In Russia, the number of cars equipped with a special signal was reduced by two units. The Migules were selected from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and now there are 140 blue beacons for officials of this department, reports on Wednesday RIA Novosti with reference to a document from the Bank of federal regulatory and administrative acts. Thus, there was no cardinal reduction in the number of “flashing lights”.

NATO announced the completion of the first phase of the military operation in Libya, which was aimed at stabilizing the situation, and moved to the second phase, the main goal of which is the destruction of the command posts of Muammar Gaddafi. Representatives of the alliance once again emphasized that the colonel himself was not talking about eliminating the colonel himself.

The Federal Service of Rosalko -Alregulia proposed to introduce EGAIS (Unified State Automated Information System) for wholesale and retail links. The initiative was published at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the end of April, Kommersant said. "With indexing the excise tax, retail prices will increase, which can affect the volume of illegal products entering the market," the RAR press service explains.

United Russia, which deployed a campaign against the speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, almost literally struck him below the belt. The regional branch of the party in St.

In Taganrog, a 12-year-old schoolgirl Victoria Serebryakova shot himself due to unrequited love. On May 9, a student of the sixth grade entered the courtyard of her house and shot her chest. As the investigation established, this happened from 22:00 to 23:30 Moscow time, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee in the Rostov Region.

The US police are investigating the circumstances of shooting at the University of the California city of San Jose. There, three people died from bullets, including the attacker himself. The crime was committed in a multilevel campus parking lot. The sounds of shots were heard at about 20:30 Tuesday, writes California Beat . Two people died at the scene. And the third, which is supposed to open the shooting, died shortly after arriving at the hospital.

The State Duma requires immediate punishment for Ukrainian nationalists who have unconstered Lviv during festive events dedicated to Victory Day. On Wednesday adopted on the basis of the draft statement "in connection with extremist manifestations in the city of Lviv during the celebration of Victory Day" deputies sharply condemned the trick of extremists.

Teachers of one of the schools of Scotland decided to arrange a funny flash mob: in the assembly hall, where about 600 students gathered, they suddenly set off on a dance. The dance procession Bill Black, director of the Bell Baxter school in Kupar, and the County of Feif. Senior schoolchildren had to complete classes for independent preparation for final exams. The teachers decided to cheer them up before such a tense period, explains BBC .

The work of the Cannes Festival began with the show for journalists of the film by Woody Allen "Midnight in Paris" and from the communication of the film crew with the press, Interfax reports. The new tape was shown on Wednesday twice before the filming group of the picture opened the Cannes Festival. The film "Midnight in Paris" talks about a couple who came before the wedding to the French capital.

weddings, writes The Daily Telegraph . The private jet carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge landed at 7:20 a.m. Wednesday morning at the island nation's main airport, a Seychelles tourism department spokesman said. From the airport they were taken by helicopter to a separate island, where they will spend 10 days in a carefully guarded villa. The name of the island is not reported.

The State Pension Fund demanded to tighten the responsibility of non -state funds in order to stop a whole wave of fraud, which has swept throughout Russia. Thousands of people who suddenly found out that their savings were transferred to non -state pension funds were victims, Vesti reports. Over the past two weeks alone, three and a half thousand complaints have come to the State Pension Fund. Non -state pension funds are now storming, the channel claims.

Scientists from the University College of London made an interesting discovery regarding the impact of masterpieces on human psychology. A group of researchers, led by a professor of neurobiology, Semir Zaki came to the conclusion that the contemplation of paintings by famous masters - such as, for example, Sandro Botticelli and William Turner, causes a feeling that is that a person experiences in a state of love, ITAR -TASS reports.

In the largest social network Facebook, perhaps, there was a leak of personal data of users. According to RBC , experts said one of the antivirus company Symantes about this. "According to our estimates, as of April 2011, the possibility of leakage of confidential data is present at about 100 thousand applications for Facebook," Symantec told in her blog.

Last year, German banks had to replace about a third of ATMs because of the increased cases of fraud, reports The Financial Times Deutschland . The total expenses for the replacement of machines reached 60 million euros, which is one and a half times higher than similar expenses a year earlier.

In the first three months of 2011, residential real estate of the United States fell by an average of 3%. This is the most significant quarterly decrease in prices since the crisis of 2008, writes Prian.ru . The American real estate portal Zillow analyzed the situation in 132 local markets. According to the results of this study, in 97% of the US cities in the first quarter there was a drop in housing prices.