Seven people died as a result of a helicopter fall in the Grand Canyon area in the American state of Arizona. According to the Federal Aviation Directorate, the catastrophe occurred on Saturday, when the helicopter was headed to the bottom of the canyon. The victims have not yet been identified, presumably we are talking about tourists. Currently, the authorities have begun investigation.

In Baghdad, a drunken American soldier shot a tiger at the zoo. This was reported on Saturday by the American media. According to the employees of the zoo, the American soldiers who drink beer went to the territory of the zoo after its closure. One of them climbed into the cage and was attacked by a tiger, which caused him bodily harm, after which the other soldier shot the beast. The command of the American military in Iraq has not yet responded to these messages.

On Saturday evening, two American soldiers were killed and 13 were injured as a result of a mortar shelling of Abu Graib prison located to the west of Baghdad. This was announced on Sunday by the Catar television channel Al-JAZeera. This is not the first shelling of Abu Graib prison, the protection of which is carried out by American troops. However, still the victims of the shelling became mainly Iraqi prisoners.

The election of the Governor of the Leningrad Region may be invalidated. This, according to the correspondent of the Echo of Moscow radio station in St. Petersburg, said Vladimir Zhuravlev, head of the election commission of the Leningrad Region. The violations recorded during the vote, in particular, the bribery of voters and the facts of election campaigning, can lead to the recognition of the elections.

In a plot on the western bank of the Jordan River, Palestinian militants fired a group of Jewish pilgrims while visiting the Jewish shrine - the graves of the biblical prophet Joseph. According to the Israeli military, no one was injured as a result of the attack, RBC reports with reference to AR. After the tragic events of October 2000, when two Israeli troops and 15 Palestinians were killed as a result of an armed clash, a ban on visiting the Jews of Joseph Jewish pilgrims was introduced.

In Chuvashia today, the Tu-160 strategic bomber, which crashed in the Saratov region, was spent on the last journey of the crew of the strategic bomber. By decision of the mother of the deceased, Major of aviation Sergey Sukhorukov was buried in the Mariinsky Posad - the city on the Volga, where he was born and graduated from school. Until his 31st birthday, Sergey Sukhorukov, the father of two daughters, did not live for only a day.

In Moscow, on Solovetsky Stone, a rally dedicated to the demand to immediately stop the war in Chechnya ended on Solovetsky Square on Solovetsky Square on Solovetsky Square. The rally was organized by the Consent Foundation. According to the organizers, more than three thousand people who wanted to express their position on the Chechen issue came to the rally. Among the gathered there were many young people.

“Inter” “Lazio” and “Milan” cut off their victorious series in the Italian championship. Lazio lost to Parme, and Inter with Milan completed their fights to draw. Thus, “Milan”, “Inter” and “Parma” climbed first place in the championship. Lazio played with Parma, and the participant in the Champions League lost - 2: 3, and the Australian Mark Breshiano scored two goals in the winners. “Inter”, which, like “Lazio” began the championship from two wins in a row tied with Sampdoria - 0: 0.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called energy cooperation with the United States among priority topics that he intends to discuss at the upcoming meeting with American President George Bush. “This topic will, without any doubt, the subject of discussion at my alleged meeting in the coming days with George Bush,” Putin said, accepting the co-chairs of the Russian-American business energy summit on Sunday, which will begin his work in St. Petersburg on Monday.

According to new data, the hurricane "Isabelle", which fell on the states of the east coast of the United States, took the lives of 31 people. This was reported by the CNN television company. According to the television company, 16 people died in Virginia, seven in Maryland, three in North Carolin, two in New Jersey, and one person in the states of Pennsylvania, Rhizen Island and New York.

A unique research satellite will be destroyed today. This is the Galileo spacecraft, which has been exploring Jupiter for eight years, reports Echo of Moscow . The mission of "Galileo" came to an end. The satellite will plunge into a dense atmosphere of the largest planet of the solar system at a habitual speed of 170 thousand km per hour and will burn. Representatives of NASA sentenced the "Galileo" a death sentence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the American media. Putin assured the journalists that there would be no "revision of the results of privatization in Russia." The president emphasized that his position on this issue has not changed, ITAR-TASS reports. “I would really like the national business would not feel any bias on the part of the state, Putin said. “There is simply no such bias,” he assured.

In one of the largest cinemas of Hanover, a mass fight occurred last night with about 300 people. According to the German DPA news agency on Sunday with reference to law enforcement agencies, the fight began in the cinema, and then spilled out into the street and continued for several hours. All this time, law enforcement officers tried to stop the fight by involving 21 police cars at the same time. Five Drachunov was injured, four more were temporarily detained.

According to a survey of the voters of St. Petersburg, which was held today by the 'Agency for Social Information', Valentina Matvienko won the governor's election. The survey was conducted at 184 polling stations in all areas of the city, Rosbalt reports. According to data obtained at 18:00 Moscow time, the voting leader - Valentina Matvienko - gained 50.59% of the votes of Petersburgers. In second place Anna Markova (13.69%), in the third - a candidate 'against all' with 12% of the vote.

The hat-trick of the former player of the Italian national team Enriko Kyeza contributed to his new club "Siena" over the more than modest "Empoli". After the break, the victory turned into the defeat of the "Empolis" - 4: 0. In the second match of the day, Ancona and Modena dispersed the world - 1: 1. Interestingly, the victory of Siene was the first successful in the club’s history in the series A.