In the circle of numerous relatives and friends in Scotland, the oldest resident of Great Britain Lucy D'Ababri celebrates his 111th birthday today, ITAR-TASS reports. She was born in 1892 in the south of India, when the Rules of the Rules of Queen Victoria by the United Kingdom. During her life, Lucy D'ababri survived the change of five British monarchs and two centuries.

1600 people died and over 7 thousand were injured as a result of the earthquake that occurred on Wednesday in Algeria. The head of the Algerian government Ahmed Uyhaya brought these figures on Friday evening at a press conference, ITAR-TASS reports. “Unfortunately, the list of victims will increase as rescue work progresses,” the Prime Minister said, emphasizing that natural disaster occurred in the “high concentration of the population”. “This is a real disaster.

Moscow said goodbye to the famous journalist, scientific observer of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper Yaroslav Golovanov. He suddenly died on Wednesday morning at the 71st year of his life. Friends, relatives and colleagues of the journalist came to the ritual hall of the Central Clinical Hospital at the ritual hall of the Central Clinical Hospital.

In the area of ​​Red Square, about 130 thousand people will go to listen to Paul McCartney's concert. So they think in the operational headquarters of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, which is responsible for safety during the performance of McCartney. The headquarters spokesman told ITAR-TASS that 20 thousand tickets were sold to the concert of the legendary member of The Beatles. On Red Square, decorations high with the Kremlin wall have already been erected.

The senior daughters of Saddam Hussein - Ragda and the wound intend to ask for political asylum in one of the four countries: Great Britain, Egypt, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates. This was stated today by the Ash-Shark Al-Ausat newspaper Cousin of the former Iraqi President Izeddin Muhammad al-Majid. He visited his nieces in a house in Baghdad, where they openly live with 9 children and younger sister - Hala.

Two people were killed and three were injured as a result of shooting at a polling station in the village of Molodezhny Komsomolsky district of the Khabarovsk Territory. The press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Interfax was reported on Saturday that the district police officer and an unidentified woman were victims of the tragedy. An enhanced investigation group from among the leadership of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the region left for the scene.

Four members of the illegal armed formation operating in the Gudermes district of Chechnya voluntarily stopped the armed struggle. The day before, through the intermediary they discussed the conditions of delivery and today they brought their weapons to the local department of the FSB by car: one Kalashnikov assault rifle, two grenade launchers and ammunition. According to the surrendered militants, the news of the upcoming amnesty prompted them to this step.

Moscow will make a final decision regarding the nomination of himself as a candidate for the summer Olympics-2012 on May 27. The decision will be made balanced, that is, in favor of the desire of the city and the sports community. According to the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the Russian government discussed the problem of Moscow nomination in different - that is, not the main issue - discussed the proposal to nominate Moscow as a candidate for the 2012 Games, Interfax reports.

The United States has published a new list of countries that, in their opinion, do not provide them with proper assistance in the fight against international terrorism. According to the official notification signed by the First Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitiju and published in the government messenger of the Federal Register , Iran, DPRK, Cuba, Libya, Syria and Sudan are included. The current one differs from the previous "black lists" in that Iraq is not mentioned in it.

Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation discovered under the rubble of the buildings destroyed by the earthquake in Algeria 38 dead. So far, from under the ruins they managed to extract the bodies of only 10 people. It was not possible to find a single alive, the operational duty officer of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies said on Saturday by ITAR-TASS.

A single check carried out on Friday by the Gostorgings Inspectorate for the Stavropol Territory revealed that 91.4 percent of the salmon and sturgeon caviar trading is unbearable in quality. According to RIA Novosti in the department, about 500 cans of delicacy cans of various capacities and over 20 kg of weight caviar were inspected in total.

The American authorities announced on Friday the dissolution of the Iraqi armed forces, ministries of defense and information, as well as other structures that supported the government of Saddam Hussein. This was reported by CNN , citing a senior representative of the US military. According to him, the revolutionary guard and the council of the revolutionary command were also dissolved and all military ranks assigned to the previous regime were canceled.

Forward "San Antonio Spers" Tim Dankan again proved that, according to the results of the regular championship, he was recognized as not in vain as the most valuable player in the league. In Dallas, he arranged an idea of ​​one actor, and brought his team forward in the series with Maveriks. "Dallas" - "San Antonio" - 83:96 (account in the series - 1-2) Dankan brought the team 34 points and made 23 selection.

The British bookmaker William Hill accepts bets on the victory of the Russian Pop-Duet Tattoo at the Eurovision Contest in Riga. As the Times writes today, at the moment the chances of girls are evaluated as five to one. At the beginning of this week, the British believed that Lena Katina and Julia Volkova had more opportunities to win - the chances of winning the competition were three to one.

American Andy Roddick won his first tournament outside the United States. In the final of the competition in St. Pelten, Roddik defeated Russian Nikolai Davydenko - 6: 3, 6: 2. The 20-year-old Roddick looked better than his opponent throughout the match. After a meeting with Davydenko, the American said that he was incredibly happy to win on the eve of the open championship of France. “I have never played in Europe as well as at home, but now the situation begins to change for the better.