer their emblem and the opportunity to gain fame as a supplier of the Russian elite to some products. Perhaps this is the strongest support that the company can get: the coat of arms of the ruler for its products, notes The Guardian , which is published by Inopressa .

The US Department of Defense confirmed that it was investigating the accusations that American soldiers were engaged in robberies and attacks on a civilian population during patrolling in Iraq. For the first time, the New York Times reported on these charges. Representatives of the Pentagon said that they were information that some military personnel during patrolling, raids and searches stole money and values ​​in the houses of local residents.

In the Ryazan region, the An-2 aircraft crashed. This was reported on Tuesday in the information department of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. "On Monday, at 21:00 Moscow time, the An -2 aircraft when performing work on top dressing of agricultural crops in the area of ​​the village of Shatsk hooked on the power lines and fell to the ground," said RIA Novosti . According to an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there are no victims.

In Lviv, the Rizenshnauzer bit a one -year -old child, without leaving a living place on him. Parents left their child with a home dog for a while. Upon returning home, parents found a bloodied and unconscious child. What happened during their absence, than the baby could annoy the dog so is unknown. Doctors registered about 50 bites, said Zenovy Guzar, head physician of the city hospital, said on Tuesday.

In Moscow, a visitor from Armenia shot car service mechanics - it seemed to him that he was demanding too much money for painting BMW. A month ago, 22-year-old Arthur Sargzyan handed over his old foreign car to a car repair shop in Bolotnaya Square, MK was told in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. He demanded that he be leveled by dents on the hood and wing from a recent accident and painted them. The price at that time of the client arranged.