In the north-west of Iraq in the city of Tal-Afar, militants of one of the Shiite groups in response to a double terrorist attack in Shiite quarters, which claimed 63 people on the eve of life, arranged a pogrom in the Sunni district of al-Vahda, killing at least 45 people. Shiite militants entered the area early in the morning, shooting residents and houses. According to the representative of the city hospital, at least 45 people aged 15 to 60 were killed and four people were injured.

The Japanese court sentenced a man who killed three people to the death penalty by concluding an agreement with them to come together on a suicide website. The Osaka district sentenced 38-year-old Hiroshi Maye to hang him for strangling three people, taking off the murders on a video camera. “The crimes committed outrage with their cruelty,” the chairman of the court of Katsuo Mitsushima told AFP. “These crimes were committed by the defendant to satisfy his sexual desires,” the judge noted.

On the eve of the Paris metro station serving the Northern Station, a serious clash of youth with the police continued for several hours, as a result of which nine people were detained. The riots began with the detention of a 33 -year -old stow passenger - a native of North Africa, who, according to the official version, resisted, attacked employees, wounded one of them, but was detained by the police and taken to the station.

In the UK, a cult car Mini Cooper for 197 thousand dollars was sold at auction. The unusually high price of the lot is explained by the fact that the presented mini is a real legend of racing motorsport. He was the winner of the British Rally RAC in 1965, when the idol of the youth of those times Rauno A altonen was sitting at his wheel, The Car Connection notes. This Mini Cooper has become the only car in the history of his brand that managed to rise to such heights in the world of races.

The head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydka, stated that the question of the artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theater could only be raised after 40 days after the death of Mikhail Ulyanov . To raise this issue earlier, "it would be an egregious tactlessness in relation to the memory of the great Russian actor,” said the head of Roskulture in an interview with ITAR -TASS.

Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiev resigned five members of the government, including First Deputy Prime Minister Daniyar Usenova, who oversaw the economic bloc. This was reported on Wednesday in the apparatus of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan.

Rosneft settled with Rosprirodnadzor all issues related to identified violations of the license agreement on the acquisition. This was stated by reporters by the vice president of Rosneft Mikhail Stavsky. Officials did not previously exclude the review of the license from the state -owned company, but now Rosneft claims that such a scenario is excluded.

The first racket of the world Swiss Rozhe Federer suffered a second defeat over the past two weeks, again losing to the Argentine guillermo Kaganyas in the 1/8 finals at the Masters series in Mastami with a score of 6: 7 (2: 7), 2: 6, 6: 7 (5: 7). Thus, the Argentinean, last year, returned to tennis after a 15-month disqualification for the use of stimulants, proved that his success in the match with Federer in the second circle of the previous tournament in Indian Wells was not accidental.

The UK will present the Iranian side with the GPS system (global positioning, or navigation), proving that the British sailors arrested by the Iranian border guards were in the Iraqi part of the Persian Gulf. Recall that the Iranian side accused the British sailors of invasion of Iran’s territorial waters. According to The Financial Times , the British intend to present the coordinates of the boat as evidence, the inspection of which the sailors were conducted at the time of the detention.

American Lawrence Rouch refused to pay the alimony of Julia's ex -wife, referring to the fact that after the divorce, she had an operation to change the floor and became a man, changing the name to Hulio.

The audit company Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC) has applied for extension of a Russian license that expires at the end of May. The company does not expect problems with its prolongation in connection with the lawsuits initiated by the tax authorities, the senior partner of the Moscow Office of PWC, Alexander Chmel, told RIA Novosti .

According to preliminary forecasts, April in the Moscow region is expected to be cold. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference by the director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Wilfand. According to him, in the coming days the temperature will drop, and at night it will drop negative values, ITAR-TASS reports. According to meteorologists, March in the European territory of Russia this year became the warmest in the history of observations.

The British military published these GPS systems, which prove that 15 sailors captured by Iranians were indeed in the territorial waters of Iraq, the Air Force reports. According to the data on Wednesday, the British vice Admiral Charles Style, the capture occurred in Iraqi waters 1.7 naval miles from the Iranian sea border. Recall that the incident occurred last Friday in the Persian Gulf near the mouth of the Shatt-El-Arab River.

The Directorate of the Unified Customer (DS) will be transformed into state institutions or joint -stock companies, Yuri Roslyak, First Deputy Mayor in the Moscow Government, said on the last Tuesday on the air of the TVC. According to him, part of the dezs, which will represent the interests of the city authorities, are transformed into state institutions. Unified information settlement centers will also include and budget subsidies will be issued through these institutions.

Former Colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted of the murder of the Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva, once again ended up at the center of confusing history. In February, the official representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service Andrei Koshkin stated that Budanova from the Dimitrovgrad colony of general regime No.