Russian Evgeny Donskoy defeated one of the best tennis players in the world, Swiss Roger Federer in the second round of the championship in Dubai (included in the ATP 500 category). The match ended with the score 3:6, 7:6 (9:7), 7:6 (7:5). In the second set, Federer could win the match three times, but Donskoy managed to bounce back each time. Sports.ru writes that the 26-year-old Donskoy beat a player from the top ten of the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) rating for the first time.

In the UK, the upper house of parliament voted in favor of introducing amendments to the bill to start the process of leaving the European Union, guaranteeing the protection of the rights of citizens of EU countries living in the country. 358 members of the House of Lords voted in favor of the changes, 256 voted against. The amendments require the government to publish relevant proposals within three months before the start of Brexit.

Former Utah governor and US ambassador to China John Huntsman is in talks to become ambassador to Russia, CNN reports, citing White House sources. According to the channel, Huntsman discussed a possible assumption of office with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and also met with the closest advisers to President Donald Trump and, possibly, with himself. A day earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that Huntsman was being considered for the post of Deputy Secretary of State.

The White House believes that Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Donald Trump, who urged viewers to buy products under the Ivanka Trump brand, acted without bad intent and "is unlikely to do so again." This is stated in a response from the presidential administration to the ethics office of the US government, which was published by CNN. “Mrs Conway's statement was made in a casual manner, she was trying to defend a person who, in her opinion, was unfairly attacked.

Photo: Josep Lago / AFP / Scanpix / Leta 1.6 million people live in Barcelona. Last year, the city accepted 32 million tourists. It is clear that tourists bring Barcelona gigantic money, but not everyone is satisfied with them: visitors are inflated by housing and food prices, because of them it is impossible to go through or go through Barcelona, ​​the crime rate is growing.

Marine biologists from the National Oceans and Atmosphere Research Directorate photographed a deep -sea jellyfish from the RhopaloneMatid Tradusa family. And she looks like a UFO! Oceanexplorergov Cosmic Jellyfish: 2017 American Samoa Scientists have discovered an unusual jellyfish in the marine reserve near the islands of Samoa. She has two rows of tentacles: one row is directed up, the other - down.

On March 1, an article under the heading “The head of the Supreme Court was convicted of repressions during the Soviet era” disappeared from the website of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on March 1. The note was published on Wednesday afternoon and hung on the site for several hours. The reasons for its removal on the site are not reported. A copy of the article is available in the Google cache.

On February 22, the section “Examples of publications that replicate inaccurate information about Russia” opened on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry on February 22. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Maria Zakharova, this section will publish refutations of the news of Western media containing inaccurate information about Russia. The first publications did not look like it was expected: they were just news screenshots with a large red stamp “FAKE” on top.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued a "farewell message" to supporters, calling on supporters to "hide or flee" into the mountainous regions of Iraq and Syria amid defeats. This was reported by the Iraqi TV channel Alsumaria, citing a source in the province of Nineveh, where fighting for Mosul has been going on for the past six months. Foreign ISIS fighters were allegedly encouraged by the terrorist leader to return home or become suicide bombers.

In the Moscow district of Dorogomilovo, on March 1, 2017, signs were installed on the street named after Andrei Karlov, a Russian ambassador shot in Ankara last December. Photo: Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The decision to rename the nameless passage at the intersection of Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street was adopted in February 2017.

The Syrian Air Force was involved in the shelling of a humanitarian convoy in the suburbs of Aleppo on September 19, 2016, according to a report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry into events in Syria. Both Syria and Russia have previously been accused of involvement in the attack on humanitarian aid vehicles, but the report does not contain any information that Russian aircraft could have been involved in it.

The King of Saudi Arabia Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud arrived on an Indonesia. He will stay there for nine days - first in Jakarta, and then on Bali. King Salman did not lightly go on the trip: he took with him 459 tons of baggage. Only a small part of the cargo was delivered to the capital of Indonesia; The remaining 396 tons were sent immediately to Bali.

Photo: Victor Drachev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On March 1, the authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics introduced external management at Ukrainian enterprises that are located in the southeast of the country. They require Kyiv to remove the transport blockade established by veterans of the volunteer battalions of Ukraine.

Pavel Mullin, Acting Head of the Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kemerovo Region, became a suspect in the case of abuse of office (Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

Photo: Vesti Karelia / YouTube census of parents standing in the queue who wanted to give children to study at school No. 48 Petrozavodsk On March 14, the Petrozavodsk court will consider the lawsuit of a local resident with a request to cancel the results of the set of the local 48th secondary school in the first class.