At least 19 people died, four were injured today as a result of a major accident in Egypt. Among the dead are five children under seven years old. This was announced by a representative in the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to ITAR -TASS, a bus with tourists collided with a truck on a highway 190 km from the Egyptian capital - Cairo. The bus driver died, the driver of the truck was injured. The accident occurred due to strong fog, which enveloped the highway Cairo Assyut.

Despite all the pressure, which the coach of Chelsea Claudio Ranieri is subjected to journalists, it is he who will be at the rut of the team before the end of this season. This statement was made on Sunday by the new executive director of the team Peter Kenon. Recall that from the time the Russian businessman Roman Abramovich bought London Chelsea last summer, Ranieri is constantly the main object of rumors about the ambulance.

The Russian national team lost to the Czechs at the final stage of the Euro Tutor "Swedish hockey games" in extra time with a score of 2: 3. The Russian team could defeat, but did not use the assimilation moments, and when you do not score, the opponent scores, the head coach of the Russian national team Viktor Tikhonov scored at the post -match press conference. "With the score of 2: 1, the victory could be ours in favor of the Russians. It was necessary to score.

The 42-year-old resident of Lipetsk Dmitry Butakov, known for immunity to various toxins and poisons, announced to reporters about his intention to conduct an unprecedented extreme show for entering the Guinness Book of Records in the book. In the presence of independent experts, he intends to drink 200 grams of antifreeze three times a day for a month. The show will take place in one of the bars of Lipetsk. Having bought a ticket, everyone will be able to attend.

According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, the average life expectancy on Earth is now 48.5 years. The life span of the average Russian is 67.5 years. According to this indicator, Russia is inferior to Belarus (68.5), but surpasses Armenia (66.59), Ukraine (66.33), Moldova (64.62), Tajikistan (64.28), Uzbekistan (63.9), Kyrgyzstan (63.56), Kazakhstan (63.38), Azerbaijan (63.08),, Turkmenistan (61.1).

The Big Eight countries called for tightening measures to combat the financing of terrorism.

Negotiations on the return of nine British captives of Guantanamo failed to their homeland, the British newspaper The Sunday Times reports on Sunday. With reference to sources on the sidelines of negotiations between the officials of the Pentagon and the British lawyers led by the Prosecutor General Lord Goldsmith, the publication writes that the parties could not eventually agree on the conditions of liberation.

The Russian national team flies to Japan on Sunday to begin preparations for the season, which will marked for the national team participating in the European championship in Portugal. Matches with the Olympic team of Japan on February 11 and one of the strongest clubs of the Japanese Japanese Japie "Simizu Es Pals" on February 14, the Russian team begins the final stage of preparation for Euro 2004.

On Sunday morning, the organizer and executor of the attack in Makhachkala in September 1998 Magomed Mukhtarov was detained for six years. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, the head of the public security service, Major General Magomed Omarov. During the explosion on Parkhomenko Street, about 18 people were killed, more than 30 were injured. Terrorists blew up a car filled with explosives.

Behind the terrorist attack in the Moscow metro can be a Saudi terrorist Abu al-Valid al-Gamidi, the British newspaper The Sunday Times writes on Sunday. According to the author of the article in Chechnya, the 36-year-old Saudovets, also known as Abu Palid, was characterized by the FSB of Russia as "one of the most influential figures in the leadership of Chechen militants." He is suspected of organizing several terrorist attacks, as a result of which about 200 people died over the past year.

Russia is negotiating on the write-off of 65% of Iraq, however, the final conditions of restructuring will be determined on the basis of an assessment of the economic and financial condition of this country, said Bloomberg Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin.

The units of the Japanese Armed Forces crossed the Kuwait border on Sunday and entered Iraq. For the first time since 1945, Japanese troops will be deployed outside the country, the Air Force reports. Most of the contingent are military engineers who will have to carry out humanitarian operations in the south of Iraq. In total, about 1000 people were sent from Japan. 200 of them will remain in Kuwait.

The Turkish rescuers today from the rubble, which collapsed in the city of Konya of the 11-story building, removed the surviving 16-year-old boy. This was reported by medical sources. This is the first living person who managed to get out of the wreckage over the past five days. According to rescuers, this gives hope that there are still living people under the rubble. According to the latest data, the number of those killed as a result of the incident was 66 people.

The military prosecutor's office completed the investigation of the criminal case of a massive disease of border guards in Magadan. This was reported to Interfax on Sunday in the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. "The materials of the investigation were presented to the commander of the Magadan border detachment to Colonel Oleg Kostryukov and his defenders," said the representative of the Prosecutor General.

In Kamchatka from the crater of the Schiluch volcano on Sunday, there was an emission of ash to a height of 3.3 thousand meters. According to RIA Novosti in the Kamchatka experimental and methodological seismological party, the powerful ejection of the northern northern volcanoes of Kamchatka was accompanied by a superficial earthquake in the area of ​​active dome, and a tuning manner. Last day, two more emissions occurred, both to a height of up to 2 thousand meters.