The new type of ants found by paleontologists in amber had a horn on which he planted his prey before drinking it to hemolymph. The ant was described by Phillip Barden from the New Jersey Technological Institute and his colleagues on the model from a piece of Burmese amber 98 million years old. According to the researchers, this ant was equipped with a whole set of weapons. He had jaws reminiscent of the shape of a saber with blades facing upwards. Paleontologists saw small hairs next to them.

The Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky made an official statement about the situation around the film by Alexei Matilda, who demanded to “hardly stop the pressure on the state and the film business from the unbelievable“ activists ”,” reports RBC . The Ministry of Culture “to the last tried to refrain” from interference in the scandal around the film by Alexei Teacher, but “recent events are forced to speak out with all certainty,” the document says.

After the presentation of the new models of its flagship smartphone iPhone 8 and X, Apple reduced the prices for already released smartphone models, Lenta reports. In particular, the iPhone 7 with 32 gigabytes of memory fell by 6 thousand - from 50 to 44 thousand, with a storage of 128 gigabytes - became cheaper than 5.5 thousand (52 thousand rubles). iPhone 7 Plus with 32 gigabytes of memory now costs 53 thousand rubles instead of 58, and 128 gigabytes - 61 thousand instead of 64.

The new head of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia will be recently resigned from the post of the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Georgy Luntovsky. About this, as reports RBC, said the current head of the Russia Association Anatoly Aksakov.

The Economist discusses the prospects of machine recognition of human faces. Technologies, the author writes, quickly master the human ability to read on faces, and these achievements quickly find practical application. In the United States, for example, person recognition technologies use churches to track attendance. In Britain, they are used by store owners to “recognize” thieves.

The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov commented on the explanations given by the editorial office of the German magazine Focus in connection with the material previously published on his pages containing insults to Vladimir Putin. “Rather, it throws a shadow to the reputation of the publication itself,” the representative of the Russian leader, the Focus attempt to justify the mention of the President of the Russian Federation in combination with the word “dog” appreciated.

The American Ministry of Internal Security imposed a ban on the use of antivirus software of the Russian company “Kaspersky Laboratory”, since it, according to the department, can be used by Moscow to obtain access to US government documents. The ban applies to all state institutions of the United States, reports Reuters with reference to the official statement of the MVB. Three months have received three months to remove Russian -made antivirus and choose another in a similar action.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky commented on his own statement that the bowl of his patience was overflowing in connection with the scandalous situation around the film by Alexei Matilda, Matilda - although before that he, as he claims, “ suffered for a long time ”.

Ornithologists have noticed that some raven-sovistuns who live in Australia are dipping their prey in the water before eating it. And their chicks, having matured, copies the behavior of parents. Gymnorhina Tibicen-a view of birds the size of a bluish dove or a little larger, living in Australia and on the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. Black and white bird colors make it partly similar to the forty, so in English it is called the Australian Magpie.

The Council of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia (Association "Russia") elected President of the organization of the former first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Georgy Luntovsky. Anatoly Aksakov, who held this position for the past 11 years, has been appointed chairman of the Association Council, TASS reports. The board of the association also elected a new composition of the council.

The new head of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia will be recently resigned from the post of the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Georgy Luntovsky. About this, as reports RBC, said the current head of the Russia Association Anatoly Aksakov.

Nikolai Petrov Voting at the house of AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Anton Kardashov On September 10, on a single voting day, when elections of different levels took place in 82 regions of Russia, elections were also held. According to media reports, opposition candidates announced victory in ten regions of the capital.

The German Focus weekly magazine did not intend to offend Russian President Vladimir Putin, using the word “dog” in the phrase about him, it was not translated into Russian, the Deutsche Welle writes into Russian.

The organizing committee of one of the most prestigious literary awards of our time-the Buker Prize-published the short list of applicants for its receipt this year. It traditionally included six novels of different authors, and three of them were written by Americans.

The Chairman of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker said that it was time to include Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen zone, as this would strengthen the external boundaries of the European Union, Interfax reports. “If we want to strengthen the European Union, then it should be more inclusive.