US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice considers it possible to meet the heads of foreign policy departments of the United States and Iran, provided that the Iranian side will preliminarily fulfill the conditions nominated before it by the international community.

The leader of the opposition party of the regions of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych could not take part in a protest rally in Kharkov today due to the fact that the aircraft he had to arrive was not released from the airport in Kyiv "according to weather conditions." This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the party’s press service. Meanwhile, no other flights on weather conditions have been canceled today, the airport employees said.

The famous Sotheby's house published the results of the first auction of Russian books, manuscripts, geographical maps and photographs held on Friday in its history. The Lot "Number One", for which the most significant amount was given, was a collection of pictures of the legendary photographer Evgeny Ananievich Haldey, who began in 1939 in "TASS Photo Chronicle". The buyer, who wished to hide his name, acquired photos of Eugene Haldeus for 117.6 thousand pounds.

Along with efforts to strengthen the cooperation of the European Union with Russia in the field of energy, the EU should be aimed at building new gas and oil pipelines bypassing Russian territory. This recommendation is contained in the Supreme Representative for Foreign Policy and Safety of the EU Havier Solan, a special report “Foreign policy in the service of the energy interests of the European Union”, ITAR-TASS reports.

All 500 replaced Russian peacekeepers left the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone on Saturday, Colonel Ram Akimov, chief of staff of the mixed forces (SSPM) in the region, told Interfax. "The motorcade with decreasing military personnel to Russia left Tskhinvali at 6:30 Moscow time and is now in the area of ​​the village of Java," Akimov said. He noted that the column follows to Russia through the Rock Tunnel.

A unique and probably possible marriage ceremony was held in one of the villages located near Bhubaneswar - the capital of the North -Eastern state of Oriss. In the presence of two thousand guests gathered from all over the district, dressed in the festive red-gold Sari, 30-year-old Bimbala Das married Cobra. The induis priests stuck the union by reading the corresponding mantras, although the two-meter "groom" did not crawl out of his hole in a hill near the village.

The pilot of a small private aircraft in the United States made a forced landing on Saturday due to an uninvited passenger - a one and a half meter snake on board. When the 62-year-old resident of Virginia Monty Coles (Monty Coles) looked at the dashboard after taking off from the Charleston Airport, then RIA Novosti reports. In response to him, an almost one and a half meter black snake stared with a motionless look.

Anastasia Myskina, having defeated Anu Ivanovich from Serbia and Montenegro, received the right to play in the 1/8 finals of the opening championship of France, but Maria Kirilenko and Elena Dementieva, who lost their matches, are forced to leave Paris. The 2004 Roland Garros champion Anastasia Myskina in the third round looked quite confidently during a dispute with Ana Ivanovich. The first set Nastya "took" 6: 2, the second is somewhat more modest - 6: 3.

The presidential plenipotentiary in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak, in an interview with the employees of the Embalancies' apparatus, called rumors about his possible appointment to the position of General Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation baseless, a source surrounded by an envoy said on Friday. "At a meeting with the staff of the apparatus, Kozak called the appeared rumors (on the appointment of the Prosecutor General) is groundless," the agency’s interlocutor said.

6 people died as a result of a collision of a passenger train number 226 "Anapa-St. Petersburg with an Ikarus bus in the Voronezh region at an unguarded crossing. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the representative of the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Natalya Lukash, noting that "information about the victims is specified." According to the representative of the ministry, the train did not leave the rails and none of his passengers was injured.

15 people were killed, another 30 were injured today in the South Iraki city of Basra as a result of the explosion in the market. According to the police, the car, on the wheel of which was a suicide militant, exploded at the entrance to the al-Hamza bazaar. Medical sources do not exclude that the number of victims can be larger. Now doctors and police officers are working at the site of the incident.

The explosion that occurred last night near the houses, where the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia and another high -ranking police officer live, could be a threat to law enforcement officials. “It could be biting from some criminal elements. Now we are searching for a person who has a grenade launcher,” Interfax told the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Beslan Khamkhoev.

The adoption of the declaration with confirmation of the obligation taken five years ago by 2015 to stop the distribution of HIV/AIDS ended the meeting of the UN General Assembly on the problems of combating pandemia. In the final document of the forum, in which the heads of state and governments and ministers from 151 countries took part, the task is to bring financing for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS from the current $ 8.3 billion to $ 23 billion by 2010.

Military investigators justified the American marine infantrymen who were accused of killing civilians of the Iraqi village of Ishaka, located about 80 km north of Baghdad. As lawyers reported on conditions of anonymity, the investigation established that the military personnel who had conducted on March 15 were fired, requested reinforcements and opened fire. According to the Iraqi side, 11 people were killed, including children.

In Baghdad, a Russian diplomat has been killed today, a representative of the Iraq Ministry of Internal Affairs said. Four more Russian diplomats are abducted, reports ITAR-TASS. According to Reuters, three cars blocked the road along which Russian diplomats drove. The militants opened fire on a Russian car. At the same time, one diplomat died, four more were stolen, the agency reports. The incident occurred in the Mansur area. "We confirm that one diplomat died and four are abducted.