Last summer, the 77-year-old Soros, one of the most successful investors and the richest people in the world, sharply interrupted the well-deserved rest in order to protect his capital and heritage. Alarmed by the growing crisis of financial markets, he again took upon himself the duties of a trader in his giant hedge fund-and made a lot where so many people lost their money. Today, Soros acts with new, gloomy forecasts regarding the future world economy.

Former French President Jacques Shirak transferred today in the capital's hospital Pitié-Salpêère an operation during which he was impressed by a heart stimulator. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to representatives of the ex-head of the French state. This is the surgical intervention planned a few days ago after the usual examination “successfully,” the message says. The 75-year-old Shirak was hospitalized on Thursday evening and will return home by the end of the weekend.

The first version of the Opera browser for the Google Android platform was released. The basis for the development was the Opera mini program, reports PC World . It is worth noting that Opera Mini is written on Java and is inferior in the functionality of Opera Mobile. The developers plan in the future to create a full -fledged browser for the Android platform. And developers can already start testing the released version of the Opera browser for Android.

In the Republic of Tatarstan, pedophile attacked a 5-year-old girl right in kindergarten. The police for a long time refused to investigate the crime committed by the teacher’s lover. On Friday, in the district court of Kazan, the representative of the prosecutor's office said that on the eve of the preliminary investigation in the criminal case was resumed, reports the New Region . However, the victim’s mother had to seek the right to conduct an investigation through the court.

The Olympic fire relay race arrived from San Francisco to Buenos Aires at night, where on Friday, according to the plan, its next stage should take place. The capital of Argentina is the only city in Latin America, which was honored to accept the Holy Symbol of the Olympic Games. The place where the torch will be located before the start of the procession along the streets of the city is not disclosed for security reasons.

On suspicion of the murder of the deputy prosecutor of the city of Bratsk in the Irkutsk region, the deputy of the local Duma Vadim Molyakov, the former head of the Internal Affairs Directorate Vladimir Votvenko and the coordinator of the regional branch of the LDPR Viktor Zagorodnikov were detained. This was reported by ITAR-TASS in the territorial investigative department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

Over 200 thousand houses are left without electricity as a result of Thursdays in the states of Oklahom, Texas and Arkansas Tornado. Tornado also destroyed and damaged dozens of houses. In addition, cyclones, the passage of which over the territory of these states provoked the appearance of a tornado, brought abundant precipitation with them, which led to floods in some areas.

Japan will not accept Chinese guards sent by Beijing to the Japanese city of Nagano to ensure the safety of the Olympic fire relay. This was stated on Friday by the chairman of the Japanese Commission on Public Safety, the State Minister Sinya Izumi, ITAR-TASS reports.

Friday is the last day of the election campaign in Italy before the parliamentary elections scheduled for the weekend. Voters have to make a choice between two candidates fighting for the post of Italian leader - Silvio Berlusconi and Walter Veltroni, BBC reports. The 71-year-old millionaire of Berlusconi, who was already twice the Prime Minister of Italy, hopes for the victory of the leaders of Italy headed by him (“Forward, Italy”) and achieves a higher post for the third time.

The Russians believe that in the future it is possible to create a space station on the moon, but do not believe in life on Mars. According to most Russians (59%), there is no life on Mars. A quarter of citizens (26%) did not agree with them, sociologists found out.

Attempts by the Australian star Kylie Minogue to win the American audience ended in failure. The tenth studio plate of the star X started in the Billboard chart in 139th place, divorced by a circulation of only 5.5 thousand copies, reports FactNews with reference to The Daily Mail. The star arrived in the United States in early April with the firm intention to succeed, which she has in Europe and in her homeland.

The governments joined in the race to conclude secret barter and bilateral agreements with countries exporting food, British The Financial Times reports. The UN is anxious: developing countries need help, and the food crisis will hit them the most . But their own shirt is closer to the body: the states strive to protect themselves from the crisis of supplies primarily themselves. The leaders under such contracts are Russia and Ukraine.

The Moscow City Court, where today the case was listened to the termination of the activities of the Opposition site "Ingushetia.ru" , sent the statement of the prosecutor of Ingushetia for consideration to the Kuntsevsky district court.

The “royal remains” found near Yekaterinburg with a high probability belong to Tsarevich Alexei and Princess Maria, about this, the senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation Vladimir Solovyov informed Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel.

In Ukraine, in the city of Donetsk, on Thursday evening, two minor hostages were liberated, capturing the previously convicted man shot by a police officer. As the head of the Donetsk city police department Viktor Dubovik said on Friday at a press conference, at 19:00 a message about the capture of hostages was received in the duty unit of the Kirovsky district police.