In Penza, police officers are investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl. The girl’s corpse was discovered the day before at an abandoned construction at a local watch factory. During the investigation, it was established that the student of school number 51 left home to the store and did not return. The body of a girl with signs of violent death was discovered at about 20:00 local time.

The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo was recognized in England by the player of the year according to the Association of Professional Football players. The attacking midfielder Manchester United is awarded this title for the second season in a row. The 23 -year -old Ronaldo, who already scored 38 goals this season, was ahead of the struggle for the honorary title of two stars of Liverpool, the Spanish striker Fernando Torres and the British team manager Stephen Jerrard.

The British Prince Harry will be awarded a medal for the service in Afghanistan the next week, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the Tielgraph newspaper. Together with the 23-year-old prince, a medal for participating in hostilities against the Taliban will receive another 160 people. The ceremony will take place on May 5 in Windsor.

The resigned, the Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi rejected the proposal of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin to head the South Stream project, which involves the construction of a gas pipeline from Russia in Italy worth $ 14 billion.

In Tehran, negotiations have begun between the Secretary of the Supreme Council of National Security (Supreme Economic Council) Iran Said Jalili and the acting Secretary of the Russian Security Council by Valentin Sobolev, ITAR-TASS reports.

Gianni Alemanno, a representative of Silvio Berlusconi, who won the legal coalition, wins the election of the mayor of Rome. Based on the results of the counting of almost all the ballots, Alemmano is gaining 53.6% of the vote against 46.3% of his opponent - the former Minister of Culture, a candidate from the Democratic Party of Phracho Rutelli, ITAR -TASS reports.

A parachute jump, recreated according to the descriptions and drawings of the great Leonardo da Vinci, was performed by a 36-year-old Swiss at the Payern Air Force base in Canton WHO. The jump was carried out from a height of 650 meters, reports ITAR-TASS. The aircraft, invented by a brilliant Italian in 1485, has a pyramidal shape. The supporting structures are four equilateral triangles with a side of 7 meters, on which canvas is stretched.

Ukraine will help Russia join the World Trade Organization (WTO). This, according to ITAR-TASS, said the country's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a joint statement for the press after a meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.

The head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller on April 28, is found in Rome with the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi to discuss the prospects for the South Stream project, which involves the construction of a gas pipeline from Russia in Italy worth $ 14 billion, the Kommersant newspaper writes. According to the publication referring to sources in the Russian government, the head of Gazprom may be offered to Prodi, who leaves the prime minister in early May, head the Swiss company South Stream AG.

Three fans of the Zenit football club returned to St. Petersburg, detained by the Spanish police in February during the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup in the Villarreal. This was informed by the Russian Champions press service . As previously reported, thanks to the efforts of the Zenit lawyer , he reached an agreement on the release of three fans on bail.

Vladimir Putin, who remains the Russian president until May 8, can buy real estate in Glelet, a village on the shores of Lake Nevshatelsky, reports the Swiss newspaper Blick . Valerie Pille, deputy head of the commune of Glelet and deputy of the Great Council of Fribur, spoke very restrained. “No one has contacted the commune yet. I don’t know where such information comes from,” she told the Le Temps correspondent.

On Monday, Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze will take part in a meeting of the NATO Council, which will be dedicated to the conflict in Abkhazia. Tbilisi intends to use the loud statement of the special representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Valery Kenykin about the readiness of Russia to protect Abkhazia with "military methods" .

In recent days, the State Duma has considered the bills dubious in content: the fact is that the new President Dmitry Medvedev is already to accept them, but they seriously contradict his election statements, writes the Independent Newspaper . According to the observations of the publication, laws that, even when discussing them in the Duma hall, cause strict political discussions, and then criticized by the expert community, a lot of Duma has been adopted recently.

Transneft and the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory agreed to change the route of the second stage of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean pipeline - it will be held north of Khabarovsk, and not to the south, as previously planned. According to ITAR -TASS, as a result, the route will increase by 120 km, and the project cost - by 20 billion rubles. However, at the deadlines for the completion of the second stage, the VSI change the route will not affect.

On Sakhalin, the deputy one of the district prosecutors is accused of depraved actions against minors. According to the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, the deputy prosecutor of the Kuril district, Sergei Ermakov, is suspected of what he committed against minors of a sexual nature. The fact is that in his free time, Ermakov coached students of a children's sports school in the city of Kurilsk.