In the UK, the texts of literary classics to help students and schoolchildren were translated into the language of SMS messages. In particular, some works of Shakespeare were compressed using the SMS messages recording rules to several dozen lines for automatic sending to mobile phones. For example, Hamlet's famous monologue "be or not to be?" Now it looks like this: 2b? NTB? =? ("To be or not to?

On the outskirts of Istanbul on Friday, an explosion thundered: one person died, 11 were injured. According to the local police, the explosive device was hidden in the garbage urn at a bus stop in the Istanbul district of Baylikduz, RIA Novosti reports. Other details of the incident are still unknown. According to the police, the organizers of the explosion may be the Kurds conducting the armed struggle for the independence of Kurdistan in the southeast of the country.

Bill Gates’s nightmare can find the form of Ritual Coffee Roasters-a cafe in one of the areas of San Francisco. His regulars between cups of coffee, bending over laptops, start an Internet revolution that can shake the Microsoft Empire, writes Financial Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). The President of Microsoft knows about the threat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan decided to fight multimedia piracy and copyright violations together. The current Governor of California and the famous Hong Kong actor announced this during a solemn dinner in Hong Kong, organized by the American Commercial Chamber. The actors recorded a 20-second advertising video, which was also presented during lunch. Starting from Friday evening, this video will be broadcast in Asia countries on many television channels.

In the Moscow region, the approach of winter is felt, it will snow on Saturday, and the average daily temperatures will go for zero towards negative values. So far, there are strong rains in the metropolis and the region, a squalling wind and low pressure. As said in Roshydromet, this afternoon in the metropolis the thermometer will reach 4-6 degrees of heat, in the suburbs 2-7 above zero. Gusts of the north-west wind have reached 5-10 meters per second, in places up to 15-18 meters per second.

In Bishkek, unknown criminals shot stuntmen and random passers -by. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at about 23:00 local time on November 17, an armed attack on two members of the Association of stuntmen was committed in Bishkek's microdistricts. One of the stuntmen, born in 1963, received 13 gunshot wounds and died on the spot. The other is Jergalan Abdraimov, born in 1976, is in intensive care with two bullet wounds.

The Cuban leader Fidel Castro responded to reports that he was supposedly sick with Parkinson's disease. “Cuba’s enemies buried me more than once, giving me out to be valid. However, I never felt better than now. Once again, the CIA that made me a diagnosis is a village in a deep puddle,” Castro emphasized, speaking with a five -hour speech to the University of Havana, RIA Novosti reports with a link to the Cuban national radio.

Russian Nikolai Davydenko won the third match in a row at the final tournament of the Professional Tennisite Association in Shanghai, whose prize fund is about $ 4.5 million. On Friday, he with a score of 6: 3, 6: 2 beat Argentinean Mariano Puert in the final match of the Masters Cup group tournament.

The editor -in -chief of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph Martin Newland resigned, reports the British television channel Sky News . The reasons for his departure from his post have not yet been reported, however, it is possible that the former Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph businessman Konrad Black, on the eve of a criminal prosecution in the United States. He is accused of fraud. The Daily Telegraph is one of the largest newspapers of Great Britain.

The Finnish outraged about the information that had leaked to the press that the summer residence of the Russian military attache in Finland is located in the closed territory of the country, as a new spy scandal, which the same Finnish newspaper Helsiningin Sanomat , was located. According to the publication, in the capital of Finland there are 50 foreign intelligence officers, 30 of which are representatives of Russian special services.

The ISS crew on Friday switched to the Soyuz ship and closed the hatches between the ship and the station, after 4 hours Valery Tokarev and William MacArthur will go on an orbital flight on their "rescue boat". This was announced by Valery Lyndin, official representative of the flight management center near Moscow.

The second portable anti-aircraft missile system (MANPADS) "Needle" was found on Friday in Kabardino-Balkaria. As Interfax was told in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, MANPADS IGLA "was discovered by employees of the Organized Crime Control Department and UFSB during further operational-search measures in the Harvesty Cooperative" Motorist "in the Urvan district of Kabardino Balkaria.

The results of recent studies have shown that the human body is charged with hundreds of synthetic substances that penetrate the blood through the objects surrounding us and cause many serious diseases, including cancer. In 75% of cases, cancer tumors occur due to harmful substances contained in the space surrounding us. These substances are real poisons for our body that can cause allergies and disorders of the nervous system, and in some cases certain forms of cancer.

The Russian gas monopolist Gazprom wants to sell its gas to large French enterprises directly, competing with one of its main customers - GAZ de France (GDF). “For a long time, the Russian gas company lures some of its European customers in its kindergarten,” writes the French Liberation , which is published by Inopressa . These plans acquire specific outlines, since on November 14, Gazprom achieved from the French authorities the official permission to sell gas in France.

In St. Petersburg, two men were detained who, during the day, mocked a 15-year-old girl. According to RIA Novosti on Friday in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region, the suspects forcibly kept the pupil of a local boarding school in the house of their acquaintance invited to visit. As the investigation found out, the girl was brutally beaten and tortured.