The largest US Bank in terms of assets - JPMorgan Chase - lost $ 143 million on a loan for one client for the fourth quarter of 2017. This was reported in the materials of the financial organization. The bank did not name the client with whom the losses are associated, as well as the reasons why they occurred. Bloomberg sources claim that Steinhoff International Holdings from South Africa, which turned out to be involved in the financial reporting scandal.

In Las Vegas, an exhibition of consumer electronics Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is being completed. In 2018, a record number of companies took part in it - over four thousand. A distinctive feature of CES-both large players of the IT market and small startups come to the event, which have a chance to present their products and ideas to the general public.

On January 12, the Paris police announced that absolutely all the jewelry stolen on Wednesday from the Ritz Hotel in the city center were found in a bag that robbers dropped while trying to hide. It is reported by Reuters . Robbery The armed raid on the Ritz Hotel, on the ground floor of which there are boutiques of the largest jewelry companies in France, was perfect in the evening of January 10. Three criminals armed with pistols broke into shops and defeated the windows.

The BBC media corporation is “deeply struck” by the conversation of his two journalists, in which they joked at the gender gap in wages. The host of Radio 4 John Humphris and the editor of the North America section John Sopel was discussing their colleague Carrie Grace, who was fired due to the difference in the salary of men and women. The recording of the conversation of Humphris and Sopel was at the disposal of the Sun tabloid and Times newspapers. Journalists talked before the broadcast.

Scientists have discovered large ice deposits on Mars, located almost at the surface of the planet, which can serve as a potential source of water for future human missions. The corresponding study is published in Science, its main results are given by Reuters . In their work, researchers used images of the American apparatus Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has studied the atmosphere and landscape of Mars since 2006.

US President Donald Trump on January 12 confirmed that he canceled the visit to the UK, planned at the end of February 2018.

The founder of the Amazon service and one of the richest entrepreneurs in the world of Jeff Bezos, together with his wife, promised to donate $ 33 million Dream.us organization, writes New York Times. She supports those migrants who came to the USA under the DACA program - she defended illegal migrants from the deportation of children. Dream.us noted that the donation became the largest in the entire history of the organization.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow refused to satisfy the application for the parole of the alleged leader of the Khalkie-Boltai hacker group Vladimir Anikeev. It is reported by Interfax . The hearing on January 12 was held closed due to the fact that the case contains materials with the “secret” stamp. With a petition about Udo Anikeev, he turned at the end of December 2017. In July 2017, Anikeeva was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony.

Sales of new cars in Russia in 2017 increased by 11.9% and exceeded 1.59 million units. This is stated in a press release from the European Business Association (AEB). In 2016, the decline in the car market of the Russian Federation amounted to 11%, and in 2015 - 36%. As a result, in 2017, the Russian car market showed growth for the first time in five years .

The State Duma deputies at a meeting on January 12 adopted a bill in the first reading, which provides for the recognition of media individuals - foreign agents. The broadcast of the meeting is on the Duma site. For the adoption of amendments, 333 deputies voted, against - one, abstained - one. The Communist Party of the Communist Party, LDPR and Fair Russia did not vote . An individual who receives foreign financing and publicly disseminates information may be recognized as a foreign agent.

Researchers from Kyoto University have developed a neural network that can reproduce images that a person saw on the basis of his brain activity. The preprint of the work is published on Biorxiv, its brief description gives N+1. As part of the experiment, scientists showed three of its image participants and, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, read brain activity. In total, 1,200 different images were shown, each of them is at least five times.

Peter Pavlensky. Photo: Reuters On January eleventh of the previously detained head of the Chechen branch of Memorial, Oyub Titiev was charged with drug storage. The analysis of criminal cases of the persecution of civil activists shows that drugs are now a reason for pressure in isolated cases, but already three times in Chechnya. Subscribe to read the whole Make a subscription Redefine.media to read Republic Subscribe [you can pay for a Russian or foreign card.

Boris Nemtsov. Photo: Oleg Dyachenko / TASS Senator Oleg Morozov, who worked in the Kremlin by the head of the Department of Internal Policy and told after the resignation that he had repeatedly accepted his old friend Boris Nemtsov in his office, now, commenting on the appearance of Nemtsov Square in Washington, writes that the Americans seem to say to Nemtsov: we will use the dead you.

In Germany on January 12, Christian Democrats (CDS/CSS), who won the autumn elections, led by Angel Merkel, managed to agree on a coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Almost four months have passed after the elections, for Germany, there was actually unprecedented so long absence of an agreement on the coalition. Initially, the SDP announced the refusal of negotiations with the Merkel party.

VIP cameras in the investigative insulator "Sailor Silence" equipped thanks to "humanitarian assistance from prisoners." This was reported by RBC with reference to the source, and also confirmed Ivan Mironov, the lawyer of the main “sponsor” of repairs, convicted of fraud by Dionysius Zolotov, who also takes place in the case of the former director of Roscosmos, who was killed in pre -trial detention center, Vladimir Evdokimov. Mironov also spoke about the repair of TASS and Business FM .