In the second half of this year, KIA will present a completely new car specially created for Russia on the Russian market, the South Korean company said on its own website. The Russian representative office Kia is still hiding the details, meanwhile, the media became known which car was in question. The new car, the name of which is also kept in the strictest confidence, will be highlighted by a sports, aggressive design.

Google decided to deny the statements of the French company Vupen on the discovery of it by experts of vulnerability in the Chrome browser. The vulnerability used by researchers to circumvent the browser "sandbox" (a safe environment that makes it possible to penetrate the harmful code) is actually in Adobe Flash, the Internet giant claims. However, Vupen persistently claims that its researchers have successfully coped with the browser himself, reports Haker.ru .

Funds in the amount of 5.5 billion rubles, which will be additionally allocated for culture in 2011, will go to repair cultural objects and increase the salary of art workers, said at the meetings of the Committee on Culture of the State Duma of the Russian Federation its head Grigory Ivliev. The bill with appropriate amendments was received by the State Duma, and the relevant committee supported its adoption in the first reading.

The German economy is growing much faster than expected. For the first quarter of 2011, the GDP volume in Germany grew compared to the previous quarter by 1.5%, DW-World reports with reference to the Federal Statistical Office. The Government of Germany believed that the increase would be no more than 0.8%, and economists - no more than 1%.

On May 12, it became known that on May 4, the shareholder of OJSC TNK-VR Holding Andrei Prokhorov submitted a petition to ensure property interests to the Arbitration Court of the Tyumen region, the newspaper Kommersant writes.

The US Ministry of Justice launched an investigation against Google Corporation, which earned millions of dollars on advertising of illegal online points, writes The Wall Street Journal . The Internet company has already postponed $ 500 million, which will go to cover fines. According to the sources of the publication, Google posted an advertisement for Internet applications that have no licenses or sell forbidden drugs without recipes.

On Friday, the Central District Court of Kemerovo decided to recover 500 thousand rubles from the regional branch of the Communist Party in favor of the Governor of Kuzbass Aman Tuleyev, the representative of the plaintiff said.

The "star" State Duma deputies who came to politics from sports or show business reported on their income for 2010. The richest of them was the former gymnast Alina Kabaeva , who earned more than 14 million rubles. This is evidenced by income data published on the State Duma website .

The prosecutor during a meeting of the Court of the Zavodskoy district of Minsk on Friday over three participants in the events on December 19, 2010 in the Belarusian capital requested two years conditionally with a delay of two years for the journalist of the Russian Novaya Gazeta, Irina Halip , the wife of the ex -candidate of the President of Belarus Andrei Sannikov, also arrested in the case of rogue - the process over it takes place at the same time in the court in the court Partisan

The United States has a complete video of the special operation in Pakistani Abbottabad, where Osama Ben Laden was destroyed. Mini cameras, fixed on the helmets of all 25 special forces, captured every moment of those 40 minutes on the night of May 2. Now these shots are being reviewed in Washington, trying to restore the most clear picture of events. The CBS News television company showed an animation video based on already known and new facts.

The huge layer of the lava was found by American scientists under the surface of the IO, the satellite of Jupiter, ITAR-TASS reports. It is located in a molten and half -molten state, and its composition includes a special magmatic breed, found on the ground and capable of accumulating and transmitting electric current. The lava layer in significant quantities is able to nourish numerous volcanoes of the IO.

The American company Hewlett-Packard has replenished the line of accessories it issued by a computer mouse, for which the USB and Bluetooth porter is not needed. To connect, the mouse uses a WiFi adapter, which is in almost any modern computer. The novelty, which received the name of the Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse, will appear on the retail network in June, in the USA it will be sold for $ 49.9, 4PDA.RU reports.

Last year, the Russian authorities increasingly unreasonably prevented the manifestation of civil activity of the population, and law enforcement agencies and justice still cannot cope with the tasks of protecting human rights. Such conclusions are contained in the annual report of the famous human rights organization Amnesty International ("International Amnesty"), which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Two famous directors, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, will make a five -part documentary on how difficult it is to make films, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Variety movie publishing house. The project will be called Five Obstructions, and shooting will begin next year. Six years ago, von Trier had already done a project called "Five Obstacles" together with the Danish poet and film experimenter Yorgen in the summer.

The famous blogger Alexei Navalny, who unexpectedly turned out to be a defendant in a criminal case , told the details related to the charge, and at the same time explained why he was not afraid of claims. Navalny is convinced that the case is “complete nonsense”, and he will easily prove his innocence based on documents. Recall that the creator of the anti -corruption project "Rospil" is accused of causing property damage to the forestry.