The head coach of Yaroslavl "Shinnik" Sergei Pavlov is resigning, RIA Novosti reports . He stated this on Sunday at a press conference after the match of the 24th round of the Russian football championship FC Moscow - Shinnik, in which the Yaroslavl club lost 1:2. Speaking to reporters, Pavlov said that the reason for his departure was refereeing.

A critical bug was discovered in the futuristic arcade racing game Wipeout HD that prevented many gamers from launching the game. It turned out that after reaching a certain number of “friends” in the contact list of a player’s account, Wipeout HD “freezes” in the main menu, according to the IGN website. Presumably, Wipeout does not start if the player has more than 50 "friends".

18 people were killed and 23 were injured in a traffic accident involving a bus with tourists in Turkey, RIA Novosti reported , citing local media. The bus overturned in western Turkey in the Tekirdag province. It is not specified whether there were Russian citizens among the injured and dead. No details about the accident have yet been provided. It was not possible to find information about the accident on the English-language versions of the websites of Turkish news agencies.

In the city of Aleksin, Tula Region, police released a Muscovite who was kidnapped almost two months ago. Criminals kidnapped a resident of the capital in order to take possession of his apartment in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports . The criminals attacked a Muscovite on August 8, 2008 and took him to Aleksin, where they subsequently held the hostage in one of the apartments. The man was beaten and threatened with death if he did not transfer his apartment to the attackers.

On Sunday, October 5, the next matches of the 24th round of the Russian Football Championship took place. Moscow "Spartak" lost with a minimal score in Luzhniki to Samara "Wings of the Soviets". The only goal in the meeting was scored by visiting midfielder Oleg Ivanov in the 74th minute. The victory allowed Krylia to take fifth place in the standings, ahead of Spartak, which has 36 points, by one point. Earlier, in the match between Perm Amkar and Grozny Terek, a goalless draw was recorded.

California authorities announced a temporary cessation of search work at the crash site of millionaire Steve Fossett 's plane . This decision was made due to snowfall that hit the search area. Most likely, experts will return to inspecting the crash site of Fossett's plane only in the summer of 2009, reports the Associated Press. Steve Fossett disappeared in September 2007 while flying his single-engine plane.

EU countries will help European banks in overcoming the financial crisis. This statement was made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy following a meeting of the heads of EU countries in Paris, AFP reports on Sunday. “We have come to a joint decision to provide assistance to financial structures suffering from the economic crisis,” the agency quotes Sarkozy as saying.

05.10.2008, 17:20:10 version Print | PDA/PDA Nadezhda Petrova. Photo AFP Nadezhda Petrova lost the final of the tournament in Stuttgart Russian tennis player Nadezhda Petrova lost the final of the WTA representative tournament in Stuttgart. According to AFP , on Sunday she lost to the second racket of the world, Serbian Jelena Jankovic, in two sets - 4:6, 3:6. The match lasted 83 minutes. The prize fund of the German tournament is 650 thousand dollars.

The government of South Ossetia has decided to provide financial assistance to the families of Russian peacekeeping forces who died on October 3 as a result of a terrorist attack in the capital of the republic, Tskhinvali. As told the Interfax the acting chairman of the government of South Ossetia Boris Chochiev agency on Sunday , the families of the dead will be allocated 100 thousand rubles, and the wounded - 50 thousand rubles.

The UK government is considering creating a database containing emails and telephone conversations of British people. According to Times Online, the UK plans to allocate 12 billion pounds sterling to create such a system. There has not yet been an official statement about the possible introduction of such a program.

On Sunday, October 5, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov signed a decree renaming the central street of Grozny, Pobeda Avenue, into Vladimir Putin Avenue As the mayor of the Chechen capital, Muslim Khuchiev, told the Interfax agency , in this way “Putin’s outstanding merits in the fight against terrorism, restoration of the economy, and social sphere of the Chechen Republic” were noted. Signs with the new name have already appeared on the facades of houses on both sides of Pobeda Avenue.

The animated comedy “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” became the leader of the North American film box office, collecting $29 million in its debut weekend, reports France Presse . The new cartoon from Walt Disney Studios tells the adventures of a Chihuahua dog named Chloe, accustomed to a luxurious life, who is lost in Mexico and is trying to return home to Beverly Hills.

In Mexico, the mayor of the popular resort town of Ixtapan de la Sal, located near the capital Mexico City, was killed, Reuters reports. Salvador Vergara was shot dead with an automatic weapon by unknown assailants in his car on Saturday evening. At least 15 bullets were fired at the official. According to Mexican media, Vergara's killers belonged to one of the drug cartels based in the northeast of the country.

The Israeli government approved on Sunday the transfer to Russia of a historic building in the center of Jerusalem known as the Sergius Metochion. about this . RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the Israeli Prime Minister Mark Regev told The decision on one of the most valuable real estate properties in the Holy Land was made on the eve of Ehud Olmert's visit to Moscow.

One of the representatives of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, called on the people of Pakistan to unite in the fight against the new authorities of the country and US troops. A 32-minute video message from the terrorist in English, created by al-Qaeda's media affiliate, al-Sahab, appeared on the Internet on Saturday, CNN reports.