Italian Ambassador in New Delhi recalled home for consultations because of the prosecution in the Indian state of Kerala, two Italian marines. February 15 Massimiliano Salvatore Latorre and Girona was a peaceful Indian fishermen pirates and shot them. On Friday, May 18, sailors charged with murder.

In the north-western Pakistan on Thursday, May 17, there was a collision of two training aircraft National Air Force. All four pilots on board were killed on both machines. In addition, injuries to residents of the village, where one of the planes crashed. What kind of machine in question was not specified.

Democratic senators Charles Schumer and Bob Casey proposed to adopt a bill that would impose a tax on Americans who renounce citizenship for tax evasion. The bill was proposed after it became aware of the refusal of the U.S. citizenship of one of the founders of Facebook.

In Arkhangelsk, May 18 nine wooden houses were burned. The fire started in the outbuildings, and then the fire moved into residential building, fueled by strong winds. All residents were evacuated and no injuries. According to city administration, the homeless were about 300 people.

In the Spassky district of Primorye, where May 18 at an ammunition depot explosions occurred, arrived governor of the region Vladimir Miklushevsky. He joined the surgical staff of the aftermath of an emergency. A fire resulting from explosions, filled with water amphibian Emergency Situations Ministry. Subsequent quenching technique will land.

Elista City Court May 18 reinstated in the position of Acting City Manager Tseren Denisova, who was fired in April, a group of deputies of the city. The court found the decision illegal. Elista is still without a permanent chief of staff since March 2012.

In Chuvashia, sentenced to 15 days in jail chief editor of the local newspaper "bribe" Edward Mochalov. Among the Court's May 17 Mochalov threw an egg into the building of the Supreme Court of Chuvashia, thereby committing petty crimes. Earlier Glavred "Bribes" was fined for throwing eggs at the building of the prosecutor's office of the republic.

IKEA France has dismissed four executives involved in the surveillance of customers and employees. Division of the Swedish company had left the former managing director, former personnel director, a former chief financial officer and acting director of risk management. The company did not name names retired.

Russia's largest publishing house - "Penguin Books" - is negotiating a takeover of its main competitor - the ACT Group, told Business media with reference to market participants. The deal could become the largest in the history of Russian book publishing market. Its amount is estimated at about $ 400 million.

The first auction of shares Facebook, which were to begin at 19:00 Moscow time on hold. Most likely, the delay is due to technical reasons, because too many investors wanted to participate in securities trading Facebook. IPO social network has become one of the largest in U.S. history.

The new president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development appointed a citizen of Great Britain Suma Chakrabarti. He will replace Thomas Mirow, and will become the first Briton to head the Bank. Currently, Chakrabarti has served as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice of the United Kingdom.

Acting Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina sent to Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev report, which offered to sell to the "open market" government stake in Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port. Now the main contenders for the asset is "Rosneft" and the "sum".

Biologists have found that the ovary of the flower is strictly controls the germination of pollen pollinate it - immediately after fertilization, it is not available for all latecomers dust. But if fertilization of the egg for some reason did not happen, "Race dust" begins again.

Physicists first time succeeded in nuclear magnetic resonance parameters for plutonium. He was the last element for which these parameters remained unknown. The new findings will help in studying the chemical properties of the compounds of this element and, consequently, will clarify the processes of nuclear waste.

The investigation stopped a criminal case against businessman Parviz Yasinovo, suspected of assaulting the daughter of Michael Barshchevsky. Yasinovo suspected that he had organized the attack on the car, which was Natalia Barshchevskaya. The case was closed due to lack of evidence.

Estonian truck driver, who addressed the St. Petersburg police a statement about the hijacking of a truck, died in hospital of Pushkin. The cause of death was injuries when falling from a ladder at the exit from the police station. It is noted that the victim was a few days in a drinking bout.

