Russian footballer Alexei Smertin, who is now training in Moscow along with Lokomotiv, while refusing to return to his club - French Bordeaux, motivating this with the possibility of moving to another team. This was reported today by the Bordeaux leadership, whose players have already held two matches in the championship of the country.

Seven people died on Thursday in South Korea as a result of the disaster of a military helicopter. According to YTH television companies, all the dead are military personnel who were on board the helicopter. The incident occurred at about noon near the city of Yonchon of the Kensan-Poom province. The UH-1H helicopter fell on a rice field 10 meters from a nearby railway and 20 meters from the nearest residential building, RIA Novosti reports. The causes of the disaster are established.

The movement of trains in the Sverdlovsk Region 40 km from Yekaterinburg on the Khrustalnoye - Pervouralsk section, where the tank with gasoline left the rails on the eve, was completely restored, the press service of the Sverdlovsk Railway reported on Thursday. The accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon near Pervouralsky . 21 tanks with AI-92 gasoline have left the rails.

In the 86th year of his life, the famous sculptor, the national artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize Leo Karbel died. This was reported on Thursday at the Russian Academy of Arts. Lev Karbel created more than 70 monuments installed in Russia and abroad, ITAR-TASS reports. In particular, Karbel is the author of the monument to the heroes-submariners of the sanking nuclear power plant "Kursk" in Moscow.

The previously unknown Iraqi organization Tathir Iraq (“Irak cleansing”) threatens to blow up the embassies of the Arab countries in Baghdad. Representatives of several Arab embassies received a statement with an ultimatic requirement to close the missions and evacuate personnel from the organization with an ultimatic requirement. RIA Novosti is reported with reference to the Al-Bayan newspaper.

Astronomers made one of the saddest forecasts of the future universe: an hour will come when all the stars visible on Earth will cease to shine. Old stars die, new ones are born, but according to recent research, new stars are becoming smaller and less. As astronomers say, stars in the sky are ten times more than grains of sands on all beaches and in all the deserts of the Earth . All of them will still please the eye of earthlings for millions of years.

The Frenchwoman is suspected of hiding the skeleton of an elderly mother at home for more than three years and continued to receive her pension. Checking the signal received, the police entered the woman’s apartment in the city of Narbonn in the south of France and discovered the remains of the old woman on the bed in the room, which was isolated in such a way as to prevent the penetration of the corpse of the corpse into other rooms.

The new novel by Joan Rowling about the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix was dropped from the top of the rating of the popularity of books by no less exciting narrative about the famous diet of Atkins, which are, in particular, stars such as Brad Pitt, his wife Jennifer Aniston and former Spice Jerry Hollille.

The US administration abandoned the idea to provide the UN with wider powers in the occupation in Iraq, as France, India and a number of other countries as a preliminary condition for their participation in the peacekeeping mission. This was stated by administration officials, today New York Times (translation on the website Inopressa.ru ). Instead, the United States intends to expand their own efforts to attract other countries in the occupying forces in Iraq.

Kaliningrad investigated the circumstances of the use of weapons by a police officer in relation to a Turkish citizen. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of Neuded-Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the use of weapons is recognized as legitimate by preliminary verification.

In Dushanbe, against the backdrop of the fall of the dollar exchange rate, there is a sharply increased interest in the national currency - Somoni. Local bankers believe that one of the causes of fluctuations in the foreign exchange market is associated with a stir around the activities of a limited liability company Jamal and K.

Chechnya’s law enforcement agencies discovered a video cassette with the appeal to Aslan Maskhadov under the treatment of militants in Turkey . This was announced by Interfax by the representative of the regional operational headquarters (Rosh) on the management of the counter -terrorism operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

Six Russians immediately entered the third round of the tournament of the 1st category of the Women's Tennis Association with a prize pool of $ 1,325 thousand in the largest city of Canada - Toronto. In the second round, only Elena Likhovtseva suffered failure, who lost to the third Seyana at Amelie's tournament Mororemo from France. But all other representatives of Russia successfully solved the problem of reaching the 1/8 finals.

In the United States, weapons are developing, which the amazing factor of which will be the high-energy stream of gamma rays. According to the British newspaper The Guardian , the new bomb will be able to destroy the enemy without exploding. It is assumed that the gamma-armed forces will not release such a large amount of destructive energy as in a nuclear explosion. But at the same time, the emitter-emitter in its murderous force will surpass chemical warheads a thousand times.

At least three people died as a result of an explosion that destroyed a residential building in the Spanish city of Seville, Reuters reports. "According to the latest data, 3 people died as a result of the explosion and 33 were injured. All of them were delivered to a local hospital," said a representative of the local administration. Two wounded are in serious condition. A married couple died from the explosion. They were the neighbors of an attacker who also died.