Iceland has headed the updated rating of countries on the level of development of information and communication technologies, published by the International Union of Electric Network (ITU). The three rating leaders also included South Korea and Switzerland - a year earlier these countries took the first and fourth places in the ranking, respectively, and Iceland was in second place.

A group of researchers from the Federal Polytechnic School Lausanne developed a robot resembling Danio-Roerio fish and intended to study real fish of this species and interaction with them. According to TJ , the length of the robot imitating a popular aquarium fish is seven centimeters (a little more than the middle individual). To control the movement of the robot, an external module equipped with a magnet is used, which is located under the aquarium.

A senior Australian diplomat died on the eve of New York, breaking when falling from the roof of the building on Manhattan. The Australian went out onto the terrace with his acquaintances to admire the Empire-List-Building skyscraper, stained in the colors of the rainbow in honor of the past referendum on the legalization of same-sex marriages in Australia.

The US State Department carefully monitors the fate of the Russian bill that allows the media to recognize the media by foreign agents, and how it will be implemented, but believes that in Russia the American analogue of this initiative is incorrectly interpreted - the US Law on Registration of Foreign Agents (Fara), the official representative of the State Department said on Wednesday.

The Twitter service announced changes in the verification system of user accounts. This was reported in several records published in the official Twitter microblog . As Republic explains, the reason for revising Twitter policy in the field of verification of user accounts was a scandal that occurred in early November. Then it turned out that Twitter was verified by the account of the organizer of the American nationalist rally in Charlotsville Jason Cassler.

Representatives of the Democratic Party in the US Congress announced the beginning of the impeachment of President Trump, accusing him of violating the Constitution, the Voice of America reports. This is not the first attempt by the opponents of the head of the White House to launch the procedure.

The Parisian court granted the lawsuit of the first racket of the world of the Spaniard Rafael Nadal against the former Minister of Sports of France Roselin Batell, who unfounded him of using doping. In March last year, Batell in a television interview stated that Nadal missed seven months in 2012, not due to the injury, as it was announced, but due to positive doping tests. At the same time, the ex-official did not provide any evidence.

The creation of a system of marking all goods will be entrusted with the Center for the Development of Promising Technologies (Central Department Store), which is controlled by the USM Holdings Alisher Usmanov, the State Corporation Rostec and Almaz Capital Partners Alexander Galitsky, writes the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to two federal officials and to sources close to the Central Bank and to one of the parties transactions.

PJSC Gazprom will significantly increase this year on charity, Bloomberg reports citing the company's internal document. "The Board of Directors of the Russian gas giant approved an increase in the target volume of charity donations by 60% to a record 26.3 billion rubles ($ 438 million)," writes the newspaper that received this information from the source within the concern. It is noted that most of the funds are planned to be sent to projects within the Russian Federation.

British traveler Benedict Allen, who disappeared a few weeks ago in Papua - New Guinea, apparently, "alive and well." This was announced by his friend and colleague Frank Gardner on his Twitter page. According to Gardner, Allen was seen near the runway. When exactly this happened, Gardner did not specify, however, according to him, this happened after it was announced that Allen was not in touch.

The search engines Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler, the "satellite" and Google stopped displaying in the search results for a link to pirate sites blocked on an ongoing basis by decision of the Moscow City Court. "At the moment, search engines have stopped access to 786 pirate sites entered in the register of Internet resources with content distributed in violation of intellectual property rights," the statement published on the Roskomnadzor website said.

Deputies of the State Duma found a way of uninterrupted replenishment of both the federal budget and the pockets of Russians. To do this, they proposed building a city in Siberia in Siberia. The author of the initiative Boris Chernyshev has already sent his proposal to the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov and the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. "Mining-city will help people to earn money, buy apartments and other things they need.

In the Pechersky district of Kyiv, an employee of the Russian embassy hit a woman with a child at a pedestrian crossing. Both victims were diagnosed with soft tissue bruises. At the same time, they did not require hospitalization. A criminal case was opened against an employee of the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation, UNIAN reports. The incident occurred last Sunday, November 12, but the general public became known only now.

Law enforcement officers find out the circumstances of the death of two prisoners who were in one of the cameras of the Butyrka investigative insulator. According to preliminary data, both defendants committed suicide with an interval of 12 o’clock. About the death of the cellmates told "Interfax" a member of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) Eva Merkacheva.

In the State Duma, until December 15, amendments and proposals will be adopted in the government bill on the introduction of the People’s Inspector Institute, which proposes to make decisions on the appointment of administrative punishments for violations of traffic rules (traffic rules) without drawing up a protocol for traffic inspectors, conducting a preliminary verification and searching for a violator, if the violation was removed to the video and sent to the traffic police through the