In Germany, the outstanding ballerina Maya Plisetskaya died at the age of 90. Her death was announced by the general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, who was contacted by Plisetskaya's husband, composer Rodion Shchedrin. The cause of death was a heart attack. “The husband of the ballerina Rodion Shchedrin called me. She died of a severe heart attack. The doctors fought, but could not do anything,” Urin said.

Detroit Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk will not be able to play for the Russian national team at the Ice Hockey World Championship in the Czech Republic. This was announced by the general manager of the national team Andrey Safronov. Datsyuk continues to treat an injury sustained in an NHL game. Safronov also said that Metallurg Magnitogorsk striker Danis Zaripov, who was injured in the first match of the Russian national team against Norway, left the team.

Shot: Kalle Ljung / Vimeo Stockholm director Calle Ljung, along with the 73-year-old father at the end of 2014, went sailing to the Antarctica coast. During the trip, which began in the port of Ushuaya in Argentina and passed through the melchior islands south of the Drake Strait, Jung removed landscapes with a drone with a video camera fixed on it. In total, the expedition spent 16 days in Antarctic waters. Jung mounted the shooting from the trip into an eight -minute video.

Shot: Trailer of the film "Star Wars: Episode 7 - Awakening of Power" Actor John Boyega, who played one of the main characters in the seventh part of Star Wars, paid for refusing to give out the details of the new film. As the actor on Twitter said, his father made him wash the dishes for the whole family.

On May 2, the English writer, the author of detectives and thrillers, Rut Rendell, who also wrote under the pseudonym of Barbara Vine, died in London. Baroness Rendell, awarded the Order of the British Empire, died at the 86th year of her life. Photo: Gereint Lewis / Rex / Vida Press Rut Rendell got to the hospital in January 2015 after a stroke (English). The Guardian Rut Rendell wrote more than 60 novels for her long career, some of them are under the pseudonym.

Russian media spread a fake message about the imminent release of the first issue of the Ukrainian version of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. This message was first published by RIA Novosti. The agency referred to François Angland's Facebook post, which indicated that he was a prepress specialist at Charlie Hebdo. He accompanied the entry with a picture of the "first cover of the Ukrainian issue" - it depicted a caricature of Petro Poroshenko, Igor Kolomoisky and Mustafa Nayem.

on his 40th birthday on May 2, started an Instagram account @davidbeckham David Beckham , , which already has 1.4 million followers. At the time of this writing, the footballer posted five pictures. Beckham crossed the one million followers mark in about five hours. Beckham thanked his fans for the congratulations and stated that he was looking forward to today, which he is going to spend with friends and family in Marrakesh.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Britain's Prince William, gave birth to a daughter on May 2 at St Mary's Hospital in London. The girl weighs 3.71 kilograms. Mother and newborn are doing well. The daughter of William and Kate is the first princess in the British royal family in 25 years and is fourth in line to the throne. Prince William and Kate Middleton already have one child. In 2013, the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a boy named George Alexander Louis.

The Progress cargo ship was carrying 300 kilograms of equipment for NASA experiments to the International Space Station. The total weight of the cargo on board the ship was 2.5 tons. Progress was supposed to deliver medical equipment, medicines, oxygen supplies, drinking water and photographic equipment to the ISS.

The Zaeltsovsky court of Novosibirsk imprisoned the artist Artem Loskutov for 10 days for holding the May Day Monstration. This was reported to Meduza by Sib.fm correspondent Diana Zlobina. The decision was made under the administrative article on disobedience to the lawful order of a police officer, as well as under the article on violation of the established procedure for organizing a procession. For each of them, Loskutov received 10 days, but the punishment is not cumulative.

Minister of Security and Justice of the Netherlands Gerard Adrian van der Stuer announced the end of the search operation at the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk. At a briefing on May 2, van der Stuer said that the Netherlands considered the mission completed. At the same time, he refused to name possible terms for transferring the case of the plane crash to court.

On May 1, Baltimore police detained 38 people for participating in street riots, and another 15 were detained for violating curfew. According to police, more than 100 people took to the streets of the city on Saturday night: they danced and chanted "Freddy". Thus, they reacted to the news that the Maryland prosecutor's office charged police officers in the case of the death of 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray, who died in hospital after being detained.

In the town of Shatura near Moscow, a man with cancer committed suicide. He shot himself in the head with a gun in his apartment. He was 52 years old. The fact of suicide was confirmed by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The gun was registered to the man in due course.

Brett Morgen, director of the documentary Cobain: Damn Montage, has announced the release of an album of unknown home recordings by the Nirvana leader. According to Morgen, the album will be released in the summer of 2015. It will include tracks recorded by Cobain alone, without Nirvana musicians. While working on the film, Morgen listened to about 200 hours of unreleased Kurt Cobain recordings. "You'll hear him do things you never expected him to do," Brett Morgen said.

The Nepalese authorities ruled out the possibility of finding survivors under the rubble after the earthquake. The country's Interior Ministry said that search and rescue operations are still going on, but there is no hope that anyone survived after a week. Meanwhile, thousands of people are reported missing, including about a thousand EU citizens. BBC News An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 hit Nepal on April 25. Its epicenter was located about 80 kilometers from Kathmandu.