Microblogging service Twitter to recommend interesting accounts of users based on pages they visited. The analysis will be done with the buttons and widgets service installed on the third-party resources. The user can disable Twitter to collect this information.

Google's search engine will display a summary of information about the object that the user is looking directly in the search results. Volume and data set will depend on the particular request. Formed "encyclopedic" block not only with the help of open data, but also on the basis of user requests.

In Berlin, at the age of 86 years died on the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. This opera singer, considered one of the greatest artists of the XX century, especially known for his recordings of songs, including the song cycle "Winterreise" by Franz Schubert. A total of 50-year career, the singer released a few hundred records.

Cmogut Muscovites get into the museums, theaters and galleries during the "Night of Museums", which will be held from 19 to 20 May, with no queues. You must register online promotions and select a convenient time to visit this or that organization. Tickets will be issued volunteers in front of the museum.

British prosecutors will examine television channel Sky News report about the users Twitter, who uncovered the name of the alleged rape victim, which accused the Welsh football player Chad Evans. TV channel said that the tweets with the name of the victim accidentally hit the report, but were visible in it less than a second.

Talk show host Larry King called Larry King Now will air in the summer of 2012, although the initial launch was planned in the fall. The transfer will be launched simultaneously with the online channel Ora.TV, who signed a contract with King. Transmission format will resemble Larry King Live, which appeared on CNN for 25 years.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova defeated Venus Williams in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Rome. The meeting ended with a score of 6:4, 6:3 in favor of the Russians. In the semifinals, Sharapova will play with a German or a Czech lady Angelica Kerber Petra Kvitova, who will match each other later on May 18.

In the center of Kiev, where in June will be organized by the official fan-zone Euro 2012 football endeared Barrow-predictor. During the championship of the continent it will be every day to make predictions on the results of the upcoming matches. In addition to the boar, the results of matches of Euro 2012 will be an octopus to predict Pavlik.

Member of pop group Take That, Gary Barlow, as well as a composer Edryu Lloy Weber and musicians from the countries of the Commonwealth wrote to the anniversary of the Board of British Queen Elizabeth II festive song. The song is called "Sing" and will be played at celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen.

Self singer Amy Winehouse, written with her blood, was sold at auction auction house Cob Gallery for 35 thousand pounds. This is significantly lower than the preliminary assessment item, which ranged from 50 to 80 thousand pounds. At the auction, and sold half a dozen lots, associated with boyfriend Pete Doherty Winehouse.

U.S. company General Dynamics has introduced a new light machine gun LWMMG caliber .388. The machine gun is comparable in weight and dimensions of 7.62 mm and is designed to provide firepower at the level of 12.7 millimeters. Effective range is 1.7 kilometers gun.

The last Russian carrier rocket "Soyuz-U" on Thursday, May 17, put into orbit a military reconnaissance satellite, "Cobalt-M." Relevant information is posted on the website Gunter's Space Page. In the Russian Defense Ministry said only that the spacecraft was the code name "Cosmos-2480".

Microsoft has described in the patent search service matching between applications for different mobile operating systems. It is intended to facilitate the user to switch from one platform to another. Service will scan the program on the old device and pick up their analogs for the new unit.

Plastic Logic, developer of the Russian "school tablet," ceases to manufacture a "book readers." Instead of ready-made devices, the company will produce electronic components. Plastic Logic will close a plant in California, but will keep the company in Dresden and Cambridge. In 2013 or 2014 will earn a plant in Zelenograd.

The company "Auto Cell", which won the tender for the placement of advertisements in the Moscow metro, has agreed to reduce the contract amount from 2.4 to 1.6 billion rubles. Amount of the contract the company has offered itself at auction in 2011, despite the fact that market participants called it excessive.

Volgograd regional court forbade advertising MMM-2011. The ban applies to the site and Sergey-Mavrodi.com system "is much we can" ("MMM-2011"). The ban was imposed after an appeal by the prosecution vologogradskoy, who lost the case on banning advertising MMM in January 2012.

