Scientists from the University of Iowa (USA) found that every tenth US resident who is a fan of computer games is psychologically dependent on shooters and adventure games. The study, as reported by RBC daily , involved 1,200 American teenagers aged 8 to 18 years old, who were asked questions about their attitude towards games.

The number of victims of the explosion committed by a suicide bombership on Thursday in the Iraqi province of Dihyal increased to 45 people, AFP reports with reference to a source in the Iraqi army. Previously reported 25 dead. A source who wished to remain unnamed, also said that at least 55 people were injured. The terrorist attack was committed in the city of El Mikdady, which is located in the area of ​​the administrative center of the province of Dyala - the city of Baacuba.

The Cyprus court sentenced to nine months of the conclusion of the gangster from the group "Pink Panther". This gang consists of veterans of the Civil War in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. A suspect member of the international criminal group "Rose Panther" Rifat Hajiakhiakhmetovich must bear a 9-month punishment in Cyprus before he is extracted to Spain, the newspaper The Independent writes with reference to the Police of Cyprus Chipra Christos Andrei.

The retired photograph of US President Barack Obama in sunglasses and swimming trunks, which will be placed on the cover of the May number of Washingtonian magazine, caused a splash among readers. The number of reviews - phone calls, emails and comments on the Internet - is approaching a thousand, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP.

The Russian stock market on Thursday rose to the levels of the beginning of the week, demonstrating the growth of most chips along with oil and world stock indices, Interfax sums up the results of an exchange day. According to the results of the trading, the RTS index rose to 820.7 points (+4.5%), the MMEVB index - to 928.14 points (+2.6%), the main liquid shares went up on exchanges by 1-8.9%.

The Government of Ukraine allocated 10 million hryvnias (over 1.2 million dollars) from the reserve fund for "emergency repair work to save the St. Andrew Church in Kyiv." The press service of the Ukrainian cabinet reported this, as ITAR-TASS reports today. The St. Andrew's Church, which is called the hallmark of Kyiv, was on the verge of destruction.

Kydyrbaev, the chief of the Kyrgyz Minister of Kyrgyzstan, was doused, according to preliminary data, concentrated with sulfuric acid in the entrance of his own house in Bishkek. According to the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Bakyt Seitov, “about two liters of burning substance” was poured on Kydyrbaev on the eve of Kydyrbaev. The chief of the General Staff was hospitalized in the National Hospital with severe burns of the face, neck and chest.

Apple had to remove the game “Shock the Child” from the ITUNES App Store online store, in which the owner of the mobile phone was proposed to calm the screaming virtual child, shaking the phone diligently, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the British newspaper The Times. A few hours after receiving the game on sale on the websites, where the game was offered, outraged reviews of Internet users and human rights organizations, dissatisfied with the game of sadistic, were entered.

The ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who has good chances to become the next president of Ukraine , will do everything so that "the inhabitants of Eastern Ukraine recognize the truth about the soldiers of the Ukrainian rebel army (UPA)." The People’s Deputy of Ukraine said this during the presentation of his organization "Front of Changes" in Lutsk.

Armenia and Türkiye agreed to normalize bilateral relations. This is stated in a joint statement by the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Turkey and Switzerland, the text of which at night was distributed in Yerevan by the press and information of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia, ITAR-TASS reports.

American detectives arrived in Moscow for negotiations on a joint investigation of a number of high -profile crimes. Employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) are most interested in the criminal "four" of Russians who inherited in the United States, Russian Newspaper reports. First of all, the FBI asks Russian colleagues to establish the exact location of Evgeny Dvoskin. A native of Odessa Evgeny Sluker, who later took the name of his mother, left for the United States in 1990.

According to the results of the quarter, the net profit of Sberbank amounted to only 300 million rubles. Compared to last year, the bank’s incomes were reduced 120 times - then the bank earned 35.6 billion. Almost everything that the bank earned in the first quarter, he directed to the formation of reserves. The costs of their creation increased 14 times to 92.2 billion rubles.

The legendary theater on Taganka, created by the director Yuri Lyubimov, will celebrate on Thursday his 45-year-old birthday by the premiere of the play "Tales", based on the "Mermaid" Andersen, "Happy Prince" by Wilde, "Curtains at the hearth" of Dickens, writes RIA "Novosti" . “How not to play authors such as Hans -Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens! These are great classics.

Sales of cars made in 2008 can last longer than expected. As the Avtostat agency found out, already in the first three months of 2009, almost 100 thousand foreign cars of 2008 were imported into Russia. Unlike cars in Russia in Russia, these cars are subject to new, higher duties, as well as a new ruble exchange rate. Auto -manufacturers will have to offer serious discounts, but the cars will be able to sell only by the end of summer, experts of the publication of RBC Daily believe.

In St. Petersburg, a sentence was sentenced to five young men who brutally killed a native of Central Asia. Then the criminals tried to cover the tracks, abused the corpse as the Satanists. Among the killers, three are minors. The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced the 18-year-old unemployed citizen of Belarus Sergey Gerasimchuk, 20-year-old Vladimir Lobanov and three 16-year-old teenagers.