Egyptian police officers during the routine inspection of a car on one of the checkpoints of the Sinai Peninsula discovered a whole menagerie in the trunk, RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media. Apparently, six proteins, two small crocodiles and two kangaroo were intended for smuggling in the Palestinian Gaza Sector. The animals were in a wooden box in the trunk of a car belonging to the 28-year-old Palestinian Imad Hassan.

Georgia officially appealed to the UN Security Council with a request to convene an extraordinary meeting on the fact of violation of its airspace . This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the diplomatic source at the UN. According to him, the Georgian delegation sent the corresponding letter to the chairman of the UN Security Council on Thursday evening. The representative of Georgia at the UN Irakli Alasania has already flew to the United States.

In Ingushetia, unknown people attacked police officers, injuring three of them, a source in the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP) of the Russian Federation in the republic said on Friday.

Rambus filed a lawsuit in the California (USA) court for NVIDIA for violation of 17 patents. Rambus is engaged in memory production, reports Business Wire . According to Rambus representatives, Nvidia in its chipsets, graphic processors and other devices violated the rights to patents. We are talking about the technology for producing memory of SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, and GDDR3 SDRAM. Rambus requires to stop the use of its patents and compensate for the damage caused.

In relation to the speaker of the leading legislative chamber of the Great Khural (parliament) of Vasily Oyun, a criminal case has been instituted under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Excess of official powers", ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tuva.

The Beeline cell operator began to sell SIM cards with two numbers in St. Petersburg at once-one for personal use, the other for business calls. Since September, the operator promises to launch this service in several more regions, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Note that in order to use two numbers, a phone with nests for two SIM cards is not needed - a regular apparatus is suitable. Having two rooms, subscribers can divide calls to workers and personal ones.

In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, which has become an arena of fierce intercourse clashes, a commandant hour has been introduced, army reinforcements are being transferred here. The authorities are afraid that after Friday prayer new skirmishes can be provoked between Sunnis and immigrants from the Alavites sect.

One of the employees of the largest Japanese Toyota auto enterprise, a 45-year-old designer, died of constant processing. This conclusion was issued last week, June 30, the commission of the Japanese labor committee. According to Mikio Mizuno, the lawyer of the wife of the deceased engineer, the man worked on creating a hybrid version of the popular Toyota Camry model.

On Friday, the government of national unity was formed in Lebanon. About this after the meeting of Prime Minister Livan Fuad Signora with the President of the country Michel Suleiman was told to reporters by the Secretary of Libra Government Sukheil El Bowji. He read out the composition of the new cabinet of ministers of Lebanon. The law enforcement agencies were headed by candidates proposed by President Michel Suleiman.

Three boys eight and nine years from the village of East Ust-Labinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory damaged nine monuments at the local cemetery, four of them were completely destroyed and are not subject to restoration.

The Ukrainian Association "Union of depositors of Vnesheconombank of the USSR" filed a lawsuit against the Russian government to the Stockholm court. The organization represents the interests of about fifty large enterprises, in particular, state -owned Turboatoma and the Odessa Porter Plant, which require Russia to return the money frozen on the bank’s accounts after the collapse of the USSR, writes the Independent Newspaper . The amount of claims is estimated by experts at about $ 500 million.

Seagate has created a "hard drive" for a desktop computer with a volume of 1.5 TB (1500 GB). The novelty is called Barracuda 7200.11. The disk will consist of 4 plates and have a rotation speed of 7200 revolutions per minute, according to the company's press release . Barracuda 7200.11 will work through the SATA 3 interface (reading and recording - 120 MB per second). The volume of cache memory of this HDD will be 32 MB.

The representative of the Moscow Patriarchate under European organizations, the Bishop of the Vienna and Austrian Ilarion (Alfeev) believes that it is necessary to continue to work to correct and translate liturgical texts, begun during the period of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 1917-1918.

The Central Bank published statistics on the purchase and sale of cash. According to the Central Bank, in May, citizens bought currencies 15% less than in April. In monetary terms, this amounted to $ 5.8 billion. This is 2% higher than in May last year, but 11% lower than in May 2006, notes the Gzt.ru newspaper . Demand fell on both main currencies. However, despite the prolonged weakening of the dollar, the demand for it in a month decreased by 8%, and the euro - by 23%.

Irkutsk police are looking for the missing journalist of the press service of the regional State Emergencies Ministry. Shvetsov Vadim Nikolaevich, born in 1968, on June 10, 2008 he left home and to date his whereabouts is unknown, reports "New Region" . Vadim Shevtsov for several years was one of the most noticeable criminal teleporters in Irkutsk. Recently he worked in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Irkutsk region.