In Japan, an oil refinery is on fire. Huge clubs of black smoke rise above the enterprise in the city of Ivaki in the Prefecture of Fukushima to the northeast of Tokyo, ITAR-TASS reports. The Japanese television company NHK has been transmitting officially not confirmed information about numerous victims. RIA "Novosti" notes that as a result of a fire, four people were injured at the oil refinery. According to the main police department of Japan, one of the victims is in serious condition.

The emergency occurred this morning in the village of Verkhnyaya Toymoy of the Arkhangelsk region. The suspension bridge over the Toyma river collapsed when 10 people crossed it at the same time. On the Old Bridge, 10 passengers of the bus arrived at him simultaneously entered the Toymoy river.

Among the participants of the anniversary parade of Victory in Moscow was a front-line-worker, senior sergeant of the 5th separate guards of Suvorov and Kutuzov, Warsaw-Berlin motorcycle regiment, Leonid Brezhnev. “What I saw there,” Leonid Ivanovich shared his impressions, “this is unforgettable. About such honor and attention that were provided to us - 350 veterans of the war from all the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, I could not think.

Russia has not yet officially commented on the incident that occurred with the film crew of Latvian television (LTV) in the Pskov region. The Latvian Foreign Ministry has already sent a note to Smolenskaya Square demanding clarification. The film crew of Latvian television was detained on May 9 in the Pskov region, despite its accreditation.

The eminent Czech striker of the NHL club New Jersey Devilz "Patrick Eliash, who performed this season in the Magnitogorsk Metallurg, instead of preparing for the World Cup and a trip to Austria, the last month took place in his homeland. Having played for Magnitogorsk 15 matches (5 goals and 9 programs), Eliash went to the hospital with an extremely unpleasant disease - hepatitis A.

Scientists restored the appearance of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun and revealed the secret of his death at the age of about 18 years. Three teams of scientists from the USA, France and Egypt worked on the restoration of the appearance of the young pharaoh. To their surprise, the resulting image very accurately repeated the ancient images of the pharaoh and his posthumous mask, found in 1922 by the British researcher Howard Carter.

Journalists of Latvian television (LTV), detained in the Pskov region on Monday, carried out "unauthorized video filming of the railway unit, which is an international checkpoint", the ATC of the Pskov region said. “With their actions, they attracted the attention of employees of the linear department of the internal affairs at the Railway Street,” said representatives of the Internal Affairs Directorate on Wednesday.

Roscosmos proposes to change the leadership of the Energia missile and space corporation in order to withdraw the flagship of the Russian cosmonautics from the financial crisis. “In the last three years of RSC, Energia, where all domestic manned and cargo spacecraft have been created, is unprofitable, the growth of accounts payable continues. Urgent measures are necessary,” ITAR -TASS said the official representative of the Federal Space Agency Vyacheslav Davidenko.

The Federation Council puts forward a team that prepared a festive concert on Krasnaya Square on May 9, for the State Prize in the field of culture and art for 2005. The Council of the Chamber on Wednesday instructed the Culture Council Committee to prepare documents to nominate this team for the prize. This decision was announced at a plenary meeting, the chairman of the SF Sergey Mironov.

At the Minnesota Minneapolis International Airport, during steering on the ground on the ground on Tuesday, two passenger aircraft of Northwest Airlines-the DC-9 liner and the A-319 Airbus.

At a meeting of the Lithuanian government on Wednesday, it was decided to close since July 1, 2005 the International Baltic Academy, which is a branch of a non -governmental Latvian Baltic Russian Institute. According to the government press service, the decision to close the International Baltic Academy was made on the proposal of the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania after the inspection at the Academy.

The American airline United Airlines has achieved the right to declare a default for pension obligations to its employees, due to which it will save $ 3.2 billion. Representatives of the company, which is in the process of bankruptcy and, thus protected from claims of creditors, insisted that it was impossible to restructure with such luggage of pension obligations. The judge of the Federal Bankruptcy Court of Yujzhin Vedasoff agreed with the arguments of the company.

The main alarm of the United States, when it comes to Russia, is nuclear security, and, apparently, no success has been achieved on these fronts. It is in Russia, and not in Latvia or Georgia, there are still more than 10 thousand charged nuclear warheads and extensive unprotected warehouses of nuclear fuel.

A German driver of a truck fell into an anecdotal situation. Without knowing it, he dragged a tiny Smart car for several kilometers, stuck in his radiator grille. Klaus Burgamist stopped the truck only when a police car was caught next to him and the policeman ordered him to move to the side of the road. When the truck stopped, the frightened driver of Smart was able to get out of the car to death and fall on the asphalt without feelings.

After the ban at the 2.5 years, the Kuwait authorities officially allowed the Catar satellite television channel Al-Jazeera to broadcast in the country. According to the head of the Kuwait branch of AL-JAZEEERA Saad al-Enezi, "the Ministry of Information (Kuwait) officially informed us that we can resume our activities in Kuwait." He added that the reasons that prompted the Kuwait government to make such a decision are unknown to him.