Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has been resigning from November 25. He stated this tonight at a meeting of the government of the country. Saakashvili made such a decision in order to enable parliament to appoint early presidential elections on January 5, 2008, ITAR-TASS reports. He said that before the election on January 5, the duties of the head of state will temporarily perform the speaker of the parliament Nino Burjanadze - the second official in the country.

In the list of persons who will be temporarily prohibited by traveling outside Belarus, about 100 thousand people will be made, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Lieutenant of the Police Vladimir Naumov, told reporters on Saturday. "This list will not be small. It will have about one hundred thousand people," the minister said. It will include persons who have an outstanding criminal record, debt on alimony, said Naumov.

The former world champion in the International Boxing Federation (IBF) in the weight category up to 69.9 kg, Russian Roman Karmazin won the most important victory on the new path to the title. In Los Angeles in a 12-rang duel, he won another former world champion (according to the World Boxing Association-(WBA) Mexican Alejandro Garcia by knockout in the 3rd round, winning the vacant title of intercontinental champion in version (WBA). But you can’t call this victory easy for Karmazin.

Four people died, many were injured as a result of an explosion at a gas station in the business area of ​​Shanghai Pudun on Saturday morning, reports Sinhua. The identities of the victims of the explosion are established. One of the dead is a cyclist passing by. As a result of the explosion, the bus passing by was damaged. Many passengers were wounded by broken glasses. Several cars parked near the gas station also received damage. Glass and windows are broken in nearby buildings.

The tennis player Maria Sharapova for the third time in a row headed the list of the richest athletes of Russia according to the version of the magazine "Finance". The list includes athletes whose income in 2007 amounted to more than $ 1 million. 20-year-old Sharapova earned 25 million in a year, ahead of the closest pursuer almost doubled. In the second position is the Utah Jazz basketball player Andrei Kirilenko, who earned 13.7 million over the season.

The senior coach of the Russian football team, Alexander Borodyuk, spoke about the removal of Andrei Arshavin in the match of the qualifying cycle of the European Championship 2008 with Andorra and the unity of the team after this meeting. "There was a complicated match. Andorra showed herself from the worst side. Maybe this was not visible, but the players of the Andorra national team spat on our players, stir, provoked. And during the break we asked the players not to succumb to provocations.

The searches of Russian divers missing in the Red Sea resumed, interrupted the night before, due to adverse weather conditions, RIA Novosti Khilo Consul in Egypt Ali Abuseyd told RIA Novosti . Three scuba divers from Barnaul - Vladimir Bukhmiller, Sergey Gurba and Natalya Doronina - went missing during a specialized diving tour among Rifa Elfinstone in the Red Sea. As one of the participants in the tour said, the scubalists planned to plunge into a 90-meter depth.

The ex-mentor of the Real Madrid, Italian Fabio Capello said that he would have accepted the proposal to lead the national team of England, which was orphaned after the resignation of Steve McLaren. "All proposals coming to me are extremely exciting. Work with the England team would become something new to me. After all, the work of the national team mentor is going through without daily training. This is a very difficult job, but very interesting.

The American astronauts NASA Peggy Witson and Daniel Tanya from the crew of the 16th main expedition to the ISS today successfully held the third, the final exit to the open space on the American program. All work took up the "space installers", 7 hours instead of the planned 6.5 hours.

In Nizhny Novgorod, after suppressing the attempt to hold an unauthorized action of another Russia, the police detained six more people, the Interfax correspondent reports from the scene. Earlier, ten detained activists of another Russia were reported. Then, for an attempt to hold an unauthorized rally, police officers detained six more young people in the area of ​​Gorky Square. According to police officers, citizens were detained to verify documents for three hours.

The correspondent of the NTV NTV Valery Dragilev died in an accident without a hospital without regaining consciousness, according to Fontanka.ru . Recall, on November 3, in the Leningrad region, the NTV team moved from one gas station, where there was a turn to another, and people who were in the car were not fastened. After overtaking a concrete mixer, a television company drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided with a VAZ car.

Russian goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov won in the regular championship of the National Hockey League (NHL) the third victory in a row after the Phoenix acquired it from the Anaheim. On Friday, sprayers opposed his former team. Having made 23 “salvations” from the game, he was impenetrable in the series of post -match shootouts, and the “coyots” beat the “ducks” with a score of 4: 3.

In the English Football Premier League "Liverpool" on the road, Newcastle convincingly won with a score of 3: 0. The team of Rafael Benites in the current championship has not yet lost a single match, but this circumstance has not yet guaranteed his club leadership in the championship.

During the explosion of household gas in a five -story residential building in Khabarovsk, three people were injured on Saturday, a representative of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told RIA Novosti . "The gas explosion occurred at 22:50 (15:50 Moscow time) on the Sheleste street, 77. The fire that arose was already extinguished.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez was defended by a nationwide referendum scheduled for a change in the country's constitution and criticized the opposition for their call to vote against constitutional reform, RIA Novosti reports. “If the people asks me, then I am ready to stay in power until my last bone and muscle dry out on my body,” Chavez said, speaking at a meeting of the country's leading composition, the ABN Venezuelan agency said.