A new type of street crimes appeared in Myanmar: thieves cut hair from the head of women. This happens in a street crowd or in overflowing transport. According to the journal "Myanmar for a week", several victims of thieves have already contacted the local police. Moreover, some of the victims noticed the loss of hair only at home. “My braid was cut on the bus when I was returning from work, so that I didn’t even notice.

The Minister of Transport Igor Levitin with a group of responsible persons drove along the federal highway of Moscow-Novorossiysk Don, for the reconstruction of which the Russian president allocated tens of billions of rubles, mentioning it in the message to the Federal Assembly . According to the minister, by 2014, the road leading to the possible future Winter Olympic Capital of Sochi will be the road of the first category that meets all international standards.

The film "Spider-Man. The enemy in the reflection" continues to beat world records. At the moment, the total box office of the picture amounted to $ 621 million. Over the past weekend, the film raised $ 60 million in American cinemas, thus bringing fees in the USA to $ 242 million. Residents of European and other countries contributed even more to the total cash desk of the third “Spider-Man”: in the first ten, the picture raised $ 379 million abroad.

The little -known film company H2O Motion Pictures acquired the rights to the books of Anna Politkovskaya and intends to shoot a film about the journalist herself, who was shot in the fall of 2006 in Moscow. According to the Variety , we are talking about three books of the journalist: Russian Diary, Putin Russia , as well as the unpublished manuscript "Fit -headed Head", dedicated to Politkovskaya trips to Chechnya. Details of the transaction are not yet known.

On Monday, preliminary negotiations began in the Ministry of National Defense of Poland on the possibility of placing elements of the missile defense system (PRO) of the USA in the country. From the Polish side, Deputy Minister of National Defense Boguslav Vinida takes part in them.

A lawsuit was filed with the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow from the ANAPA-Petersburg Flight of the Tu-154 of the Tu-154 Passenger Aircraft on the reimbursement of more than 39 million rubles. “The Moscow Court of the USCO was filed in the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow on the reimbursement of 39 million 210 thousand rubles. The defendant is a company that insured the plane,” lawyer Igor Trunov, representing the interests of the victims, told Interfax.

Strong heat, established in recent days almost throughout Romania, caused the death of at least three people in various counties of the country. The dead, mostly elderly people suffering from hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, ITAR-TASS reports. The number of calls of ambulance brigades for people who are under the influence of heat strokes increased several times everywhere.

Three times more people die on Estonia's roads per million inhabitants per year than in Sweden, and in the entire European Union the worst figures are only in Latvia and Lithuania, a report by the European Commission reveals. In Estonia last year, 152 out of a million people lost their lives due to road accidents, and in Finland, for example, this figure was 66, writes the Delfi portal with reference to Eesti Paevaleht.

Russian boxers can be temporarily disqualified, which will lead to their non -participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing. This is due to the conflict of the former president of the Russian Boxing Federation (FBI), the President of the European Amateur Boxing Association (EAVA) Eduard Khusainov with the President of the International Association of Amateur Boxing (AIBA), a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Ching-Coo Wu.

The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was hospitalized in serious condition, doctors diagnosed a violation of the blood circulation of the brain as a result of the blockage of the vessel, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the Palestinian independent agency of Maan . On the eve of May 13, Gaddafi suffered an extensive stroke. The agency referred to its sources that received information from Europe.

The results of the survey conducted by the anti-dyffamation league (ADL) in the March-April of 2007 in five countries of Europe indicate that the level of anti-Semitism of Europeans and their faith in the secret influence of Jews on the fate of the planet remain very high, today Newsru.com Israel reports.

In Ukraine, the investigation in the case of the theft of children from the Kharkov maternity hospital number 6 is not over. Moreover, in this strange case there are already six suspicious deaths of witnesses. The investigation began after the German media in 2005 wrote about the loss of two babies in the hospital number 6 of Kharkov. Parents were reported that their kids had died of complications during childbirth.

On Monday, the US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice arrived in the capital of Russia with a two -day visit. In Moscow, she stated that there was no new Cold War between Russia and the USA. “I am not going to scatter expressions like“ New Cold War. ”We have a difficult relationship, but I will not say that this is an implacable enmity,” RIA Novosti quotes the head of American diplomacy.

The Parliamentary Committee on Regulations, Deputy Ethics and Ensuring the Activities of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deprived of deputies of opposition salary factions in May. By decision of the committee, only those deputies who, according to existing norms, come to the session hall and are signed by the Vedomosti, Interfax reports with reference to the chairman of the Committee Alexander Efremov (Party of Regions).

The clergymen of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate said they have information about the illegal actions of the police during riots in Tallinn on April 26-28.