The second release-candidate (RC2) of the Mozilla Firefox 3 browser was published. Changes regarding the stability and reliability of the program were made to the new version, TechDigest reports. "The amount of memory required for work is reduced in this assembly, and productivity is significantly increased," said Mike Beltzner, vice president of Mozilla. Attention and security of personal data is paid. Bookmarks, history of visits, cookies and passwords are now stored as a protected format.

On Friday evening, exchange trading was terminated by RAO UES. Recall that this holding is liquidated on June 30. The Chairman of the Board of the RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais hit the exchange bell, thus known about the termination of the trading of shares, Interfax reports from the MMEVB hall, where a farewell ceremony was held.

Since 1995, more than 500 citizens of foreign countries have purchased real estate in Azerbaijan. As 1news.az reports, this statement was made today, June 6, at a press conference by the head of the State Real Estate Registry Service, Arif Garashov. “Basically, real estate was purchased by foreign citizens in Azerbaijan in connection with their business in our country.

In the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, bordering the Amur, a large -scale leak of chemicals took place on the Amur, the Chinese media said on Friday. At least three people died. Local authorities do not report which chemical compound fell into the environment, but they assure that the release did not affect the state of cross -border water bodies, RIA Novosti reports. "Chemical compounds did not get into the water," said the representative of the administration.

In the American state of Tennessee, the police arrested a suspect in a series of armed raids to shops. The robber hid under the mask of Spider-Man. 45-year-old John Gails Woodburn from East Ridge was hiding behind the guise of the hero of the comics, WRCBTV reports. Last Tuesday evening, the police of the cities of Chattanuga detained the suspect, after which he was interrogated, arrested and brought to prison of the Hamilton district.

Problems that create constantly increasing volumes of garbage can easily be solved, erecting from the pyramid waste transformed into a semblance of a stone, which will also involve tourists, according to a engineer from the Dutch company Geochem Research BV Rolof SCIILING.

At a government meeting on Thursday, it was decided to provide investors to Olympic facilities in Sochi equal with the Olympstroy state corporation long -term rights to rent land, Kommersant writes. For this benefit, investors are invited to invest in preparations for the Olympics an additional 33 billion rubles instead of federal budget funds.

The lawyer Mikhail Khodorkovsky Yuri Schmidt did not communicate with his client for pardon , which was mentioned the day before, speaking in Berlin, President Dmitry Medvedev. To the question of the site "Favorites" about what they are discussing, Schmidt answered like this: "Various options for active protection." Yuri Schmidt does not believe that in order for the president to consider the issue of pardon, the ex-head of the Yukos must himself turn to the corresponding request.

General Motors announced that in May, car sales decreased by 30% compared to the same period last year - high fuel prices forced the population to abandon the greedy to gasoline of machines in favor of less bulky and more economical models. Ford Grodazhi fell by 19%, writes The Economist and the F-150 Pickup first lost to Camry and Corolla from Toyota. But the most indicative fact was the fall of sales of "hammers" - clumsy semi -native jeeps from GM - by 62%.

The famous American TV presenter and lover Jay Leno became the owner of the first Dodge Challenger SRT8 of the 2008 model year in the Limited Edition configuration. A black car is equipped with a 6.1-liter V8 Hemi engine with a capacity of 425 hp, 20-inch forged wheel discs and a special plate on which an individual number is knocked out. In total, such "challengers" from a limited SRT8 series are planned to be released in an amount of about 700 pieces.

In the city of Lesosibirsk, two teenagers disappeared: 14-year-old Vyacheslav Vasilenko and 17-year-old Victor Golovachev. On the morning of June 4, they went to the forest to collect a bird cherry and did not return. Relatives organized independent searches that evening. Teenagers were searched in the forest and on the territory of the Garden Society "Frying".

The construction of the Nord Stream starts in early 2010, the project’s press release says, which is quoted by Vedomosti . Even in the fall, a completely different period was called - the summer of 2009. And before that - the end of 2008. The next delay was needed to respond to environmental requests from interested countries. Nord Stream Technical Director Sergei Serdyukov promises that the construction will simply go more intensively: 18 months instead of 23-24.

The scandal in Pakistani society: human rights activists are outraged by the information that the long -standing blood enmity in one of the distant corners of the Western Province of Belujistan ended with the fact that one of the parties transferred the other 15 girls aged three to ten years, so that they were married. According to The Guardian , the conflict reached its climax and took grotesque forms.

The Government of Chechnya won the lawsuit against the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on invalidating his rights to unlimited possession of the land plots of the Argun historical, architectural and natural museum-reserve, RIA Novosti told the head of the Rossvyazhvazhkh security department for the Republic of Ismail Munaev. The Chechen government appealed to the Arbitration Court of the Republic in September 2007.

On June 5, the Rosneft shareholders chose the board of directors in almost the previous composition. Igor Sechin was again elected chairman of the board of directors yesterday, and only the deputy head of the government apparatus Kirill Androsov was replaced by the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Yuri Petrov, they write Vedomosti The most complaints, as last year, were caused by dividends. They grew from 1.33 to 1.6 rubles per share, amounting to only 16.96 billion rubles.