Apple Inc. In September, it plans to present the updated version of its iPhone smartphone, which will install a more powerful processor and improved camera. According to Interfax with reference to the Bloomberg agency, the A5 microprocessor will receive a new device-the same as in the iPad 2 tablet, as well as an 8-megapixel chamber instead of a 5-megapixel, which is now on the iPhone 4.

Roman journalists turned on Wednesday to the Pope Benedict XVI with an unusual request - to appoint his predecessor of the Blessed John Paul II (in the world of Karol Voithil) by the "heavenly patron of all the employees of the communications of the electronic era." The chairman of the Roman Chronicle Association Romano Bartolini during the collective audience of the Vatican Sovereign on St.

Gazprom SchWeiz (part of Gazprom Export ") was headed by Matthias Varnig, one of the old acquaintances of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin even for work in intelligence in the GDR. He is already heading the operator of the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, is a member of the VTB Supervisory Board, Rossiya Bank and is a candidate for the Councils of Directors of Rosneft and Transneft.

The number of European tourists who came to Russia in the first quarter of 2011 decreased sharply. The fault of this, first of all, is a lot of bureaucratic barriers that foreigners should overcome in order to get a Russian visa. As it turned out, despite the active desire of the Russian authorities to cancel the visas with the EU, in fact, for some reason, they only complicate the life of European tourists who want to visit the Russian Federation.

The Indian police banned Google corporations take photographs of streets for the Street View application in the city of Bangalor - a large administrative center in the south of the country, where the largest Indian technology parks and offices of IT companies are located.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the police and special services detained the leader of the informal group "Antifa-Rash" ("Red Anarchy Skinheads") and his associate.

American bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. He agreed to pay $ 153.6 million to stop the US securities and exchanges initiated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding incomplete disclosure of information about mortgage bonds sold by the bank, writes The Wall Street Journal . According to SEC, in 2007, JPMorgan proposed to his customers, including the General Motors Co.

The Hollywood actor Sean Connery, due to the fault of Internet players, became the hero of an extremely unpleasant story and, possibly, involuntarily participated in viral advertising. Bloggers around the world misled the fake letter of “Agent 007” to the head of Apple to Steve Jobsa: in it, the star artist allegedly in extremely rude expressions refused to advertise “apple” products.

On Wednesday, clashes between Catholics and Protestants continued on Wednesday in the capital of Northern Ireland, a photo correspondent received a firearm in the leg, ITAR-TASS reports. The clashes between extremist youth from among the two communities continue on the border of two quarters in the east of the city - inhabited by the Protestants of Newtaunard -Road and the Short Strand populated from the Catholics of June 20.

Turkish doctors will support the life of the body of Russian tourist Victoria Nikolaeva, who, on Tuesday night after fake alcohol at the resort of Bodrum, noted the death of the brain . Turkish laws prohibit disconnecting from the equipment of artificial maintenance of even hopeless patients, explains RIA Novosti . Doctors of the University Hospital, the doctors of the university hospital, stated Nikolaeva's cerebral circulation on June 20.

On June 21, the annual general meeting of shareholders of Norilsk Nickel elected new members of the company's board of directors. 25 candidates from the main shareholders claimed 13 seats, four representatives of Interros (Andrey Bugrov, Sergey Barbashev, Marianna Zakharov and Larisa Zelkova), two from Rusal (Oleg Deripaska and Maxim Sokov), one from Trafigura (Claude Dofin), Metalloinvest (Farhad Moshiri) and), and two. management (head of the GMC Vladimir Strelkovsky).

The Russian authorities will allow only those companies that have a sufficient amount of financial resources for the elimination of force majeure, in particular oil spills, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government, recalling the spill of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, RIA Novosti reports.

On the southern part of the island of Sakhalin, there was a eruption of a mud volcano, which could be associated with natural disasters - an earthquake and tsunami - in March in Japan . This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the press secretary of the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (IMGIG) of the Far Eastern Railways Olga Shestakova.

The Federation Council on Wednesday approved the law “On the Technical Inspection of Vehicles” adopted by the State Duma, ITAR-TASS reports. It is assumed that in the next two years, motorists will be able to choose one of the two options for passing the inspection - at the current stations for 700 rubles or in new technical centers for a not yet certain cost, which is expected to be two or even three times higher.

In Argentina, the hotel of the author of the films “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” Francis Ford Coppola was robbed again. This is not the first time that a hotel owned by the legendary American film director has been robbed. In 2007, robbers took filming equipment and computers from this hotel, writes Prian.ru . This time the attackers stole money and valuables from the guests. How and when exactly the robbery took place is not reported.