24-year-old Zeinab Suyunova that tried to implement the "New" attack on the Red Square, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. She was found guilty of banditry, attempted act of terrorism, illegal weapons possession and manufacture of explosives. Suyunova will serve his sentence in a penal colony.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia, was sentenced to 24 years in prison organizer of the attack on the market in Vladikavkaz Ali Daurbekova. It is established that he was a member of the gang Daurbekov "Magas". He arranged the attack on the order of the leaders of thugs. Previously been convicted two other organizers of the attack.

In the center of Moscow on 19 and 20 May in connection with the repair work will be blocked traffic on the street Znamenka. Earlier it was reported May 20 on the limitation of motion in the center of Moscow in connection with the veloparada "Let's bike it!". At the time of the event is planned to cover the number of embankments of the Moscow River and Moskvoretsky bridge.

Energy company "Gazprom" auctioned fleet of 73 vehicles from the 1997-2007 production starting price of 32.1 million rubles. The proposal includes 66 passenger Mercedes-Benz cars of various classes and modifications, eight Audi A8 L, and two minibus Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time will be released for the PS Vita. The release of a new Sly Cooper game about the same time held both the handheld console, and console PS3. The output of the project is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2012. His studio is engaged in the development of Sanzaru Games, which previously ported the first game of Sly on the PS3.

Microsoft and Studio 343 Industries introduced a limited edition of Halo 4. The number of bonuses that will be included in the Limited Edition, hit nine multiplayer maps, as well as early access to the "majors", which will be in multiplayer mode. Halo 4 Limited Edition will cost players $ 99.99.

Police in Frankfurt-am-Main on May 18th for a few hours detained at least 400 protesters who held demonstrations throughout the city center. Detention began after some activists began erecting barricades, signs, and to break the hold protest sit in the roadway of the streets.

Rapper Iranian Shahin Najafi, who lives now in Germany, told the police on the Ayatollah of Iran, accusing him of death threats. Previously, the Ayatollah issued a fatwa, calling kill the musician for insulting religion. For the rapper's head in his homeland promised 100,000 euros.

From the house in Makhachkala, where security forces blocked the suspected militants, after talks came out, according to various sources, two or three women and two children and a man who is known as an accomplice of militants. Sam alleged gunman also tried to get out and threw a grenade at riot police, and again disappeared into the house.

In Makhachkala, a crowd of 150-200 people blocked the street, trying to prevent the holding of a special operation to capture militants barricaded in a private home. Law enforcement officials are trying to persuade people to disperse. With the militants also being negotiated.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili acknowledged the existence anomaly. Such a statement he made during his visit to the United States when he spoke at Princeton University. According to Saakashvili, Georgia (and its current leadership) can be considered an anomaly, "because Russia had planned, but could not destroy it."

Activists of the right-wing organizations, UNA-UNSO and the "Patriots of Ukraine" Kyiv smashed office, engaged in distribution of state lottery tickets. This was reported in the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine. Sami activists argue that we are talking about an illegal gambling establishment.

Radical imams in the mosques have become Tunisian encourage young people to go to Syria for "jihad" against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. According to official figures, about 400 of the nearly five thousand mosques of Tunis are managed by radical Islamists. That there is such a propaganda.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused "Al-Qaeda" in the terrorist attacks committed in Damascus on May 10 that killed 55 people. UN Secretary General has called the incident "a huge, serious and significant terrorist attack" and said that the incident "once again created a very serious problem."

The heir to the throne of the exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, May 18 called on Israel to assist the overthrow of the theocratic regime in their homeland. At the same time, he said that the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities will not achieve any positive change in the region.

Iranian military revealed the principle of the intercepted American UAV RQ-170 Sentinel and started building it up. This was stated by the head of the aerospace division of the Revolutionary Guards, Ali Amir Hajizade. Iran intercepted top-secret U.S. drone in December 2011.