Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HL-DS), a joint venture of the Japanese and South Korean electronic giants, producing optical drives and laser discs, pleaded guilty in price conspiracy, Reuters reports. The district judge in San Francisco announced that HL-DS recognized the charges of 15 episodes as part of an investigation about the fact of a price conspiracy in the sale of optical discs and optical players for them in the US market from 2004 to 2009.

In the evening, on Wednesday, experts will try to make the first attempt to launch the motor installation of the Fobos-Gront interplanetary station, which was reported, she could not navigate the stars and did not go to the trajectory of the flight to Mars. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to an informed source in the missile and space industry, this attempt is scheduled for 21:16 Moscow time.

Former First Deputy Prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Ignatenko, passing in the so -called "gambling" and hiding from the investigation, was put on the international wanted list of Interpol, Interfax reports. Ignatenko is one of the main defendants in this high -profile business. According to the investigation, he received a bribe for almost 50 million rubles from the organizers of the illegal gambling business in the suburbs. He is also accused of 2 million rubles of fraud.

From the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Zenit-2SB launch vehicle launched, which displays the Fobos-Grunct automatic interplanetary station into space. As ITAR-TASS reports from the southern cosmodrome, the launch of the launch vehicle is made today at 00:16 Moscow time.

The main premiere is the concept of the Pivo 3 electric car. This model, as it is easy to understand from the name, is already the third variation on the topic of the city electric car, and we saw the previous series in the same Tokyo in 2005 and 2007, Drom.ru reports. Pivo is a triple car, the length of which does not exceed 3 meters. His electric motors are built into the wheels, and small dimensions and narrow tires allow you to make a roller 180 degrees on the road 4 meters wide.

The Pope Benedict XVI will meet with the 10-year-old Columbian girl Nooru Valentina Mugnos, he prayed for the liberation of which he prayed from the hands of the militants. The daughter of the mayor of the Colombian city of Fortul, located on the border with Venezuela, was stolen with his mother on September 29 this year, after which the mother was released, and the girl continued to be held hostage.

Russia has not yet intended to prohibit the import of cognacs and wines from Transnistria, but the audit of all alcohol coming from an unrecognized republic is constantly underway, the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko, announced. “Indeed, there are questions, they are resolved in a working order,” he said at a press conference in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Defense and the United Shipbuilding Company signed seven contracts for 280 billion rubles, announced Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who held a meeting on the marine unit of the state defense order for 2012 on Wednesday in Severodvinsk. Putin in Severodvinsk took part in the ceremony of signing contracts for the development and construction of new nuclear submarines of the Yasen and Borea class on OJSC Sevmash.

An employee of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Southern Administrative District, while driving, shot down a pedestrian, a policeman will be dismissed from the service, Interfax reports with reference to the press group of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

In the UK, a pilot of the elite aviation caps of British Air Forces Red Arrows (Red Arrows) broke up on Tuesday. The pilot died as a result of the incident at the Skempton air base in the county of Lincolnshir. This is the second loss in the pilot group over the past three months, RIA Novosti writes. The accident occurred in the Hawk T1 fighter, which at that moment was on the ground. For unknown reasons, the car traveled the catapulting system, which was in the pilot’s cab, threw into the air.

The former general director of the Italian football club Juventus Luciano Moji was sentenced to five years and four months in prison for participating in the sensational case of contractual matches that took place in 2006. Muji, already previously suspended from football, was found guilty of fraud and participation in an organized criminal group related to contractual games, Reuters reports.

In Moscow, the senior sergeant of the group of immediate response of the ATS of the district is a warm dan, which successfully underwent re -certification despite the criminal case started. The guard of order, along with a partner, appearing in the case file as the “captain of the nerd”, is suspected of mockery of an illegally detained citizen.

The main person involved in the case of the financial pyramid in Rostov-on-Don, from which almost three thousand people suffered,-Evgeny Semechkin died in the pre-trial detention center, the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service on Wednesday reported. According to him, the arrested died last Saturday. “During the walk, citizen Semeychkin fell and lost consciousness,” the representative of the press service of the GUFSIN region told RIA Novosti .

The profitability of the Italian government bonds exceeded 7% per annum, which can lead to an accelerated purchase of these securities by the European Central Bank (ECB). The rate on 10-year bonds of the Ministry of Finance of Italy increased on Wednesday, November 9, to 7.12%, which makes debts for Rome even more problematic, writes The Wall Street Journal .

The high commission, which mobile subscribers are forced to pay when replenishing their balance through payment terminals, can soon be canceled, RBC reports. Rospotrebnadzor, together with the consumer Union, creates a special working group that will develop appropriate amendments to the legislation. If they are accepted, the financial load will be transferred from subscribers to cellular operators.