Russian tennis player Dinara Safina won her sixth title in a professional career and the first this season. On Sunday, in the final of the Qatar Telecom German Open-2008 category tournament in Berlin, 22-year-old native of Moscow, sown by the 13th, met her compatriot Elena Dementieva. Dinara won three sets in 2 hours 3 minutes - 3/6, 6/2, 6/2. This is the third consecutive victory by Safina, won over Dementieva on the ground.

A session of the Lebanese parliament, which was supposed to take place on Tuesday for the election of the president of the country, was postponed to June 10. As ITAR-TASS reports, the speaker of the Legislative Assembly announced this today. This is the 19th transfer of voting in a country living in the conditions of a domestic political crisis, the sharpest since the Civil War of 1975-90.

One of the US presidential candidates from the Democratic Party Barack Obama, last week, fired his adviser Robert Mally, who maintained contacts with the Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization, the British weekly The Sunday Times reports. According to the publication, Molly confirmed that he had regular contacts with the leadership of Hamas.

The Taganrog Automobile Plant is negotiating with Hyundai on the assembly of GETZ at a Russian enterprise, Vedomosti reports. So far, negotiations are not close to the final, neither the terms nor the volume of production are called. On Tagaz, the old Hyundai models are already being removed from production in Korea are now collecting on the license: previous generations Accent, Sonata, Santa Fe and Elantra.

In the city of Mosul in the north of Iraq, 78 al-Qaeda militants and 119 “suspicious” persons were arrested. This was reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of the military command of the province of Nainav, reporting on the results of the continuing third day of the anti-terrorist operation. The Iraqi authorities in the morning abolished the ban on moving around the city of pedestrians that operated from last Friday, but with regard to vehicles, the ban remains in force.

In the near future, a new female organization may appear in Russia. Its members set themselves the goal of attracting the attention of society to the fate of their children who have suffered punishment for crimes, which, in their opinion, were not committed. Experts explain the emergence of a new community at the same time at many points on the map of Russia by the lack of effective supervision of the investigation and a large percentage of judicial errors, they write "New Izvestia" .

Danish lawyer Jeffrey Galmond sells 8% Megaphone and 58.9% of telecominvest, Alisher Usmanov, as a result of which Usmanov will receive control of 39.3% in Megaphone, and will increase the effective share to 31.1%, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. The completion of the transaction was due to the settlement of all disputes around the IPOC assets, the representative of Af Telecom told the newspaper.

Petersburg businessmen proposed an original way of unloading the historical center of the city from road transport. They are ready to ride the subway. For this, entrepreneurs are ready to pay for the manufacture and purchase of increased comfort wagons that would cling to each composition of the subway, and pay for travel from 100 to 150 euros per month. They propose to make travel for pensioners and disabled people free due to profits from their special cars, they write "New Izvestia" .

In Mexico, the drug mafia quit an open call to the local police, exterminating senior law enforcement officials almost daily. The mafiosi even threw the “shot list” of future victims, some of which have already been killed. Last Saturday, the killers shot a senior policeman in one of the border Mexican cities. The deceased Juan Antonio Roman Garcia was considered man number two in the police structures of the city of Syudad Hoires in Chiuaua, the Associated Press reports.

Due to the worsening economic climate, the profession of a real estate agent in the UK is becoming increasingly unpopular. "Robber". "Parasite". "Worm". "Leech". "Scammer". "Two-faced swindler." These now popular epithets among the British public, addressed to the collective figure of a real estate agent, were collected and published by the British publication The Times .

The magazine "Finance" has published a list of 10 main tax injustices existing in Russia. The publication is dedicated to the new tax reform plan, which was announced by the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The first injustice is the first: the income tax in Russia is 13%, and income in the form of dividends is taxed at a rate of 9%. Since the game is mostly fond of the game, in percentage terms, they pay less tax compared to the poor.

The Directorate of the 65th Venice Film Festival announced the name of the owner of the statuetus "Golden Leo of St. Mark" for an outstanding contribution to cinema. This year he will be a famous Italian director, screenwriter, producer and operator Ermanno Olmi, ITAR-TASS reports.

President Hugo Chavez believes that his Colombian colleague Alvaro Urist, "by order of Washington, is able to unleash an armed conflict with Venezuela." In the traditional television and radio program “Hello, President”, on Sunday, he said that “with the connivance of the Colombian authorities,” the United States tend to accuse him of supporting terrorism and left -breeding revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (RVSK).

At least one person was killed and six were wounded on Monday in clashes between supporters of the opposition and the ruling power in the area of ​​the city of Tripoli located in the north of Lebanon, RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media. Activists of the ruling coalition of the Al-Mustakbal movement, the report said, fired a residential building from a grenade launcher, which led to the victims.

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev instructed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to provide proposals for the abolition of the Federal Registration Service, the Federal Agency of Geodesy and Cartography and the Federal Agency of Cadastre Real Estate since October 1, 2008, the Kremlin press service reports.