The American authorities reported the execution of John William King, sentenced to the highest degree of punishment in 1998 for the murder of African American James Berd. The verdict was carried out by making the convicted a deadly injection. In the same case, in 2011, Lawrence Russell Bruer was executed, and the third killer of Shown Allen is serving a life sentence. The murder in which they were found guilty were committed in the summer of 1998.

The Supreme Court of the Indian city of Maras issued a decision to cancel the ban on using the Tiktok video service and allowed to return this application to the AppStore and Google Play virtual stores, Reuters reports. The BYTEDANCE, which developed the application, reported that the ban on Tiktok, previously introduced by the Indian court, entailed “financial losses” in the amount of up to 600 thousand dollars per day and jeopardized over 250 jobs.

Representatives of national minorities in Ukraine will be able to study in schools in their language until September 1, 2023, Interfax reports. The Verkhovna Rada took into account the corresponding amendment when voting for the law on the mandatory use of the Ukrainian language.

“Czech Radio” (česk hospi Rozhlas) apologized to the Embassy of Ukraine in Prague for the heading of the article published on his website - “Jew at the head of the Ukrainian fascists”, which was about the victory of the showman of Vladimir Zelensky in the second round of the presidential election.

The head of the Council of Big Book experts, Mikhail Butov, said that the list of nominees for the prize is different from previous years and it was difficult to coordinate it, RIA Novosti reports. “This year was not like any at all. It is not so easy to explain why. There was a high percentage of books that deserve consideration, it was obvious that this year our literary titans were practically not presented ...

The Prime Minister Sri Lanka wounded Vikramasinghe explained in an interview with CNN , why law enforcement agencies did not arrest terrorists, knowing about the preparation of terrorist attacks in a few days. According to the prime minister, law enforcement agencies did not have sufficient evidence to take the proposed participants in the attack before they committed terrorist attacks.

Colonel Kirill Cherkalin, head of the FSB departments, was detained on suspicion of receiving especially large bribes, reports the Center for Public Relations of the FSB. According to media reports, Cherkalin was engaged in the banking sector in the management of economic crimes. The FSB officers, together with the TFR, detained employees of the same unit of Dmitry Frolov and Andrei Vasiliev, who were previously dismissed from military service for compromising circumstances.

Rosturism received an annual report of Russian outbound tourism operators for 2018 - the third in a row (they are submitted within the framework of the Law “On the Basics of Tourism Activities in the Russian Federation” until April 15 of each next year). The report indicates the number of served tourists - only those who have acquired "full -fledged" tours abroad, as well as the total cost of the sold vouchers, RBC emphasizes.

Sources in Ukrainian judicial circles claim that the team of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is making efforts to disrupt the inauguration of the new head of state - showman Vladimir Zelensky, who won the second round of the presidential election on April 21. According to sources, some supporters of Poroshenko “gather votes in the Constitutional Court for the resignation of his head Svyatoslav Shevchuk” and supposedly intend to organize a vote in the coming days.

The social network Facebook believes that the fine of American regulatory bodies for leakage of data to Cambridge Analytica, which she will inevitably pay, will be from $ 3 to 5 billion. It is reported by The Straits Times with reference to the representative of Facebook. Earlier it became known that in the first quarter of 2019, the profit of the social network fell by 51% compared to the same period of 2018 - up to $ 2.43 billion.

The new type of molesty-priest was opened in Siberia, the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center SB RAS reports. The caterpillars of this moth feed on the leaves of the same type of shrubs. At the moment, copies of a new type were found in Krasnoyarsk and Chita. The name “mining moths” becomes clear if you recall that the old meaning of the word “mine” was a “mine, underground passage”.

April 25 at 20:00 a three -day concert opens the House of Culture "Paper Factory". On the first day of the opening of the new club from the creators of the glass of Zinziver on Pokrovka, Bilingua and “O.G.” The Princess of Dreamy Bruck Ana, the Moscow artist and electrician Diana Burkot Rosemary Loves a Blackberry, hip-hop group “eat,” will perform a prince of a dreaming thigh, and the “eat” creative rebirth 2H Company-and the group “Still no”.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade prepared an appeal to the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts of the Russian Federation with a request to give a legal assessment of the actions of the enterprise that restricted the supply of glass containers by Crimean winemakers. “We believe that there is at least abuse of the dominant position in the market and restricting competition.

Scientists from the USA came to the conclusion that human language receptors are able to perceive not only taste, but also the smell. They believe that this discovery can be used in the fight against obesity, since adding sweet aromas to food will reduce sugar consumption. At the moment, specific language receptors are known for the perception of five tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and taste by the minds (more about them are described in the essay “Palette of Taste” ).

Specialists from Noosphere Technologies came to the conclusion that the most popular emoji among Russians are smiley fire, heart and Lol - laughing to tears, RBC reports. The orange-yellow light in the spring of 2019 was used almost 3 million times. The heart was used 2.8 million times, the smiley crying with laughter - 1.9 million times. Analysts also found that women use emoji one and a half times more often than men. The fair sex has the most popular heart, fire and green checkmark.