Two weeks after the film "Iron Man" raised $ 99 million at the US Premier Highway, the fantasy of Narnia: Prince Caspian , Reuters reports to record fees. Representatives of the film industry expect that the sequel will earn $ 85 million in the first three days of rental. The first part of the “Chronicle” - “Leo, the Sorceress and the Magic Cabinet” during the premiere days brought its creators $ 65.6 million, and the total fees of the film amounted to $ 292 million.

The agreement on the construction of an ultra-modern building in the very center of Riga for the Latvian National Library was signed on Thursday, May 15, in Riga, the project implementers, the state agency Jaunie Tris Brali, told RIA Novosti . According to agency representatives, the cost of constructing an ultra-modern building in the very center of the Latvian capital will cost the state budget 135 million lats ($280 million). The project should be completed by 2012.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, they hope that the Penza recluses, who today left the dugout and went outside, rethink what happened to them and return to the bosom of Orthodoxy . “You can be glad that people who voluntarily shut themselves in a cave are returning to ordinary human life.

European automakers will be able to produce more environmentally friendly machines no earlier than 2015, RIA Novosti reports the words of the European Commissioner in industry Gunther Verkhoigen. The European Commission set the goal of the EU autopom to limit by 2012 in all new cars of carbon dioxide exhaust 120 grams per kilometer of run. According to Verkhoygen, Brussels should make concessions to manufacturing companies and come to a compromise decision together.

Graduates of Russian schools on Friday will take the first single state exam (exam) at the choice. 11-graders will show their knowledge in a foreign language and computer science. The exam will begin at 10 am local time. To answer correctly to all test questions, two hours 22 minutes were released. The use of both Anglo-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries during the exam is prohibited.

The Punto Switcher program has been updated, which can automatically change the keyboard layout in accordance with the text. Punto Switcher is a free utility that can be attributed to Windows indispensable users, along with a browser or an ICQ client. The program works using the principle of the impossibility of combining some letters for Russian and English. In the Russian language, for example, the word cannot begin with the letter b.

In Albania, where interruptions in electricity are already taking place, the game of animals on high -voltage wires led to a shutdown of light in the capital of a tyrant. The cat and a mouse running away from him for three days left the residents of a number of areas of the Albanian capital of tyrants without electricity, reports on Friday Reuters .

Users of the popular social network in contact became victims of a serious viral epidemic. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the message of the company "Doctor Web", the viral monitoring service of which has registered a malicious program.

The foreign press continues to talk about what should be expected from the presidential super -part - Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. According to The Wall Street Journal , the relationship between these two is definitely close, but also mysterious, noted by secrecy, creating the ground for various conflicting interpretations. Experts and ordinary Russians are obsessed with whether the former and current presidents of the country will be able to get along with each other.

On the fact of poisoning in Yekaterinburg, the Participants of the Festival "Earth - Our General House" Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case under the article "Violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules, entailed by negligence the mass poisoning of people" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The culprit threatens to two years in prison, ITAR-TASS reports citing the press service of the prosecutor's office.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on a visit to Russia, met on Thursday in Moscow with the leader of the United Civil Front (OGF) Harry Kasparov, reports on Friday DW-World . According to DPA , the meeting took place in one of the capital's hotels, and during the conversation Kasparov spoke out for the unification of opposition forces after the recent change of president in Russia.

In Runet, an online video channel appeared where the news is read by naked girls. The idea is not new - in the West there are a lot of such sites and they work for many years. Now such erotic fun has appeared in Russia. On the website nFTV.RU you can see "regular news releases about the most important and interesting events." While reading these news, the presenters undress, being completely naked at the end of the video. While the service shows the video for free.

In recent days, in all settlements of Ingushetia, you can notice cars with portraits of the first president Ruslan Aushev. As a rule, his images are fixed on windshields, hoods of cars, in the salons of Gazelle and buses, reports Ingushetia.ru . It should be noted that as of May 12 in Ingushetia, 18 thousand signatures were collected for returning to the post of President of the Republic of Ruslan Aushev.

British girls over the past 3 years 25% more often began to endure the law. However, most of these crimes are ordinary school fights, experts soothe. In 2006 and 2007, the girls committed 59 thousand 236 crimes, while in 2003 and 2004 there were only 47 thousand 358 such cases, the newspaper The Independent is quoted by the annual report of the Council for Teenage Offenses. At the same time, a small decrease in crime was noted among the boys for the same period - by 2 percent.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko called on Friday politicians and deputies to terminate the political confrontation. In the annual message to the Verkhovna Rada, the text of which was published on Friday by the Cabinet of Ministers of the “Urovy Courier”, the president said that it was “time to stop the frenzy of the political struggle.