The world-famous octopus Paul, accurately guessing the winners of the 2010 World Cup, predicted the results of the mundial. Without any hesitation, he "announced" that the Spanish team would win in a Sunday match with the Netherlands team. Paul gave the third place at the championship to his compatriots - the Germans, in his opinion, will win in the comforting final against Uruguay. As before, two feeders with national flags were offered an octopus.

Every tenth Russian considers businessman Roman Abramovich the most successful domestic entrepreneur, showed the July survey of the Public Opinion Foundation , conducted in 44 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The second place in the ranking was taken by the president of the ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov (4%). The following are the heads of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais, Interros Vladimir Potanin, Boris Berezovsky, the head of the Intaco Elena Baturina (2%each).

The Patriarch of Kiev Filaret presented to President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who is 60 years old on July 9, a copy of the Bible in Ukrainian in a leather salary. "You have an important and difficult duty - to be the head of the Ukrainian state. I wish the Lord with His grace to help you fulfill this duty with dignity and for the good of our people," the congratulation of Filaret on the occasion of the president’s anniversary says.

In the north-west of Pakistan in the tribal region, Mokhmande, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the office of the head of the administration of the village of Yakka Gund, where the distribution of wheelchairs and equipment to the peasants passed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. As a result of the attack, the number of dead reached 65 people, more than 100 were injured, ITAR-TASS reports.

After a collision with China, the Kremlin ordered an expert study on the “phenomenon of the success of Chinese exporters” in the Egyptian weapons market. Experts believe that soon China will seriously complicate Moscow trade in weapons due to the cheapness of the products of its military -industrial complex, reports Gazeta.ru .

The leading Russian search engine "Yandex" launched the new Orange engine, which allows you to find fresh information a few minutes after its appearance on the Internet, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the company's press service. The new engine is aimed at finding the latest links. There are sites on the Internet that are not updated for a long time, and resources on which new pages appear every day.

In Moscow, two attacks on the prosecutor's office workers took place at the same time. In one case, the attackers selected a bag with money and documents, and in the other, they damaged the victim’s car with a baseball bat. In the west of Moscow, the criminals robbed the assistant prosecutor of the Southern Administrative District (South -Western Administrative Offenses), Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

Russian deep -sea apparatuses of MIR are ready to help with the elimination of oil leakage, which led to an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, said the captain of one of the bathyscaphers Mikhail Chernyaev. The Mira team has repeatedly discussed the problem of leakage and is ready to help only if everything is clearly prepared. There is still time for Russian devices to help eliminate the disaster, the captain of the British Corporation BBC said.

The organizers of the world championship in the Slovakia on Friday for one day interrupted the competition to honor the memory of the deceased on the eve of the Russian glider Alexander Martynov, RIA Novosti reports. According to the organizers, Alexander Martynov, piloting his glider, crashed 20 kilometers northeast of the city of Pryvidz in the central part of the country. The Commission of the Ministry of Transport is investigating the circumstances of the crash.

The British oil company BP, which is experiencing in extreme circumstances due to an accident in the Gulf of Mexico, plans to increase the assets from an amount of $ 15 billion to $ 15 billion, Bloomberg reports. “If it will be possible to get rid of other businesses, it will also be considered,” a source close to the company said. The BP Board will hold a meeting in the next two weeks to discuss the sales strategy.

The State Duma adopted on Friday in the second reading a scandalous bill, which allows the FSB to declare warnings to individuals. The relevant amendments to the current legislation submitted the Government of the Russian Federation for consideration of deputies, ITAR-TASS reports. The department is vested with the right to engage in crime prevention.

In Moscow, the awarding ceremony of the winner of the contest "Best Girl of the Year" according to the version of Playboy magazine. The competition was won by 22-year-old Volgogradka Lina Sambrish. According to the website of the contest "Beauty of Russia", the parameters of the winner (173-90–62–87). In an interview on the Russian -speaking site Playboy, the sambrish says that she is half a Moldavian. Lina is a reduction on behalf of Rodelin.

Officials, whose fault in the Sea of ​​Azov drowned Moscow schoolchildren , will be prosecuted. “At present, investigative actions are being carried out not only in the Azov camp and at the scene, but also at school number 1065 in Moscow, where documentation is removed,” the official representative of the SCP of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin told Interfax . According to him, "all officials whose fault took this tragedy, including officials of the Moscow school, will be held accountable.

French doctors performed full face transplantation to the patient, whose face is deformed due to a genetic disease. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the French newspaper Parisien . Surgeon Lauren Lantieri, who conducted the operation, stated that this is the world's first surgical intervention on person transplantation. In April, doctors from Spain conducted a partial transplant , transplanting two -thirds of facial fabrics.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Vice Speaker of the State Duma from the LDPR faction, threatened colleagues in the faction with exceptions to its ranks if someone decides to vote for a bill tightening the requirements for protesting shares using vehicles. “We do not give a single voice,” Zhirinovsky said at a State Duma meeting on Friday. According to him, the faction has nothing to do with this draft law and, moreover, at its meeting decided to vote against this legislative initiative, Interfax reports.