The FBI began an investigation about the beating of an American student by a police special forces, which was photographed by a video surveillance camera, writes the British newspaper The Daily Mail . The released video with the incident caused a powerful resonance in society. John McKenna, who did not take any aggressive actions, beat three policemen from the unit to combat riots with batons. He was cut a skull, so the doctors had to apply eight brackets to heal an open wound.

The Vatican seeks to distance himself from statements made recently by one of the closest employees of the Pope, Cardinal Tarchizio Berton, in which the Vatican hierarch tied the facts of pedophilia with homosexuality. The press secretary of the Holy See, Priest Federico Lombardi, said on the eve of the comments voiced by the Secretary of State Vatican Cardinal Tarchizio Berton, went beyond the competence of the church authorities.

The federal judge Eduard Chuvashov, shot in Moscow, was not afraid of his life, and on the day of the murder did not take an official pistol with him, a source in power structures, familiar with the course of the investigation. "Chuvashov left his service pistol on April 12 at home. This means that he did not feel a threat to his life," said a source in power structures. According to the source, it was established that the killer was in the entrance where the judge lived, from 07:38 to 08:21.

The annual meeting of the shareholders of Nestlé was interrupted by people in the costumes of the Oranguts, who suddenly went down from the ceiling on the ropes. According to ITAR-TASS, thus activists of the Greenpeace environmental organization protest against the use of palm oil in some of the concern’s chocolate products. For oil production, huge arrays of tropical forests in Indonesia are cut down.

Brick leaders (Brazil, Russia, India, China) at the upcoming meeting 15-16 in Brazil will discuss issues of creating a unified international currency, eliminating the imbalance in the world economy, and will also develop a general position for the upcoming Summit of the Group twenty, the Finmarket agency reports.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service is fighting oil companies for "fair" prices for gasoline. The head of the service Igor Artemyev explained to members of the Federation Council during a government hour, how the oil industry workers profit from car owners. At the end of 2008, when the prices for Russian Urals oil fell to the minimum values, the profit of gasoline sellers was maximum over the past two years, they write Vedomosti , referring to the report of Artemyev.

Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. reprograms the electronics of the new SUV Lexus GX 460 to eliminate doubts among some consumers about its reliability. About this a representative of the leader of the global auto industry said on Thursday. According to him, the model “has already passed an additional test drive in Japan, and similar tests are now beginning on other SUVs, in particular, the Toyota RAV4 and Harrier,” ITAR-TASS reports.

The number of victims of a powerful cyclone in the north-east of India exceeded 115 people. The speed of wind gusts exceeded 160 km per hour, a hurricane tore off the roofs from the houses and pulled the trees with the root. The hurricane fell on Tuesday night by local time to the north-eastern part of the Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar.

The court of civil cases in the city of Perth, Scotland, fined the 25-year-old Barry Gillis for offering a girl named Sally Gray to become his friend on the social network Bebo. Prior to this, Gray informed the court that Gillis was pursuing her, and the man was forbidden to make contact with the girl. A request for adding to friends considered the prohibition violation, the Rformer reports with reference to the BBC television and radio corporation.

The technical commission, which is investigating a plane crash under the Smolensk aircraft of the President of Poland, came to the conclusion that the pilot was to blame for the tragedy. According to the newspaper Kommersant , one of the participants in the investigation, the experts found that the conditions in which the pilot tried to land the plane were extreme. According to the experts, the Arkadius Protasyuk, who was at the helm, understood this, but still went to an unjustified risk.

NPP in the Bushera will be launched in August. Possible sanctions against Iran will not be able to prevent this. This was stated in Buenos Aires by the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko, ITAR-TASS reports. "The Busher will be launched in the summer, in August," Kiriyenko said. “We are going in a schedule,” the head of Rosatom added, emphasizing that further work of the station will depend on how the equipment is debugged.

In St. Petersburg, the night on Thursday to the square near the Finland Station returned after the restoration of a monument to Lenin, exploded a year ago, reports Fontanka.ru . The restored monument was brought to the square around midnight. The installation of a three -ton bronze sculpture on the pedestal using a crane took about 40 minutes. Before that, the sculpture was removed from the truck and laid in the square.

Russian Communists advocate the cancellation of elections to regional parliaments in single -mandate districts, considering it necessary for the country to switch to a proportional electoral system on the party lists of candidates for deputies, Interfax reports. According to the Communist Party, the system of single -mandate districts has lost its original meaning and turned into an additional means of obtaining power by united Russia.

MGTS announced the start of the construction of a Call center, which will combine all the contact sites of the capital's fixed communication operator, reports RBC Daily . It is planned that the new center for processing calls and messages will combine possible methods of communication with consumers - through the phone, e -mail, site, chats and SMS. Until today, MGTS customer service has been carried out from 12 separate sites.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone with the overthrown President Kurmanbek Bakiev and held negotiations with one of the heads of the Provisional Government of Kyrgyzstan, ITAR-TASS reports. "On Wednesday, on the initiative of Kurmanbek Bakiev, his telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin was held," the press service of the Government of the Russian Federation said. What exactly Bakiev spoke to Putin about is not specified.