A bus with Polish pilgrims got into a traffic accident in France, the number of dead increased to 26 people, reporting the Polish information television channel TVN24 with reference to the Poland Foreign Ministry. The bus burned completely. The accident occurred in the vicinity of Grenoble in the southeast of France. The TVN24 television channel reports that French Prime Minister Francois Fillon goes to the place of car accident.

Seven people died in a collision of the passenger minibus Opel and a truck in the Rostov region. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies, clarifying that the accident occurred on the highway under the city of Kamensk at 01:30 Moscow time. All seven people who were in a minibus were killed, including one child. A car with license plates of the Moscow region was decorated with wedding ribbons.

The murder of Alexander Litvinenko was "no doubt, an act of state terrorism from Moscow." As a high -ranking British official told The Sunday Times , "this point of view adheres to the British government at the highest level." According to the source, he has access to the latest evidence collected by the police and intelligence services, and his words also reflect the opinion of high-ranking officials of the anti-terrorist units of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs, Scotland Yard and

Almost 200 people were stuck on the observation attraction "Arc Gateway Arch" in the American city of St. Louis due to a failure in power supply, the AP agency reports. The attraction located on the shores of the Mississippi in the center of St. Louis is one of the attractions of the city. This is a huge steel structure about 192 meters high.

Iraqi football fans in the heat of spontaneous celebrations on the occasion of the victory of their national team over the Vietnam team in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup opened a firing in the air in the streets and squares of Baghdad. At the same time, three people were killed and about 50 were injured, Reuters reports with reference to the police. Both the dead and the injured are random victims of random fir. The police do not consider the versions of the premium murder.

The units of the Afghan troops and the multinational contingent of the coalition forces began surgery to liberate South Korea citizens, which are held by the Taliban as hostages, Reuters reported. "The Afghan troops, together with the coalition contingent, underwent surgery to liberate the South Korean hostages. The results of the operation will be announced later," the country's statement said in a statement.

Voting in early elections to the Turkish parliament ended at 17:00 local time (18:00 Moscow time). In 32 out of 81 provinces of the country, mainly eastern and southeast, it began and ended an hour earlier. The elections were attended by 14 parties, which represent 7395 candidates, as well as 699 independent applicants. 42.5 million citizens of 75 million Turkey were included in the voting lists, for which 158.7 thousand polling stations were opened in 85 electoral districts.

The earthquake that occurred in the north-west of China destroyed 2100 houses, eight thousand people were left without shelter, the Sinhua agency reports. 8250 people evacuated from the region. The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.7 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of underground shocks was recorded in a mountainous area about 430 kilometers from the city of Urumchi, which is the administrative center of the Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region on the border with Kazakhstan.

In the cabin of a dry closet in the Central District of Moscow, police officers discovered a fake explosive device, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies said on Sunday . "A homemade explosive device attached to the toilet lid was found in the cabin of a dry -mounted boulevard located near the house number 2." The product "consisted of a small -sized wooden bar, Brone batteries, LEDs interconnected by electric wires," the source said.

The Taliban for a day extended the ultimatum in relation to the 23 South Korean hostages they captured. According to the representative of the Taliban Kari Mohammad Yusuf, the movement gives the Afghan authorities and the government of the Republic of Korea for another 24 hours to fulfill its requirements, ITAR-TASS reports. The term of the former ultimatum expired today at 18:30 Moscow time.

The explosion of an unidentified device thundered in the entrance of a residential building in Astrakhan, no one was injured, RIA Novosti told on Sunday by telephone a source in law enforcement agencies of the city. "The incident occurred on the eve of the Yaroslavl Kirovsky district of the city. According to preliminary data, at the entrance of a two -story residential brick house, a non -fried device exploded on the landing," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Italian police closed the mosque in the city of Peruja, in which, according to her, a school was arranged for the preparation of terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda, the Air Force reports. At the same time, three Moroccans were arrested, including the imam of the mosque. Another Moroccan managed to hide. The police claim that in the mosque they taught hand -to -hand combat and handling firearms.

Valeria Kolodyazhny, 5-year-old daughter of the mayor of Sochi Viktor Kolodyazhny, who was seriously injured in an accident on the Palace Embankment of St. Petersburg, died on Saturday in the Mariinsky hospital, Yuri Shcherbuk, head of the Health Committee on Health of the St. Petersburg administration. As previously reported, the accident occurred at about 20:00 Moscow time last Friday.

Israel will have to leave the "many territories" of the Western bank of the Jordan River, the country's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Saturday, Reuters reported. “The one who lives with the hope that we will keep all these territories makes the wrong calculation,” Olmert said in an interview shown on local television. “We will have to leave many territories there,” he added.

About 10% of the Spaniards use the services of plastic surgeons, spending their appearance in a aggregate of at least 800 million euros annually, EFE reports with reference to the Vice President of the Union of Plastic Surgery of Spain Jose Sierra. “In recent years, the number of Spaniards who decided to resort to plastic surgery has increased significantly, especially among men who make up 20-30% of the total today.