The leadership of the International Swimming Federation (final) decided to temporarily remove from participation in the competitions of Russian Anatoly Polyakov. Doping tests showed that he resorted to the use of Boldenon - one of the variety of anabolic steroids.

The leader of the Championship of Spain and the current champion of Barcelona is ready to pay 15 million pounds (22 million euros) for the London Chelsea for Ukraine Andrei Shevchenko, who was not in England in England. According to the Spanish publication El Mundo Deportivo , Shevchenko does not want to stay in the London club for the next season if the head coach of the team will still be the Portuguese Jose Mourinho.

Saturday evening and night on Sunday in Tallinn, where for two days there were massive unrest provoked by the decision of the Estonian authorities to dismantle the bronze soldier, passed relatively calmly. At the same time, more than 150 people were detained in the city of Narva, the police made warning shots. The Newsru.com prefecture reported that the police did not conduct firing.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce retired on May 10. This newspaper The Daily Mirror was reported by a high -ranking source. According to him, Blair chose this date, talking with his family, friends and key advice. Initially, the Prime Minister intended to announce the resignation on May 9 after returning from the Belfast, where he went to look at the process of restoring self-government in Northern Ireland, which is considered one of his greatest achievements.

In the Spanish Mursia, the Final Four took place, which determined the owner of the UEFA Cup for Mini-football. In the main match of the fleeting tournament, the metropolitan "Dynamo" with a score of 2: 1 won the Spanish Boomerang. The first ball in the final was scored by Dynamo in the 13th minute of the meeting, when the original penalty draw ended with a slight, but accurate blow on the goal of Boomerang performed by Kelson.

The paramilitary Palestinian group "Brigade of the Martyrs of Al-Aaksa", associated with the ruling movement "Fath", announced the rejection of a truce with Israel, which has been operating since the end of last year in the gas sector. In the leaflets common in the Palestinian Enclave, the “Al-Aksa Martyrs” brigades report the beginning of the Operation “Summer Storm”, directed against the Israeli troops, and turn to all the “resistance forces” for supporting all the “forces of resistance”.

On Sri Lanka, Aviation Aviation Group Tigers Tamil Ilama (Toti) on Sunday inflicted a bomb stroke on a gas storage in the area of ​​the capital of the country of Colombo, the AP agency said. According to the representative of the Lanka command, the separatist plane dropped two bombs at the gas distribution station in 10 kilometers north of Colombo, the settlement of Keravalavitia. Sri-Lanka air defense forces opened a fire on the aircraft. There were no data on victims and victims.

The employee of the Terre d'Enfance charity organization Selin Cordilier, freed by the Taliban after twenty -four -day captivity, flew from Afghanistan last night, said France in Afghanistan on Sunday. Four hostages of men are still captured by the Taliban, the message is noted. Cordilia was released by the participants in the Taliban movement in the Afghan province of Kandahar on Saturday.

The plan of the specialized Secretary of the Secretary General of the UN Marti Akhtisaari cannot serve as a platform for developing the final decision of the UN Security Council in Kosovo, ”said the Russian Foreign Ministry according to the results of the UN Security Council in Belgrade and Kosovo. "We again confirm our position on the fact that the Akhtisaari plan cannot serve as a platform to develop the final decision of the UN Security Council in Kosovo," the ministry emphasized.

The candidate of right -wing forces in the presidential election in France, Nicolas Sarkozy, sharply criticized the debate today between the candidate of the Socialist Party, Ruylen Ruayal and who left the campaign after the first round by the centrist Francois Bair.

The cause of the accident at the gas pipeline near Khasavyurt was the attack. Such preliminary data from ITAR-TASS was reported in the company "Caucasus Regiongaz", on the balance of which there is an emergency section of the pipeline. "The pipe was torn as a result of external exposure to the air transition of the gas pipeline supplying fuel to Khasavyurt," the company said.

Olympic champion-2000 in running 400 m s/b, world champion-93 in the 4x100 m relay race, repeated champion and record holder of Russia in running 100 and 200 m 38-year-old Irina Privalova continues to prepare for the Olympic Games-2008 in Beijing. Such a statement by the Sports Information Agency "All Sport" was made by her husband and personal coach Vladimir Parashchuk. “At the moment, Irina’s training is paid to the overall recovery,” said Vladimir Parashchuk.

On Saturday, Finnish Prime Minister of Finland Matty Wanghanin expressed support to the Estonian government, which initiated the dismantling of the monument to the Tallinn warrior in the center of Tallinn, the press service of the Estonian government said. According to the press service, Vanhanan called the Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansipu and expressed the support of Estonia.

American scientists managed to create a unique device with which it is possible to determine the ultra -precise mass of living cells and bacteria. Traditionally, molecules are weighed with "scales" with a small flint plate in a vacuum. The plate has fluctuations with a natural frequency that changes when a molecule is placed on the surface. Based on the difference in vibrations, scientists determine the mass of the molecule.

In the seventh round of the country's football championship, the metropolitan CSKA in Luzhniki confidently defeated Ramensky Saturn with a score of 3: 1 thanks to the well -aimed blows of Vasily Berezutsky, Yuri Zhirkov and Wagner Lava. In the match of the previous round, the army team did not show an impressive game and lost FC "Moscow" with a score of 1: 2.