At the beginning of 2015, the head of Apple Tim Cook during a meeting with the founder of the Uber taxi service Travis Kalanik threatened to remove Uber from the Apple Privacy Rules for the APPLE confidentiality. This was written by The New York Times , citing sources familiar with the details of that meeting.

In 2016, the volume of military spending in the world increased by 0.4% compared to 2015 and reached $ 1.686 trillion. The United States and China remain the leaders in the costs of the costs, while Russia was broken into third place, squeezing Saudi Arabia. This is stated in the presentation of the report on the website of the Stockholm International Institute for Research Problems (Sipri).

At the Scherezhash ski resort in the Kemerovo region last Saturday, April 22, as part of the annual Grelkafest 2017 festival, a traditional descent of skis and snowboard fans and swimming fans took place from the mountain. According to the publication vse42.ru , the “naked” race became the most massive descent in swimsuits. 1498 skiers and snowboarders came down from the Green Mountain.

In the Brentwood area in the west of Los Angeles, the former mansion of Marilyn Monroe is sold. This is the only real estate that has ever belonged to the legendary actress. The house, decorated in the style of the Latin American estate, was built in 1929. The blonde star of Hollywood acquired it in early 1962 - after the screens of the drama "Restless", where she played with Clark Gabel and Montgomery Clift.

The free -style fighter Alexander Bogomoev, who suffered in a fight and got to the hospital, has already recovered. This was told by TASS by telephone by the head coach of the Russian team in freestyle wrestling Dzambolat Tedeev. Earlier, the President of the Russian wrestling Federation Mikhail Mamiashvili said that Bogomoev is in the hospital. “The crowd flew there, there was stabbing, everything turned out out of the blue,” Tedeeev said.

The Australian schoolboy from the new South Wales wanted to independently cross the continent from east to west, hijacked the car of his parents. The plans of the young driver were disrupted by the police, detaining him about the 1300th kilometer of traveling in Broken Hill. Perhaps he would have managed to drive much further, but last Saturday the police patrol drew attention to the car that was driving along the highway with a bumper dragging around the ground, BBC reports.

The British British Business and Transport Ministry approved a project for the development of unmanned technologies and testing them in passenger cars in London in 2019, Telegraph reports.

The organizer of the social march was detained and fined in Samara in support of the pensioners who took place on April 23, the deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma from the Communist Party faction Mikhail Matveev. He was taken into custody immediately after the procession on Lenin Avenue, which he himself reported on his Facebook account . The next day, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Samara fined it by 30 thousand rubles, the Interfax agency reports.

Hockey players Alexander Radulov, Nikita Zaitsev and Anton Belov were called to the Russian team to prepare for the World Cup - 2017, which will be held from May 5 to 21 in Cologne and Paris, according to the official website of the FCH. Today, the Russian national team has gathered in the NEC "Novogorsk" to prepare for the tournament.

The DPRK again activated the preparations for a new nuclear test, according to the South Korean newspaper Tona Ilbo with reference to the data of the US-Korean Institute of the School of Promising International Studies at the University of Jones Hopkins in Washington, TASS reports. According to the publication, at the North Korean nuclear training ground in the area of ​​the village of Pungeri, signs of active preparation for the next nuclear test were recorded.

Parking on the streets of Moscow on the upcoming May holidays will be free: "Parking holidays" will be valid on May 1, as well as May 8 and 9, the city administration said. "On April 30 and May 7, this is Sunday, so the parking will be free these days. Thus, in the upcoming festive decade it will be possible to park for free on April 30, May 1, as well as May 7, 8 and 9," the city hall spokesman specified TASS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society became interested in part of the presentation of the project "Studying the underwater world of the Arctic waters of Russia", dedicated to the hunting of the winged mollusk - the sea angel - to the marine line. Putin compared this lesson with his work.

Russia issued to Ukraine the former head of the State traffic inspectorate of Kyiv Nikolai Makarenko, accused in his homeland of receiving a bribe, TASS reports with reference to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. On March 2, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office satisfied the request of Ukrainian colleagues to issue Makarenko to bring to criminal liability for receiving unlawful benefits by an official under Part 3 of Art.

The Russian Capital Bank, on the instructions of the government, oversees the completion of the Su-155 facilities, will return the money in Shcherbink (Novomoskovsky AO) to the shareholders of the bankrupt development group, as the construction of houses cannot complete. According to Kommersant , the bank and owner of the section of Grandlex LLC, with which the Su-155 once agreed, did not agree in the price of land redeems.

Investigators of Yekaterinburg of the Sverdlovsk region opened a criminal case on the fact of bringing to the suicide of an elderly man who was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. A pensioner who survived a military in a fever decided to die after two scammers robbed him.