Sport There's only one left Mohamed bin Hammam withdraws his candidacy for the post of FIFA President Andrey Kartashov Mohammed bin Hammam has withdrawn his candidacy from the upcoming FIFA presidential elections. This happened the day before FIFA's ethics committee was to consider a case of corruption in the organization. The FIFA presidential elections became uncontested. The only competitor to the current head of the organization, Sepp Blatter, Mohammed bin Hammam, withdrew his candidacy.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is going to personally pay tribute to the deceased President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh, said press secretary of the head of government Dmitry Peskov . “The prime minister will definitely say goodbye to Bagapsh ,” Peskov told Interfax on Sunday . Earlier it became known that President Dmitry Medvedev intends to come to Abkhazia to say goodbye to Bagapsh . Peskov noted that in connection with this, the prime minister’s schedule is currently being adjusted.

The former lover of singer and actress Jessica Simpson, football player Tony Romo, got married to Candice Crawford on Saturday. Last year, Romo proposed to Candace, which the girl happily accepted. The former Miss Missouri and the NFL star did not name the wedding date for a long time, but then admitted that it would take place at the end of May. At a ceremony attended by many NFL stars, Candace received an 8-carat engagement ring with a diamond in the middle.

— 29.05.2011 06:31 — American activist Dan Choi, who was detained on Saturday at gay pride in Moscow and who in his homeland became the “face” of the struggle of sexual minorities for the abolition of discrimination in the armed forces, appealed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a demand to condemn the actions of the Russian authorities against representatives of sexual minorities.

Serbia will not announce the timing of General Ratko Mladic's extradition to The Hague for security reasons, Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric told Belgrade's Beta news agency. “The date of extradition will not be announced because there are security risks,” he said. Mladić , accused of war crimes by a criminal tribunal in The Hague, is currently being held in the Special Court in Belgrade. On Friday, the court decided to extradite Mladic .

President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh died early on Sunday morning in a Moscow clinic, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Rossiya 24 TV channel. A source in the administration of the President of the Republic confirmed information about the death of the head of Abkhazia, notes RIA Novosti . A week ago, Bagapsh underwent surgery on his right lung at Clinical Hospital No. 83 in Moscow. After this, conflicting information appeared about the state of health of the President of Abkhazia .

Mohamed bin Hammam has withdrawn his candidacy from the upcoming FIFA presidential elections. This happened a day before FIFA's ethics committee is due to consider a case of corruption in the organization. “I decided to run for FIFA president because I wanted and still want change in the organization,” the 62-year-old president of the Asian Football Confederation said in a statement.

For the first time in many years, a story dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky appeared on the air of a federal television channel. The Central Television program on the NTV channel in Sunday prime time showed a story dedicated to the history of the prosecution of the former head of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

29 May 2011, 20:24 Sports Fierce: “Wings” is a wounded beast Acting head coach of “Rostov” Vladimir Lyuty commented on the draw in the 11th round match of the Russian championship with “Wings of the Soviets” ( 2:2 ). “We led 2:0 in the first half, got a goal before the break,” Lyuty said on NTV-Plus. – Teams like “Wings” should not be allowed to raise their heads. They are like a wounded animal. Unfortunately, football is a game where if you don’t score, then they score on you.

The duties of the President of Abkhazia in connection with the death of Sergei Bagapsh will be performed by Vice President Alexander Ankvab for three months , said the Speaker of the Parliament of Abkhazia Nugzar Ashuba . “In accordance with the constitution of the Republic of Abkhazia, elections for the country’s president must take place after three months,” Ashuba told Interfax . Ankvab began acting as head of the republic when Bagapsh went to Moscow for an operation .

Italy's Deputy Economic Development Minister Daniela Melchiorre announced her resignation on Saturday in protest at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's comments that the country had become a "dictatorship of left-wing judges, " the BBC reported . Berlusconi announced this during the G8 summit in Deauville. Before the start of the round table negotiations, he suddenly approached American President Barack Obama , put his hand on his chair and began to tell him something.

Sport Manchester United doesn't learn from mistakes Barcelona won the Champions League Artem Kalinin Barcelona beat Manchester United in the Champions League final for the second time in three seasons. As in 2009 in Rome, Lionel Messi did not miss the opportunity to score in the decisive match, scoring the winning goal against Edwin van der Sar, who ended his career in this match.

A forensic doctor in Belgrade has concluded that former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic is fit to follow his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and that his condition does not require hospitalization, Mladic's son Darko told reporters on Sunday, citing a medical report. Mladic, who is accused by the ICTY of war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict, was arrested on Thursday in Serbia.

At least three candidates can lay claim to the presidency of Abkhazia after the sudden death of Sergei Bagapsh, believes , general director of the information and analytical center for the study of the post-Soviet space at Moscow State University Alexey Vlasov . He named acting head of state Alexander Ankvab , Prime Minister Sergei Shamba and former Vice President Raul Khadzhimba as possible candidates.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southwest of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The source of the tremors lay at a depth of about 10 km. The epicenter was located 440 km from the city of Bengkulu and 587 km from the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. Information about casualties and destruction, as well as the possibility of a tsunami, has not yet been received.