Standard & Poor's (S&P) International rating agency does not exclude the possibility of lowering the US credit rating. This is due to the deterioration of the budget stability of the state, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. At the moment, the United States retain the AAA rating with a "stable" forecast.

The designers of Miyava Tetsu and Itimura Sigenori published the concept of a mobile phone with a flexible lid called Bio on the Yankodesign website, Ferra.ru reports. Under the lid is a touch screen, which, as necessary, can change and demonstrate a virtual keyboard, video, different controls, applications and so on. An interesting way of communicating a phone with the owner, invented by Japanese designers.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Lithuania has terminated the investigation related to the possible action in Lithuania of the secret prison of the CIA . According to Delfi , during the investigation, the actions of the former heads of the Department of State Security of Lithuania and their possible abuse of official position were considered.

The ordinary died on Friday in the afternoon, shooting in himself twice at the Elansky garrison training ground in the Kamyshlovsky district of the Sverdlovsk region. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Penza television and radio company "Our House". Private Pavel Makarov served in the 4th company of the motorized rifle regiment No. 140 of military unit 44959. At the training ground, he performed a fire exercise and fired two shots from automatic weapons.

The Pentagon refutes the information that appeared in some Russian media that the United States allegedly promised to put Georgia with air and anti -tank defense. "Messages in the Russian press regarding the alleged sale of weapons to Georgia are false information," the representative of the US Department of Defense said, RIA Novosti reported. The questions about whether the United States is ready to supply Georgian weapons, the official representative of the Pentagon Wendy L.

The chief engineer of the branch of RusHydro "Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station" Andrei Mitrofanov was charged as part of a criminal case of an accident at the station.

The United States recognized the new ambassador to the Cote-D'Ivoir in Washington the representative of the opposition leader Alassan Wattara. This was stated by the official representative of the State Department, Philip Crowley. The administration consider Wattar the winner in the last presidential election. "The United States provided Agreman to the candidate for the position of Ambassador of the Cot -D'Ivoir to the United States, which was nominated by President Alassan Wattara," he said.

Tunisia President Zin Al-Abidin Ben Ali left the country and flew to France, and the authorities in the state passed to the military, Interfax reports with reference to Al Jazeera. The president’s functions will be temporarily performed by Prime Minister Muhammad Gannushi. Meanwhile, in France itself, the arrival of the Tunisian president in Paris does not know anything.

The SUV participating in the Dakar-2011 rally crashed on Thursday into a small truck, the driver of which 42-year-old Marcelus, subsequently died, the competition organizers said. The accident occurred on the highway number 60 near the village of Tinogast in the Argentinean Province of Katamarka. In the jeep of Toyota Hilux were the racer Eduardo Amor and the navigator Alejandro phenoglio - both of Argentina. Their car jumped into the oncoming lane and crashed into an old truck at great speed.

More than a third of the Japanese are not interested in sex or even a disgust for him. Such data were received by the country's authorities by conducting a sociological study, according to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph . It is natural that the birth rate in Japan is low: only 121 children are born per 100 families, while to maintain a stable population you need at least 208 children per 100 families.

Analysts from the NPD Group appreciated the computer games in the USA, including video games, games for social networks and mobile applications, in 2010 at $ 15.4-15.6 billion. At the same time, compared with 2009, the costs of games decreased by 1%, RIA Novosti reports.

WikiLeaks transferred 15.1 thousand dollars to the defense fund for the analyst of American intelligence Bradley Bradley Manning . He is suspected that he handed over to this organization the confidential documents of the US State Department. According to the head of the organization "Bradley defense of Bradley Manning" Mike Gogulski, together with the contribution of Wikileaks, the total amount of money he collected amounted to 100 thousand dollars.

In 2010, the number of viruses created and widespread by cyber-mentors was almost a third of all existing viruses. Such data, according to CyberSecuruty.ru , are given in the next annual viral activity report published by the Pandalabs laboratory. To date, the database of the "collective mind", created by Panda Security, contains 134 million unique files. Of these, 60 million are malicious (viruses, worms, trojans and other computer threats).

The legendary British company Caterham, which has occupied an honorable place in the world gallery of sports car manufacturers for more than half a century, presented in Birmingham its first new product in the last 17 years, which, according to the company, will be just as fast in the sprint from 0 to 100 km/h , as the fastest production car on the planet - the French supercar Bugatti Veyron.

In New York, at the age of 91, the famous Broadway producer Ellen Stuart died. According to its representative, she suffered from heart disease for a long time. In 1961, the artist Stewart founded the experimental theater-studio "La Mam", which very quickly grew into a theater company, known for its unexpected and creative productions.