The US Navy took delivery of its newest attack nuclear submarine on Saturday afternoon, Military.Com reported. The ceremony for the commissioning of the Virginia-class submarine SSN 776, dubbed "Hawaii", took place at the docks in Groton, Connecticut at 11:00 Saturday local time (19:00 Moscow time). The ceremony took place in the presence of the head of the US Navy, Donald C. Winter. Speaking about the submarine, he noted that Hawaii is currently the most modern nuclear submarine in the world.

A 4-year-old British girl, Madeleine McCann, was kidnapped in Portugal over the past 24 hours, The Telegraph writes on Saturday. The baby was stolen from a locked bungalow while the parents were dining nearby with friends, checking on the sleeping Madeleine and their other two children, two-year-old twins Emelie and Sean, every half hour.

On Saturday, about twenty supporters of the legalization of marijuana were detained in the center of Moscow on Arbat, a Lenta.Ru correspondent reported from the scene. Young people gathered to hold the “Hemp March” event, which was not authorized by the city authorities. At about 12:00, those gathered tried to march along Old Arbat, but were immediately stopped by police officers. Six detainees were taken to the Arbat district police station.

On Saturday, the website of the Communist Party of Ukraine www.kpu.net.ua was subject to a hacker attack. As stated in the message on the first page of the site, restoration work is currently underway. Administrators apologize to visitors for the inconvenience. It is not yet clear whether the incident is related to online hooliganism or to the actions of political opponents of Ukrainian communists.

Representatives of the youth movements “Young Guard”, “Ours” and “Locals” burned an effigy of Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip in Vladivostok on Saturday , news agency “Data.Ru” reports . Activists gathered on the city's Sportivnaya embankment raised slogans: “To the President of Estonia – a new Nuremberg”, “For the monument – ​​to its former place”, “The Government of Estonia – to the fire”.

In the United States, Prince Abdul Majid bin Abdul Aziz, governor of the Muslim holy city of Mecca and a close relative of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, died on Saturday. This was reported by France Presse , citing official sources in Riyadh. The cause of the governor's death was a long illness. The agency's sources refused to specify what disease the prince died from. Abdul Majid bin Abdul Aziz was 65 years old.

The suspected crash site of the Kenya Airways plane, which carried 114 people, is in the jungle, which greatly complicates the search and rescue operation, AFP quoted a statement from Cameroonian authorities. Representatives of the headquarters of the search and rescue operation organized by Cameroon on Saturday evening did not confirm earlier information that the crash site of the Boeing 737-800 had already been discovered. “We are continuing the search.

During engineering reconnaissance, an improvised explosive device was discovered in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, the ITAR-TASS agency reported on Saturday . The device consisted of a 152 mm artillery shell, a plastic bottle with explosives and an electric detonator. Employees of the city's military commandant's office discovered a bomb in a drainage pipe under the roadway and defused it on the spot. A search is underway for those involved in planting the explosive device.

The headquarters of the election campaign of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has already prepared a script for celebrations in honor of his victory in the elections, AFP reports . As one of the representatives of the election headquarters, who wished to remain anonymous, told the agency on Saturday, it is planned that the celebration of Sarkozy's victory will take place at the Place de la Concorde, located near the Seine embankment at the end of the Champs-Elysees.

On Friday in Athens, the Greek "Panathinaikos" beat the Spanish "Taugres" with a score of 67:53 and reached the final of the men's basketball Euroleague, where they will play with the Moscow CSKA. The most productive players for the winners were Sani Becirovic and Michael Baptiste, who scored 15 points each. CSKA reached the final, defeating the Spanish Unicaja. The main match of the Euroleague will take place on Sunday, May 6, starting at 22:30 Moscow time.

The German Film Academy announced the winners of its awards for 2007 late on Friday, Reuters reports. The Lola award, considered the German equivalent of the Oscar, in the main category - "best film of the year" - went to the film "Vier Minuten" ("Four Minutes") - a drama about the relationship between an elderly music teacher and a young prisoner. Monica Bleibtreu was named best actress for her role in “Four Minutes,” directed by Chris Krause.

A 19-year-old Estonian citizen named Dmitry was detained in Tallinn, the Interfax agency reported on Saturday , citing the country's state prosecutor's office. According to the prosecutor's office, Dmitry is an active participant in discussions on forums, and during the riots in Tallinn he helped organize and coordinate hacker attacks on the servers of Estonian government agencies.

Nepal's King Gyanendra has become the country's worst utility defaulter, owing electricity suppliers more than 30 million rupees ($460,000), AFP reported Saturday , citing local media. His Majesty stopped paying electricity bills in 2005, after gaining absolute power in the country. An unnamed Nepalese government official told local journalists that bills were regularly sent to the king himself and his relatives, but they remained unpaid and unanswered.

Over the past 24 hours, the area of ​​taiga fires in the Irkutsk region has increased 10 times and amounted to over 2,300 hectares, ITAR-TASS reported on Saturday with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The most difficult situation is developing near the city of Tulun, where 280 hectares of taiga are burning, as well as near the settlements of Moto-Bodary and Tungusy, where 250 and 380 hectares are engulfed in fire, respectively.

The creation of the political party "Great Russia" was announced in Moscow on Saturday, reports the Interfax agency . The founding congress of the new association brought together more than two hundred delegates. The organizing committee of "Great Russia" included the leader of the Congress of Russian Communities (CRC) Dmitry Rogozin , State Duma deputy Andrei Savelyev and the leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) Alexander Belov (Potkin).