The net profit of the American corporation Apple in the third quarter of the 2012-2013 fiscal year, ending June 29, decreased by 21.8% - to $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per share, according to a financial report published on the company's website . A year ago, this figure was 8.8 billion, or $9.32 per share. The company's revenue for the reporting period was $35.3 billion, compared to $35 billion a year earlier, and gross quarterly profit was 36.9% (a year ago it was 42.8%).

A passport of a person suspected of involvement in the murder of the US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens last year was discovered during a search in the house of one of the leaders of the Muslim Brothers Hayrat al-Shater. According to sources that the Egyptian information portal al-Balyad refers, an activist of the Islamist movement, whose name is not reported, appears in the CIA list transferred to the countries of the region, ITAR-TASS reports.

The wife of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod and the prominent "United Russia" Oleg Sorokin found real estate abroad, mysteriously displayed in the declaration of her husband. This was announced on the eve of the State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov on his blog. According to the deputy, the records of two land plots of the Sorokin family were discovered in the registers of the azure coast of France. "They are located chic villas (262 and 440 sq.

Representatives of the Armenian community demanded from the Russia 1 television channel to publicly apologize to the driver of KAMAZ, Grachy Harutyunyan, accused of a deadly accident near Podolsky. The corresponding petition gained 12.5 thousand votes and will be transferred to the channel to the leadership. By the way, not only the Armenians were indignant at the report from the courtroom, which, according to the dissatisfied, was offensive to the accused.

Magomed Bilalov, accused in absentia of abuse of powers by 45 million rubles, is not hidden from the investigation and is ready to testify in London on the territory of the Russian embassy, ​​ITAR-TASS reports citing lawyer Alexander Asnis.

The scandal during the trial of Sergey Pomazun, who shot six people in the center of Belgorod on April 22, did not pass for the accused without a trace - another criminal case was instituted against him. Pomazun violated the article “Disrection for the Court”, screaming at Judge Nikolai Kudinov, the press service of the FSSP Office in the Belgorod Region reports.

An open letter of witnesses of the accident in Primorye, due to which the driver of the car was written , was written by a participant in the reprisals and his friends, RIA Novosti sources, close to the investigation. Thus, law enforcement officers rejected the alternative version of the collision of the motorcycle and Toyota Crown, because of which the biker, a girl who was traveling with him on a motorcycle, as well as a beaten car driver, died.

In just a couple of days in two regions of Russia, three human rights activists were killed, fighting violations in the environmental sphere. Two victims were shot right in the environmental camp in the Murmansk region, and their colleague was killed in Tatarstan. The double murder of ecologists was committed last Saturday in a camp broken near the Vesh Pumpdress fishing section in the Tersky district of the Murmansk region, the newspaper New Izvestia writes.

On Wednesday, the Mosgorsud started consideration on the merits of the criminal case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006 of the Novaya Gazeta observer. The process began with a scandal - the children of the murdered journalist refused to participate in it, accusing the court of "violation of their rights" when selection of jury, Rapsei reports.

In the Stavropol Territory, the investigation continues in a high -profile case of the alleged guards of a minor girl in a summer camp, to whom an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is involved. The chiefs of the tormentor were subjected to disciplinary punishments, and he himself is placed under house arrest . However, the victim now claims that she was stipulated by the guardian of order from romantic motives.

The fate of public television, which ended with money, hung in the balance. The remaining money is enough for the channel until September, the general director of OTR Anatoly Lysenko said on Wednesday.

The Vancouver club decided to fix it for the Russian striker Pavel Bure, who for seven seasons from 1991 to 1998 played for “Canax” under the “ten”, number 10, according to the official website of the Canadian Hockey Club of the NHL. The sweater with the name of the hockey player will appear under the ceiling of the Rogers home arena, but the date of the official withdrawal of the number from use has not yet been scheduled.

On Wednesday, ex-employee of the US special services Edward Snowden can leave the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport, where he has been in Moscow from Hong Kong on June 23. As the lawyer Anatoly Kucheren, who consulted the American, said on the eve of Izvestia , on July 24, the deadline for consideration of documents submitted to the Federal Migration Service (FMS) a week ago.

The police of the Moscow Region finds out the circumstances of the conflict, during which one person received gunshot wounds. The victim quarreled with a group of men of the Caucasian appearance.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan began consideration on the merits of a criminal case, initiated against civilian pedophile spouses. The attackers for several months sophisticatedly mocked a young child, who eventually fell ill with AIDS .