As a result of a fire at an oil storage facility in Poland, 3 people died. The fire broke out at an oil refinery in Gdansk. A tank with 20 thousand cubic meters of gasoline caught fire. As a result, 3 employees of the plant, who checked the quality of gasoline in the tank, died. Petr Porozhinsky, press spokesman for the local fire service, told RIA Novosti that the fire broke out on Saturday and was extinguished on Sunday. The cause of the fire is now being investigated.

Seven people died in the collapse of a multi-storey residential building in Cairo, Egypt. Rescuers managed to pull a little girl out of the rubble, AP reports. A four-year-old child was seriously injured. The search for another person is still ongoing. According to doctors, 8 more people were injured.

The plane with the cosmonauts of the International Space Station landed at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow at 18.29. The heads of Rosaviakosmos and NASA Yuri Koptev and Sean O'Keefe, friends and relatives of the cosmonauts, meet the Russians Nikolai Budarin, who arrived from Astana, and the Americans Kenneth Bowersox and Donald Pettit. The astronauts are in good health.

On May 5, a monument to Academician Andrei Sakharov will be unveiled in St. Petersburg. The sculpture by Levon Lazarev will be installed near the University and the Library of the Academy of Sciences on the square named after the scientist.

The sculptural composition in memory of the famous Ukrainian football coach Valery Lobanovsky will be opened in Kyiv on May 11. The monument will be located near the Dynamo stadium. On Monday, May 12, the first International Football Tournament in memory of Lobanovsky starts. The tournament will open with a match between last season's Ukrainian champion Shakhtar Donetsk and Russia's 2002 vice-champion CSKA.

China's Ministry of Health on Sunday announced that 163 more people have contracted SARS and 7 more people have died from the disease. Thus, according to Reuters, in China, according to local authorities, 4,125 people are ill, 197 have died. Meanwhile, on Sunday, the Hong Kong government announced the death of five people who contracted SARS. 8 more cases have been registered. The total number of deaths from SARS here is already 184 people.

The strongest man in Ukraine, Vasily Virastyuk, set a new record by moving five trams weighing 101.5 tons by 17.9 meters. The record was set in Lviv during the celebration of the City Day, Interfax reports. In addition, Virastyuk also managed to carry two "suitcases" of 171 kg each for 19 meters and moved 10 cars.

Three Russians and a French lawyer who collaborated with them were detained in France on suspicion of money laundering. According to the Parisien newspaper, cited by RIA Novosti, the head of a Russian metallurgical company, a professional intermediary and their secretary have been detained. The newspaper does not indicate the surnames, naming only names, possibly fictitious: Ilya, Alexander and Karina.

On Saturday, in the Polish city of Gdansk, a tank with gasoline of the Polish oil company "Refinery of Gdansk" exploded, ITAR-TASS reports. According to witnesses, at first a column of fire several tens of meters high appeared above the tank. Then thick clouds of black smoke began to rise into the sky. Crews of fire trucks began to arrive at the scene of the fire, traffic was blocked for several kilometers of the Warsaw-Gdansk highway.

The boy, born in the family of Iraqi taxi driver Haytham Abed Ali, was named Bush in honor of the American president. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Iraqi newspaper Al-Iraq al-Jadid. The newspaper reports that little Bush's father was called Tito as a child. He received this name in honor of Yugoslav President Josef Broz Tito, who visited Iraq in the 1970s.

The crew of Expedition 26 to the ISS - Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin and two American astronauts Kenneth Bowersox and Donald Pettit - departed Astana at 15:00 on Sunday for Star City. This was reported to Interfax at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Upon arrival in Astana, the cosmonauts went down the ladder without outside help and headed to the airport building. The expected arrival time of the special flight to Moscow is about 18:00.

In the Arab village of Beit Omar in the Hebron region last night, the Israelis arrested 24 Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist activities or links to terrorist organizations. At present, according to RIA Novosti, the arrested are being interrogated by investigators of the Israeli General Security Service Shin Bet. According to the Israeli side, among those arrested are activists of the radical organization Hamas.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected in Moscow and the Moscow region on Sunday. "In the period 11.00-14.00 on May 4 in the Moscow region, starting from the western regions, in Moscow around 12 o'clock heavy rains are expected, in some places thunderstorms, with thunderstorm wind gusts of 15-17 m / s," Interfax was told at the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow areas. These phenomena will continue during the day of May 4 and into the first half of the night of May 5.

In connection with the holding on May 5, 2003 of the international cycling competition "Five Rings of Moscow" and the rehearsal of the festive parade on Red Square from 17.30 until the end of the events, traffic will be limited along the streets: Okhotny Ryad, Mokhovaya, B. Yakimanka, B.

The US Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance to Iraq has named the country's new oil minister. According to Reuters, citing an anonymous source among high-ranking Iraqi officials, Tamir Abbas Gadbhan will be appointed minister. The same source said that the former head of Royal Dutch / Shell in the US, Phillip Carroll, will become the chief adviser to the Iraqi oil ministry.