The season of tennis tournaments on the ground is in full swing, having completed large tournaments in Rome and Berlin, elite tennis echelons changed places. This week, women will play the title in Italy, on the same paraps of Foro Italiko, where Masters ended the day before. Men moved to Germany, however, not to the capital, but to the largest city of the northern part of the country - Hamburg, where another trophy of the level of super -girl is at stake.

The novel "Double" by the Nobel laureate of Jose Saramago to the Portuguese Laureate of the Nobel Prize in the literature of Jose Saramago is not directly observed reality - many of his books were built on surrealistic assumptions. The situation described in the novel "Double" is not as global as in other works of Saramago.

The locomotive of the ascending movement is the oil shares of yesterday the domestic stock market continued growth. According to the results of the session, the RTS index added 1.63%, reaching the mark of 2321.14 points. The opening of the auction took place with a rupture up in the cost of most blue chips on average within 1%.

Almost 12 thousand people became the victims of the earthquake in China, the number of people who died from earthquakes in the province of Sichuan already amounted to 11 thousand 921 people. According to the Chinese State Agency "Sinhua", the fate of 60 thousand inhabitants of the province is unknown. The country does not have data on foreigners injured during the earthquake.

18:48 // 05/13/2008 Natalya Timakova was appointed spokesman for the President of Russia, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the Kremlin press service. Timakova became the first woman - spokesman for the head of the Russian state. Earlier, for six years, she headed the press service of the President of the Russian Federation (since 2004-the press service and information department). Source: gzt.ru

The family of the Austrian maniac was reunited by Elizabeth Fritzl, who for 24 years forcibly kept the gardener in the basement, spoke about the suffering she had experienced and her newly acquired family. The woman admitted that she would never want to see her father again. During an emotional meeting with her mother Rosemary, Fritzl 42-year-old Elizabeth burst into tears. “I can't believe that I am free. Is it you? I can’t believe that I'm not there anymore.

16:00 // 05/13/2008 The leadership of the European Union decided to start negotiations with Russia to conclude a new basic agreement on cooperation between the Russian Federation, reported with reference to an unnamed diplomatic source agency France Press. According to the source, this decision was made at a meeting of 27 countries of the European Union passing on Tuesday in Brussels.

Athletes do not agree to pass tests every day by the professional football players Wayne Runi, Stephen Jerrard and John Terry united with famous cricketers such as Andrew Flintoff, in the struggle against the plans of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to tighten doping control. There they intend to oblige the players every day to inform laboratory assistants taking them for doping samples, about where they will be located within an hour. New rules should enter into force on January 1, 2009.

Regular intake of a certain painkiller reduces the risk of oncological diseases. The use of one aspirin tablet per day can protect thousands of women from the most common form of breast cancer. An experiment in which 127 thousand women who took this medicine participated showed that as a result, the risk of the disease is reduced by 16%.

13:52 // 05/13/2008 The founder of the Great National Party, Alexander Chervyakov, will appear in Moscow for the organization of an extremist community. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District. Chervyakov was detained by the employees of the Center for Combating Terrorism Glavka a year ago.

09:03 // 05/13/2008 The Russian Embassy in the PRC did not receive any information about the Russians who suffered in a powerful earthquake in China, the head of the consular department of the Russian diplomatic department in Beijing Leonid Ignatenko told RIA Novosti . "We did not receive data on the injured Russians," said the diplomat.

Rich foreigners, due to tax tightening, leave the British capital 11 years ago, when I was sitting in a restaurant under the picture of Damien Herst and, eating a newfangled log, interviewed Derek Fatestt, then just appointed by the Minister during the “cool British” period (the end of the 1990s, which was characterized by an rise in patriotism and increased interest in the British culture), everything seemed a joke.

13:09 // 05/13/2008 The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg will be open to visitors in December 2008, acting reporters. The Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kozhin. “Our main task is to finish all work by December of this year,” he said, adding that from this moment the library will be open to visitors.

Joseph Frytzl did not give up his daughter Boyfrand Andreas K. in his youth, was in love with the Austrian girl, whom for many years the father locked in the basement of the house. Now the 42-year-old man first spoke about his relationship with her. In 1984, K. studied at a local college with Elizabeth Fritzl. They both were 18 years old. According to him, Miss Fritzl, whom he called Sissy, was pretty, but very serious and closed. K.

15:13 // 05/13/2008 A network of automobile systems for women drivers will appear in Yekaterinburg and large cities of the Ural Federal District. The initiator of the project, a student of the Ural State University, Rosaliya Mansurov, is sure that the service will be very in demand. “The first complex that opens in Yekaterinburg will be designed for two cars and a beauty salon,” she said. “The standard washing usually includes washing and drying the body, cleaning the cabin and takes 40 minutes.