Microsoft renamed its new Kumo search service, choosing a short and, according to the company's marketer, the memorable name - Bing, and is preparing to start its promotion. According to the computalent , the importance of a new search engine for the company confirms the astronomical advertising budget allocated for its promotion: from $ 80 to 100 million.

The Council of Management of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will gather today for an informal meeting with candidates for the post of new general director of this organization. There are five of them: Jean-Paul Ponelel (Belgium), Yukia Amano (Japan), Ernest Petrich (Slovenia), Abdul Samad Minti (South African Republic) and Luis Echavarri (Spain).

In the rules of the road, lawmakers now and then make large and minor changes. Against this background, one gap became obvious - a controversial situation has developed with a turning at the intersection. We are talking about a turn along the shortest trajectory. Each motorist and every traffic inspector interpret it as you wish. So, recently there have been a lot of complaints against traffic police officers who consider this situation as a serious violation of the rules.

In France, a trial began in the case of the Church of Scientology , which is accused of the fact that its followers are subjected to psychological impact in order to appropriate their savings and property. As the British The Daily Telegraph notes today, the court may make a decision to ban the activities of the church in France. The court of the Parisian Center of the Church and the bookstore appeared before the court.

In the Turkish city of Shevkek Yilmaz of the Bursa province, a fire occurred in the hospital. As a result, eight people died, according to Tuesday, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet . The fire, according to the publication, began at 2:00 local time. Its reason, according to preliminary investigation data, was a short circuit, Interfax reports. As eyewitnesses of the incident say, the flame quickly spread throughout the building. Panic began in the room.

In the capital, a criminal case was instituted against an employee of the Otradnaya police department, who had covered a serious crime in February 2008. Timely disclosure of robbery could prevent the death of two people. We are talking about the attack on June 27, 2008 on Trofimov Street, which was the victim of the Russian Standard bank, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Moscow Investigative Department Anatoly Bagmet.

The coaching headquarters of the Russian national football team published the names of the players who are called to prepare for the qualifying match of the 2010 World Cup with the Finnish national team, the press service of the Russian Football Union (RFU) reports. The forward of the metropolitan Dynamo Alexander Kerzhakov, who was last called under the banner of the national team about two years ago, got into this list.

Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov may soon resign in order to do "customs affairs." Serdyukov, recently set off on vacation, will return to a new place, but not at all because many are unhappy with the military reform carried out by him, reports with reference to reliable sources in the Kremlin, Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems. At the same time, another source in the presidential administration refutes this information.

In Russia, on Tuesday, the main wave of unified state sequences (exam) begins. Graduates of Russian schools will hand over computer science and information and communication technologies (ICT) or biology of choice. As the department reminded, the exam will begin at exactly 10 hours local time. In order to respond to all tasks of the exam in computer science and ICT, 240 minutes, or 4 hours, for biology - 180 minutes.

On Tuesday, on the Council of Directors of the Moscow Football Club Lokomotiv, a unanimous decision was approved by the candidacy of Yuri Semin for the post of head coach of the team. The contract was concluded until December 31, 2011 and enters into force on June 1, 2009, the press service of the railway workers reports. According to unofficial data, the annual salary of the coach will be $ 5 million. Recall that at present the team is headed by Vladimir Maminov, who holds the position and. O.

In the first quarter of 2009, $ 19.7 billion was sent from Russia abroad as foreign investments - 2.7 times more than in the first quarter of last year, follows from the official data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). The lion's share of this money - $ 17 billion - the Russians invested in the economy of 10 countries, which are traditionally the largest recipients of Russian investments.

The leader of the British opposition promises to significantly change the political system of the country in case of coming to power, taking part of the prime minister’s authority. According to David Cameron, the head of the conservative party, radical reform will restore faith in the country's leadership after a loud scandal around the unlawful use of budget funds.

In Tbilisi, four chain stores of the famous Italian company Benetton were suspended in protest that its Turkish partner intends to open this brand in Sukhumi without coordination with the Georgian side. “We are ready to suffer damage than to allow a precedent so that the world -famous company introduces its brand in the occupied territory,” said the representative of Benetton in Georgia, Nino Ciceluri.

The English radio station XFM interviewed several thousand of its listeners to identify the TOP-10 of the best songs written in the UK. Suddenly, the first three places on the list were taken by the Oasis Brit-Pop Group, writes The Daily Telegraph . The most beloved composition of the British was the Live Forever from the debut album Oasis "Definitely Maybe", which headed the British charts in 1994.

The Executive Director of the British-Holland Oil company Royal Dutch Shell Linda Cook, which was once part of the five most influential women entrepreneurs in the world according to the American magazine Fortune, leaves its post, AP reports.