Information security experts found a number of critical vulnerabilities in x -ray scanners used at American airports. This was written by Securitylab with reference to the message of an anonymous user on Slashdot.org. The study was conducted by employees of the University of California at San Diego, the University of Michigan and the University of John Hopkins.

The Kiev authorities could shed light on the fate of the photo correspondent of the MIA Russia today Andrei Stenin, the State Duma speaker of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin is sure. At the same time, he noticed that what happened to the Russian journalist does not bother the West. The day before, we recall that Stenin's mother turned to the International Red Cross Committee for help.

At least 415,800 people were forced to leave their homes as a result of military operations between government forces and separatists in the east of Ukraine, Global Post reports with reference to the Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for UN Refugees. According to the latest estimates of the UVKB, at least 190 thousand people moved from the beginning of the conflict within Ukraine, while 197,400 people, fleeing the war, arrived in Russia.

Warner Bros. I announced a list of actors who will be involved in the work on the "Book of the Jungle: the beginning" of Andy Serkis . Two more Hollywood stars joined the project: Kate Blanchett and Christian Bale. Earlier, Benedict Cumberbatch was approved on one of the main roles, the Russian edition of The Hollywood Reporter reports. Baile will voice Bagira, and Blanchett - Python Kaa.

Famous Hollywood director Brian Hutton, who shot Clint Eastwood in his famous drama "where the eagles are nested" and in the film "Heroes of Kelly", as well as Frank Sinatra in the gloomy police drama "The First Deadly Sin), died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, reports The Hollywood Reporter . As the director’s long -time friend, producer El Raddy, told the publication, Hatton died a week after his heart attack.

The British media discusses The Times, the fact of the existence of an "elite group of about 500 sperm donors, which, as it turned out, are biological fathers over 6,200 children." Each of these children recently has the right to find out the truth about his father. The publication claims that information about successful donors is quite official and collected from clinics engaged in artificial fertilization throughout the country.

The government asked Rosneft, which requested unprecedented financial assistance in the amount of 1.5 trillion rubles, to justify its needs for money, RBC reports. The appeal to support Rosneft, the head of the state -owned company Igor Sechin sent Dmitry Medvedev a few weeks ago, was told by the agency by an official familiar with the discussion of this problem in the government.

While in Russia officials began the fight against McDonald's restaurants, mercilessly closing even the most important metropolitan - on Pushkinskaya Square, the Western press decided to recall the most unusual McDonald's. The review of such institutions the day before published several publications at once, including The Mirror and Yahoo! Travel . Here are a dozen of the most curious of them.

While operatives are looking for a killer of three -year -old Vika Vylegzhanina , stolen on August 14 from a kindergarten in Tomsk and found dead after five days of large -scale searches, the city hall is in a hurry to notify the results of the circumstances of this emergency special commission of the Department of Education.

The second generation of the Chevrolet Niva SUV, a prototype of which will be presented at the Moscow Motor Show next week, will receive a French engine, Wroom reports with reference to the Chevy-Niva Club forum. According to the website, the Chevrolet Niva is designed on a new platform with permanent all-wheel drive and reduction gear. The car will be equipped with a 1.8-liter engine producing 136 hp. (torque - 172 Nm).

The Russian women's volleyball team beat the Belgium team in the match of the "finals of the six" of the world Grand Prix. The meeting in Tokyo ended with the victory of the wards of Yuri Marichev with a score of 3-0 (25:23, 25:16, 25:19). The most effective in our team became Natalya Malykh (18) and Tatyana Kosheleva (14). In the starting game, the Russians lost to Japan (1: 3). The Russian team will hold the next match on Friday against Turkey, the press service of the WFV reports.

“The idea of ​​invincibility is part of the palette of Russian exceptionalism. Indeed, it is enough to look at the dynamics of the growth of the Moscow principality, which in 600 years turned from a de facto Horde ulus into an empire spread out on the shores of three oceans, to understand: Russia has won many military successes. At the same time, it was far from the only country that was so rapidly expanding its borders. Let us recall in this regard at least the USA, China and the UK.

To date, 1 million 400 million Russian passports have been issued to residents of Crimea, the results of the campaign have not yet been summed up. The acting head of the region Sergey Aksenov says that for those who do not have time to get a document until a single voting day, a separate procedure for participating in the elections that will be held on September 14 will be developed. “I think that all citizens will receive Russian passports.

Ukraine will be able to reach zero growth of GDP not earlier than 2017. Such a forecast was made earlier by the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Pavel Sheremet.

Former Femen activist, a native of Tunisia Amin Tyler SBUI, sentenced to death for the photo of the toples, but who renounced the movement and went to France, was detained in Paris by the police and was demolished for a fight with a woman dressed in Pararange. According to the French Le Nouvel Observateur , the incident occurred in the evening on Wednesday next to the area of ​​the Bastille.