Russian woman Maria Sharapova became the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Championship. In the main match of the tournament, 20-year-old Sharapova, sown under the 5th number, beat a peer from Serbia Anu Ivanovich (4th sowing number)-7: 5, 6: 3. The duel lasted 1 hour and 31 minutes. Opponents began the match without intelligence. From the first goals, a quick, aggressive and at the same time nervous tennis went.

A citizen of Spain, living in the village of Montefrio, the Granada Province, won 76.6 million euros in Euro -Glane, the El Mundo newspaper reports on Saturday. The next rally of the pan -European lottery took place on Friday evening: the main gain fell on the happy numbers 2, 6, 9, 19 and 45 chosen by the winner, the newspaper writes, which does not give the name of the lucky one. The euro -headed circulations have been held since February 2004 in Paris weekly on Fridays.

The Japanese security department at the sea does not have data confirming that the Captain Uskov’s ship that disappeared in the East Chinese Sea was attacked by pirates. This was reported today by ITAR-TASS at the headquarters of the Japanese security department at sea, which performs the functions of the border service. According to the responsible employee, "the management did not receive such information." “If it appears, then we will immediately notify the Russian side of this,” he added.

In Kenya, interethnic clashes continue between tribes supporting the opposition and supporters of President Kibaki. Over the past day, at least 25 people have died, ITAR-TASS reports. The clashes began on Thursday in the city of Nakur Riftovalley Province between representatives of the Luo and Calendine tribes supporting the opposition leader Rail one, and the ethnic nationality of Kikuyu, from where the president of the Kibaki Mvai came. The Kenya government introduced a curfew in this area.

George Bush signed a secret order on January 8, allowing US intelligence services to strengthen computer networks used by American government structures and expand the monitoring of information entering these networks from the Internet, The Washington Post reports on Saturday.

A crowded authorized rally in the framework of the All-Russian campaign against rising prices for food, fuel and housing and communal services, was held on Saturday on the central square of Vladivostok. The initiators of the protest rally, in which about a thousand people took part, became the left political forces of Primorye. During a rally that lasted more than 30 minutes, hundreds of cars drove past the square.

In the center of Moscow on Saturday, a rally of supporters of the Communist Party began. About 600 people take part in the rally in the Novopushkinsky square. They hold red flags in their hands with a sickle and a hammer, an emblem of the Communist Party. Supporters of the Vanguard of Red Youth joined the protesters with their symbols and banners.

The Ambassador of Latvia to Moscow Andris Takemanis does not consider it necessary to reveal the name of a diplomat erupted from Russia. “Let us calmly go home,” Takemanis told BNS on Saturday. At the same time, he denies that Edwin Wusser, expelled from the Russian Federation, is expelled from the Russian Federation. As the ambassador said, Wussusses has not been working at the embassy for a long time.

Pakistan authorities arrested a group of persons suspected of involvement in the murder of the ex-Prime Minister and the popular opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the Minister of Internal Affairs Hamid Navaz told reporters in Islamabad, RIA Novosti reports. According to the minister, the arrests were made on the basis of the information received during the interrogation of the previously detained teenager, who also suspected of involvement in this murder.

The FBI of the United States considers the arrest of Semyon Mogilevich in Moscow , but is not yet going to officially stop his search. This, as ITAR-TASS reports, said the head of the department for combating organized crime in the regional unit of the FBI in Philadelphia Peter Cowenkhoven. He directly leads the investigation in the Mogilevich case in the United States and is responsible for the search for the suspect.

Within two days, on January 26 and 27, in all 1,500 sports halls of Yakutia they will play volleyball, said Mikhail Gulyaev, chairman of the state sports of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. "We plan that more than 30 thousand athletes will take part in competitions dedicated to the Republican Day of Volleyball," the agency’s interlocutor said. The event is organized by the State Committee of Yakutia in Physical Culture and Sports and the Republican Volleyball Federation.

The authorities of Great Britain sentenced two British imprisonments to the six years of prison, who sent small bottles of vodka with poison by mail, reports Sky News. Wayne Cook and Stephen Robinson were also found guilty of distributing notes with threats to poison water in the British water supply network. 36-year-old Cook and 42-year-old Robinson, residents of the County of Big Manchester, bought small bottles of vodka in the store and poured a deadly dose of sodium hydroxide in them.

As a result of the fire that occurred in Moscow in a five-story residential building 47 on Udaltsov Street, one person died, three more were injured, Yevgeny Bobylev, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow, told Interfax . He informed that the signal of the fire entered the remote control 01 at 17:09, 13 fire brigades left for the scene. At 18:28 the fire was eliminated.

The winner of the Australian Open Tennis-2008 Championship Maria Sharapova believes that she has not yet reached the peak of her career. “I know that I won three large helmet tournaments, but I don’t think I am already at the peak of my career,” the official website of the Australian Open, the words of Sharapova, said after the victory over Serbka Ana Ivanovich in the final match.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko advocated the establishment of Russian-Ukrainian relations.