Sony recently demonstrated a prototype of a flexible display based on “electronic paper” in Tokyo, Ferra.ru reports with reference to Engadget . Such screens, the image on which is formed from a “liquid” powder controlled by an electric field, consume practically no electricity during operation (only when turned on and at the stage of changing the image), in addition, they do not flicker, so working with them is completely safe for the eyes.

The last summer has been the hottest in the world in the last 12 years, however, in the entire history of meteorological observations, higher temperatures have been recorded, the US National Directorate on the Ocean and Atmosphere (Noaa) claims. As American experts calculated, the average temperature of the water and land surface from June to August of this year was 16.2 degrees Celsius. For the entire twentieth century, it was equal to 15.6 degrees.

In the near future, moped drivers will be required to study in driving schools and obtain a license; the head of the Transport Committee, Sergei Shishkarev, submitted a corresponding bill to the State Duma. The amendments were prepared in accordance with the instructions of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. They are clarifying vehicle categories and also introducing accreditation for driving schools.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered the Alternative Union of Cinema-Union filmmakers, the 37-year-old director, the creator of the Free Swimming movie Boris Khlebnikov, was elected its chairman, ITAR-TASS reports.

The release in France is already the second biography of the first lady of the country Karl Bruni, “Karl and the ambition” this week, turned into a scandal. The book provides a conversation between Bruni with Michelle Obama, during which the latter allegedly called its life in the White House "hell". “Do not ask. This is hell. I can’t bear it,” Michelle Obama allegedly answered Bruni's question regarding her life as the first lady of the United States.

Judicial hearings in the case of an American major who killed Ford-Chud 13 people in 2009 will be held in open mode. Such a decision was made by a military judge, Colonel James Paul, during the second meeting in this case. The lawyer of the accused demanded that the hearing be closed, but the chairman of the military tribunal insisted at a public hearing, ITAR-TASS reports.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov denied rumors about his impending appointment to the post of mayor of Moscow instead of the fiery of strict criticism of the media Yuri Luzhkov. Thus, as the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Friday, three candidates for this position remained. "Where I was just not appointed. I went to forty -year in forty years," Ivanov said on Friday to reporters in Sochi. He assured that it remains to work in the government, Interfax reports.

The Swiss police caught an elderly citizen who wounded the policeman and kept law enforcement agencies for more than a week, Canton Bern police reported. "Peter Hans Knebul was detained early on Friday on September 17, 2010 in the area of ​​Bill Berne Cantonal Police," it was said in a commander who quoted on Friday, which is quoted by RIA Novosti . According to the police, when detained, Knebul received a small injury - he was bitten by a police dog.

The associates of Nikolai Alekseev, the leader of the Moscow gays and the organizer of the gay parades prohibited by the metropolitan authorities, are convinced that the SMS messages from his phone that he revoked all the claims from the European Court of Human Rights and asks for political asylum in Belarus - this is a provocation of special services. In addition, representatives of Belarusian sex organizations did not confirm that Alekseev is in their country.

The revolutionary decision of the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) on the transition to the system of organizing the country's championship according to the autumn-spring scheme, adopted on September 13 at the Executive Committee of the RFU , turned out to be not as unanimous as the current head of the Union Sergei Fursenko tried. He stated that the decision was made by a majority of votes with one voice against and one abstained.

The European Football Union (UEFA) may punish the French Club of Marseille for the fact that he could not ensure security measures during the match of the Champions League group stage against the Moscow Spartak ( 0: 1 ), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the local edition of La Provence . According to the source, one of the fans of the Russian team ran out during the game on the field with the intention of talking with two central defenders of the red and white.

After the match of the first round of the group stage of the Europa League UEFA Dynamo (Kiev) - BATE (2: 2), the head coach of Kiev Valery Gazzaev filed a request for retired from his position. Club President Igor Surkis rejected the coach’s request. Thus, the Russian specialist will still prepare the upcoming matches in the championship and the Cup of Ukraine, as well as in the Europa League, Dynamo, the team’s press service reports.

The famous playwright and director Nikolai Kolyada put in Yekaterinburg a performance-concert in the language of gestures "Old Songs of the Main." The project is a kind of illustration in the language of gestures of more than 20 well-known songs, for example, “There are girls”, “Last train”, “Green-eyed taxi” and others, ITAR-TASS reports. “Nikolai Kolyada gathered songs in a concert: sometimes touching to tears, sometimes funny and sentimental,” the agency told the theater.

The speech of the Pope Benedict XVI , with which he performed on the eve of Edinburgh during the solemn reception , which he gave him in his Scottish residence, Holirud House Korolev Elizabeth II, caused criticism from the British atheists. In this speech, dad connected an atheistic ideology with the ideology of Nazism. Atheists said that the thoughts expressed by Pontiff were a terrifying slander against unbelievers.

The State Inspectorate for Monitoring the use of Real Estate in Moscow was fined the apparatus of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for organizing illegal parking in Georgievsky Lane for 40 thousand rubles, RIA Novosti writes with reference to a source in the State Inspection of Real Estate.