The youth horror film "School Ball" has become a leader in the North American box office, having earned $ 22 million in the first weekend, the film distributor, Sony Pictures, said. The studio hoped that the remake of the Corror of the 1980s on the premier days would be able to earn $ 15-19 million, because the budget of the picture amounted to only $ 20 million, Reuters reports. The target audience appreciated the film.

The player of the Brazil of football and the Spanish "Barcelona" Ronaldinho agreed on the initial conditions for the transition to the Italian "Milan". This fact, according to Reuters , is confirmed by both the leadership of the Italian club and an agent of a football player. In the past few months, Ronaldinho practically did not go on the field due to the injury and an unimportant physical shape.

Gazprom is discussing a new version of the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia to the European Union through the Black Sea - from Serbia to Slovenia and then to Northern Italy, Kommersant writes. The head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, was already publicly enlisted by the support of Slovenia leaders, and showing Austria, Gazprom’s relations have become aggravated that South Stream could bypass it .

Representatives of a number of Duma parties believe that President Vladimir Putin should not only lead United Russia at the party’s opening congress, but also form a later party government. In this case, according to representatives of the Communist Party and the LDPR, the opposition will be able to demand from the party the authorities to answer for the state’s policy, Kommersant writes. Experts do not believe in the emergence of the party government.

The European agreement, signed, but not ratified by Russia, can bring Yukos the largest compensation in history. The GML holding, one of the largest shareholders of Yukos, intends to demand compensation from Moscow of $ 28.3 billion.

On April 14-15, the IX Congress of the All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" will be held in the Moscow Gostiny Dvor. At the congress, issues of participation of the party in the development and implementation of the strategy of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation until 2020 will be considered.

The Pope Benedict XVI is “calm and confident” before a trip to the United States, he knows about threats that sounded at him, just as he knew about similar threats before pilgrimage to Turkey. Such a statement on the eve of the Vatican Radio, the State Secretary (Head of Government) of St. throne Cardinal Tarchizio Berton. He explained that threats were received, for example, "from the Islamic world." The pontiff's trip to the ocean is scheduled for April 15-20.

The corruption scam on Siemens, the oldest electrical concern of Germany, is overgrown with new episodes. As the Hamburg weekly Spiegel said yesterday, a unit for the production of electrical distribution equipment was now in the view of the investigators. “Numerous employees” appear as the accused, including the former member of the central board of the enterprise Yuriel Sharef. Sharef turned out to be noticed in the affairs of the translations of bribes to South America.

The unfavorable economic events of recent months seriously affected the Greece lending market, putting hundreds of thousands of households under hit, Greek state television reports on Monday. So, the amount of expired mortgage loans exceeded 2.2 billion euros and continues to grow, while the Greek households expired about 2 billion euros of debt on consumer loans, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Kirov region, a criminal case was opened against a 17-year-old teenager suspected of killing his grandfather. According to the investigation, on April 6, a 81-year-old man with multiple injuries in the head area was discovered in the city of Kirsa in the house. On this fact, the investigator of the Omutninsky inter -district investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the SCP of the Russian Federation in the Kirov region was opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art.

One of the most popular images operated by cinema is a cold -blooded killer. Take at least an invincible and unbending boron or charming and sexy James Bond. The sad killer from Leon is sympathetic and sympathetic, and fearless Nikita and black mamba are the personification of women who can stand up for themselves. The film industry so passionately loves killers that the audience fell in love with them. Fans of cinema like mortal confidence, style and power of mercenaries.

Athletes who will display Tibet flags on the territory of Olympic facilities-including their own hotel rooms-can be removed from participation in the 2008 Olympics and deprived of medals, said MOC President Jacques Rogge. The participants in the competition are free to express their political beliefs, but their propaganda actions will be punishable by sanctions, writes The Times (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

The famous painting "Colossus" of the Spanish artist of the Enlightenment of Francisco Jose Goya was removed from the exposition. Experts are inclined to the idea that this is a fake. The news is already provoking a large scandal. The exhibition that opens on Tuesday at the Prado Madrid Museum includes 200 paintings, drawings and engravings united by the theme of the Spaniards against the French conquerors, the newspaper The Independent writes.

The primer for the smallest group of the peoples of the North - Uyl - published on Sakhalin. Specialists of Japan and Russia worked on the textbook for 15 years. Today in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk a presentation of the first book was held to learn the Uyltin language. The Uylt nationality has about 350 people on the island, but no more than 30 know their native language. According to the National Geographic magazine, one language disappears from the face of the earth every 14 days.

The annual London Book Fair (London Book Fair 2008) opens on Monday in the British capital. The organizers of the three-day exhibition in the well-known London complex "Erls-Cort" especially celebrate the growing interest in the London Book Fair by foreign participants. This year, 1550 different companies and publishers from 62 countries take part in the fair, and 58% of all participants will come to London from abroad.