The head of the Italian mafia Francesco Verde was shot dead by unknown in the north of the country, reports Reuters with reference to the police statement. Unknown on the motorcycle approached Verde's car when he returned home with his nephew. 58-year-old Francesco Verde was headed by the Clans Verde, operating in the north of Napol and specializing in drug trafficking and extortion. He was ahead of schedule from prison in September.

In the Republic of Mari El, a criminal case has been instituted against police officers who have stolen configurations from the innocent. Unable to withstand torture, the young man "confessed" the murder. The criminal case against police officers was opened under paragraph "A" of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of authority with the use of violence), the website of the Nizhny Novgorod regional public organization "Committee against torture" reports.

Forward Manchester United Wayne Runi talked about who he was honored to play in the same team, and about who he was most interesting to counteract. “The best players with whom I had to train are perhaps Paul Skowels and Ryan Giggs. They are brilliant football players and remain so for many years now - this is what has been the best for them. To play in the same team with Skowels and Giggsi a great honor for me. And the best of those who had to resist is Zinedin Zidan.

The Foreign Ministry recommends that the Russians gathering to visit Pakistan take into account the aggravation of the situation in this country. “In connection with the aggravation of the situation in Pakistan, the Russian Foreign Ministry would recommend to take this circumstance to take this circumstance when planning their trips to this country,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

At least 38 people died in Pakistan as a result of two -day riots caused by the murder of the popular opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a representative of Pakistan, Javed Chim, told reporters in Islamabad on Saturday. According to him, at the pogroms, the offices of 176 banks, 72 railway cars, 18 railway stations were destroyed or burned. In addition, more than 100 criminals fled from prisons during unrest.

In the Moscow Metro "Addition": Today, the 174th in a row, the station - "Sretensky Boulevard" opens its doors for passengers. According to ITAR -TASS in the department of the metropolitan subway, this station, located on the "young" line - Lublinskaya, will be the only one that does not have its exit to the city. “From here it will only be possible to make a transplant to the“ Turgenev ”Kaluga -Riga and the“ pure ponds ”of the Sokolniki branch,” the subway said.

The jury college at a meeting in the Supreme Court of Tatarstan on Saturday pronounced 17 members of the Islamic Jamaat terrorist formation, planning a series of terrorist attacks in the republic. “According to the jury, all 17 defendants are guilty of committing various crimes, but in some cases some of the defendants are not guilty of committing certain crimes incriminated to the entire group,” the senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ravil Vakhitov told the Interfax agency.

By the New Year, a law that guarantees the return of Russian art objects to their homeland will enter into force in the UK. Thanks to this, an exhibition of painting from the collections of domestic museums will be held in the intended time. The exhibition of masterpieces of painting from leading Russian museums will be held in London as planned, Interfax reports the assurances of the British ambassador to Russia Anthony Brenton.

The Verkhovna Rada on Friday adopted on the second reading and in general the law on the budget of Ukraine for 2008, which was already preparing a new cabinet of ministers under the leadership of Yulia Tymoshenko. 235 deputies of 438 registered in the session hall voted for the document, Interfax reports. 156 deputies of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko, 71 deputy of the Bloc "Our Ukraine - People’s Self -Defense", eight deputies of the Communists faction, voted.

The organizers of the famous Lisbon-Dakar rally will not cancel the stages that should go along the roads of Mauritania, despite the danger of armed attacks from Al Caida. Over the past week, four Mauritan soldiers, as well as four French tourists, were the victims of the terrorist organization in this African country, but this did not force the organizers of the rally to make adjustments to the competitive route.

The Office of the President of Russia is ready to provide all the deputies of the State Duma of the fifth convocation with official apartments in need of housing.

The authorities of Kharkov and Odessa are asking the European Football Association to expand the list of Ukrainian cities that will accept the matches of the European Football Championship in 2012, said Deputy Head of the Kharkov Office, Vice President of the Ukrainian Football Federation (FFU) Sergey Storozhenko. Euro 2012 will be held in Poland and Ukraine, where matches will be accepted by Kyiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Lviv. Kharkov and Odessa are in reserve.

The town of RIVS in the American state of Louisiana received permission to change the telephone code: many here really do not like three sixes who should be recruited by their relatives and friends trying to get through to them. Complaints of the city’s code came from local Christians since the beginning of the 1960s, when Rive was assigned a telephone code 666, which the Bible admirers have a reputation as a “beast”.

British experts create a surgical robot in the hope that their invention will be a truly revolution in medicine. According to the Air Force , thanks to this device, doctors will be able to carry out complex procedures, which today are possible only with the use of surgical intervention. The I-Snake robot is a long tube in which micromotors, sensors and video surveillance tools are located.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation enhances control over the investigating authorities, since "the balance was disturbed." Often the investigation goes beyond the law, which is confirmed by numerous complaints of citizens.