The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud al-Faisal, denied the posts of the 86-year-old King Abdalla Ben Abdel Aziza As-Sauda that appeared on Tuesday, Reuters reports. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the king is in the "excellent" state. “He undergoes therapeutic procedures, as you know. Doctors advise you to go through a certain amount of procedures. But the king feels twice better than the same.

One of the most revered icons of the Holy Mount Athos was delivered to Moscow today. Six days, until February 15, the image of the Mother of God "Sweet Lighting" will be available for prayer worship in the Assumption Church in the pottery in the Taganka area, which is also known as the Bulgarian Compound.

In Ukraine, a sentence to an employee of one of the state enterprises in the aircraft industry, which published drawings of a military transport aircraft on the Internet, entered into force. About this, Interfax reports on Thursday the press center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The defendant was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison with a probation with a trial period of 2 years.

Kyrgyzstan is invited to distribute in parts for rent to other states and create the United States of Kyrgyzstan in its place. This unexpected initiative came from an employee of the Kyrgyz State Fund for the development of Economics Uranus Chekirbaev and is contained in his article , published on the Akipress website in the section of readers' letters.

The International Hockey Federation (IIHF) has decided to standardize the transcription of Russian surnames and names, the IIHF official website reports. The new rules will also act for Belarusian and Kazakhstani players, and for the Ukrainian language their own standards for writing surnames are introduced, RIA Novosti clarifies. So, instead of the old version of Fedorov, more correct Fyodorov will be used, Yevgeni will change Evgeny, and Mytischi will be simplified to mytishi.

In the UK, Twitter is officially recognized as a source of public information. So the commission on complaints about the press, which analyzed the complaint of one of the officials to use its private correspondence in the newspapers, decided RIA Novosti .

The famous French actor Gerard Depardieu visited the N1 Children's City Hospital in St. Petersburg with a charitable mission in St. Petersburg. The hospital received medical equipment from it in the amount of 2 million rubles - an artificial ventilation apparatus and infusion pumps for the dosed supply of drugs to children in the intensive care unit, ITAR -TASS reports. In an interview with reporters, Gerard Depardieu said that he got acquainted with the work of St.

The list of the most sexy stewardesses in the world was headed by the flight attendants of Virgin Atlantic, Business Traveler said. 53% of 1000 interviewed participants in the Business Travel and Meetings Show, which took place in London, voted for them. British flight attendants ahead of Singapore Airlines (Singapore), Etihad (United Arab Emirates), Emirates (also AIR Lingus (Ireland), which received 18%, 12%, 11% and 6% of the vote, were ahead of the Airlines.

Every fifth Russian bank may theoretically interest the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in connection with the concentration of funds that are at one source of funding in the liability of funds, Finmarket reports. The means of individuals exceed 50% of the liabilities of 170 Russian banks, it follows from the Interfax-100 Ranking, prepared by Interfax-SEA in 2010.

In the hands of Chinese hackers, information on the expansion of five large international oil and gas companies fell into the hands of plans. Specialists of the developer of antivirus programs McAfee called the attack "Night Dragon". What kind of oil gigants suffered from computer crackers, it is not reported, Reuters reports. The stolen data is of great interest for competitors of injured companies, McAfee employees say.

The comic incident occurred on Thursday at a meeting of the Moldova Parliament when discussing a bill on students' participation in the process of decision-making in higher educational institutions: a deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova Grigory Belostochny, who is also the rector of the Moldavian Economic Academy, pulled the deputy from the opposition party of the Communists Grigory Petrenko.

Somali pirates liberated the South Korean fishing trawler GEUMMI 305. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, 39 Kenyans, two South Koreans and two Chinese are on board GEUMI 305, ITAR-TASS reports. The trawler was captured on October 9 last year near the Kenyan Island of Lama. So far it remains incomprehensible whether the sea bandits have received a ransom. Currently, the ship is heading towards international waters, where he will be assisted.

The structures of the founder of the Gunvor oil plotter Gennady Timchenko acquired a control package of shares of OJSC Murmansk Sea Trade Port (MMTP), Interfax reports with reference to a source familiar with the deal. “The deal was closed, the port belongs to him (Timchenko, - approx.),” The agency’s interlocutor said. Another source in the industry confirmed that it was planned to close the deal on February 10-12, 2011.

Over the past few months, Google received more than a hundred warnings about copyright violations from film studios included in the American film -astriculation (Motion Picture Association of America, MPAA). Film studios and recording studios every year send tens of thousands of such warnings to Internet users suspected of using file-sharing programs. In the letters of the "pirates" they persuade more not to do this and threaten various kinds of troubles.

The cost of reconstruction of the Moscow Zoo could reach one billion dollars, while it will end no earlier than in five years, Vladimir Spitsin, general director of the Moscow Zoo, said on Thursday. “The reconstruction of the Moscow Zoo, according to my rough estimates, cost about 800 million dollars, maybe close to a billion. I mean not only the zoo, which is located in the city, but also the construction that we are carrying out outside the city.