The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China has banned the use of electric shock in the treatment of Internet addiction, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Radio China International.

In St. Petersburg, employees of the tax crimes of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the city and the region detained three Italian citizens who sold faulty units under the guise of Honda brand apparatuses, Interfax reports. As the investigation established, residents of Naples for several months offered residents of St. Petersburg to buy non -working power units, in particular, generators, pumps and perforators, under the guise of high -quality Honda brand devices.

Perm collector Alexander Shurman, who is suspected of stealing a record amount of 250 million rubles, began to write the book "How I robbed Gref." The composition is based on real events. About this writes on Wednesday the site Life.ru. Currently, a former Sberbank employee, the president of which is German Gref, is in a temporary detention center. Shurman’s lawyer Mikhail Zavodnov said that his client would try to describe his misadventures and the reasons why he went to a daring robbery.

In Azerbaijan, two prominent youth activists Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli (Abdullaev), known for active criticism of the authorities, were arrested last week. The official reason for the detention is malicious hooliganism: supposedly in a restaurant in Baku they beat two other visitors. However, according to the stories of supporters of Hajizade and Milli, as well as some eyewitnesses, they themselves were victims of a provocative attack.

The 17-year-old Romanian tennis player Simon Halep, the former owner of the most luxurious bust in the WTA tour, after an operation to reduce her chest , told about what ultimately prompted her to take this step, and also told about new sensations. According to Gotennis , the 269th rocket of the world had 80e breasts, and now after the operation the volume of the breast is 80b. But she herself is quite happy, the operation itself cost her about one and a half thousand euros.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine confirmed that as a result of the helicopter disaster in the Southern Afghan Province of Hilment, six crew members were killed on Tuesday, all Ukrainian citizens. The Foreign Ministry emphasized that all the dead were civilians, according to ITAR-TASS and Interfax .

The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, predicts the growth of unemployment in Russia by the upcoming autumn. As Prime-Tass reports, Shokhin, speaking at a meeting of the "Petersburg Dialog" forum in Munich, called unemployment one of the most pressing problems. “The dynamics of the growth of unemployment was high in Russia at the beginning of the year, now growth has stopped,” the head of the RSPP stated.

Two missile launches that Russian atomic submarines made from the North Pole area were a surprise for the means of warning about the US and NATO missile attack. "The American system of certainly recorded the launches of missiles, but for them the area from which launches were made was a complete surprise," a source in Russian intelligence told RIA Novosti .

In the Russian army, the clergy of all four main faiths of Russia should be present, says Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the synodal department of the relationship between the Church and society. “Just in the Urals there is a good experience when during military exercises there were a camping church, a camping mosque, and a synagogue,” he said at a meeting on the eve of the Urals Federal District Envoy in Yekaterinburg.

The President of the International Motorsport Federation (FIA) Max Mosley confirmed the refusal to participate in the next election. In October of this year, the Federation of Motorsport will receive a new president. Mosley said he supported the candidacy of the former Boss Ferrari Frenchman Jean Todt.

Hollywood actor Robert Redford finally legitimized his relationship with his old girlfriend - artist Sibill Szaggars. According to media reports, German Szaggars is 20 years younger than her 72-year-old spouse, AFP reports with reference to Hamburger Abendblatt . Before the wedding, Robert and Sibbil lived together for twelve years, since 1996, on the Redford estate in Sandance. With his first wife, Lola Van Wagenen, the actor divorced back in 1985.

In an effort to protect children from the harmful influence of television, Russian deputies are ready to expel all films and transfers containing curses that encourage bad habits, violence and cruelty from the day and evening broadcasts. If the law is adopted in the current form, then almost all films will fall into the category of "harmful", television people say.

At the scientific and practical conference, which recently held in Vladivostok and dedicated to information technologies in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, the standard of digital television broadcasting, which Russia is going to move by 2015, was already called outdated today, the New Gazeta reports. The standard is called DVBT.

On Thursday, at negotiations with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel will discuss not only economic issues. Merkel will also call Medvedev to less uncompromising in the Caucasian conflict and ask to resume the UN mission in Georgia, writes Süddeutsche Zeitung . Recall that Merkel and Medvedev diverge in the assessments of the August war of Russia with Georgia.

In the suburbs, employees of the Department of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, while trying to abduct 3 million rubles, detained four criminals engaged in armed attacks on collectors. According to Interfax , the attackers committed crimes in quiet and deserted places. Having established the path of the collection of the collectors, the attackers arranged an ambush in the forest strip.