Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova received a special invitation (WildCard) from the organizers of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of Wimbledon. Thus, the 16-year-old tennis player will be able to participate in the tournament without passing qualifications at the 310th rating at the rating of WTA.

Against Mario Skramella, who met with Alexander Litvinenko in London and immediately after arrival at his homeland on December 24 was arrested and imprisoned, among other things, the charges of damage to the Navuvius national park were made, the ANSA agency said.

The Ford Automobile Concern intends to put up its British divisions Jaguar and Land Rover for sale. The Ford leadership informed a number of members of the British parliament that it would take some more time, the Air Force television and radio broadcasting corporation reports. According to the Air Force, Ford bought Jaguar in 1989, and Land Rover in 2000.

Hundreds of indignant fans of the Rolling Stones group could not return home from the island of White in La-Channel after a concert of their beloved team on Monday, because its participants were taken from under their nose with a ferry. Even those people who bought tickets in advance remained on the shore, while Mick Jagger, Kit Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and their team of 200 people sailed to the Limington.

The Danish Football Association (DFA) appealed to the decision of the UEFA control and disciplinary instance regarding the incident that occurred on June 2 in Copenhagen during the Euro-2008 qualifying match between the national Denmark and Sweden. This was reported by the official website of UEFA . On Friday, UEFA awarded the Swedish national team a technical victory and fined the DFA for 100 thousand Swiss francs (61 thousand euros).

In the Soviet district of the Kursk region, five people were killed as a result of a traffic accident, a source in the regional law enforcement agencies said on Tuesday. The accident occurred on 91 km of the Kursk highway - the village of Kshensky, Interfax reports. The Audi driver lost control, which is why the car overturned to the ditch. As a result, the driver and four passengers of the car from injuries died on the spot.

The second racket of the world in the ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Russian Maria Sharapova is listed in the list of candidates for the semifinal match Fed Cup against the US national team on July 14-15 and, if there is no injuries, will play for the Russian team. This was announced by the Captain of the Russian national team, President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev, about this agency for sports information .

Olympic champion Russians Alina Kabaeva won three gold awards at the Grand Prix stage on rhythmic gymnastics, which was held in the Israeli city of Holon. Kabaeva was the best in the all -around (72,300 points), in the exercise with a rope (18.650) and with maces (18.650). Russian woman Olga Kapranova became the second in the all -around (71,400), in the exercise with the Bulavs (18,300) and the third - with a hoop (18,300), ITAR -TASS reports.

The Greek police revealed the brutal murder of two Orthodox nuns, which occurred in April 2007 in one of the monasteries of Greece. This was announced on Tuesday by a representative of the local police. In this case, a Greece citizen and a citizen of Macedonia were arrested, law enforcement agencies are looking for their accomplice. The arrested already confessed to the crime. Two Orthodox nuns, one of whom was an abbess of the monastery, were strangled on April 24.

US President George Bush spoke on Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the Monument to the Victims of Communism in Washington. According to, the communist ideology took the lives of 100 million people. “Until now, in the capital of our country there was no monument to the victims of imperial communism - ideology, which, according to estimates, claimed the lives of 100 million innocent men, women and children,” the US President quoted RIA Novosti .

The International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) condemned Milan Martich on Tuesday, who occupied a number of high posts in the former Republic of Serbian Krain, and sentenced him to 35 years in prison, Reuters reports. Martich was convicted of crimes against humanity and for violations of the laws and customs of war. The indictment states that Martich participated in criminal acts, the purpose of which was to expel the non -powerful population from Serbian Krai.

The Spanish "Barcelona" reached a preliminary agreement on the transition of the Arsenal striker Thierry Henry, reports Eurosport with reference to the authoritative publication France Football . According to the source, the transfer of the French striker to the Catalan Club is practically resolved.

In the Central London district, Westminster on Tuesday evening collapsed a multi -storey building in which there was a reconstruction. The incident occurred on Dean Farrar Street next to the Scotland Yard office. It is assumed that the house was empty at this time of day. The London ambulance service reports one victim. According to the correspondent of Skynews, who arrived at the scene, one of the eyewitnesses claims that he heard the sound of an explosion.

By tradition, on Russia Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited outstanding compatriots awarded to the Kremlin awarded state prizes of the Russian Federation for 2006. This time in the Laureate group there were 12 people who received high awards from the hands of the head of state on Tuesday. The solemn ceremony was held in the St. George Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace, where the entire political and creative elite gathered. One of the laureates was Alexander Solzhenitsyn .

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko demanded from the Verkhovna Rada and its chairman Alexander Moroz to stop fulfilling his powers. “Colleagues, complete this work, give peace of Ukraine,” Yushchenko said on Tuesday in Kyiv. Yushchenko is sure that extraordinary parliamentary elections will be held on September 30 of this year. "The question of early elections on the legal, on a political basis has been resolved.