The Swiss national team beat the French team with a score of 4:1 at the World Hockey Championship, which takes place in the Canadian cities of Quebec and Halifax. This game took place within Group A of the preliminary stage, and earlier in this group the Swedes and Belarusians scored 11 goals against each other, and the Scandinavians won with a score of 6:5.

One person was killed and 16 injured on Saturday in an explosion at a paper mill in Redwood, Mississippi, USA. It was previously reported that several people were considered missing, but later the local police confirmed that all the victims had been found. The causes of the incident at the factory owned by International Paper have not yet been clarified. In total, the company employs about 300 people.

had a lead of only seven votes Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton following the results of Saturday's caucuses on the island of Guam, an unincorporated US territory, France Presse reports . The counting of votes lasted all night, the Associated Press noted. In the vote, residents in 14 of the island's 21 boroughs voted for the Illinois senator, with him receiving 2,264 votes to the former first lady's 2,257.

The editor-in-chief of the website Ingushetia.Ru, Roza Malsagova, was fined because her publication, which positions itself as a media outlet, does not have the appropriate registration. this to the Interfax agency on Sunday.

In the National Basketball Association, on the night of May 3-4, the matches of the second round of the playoffs (1/4 finals) began. The current association champion San Antonio Spurs lost to the New Orleans Hornets in the first match with a score of 82:101. In another match, the Orlando Magic lost to the Detroit Pistons with a score of 72:91, AP reports. In the match between New Orleans and San Antonio, the home team achieved a decisive advantage in the second half of the meeting.

The body of a 13-year-old girl who disappeared at the end of April was found a few kilometers from Kurgan. As Interfax reports with reference to the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) for the Kurgan Region, traces of violence were found on the body of Sofia Khairulina. Investigators believe she was murdered. A 13-year-old resident of Kurgan left home on April 20 and disappeared.

04.05.2008, 19:52:46 version Print | PDA/PDA An attempt at self-analysis Freedom House has prepared a report on human rights in the United States “By the way, Russia, we, are constantly being taught democracy. But those who teach us, for some reason, don’t really want to learn themselves.” Munich speech by Vladimir Putin The authoritative international human rights organization Freedom House (FH) prepared a 300-page report entitled "Today's American.

The ship, which was carrying, according to various sources, from 80 to 150 people, capsized and sank in the waters of the Solymos River in Brazil, Reuters reports . At least 12 people were killed, and up to 40 more passengers on the ship are considered missing. According to Agence France Presse , the ship was mainly occupied by young people returning from a party.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser held just over 76 percent of the market at the end of April 2008. The shares of Safari and Firefox browsers are 5.51 and 16.96 percent, respectively. Such data is provided in a study by Market Share. A month ago, Internet Explorer's market share was 74.8 percent. Browsers from Apple and Mozilla accounted for 5.82 and 17.83 percent of the market, respectively. Opera's popularity fell from 0.69 percent in March to 0.65 percent in April.

The most popular boxer in the world, former world champion in six weight categories, American Oscar De La Hoya, defeated his compatriot Steve Forbes by unanimous decision in his next fight in Los Angeles. The fight, by prior agreement, took place outside a certain weight category, and the weight of the opponents did not exceed 68 kilograms, AFP reports .

On Friday, a California resident was arrested in the United States for profiting from religious Americans, AP reports. 61-year-old Mission Viejo resident Jon G. Ervin is suspected of fraudulent activity, during which he managed to obtain $25 million in investments allocated to him by parishioners and church ministers. He was released shortly after his arrest on $1 million bail and is currently awaiting a hearing.

British music magazine Gramophone has announced the creation of a new website that will feature an archive of the magazine's entire 85-year history. The new project is due to launch in early September. According to the editors, on the site you can find everything that has been published in Gramophone since its founding in 1923.

Microsoft has withdrawn its offer to buy search engine Yahoo! and does not intend to take steps for a hostile takeover. As Reuters reported on Saturday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has already sent a letter rejecting the deal to the CEO of Yahoo! Jerry Young . Earlier on Saturday it became known that Microsoft raised the deal by $5 billion, offering $33 per share, but Yahoo! considered an acceptable price of $37 per share.

From May 1 to May 14, the visa service of the British Embassy in Russia will issue visas only to Russian fans wishing to attend the UEFA Cup final in Manchester between St. Petersburg Zenit and Scottish Glasgow Rangers, ITAR -TASS reports . As the embassy said on Sunday, visa processing for all other categories of applicants has been suspended so that visa department employees can process all applications from Zenit fans in a timely manner.

Construction of the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov on the territory of the capital's Expo Center will begin in 2008, Interfax reports . The religious building will be built with the permission of the capital authorities, to whom Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' addressed this request. The temple will be located on a vacated plot of land with an area of ​​0.6 hectares at the address Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, possession 14 on the territory of the central exhibition Expocenter.