Manchester United have announced the resignation of Louis van Gaal as manager. The corresponding announcement was published on the club's website. The name of the new Manchester United coach will be announced soon, the club said. The club thanked van Gaal for his "great work over the past two years", including winning the FA Cup (12th for the club).

The EgyptAir A320 plane that crashed on May 19 did not deviate from its course before disappearing from radar. This was stated by the head of the National Air Navigation Service of Egypt, Ehab Azmi, to the Associated Press. According to him, before disappearing from radar, the plane did not deviate “to the right or left” and was flying at its normal altitude. “This fact invalidates the Greek claim that the aircraft suddenly lost altitude before disappearing from radar,” Azmi said.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation summoned the defense attache at the US Embassy due to the appearance of an American reconnaissance aircraft near the borders of the Russian Federation in the Sea of ​​Japan on May 22. According to the press service of the department, the American RC-135 flew with the transponder turned off at an altitude intended for civil aviation.

Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the Golos movement, said that employees of the NTV channel have access to wiretapping the phone of the movement's coordinator Roman Udot, which, in his opinion, is being carried out by Russian special services. According to Udot himself, NTV film crews appeared several times near the embassies, where he came for a reception.

FIFA has fired the organization's deputy general secretary Markus Kuttner. The decision was made due to violations related to his contract, the organization said. According to AFP, the reason for the dismissal was Kuttner's receipt of multimillion-dollar bonuses. At the same time, the terms of the contract, which guaranteed him to receive this money, were kept secret from the organization’s auditors, the agency’s source claims.

30 thousand Chinese women danced the most massive dance and fell into the Guinness Book of Records. The participants danced on May 21 at once in several cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shannyana, Siana, Cunde. The dance lasted five minutes and forty seconds. Not everyone was lucky with the weather: in Shanghai, women had to dance in the rain. Photo: Wang Huan / Imaginechina / Ap / East News In November 2015, 18 thousand Chinese women arranged a mass dance.

The database on the autonum.info website, with which you can find out the name and phone number of the car owner by registration number, was formed without using the traffic police database. This was stated by the press service of Roskomnadzor. Roskomnadzor came to this conclusion due to the fact that the base, according to experts of the department, "is limited." “With the introduction of a significant number of state.

In Connecticut on the road, someone shot down a deer. Locals found her cub at the scene of the accident and brought him to the door of the police department in the city of Hartford. The police put the deer in their car, where he curled up, and took the orphan to the wildlife department. Photo: Hartford Police Department / Ap / Scanpix / Leta Photo: Hartford Police Department / Ap / Scanpix / Leta Photo: Hartford Police Department / Ap / Scanpix / Leta

American TV presenter John Oliver in his show Last Week Tonight drew attention to the news about the loss of Ramzan Kadyrov's cat. The release of the program was released on May 22. consumerJohn Oliver — Ramzan Kadyrovʼs Cat First, Oliver showed a news story about the missing cat, then, with the help of pictures, he jokingly explained who Ramzan Kadyrov was, and showed a number of photos from his Instagram.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on raising the retirement age for civil servants. It is reported by Interfax. The law provides for a gradual increase in the retirement age for state and municipal employees to 65 for men and 63 for women. The age will increase annually by six months. The retirement age will reach the statutory threshold by 2026 for men and by 2032 for women.

Alexander van der Bellen, former leader of the Green Party, won the Austrian presidential election. In the second round, he won 50.3 percent of the vote - 0.6 percent more than his rival Norbert Hofer, representing the far-right Freedom Party. The election results were announced by Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka. defeat on his Facebook Hofer admitted . The first results of the vote count, which were reported on May 22, indicated a preponderance in his favor.

The Baltimore District Court acquitted police officer Edward Nero of all charges brought in connection with the death of 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray, who died in hospital after detention. The police officer was charged with assault on a person, criminal negligence and improper performance of duties. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake urged city residents to be patient and wait for the end of the case, in which five other police officers are involved with Nero.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with Indian television channel NDTV that the price of iPhones outside the United States may be too high. In response to a reporter's remark that the cost of the iPhone in India is high "even in dollar terms", while not all of its features may be available outside the US, Cook said that taxes and duties do make the cost of the iPhone "very high". “Our profitability in India is noticeably lower, but I admit that the prices are high.

Approximately 50 to 70 Russian tourists from the Russian city of Samara were unable to fly to Greece over the weekend, because their visas were not released on time, said spokesperson for Russia’s Tourism Industry Union (RTIU) Irina Turina in an interview with Interfax.

Russia's falling living standard is the result of falling incomes and it's unrelated to the food embargo imposed against a number of Western countries, reported the news agency TASS on Monday, citing “Food of the Embargo: Year in Review 2015,” a document produced by the Kremlin’s team of analysts. The authors of the report cite public opinion polls suggesting that Russian citizens have to economize on expensive food products, such as cheese, sausage, meat, poultry, fish, seafood, and vegetables.