The popular British rock band Blur has recorded its first single over the past 7 years. The new song "Fool's Day", released by limited circulation specifically for the day of independent music stores (Record Store DAU), can be downloaded free of charge on the official website of the group. The composition begins with several simple bits of the drummer of Dave Rountry.

According to the assessment of analysts of the international rating agency Moody's, reducing the rate on subordinated loans from 8% per annum to 6.25% per annum will save Russian banks $ 5.3 billion, the Finmarket agency reports. It is worth recalling that the head of the Duma committee on financial markets, Vladislav Reznik, introduced a bill to the Duma, offering to reduce bets on subordinated loans from 8 to 4.75% per annum.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill called on the authorities and ordinary residents of Chelyabinsk to change their lives, to free from the rudiments of the Soviet era and build temples, noting that the city occupies the last place in Russia in terms of their number in terms of population.

The hacker Albert Saaev, who was delivered to Chechnya last week, sentenced by the Moscow court to two years in prison for the hacking of government sites of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, and then disappeared with an apology to Ramzan Kadyrov and then disappeared. His fate seriously concerned the representatives of the human rights movement.

The Kaspersky Laborated a preliminary investigation of cases of the Gmail service in the last days in recent days of hacking the Gail service and the uncontrolled newsletter of spam. Spam is sent to addresses found in the Contacts of the Contacts of the victim's account. The topic of messages is not indicated, and in the body of the letters only a link to a certain Internet application in the .co.cc zone is given.

The prolonged closure of European airspace due to volcanic dust can cause huge damage and delay the restoration of the region’s economy, writes The Wall Street Journal . From the beginning of the aviation collapse, over 63 thousand flights were canceled on Thursday last week, and the quick recovery of the message was not expected , Interfax reports. According to analysts, regulators hurried with the closure of airspace in many countries without a detailed analysis of atmospheric conditions.

Two guests of the Maimaksan boarding house for the elderly, where the dysentery outbreak occurred , died in the hospital, Interfax reports. According to Tatyana Likhno, Deputy Minister of Health of the Arkhangelsk Region, women died on April 16. According to the deputy minister that the cause of the death of older women (86 and 87 years) was not a dysentery, but related chronic serious diseases that were observed in women for a long time.

Vladimir Putin is the largest leader in the world arena, constantly strengthening his position, the observer of the American newspaper The New York Post Ralph Peters is sure. Putin is definitely not a good person, but he is a great person, as well as very dangerous, concludes the author of the Endless War. The worst thing is that no American politician can compete with Putin: before he turned George Bush as he wanted, and now he pushes Barack Obama, the journalist claims.

Russian experts could not revive the scientific orbital apparatus "Coronas-Photon", designed to study solar activity and magnetic storms on Earth. Scientific equipment on the satellite failed at the end of November 2009 due to the discharge of batteries associated with the fact that the device did not receive energy from solar panels for a long time.

The Japanese Toyota auto giant announced a review of the repair of 600 thousand Sienna minivans produced in the USA from 1998 to 2010. The cause of the review is the risk of falling a spare wheel attached to the rear door of the body with a metal cable. Replacing defective fasteners of the wheel on Sienna minivans will be free. The dangers are mainly exposed to cars operated in the zones of a cold climate, where snow -capped roads are often sprinkled with salt.

In the United States, the most famous filmmaker Didi Allen, who is considered an architect of the visual and sound rows of modern American cinema. Allen, thanks to which such revolutionary showing and sounding of the tape as the “King of the Billard of 1961 and Bonnie and Clyde” of 1967 was 86 years old. She died at home in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 17. The immediate cause of death was a heart attack, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to her son Tom Fleskman.

The official anthem of the World Cup 2010, which will be held this summer in South Africa, will be the song “Time for Africa” (“Africa Time”) performed by the Colombian pop -divish of Shakira and the Freeshlygrund group, AP reports. Kaptown will perform a live Shakira and musicians from Cape Town at a grandiose concert in the Council, as well as at the opening of the 2010 FIFA at the Orland stadium in Johannesburg and before the final on July 11.

The so-called “kopek” - the VAZ-2101 model - celebrates its fortieth anniversary on Monday. per day During the assembly of the first car, AvtoVAZ will host the mass athletics race "Vazovskaya Versta", the distance of which is equal to the length of the main VAZ conveyor - 1433 m. Today, participants in the Moscow-Tolyatti motor rally, dedicated to the anniversary of the legendary "kopeyka", should arrive at the plant.

The Ministry of Economy of Belarus believes that in the 1st half of the year, GDP growth is at least 6% compared to the same period of 2009. As the head of the Main Directorate of Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting of the Ministry of Economy of Belarus, Alexander Yaroshenko, reminded reporters, in the 1st quarter of 2010, GDP growth amounted to 4%, the Finmarket agency reports.

In the airports of the Russian Federation, more than 27 thousand people are delayed as a result of the cancellation and delay of flights due to the eruption of the volcano in Iceland. On Sunday, April 18, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held an emergency meeting about the situation with the air public.