The American Mark Road "Phoenix" took the first sam of the soil of the Red Planet. Such information was published on the Internet department of the US Aeronautics and Research of the US space (NASA). Prior to that, he, performing the program transferred from the ground, collected a bucket of a pen and stones from the surface of Mars using a mechanical "hand".

The worldwide worldwide champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a letter addressed to several news editions at once, announced the completion of his sports career. Mayweather, considered the best boxer of the world, regardless of the weight category, said that he no longer enjoys boxing. “I decided to finally complete my boxing career,” the allboxing.ru reports the words of Mayweather. “This decision was very difficult for me, since boxing was my main occupation since childhood.

The chairman of the European Parliament Hans-Gertering told the leaders of FIFA and UEFA Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini about rejection in the Old World of a proposal to restrict legionnaires in football clubs. This was announced at a press conference in the headquarters of UEFA apartment in Basel by the President of the organization Michelle Platini.

Investigators conducted searches in the main department of France on external security, as well as the office of the lawyer Jacques Shirak in the case of the possible existence of a secret bank account of the ex-president, RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media. According to lawyer Jean Vei, on Friday his bureau was visited by an investigator from French Polynesia (overseas territory of France), dealing with the mysterious disappearance of journalist Jean-Pascal Kuro in 1997.

The results of the Unified State Exam (USE) in Russia showed that schoolchildren do not know the literature well, but more than 600 people received a record 100 points for the Russian language exam. Preliminary data on the delivery of 12 out of 13 items are published on Saturday, reports Interfax . Mandatory exams were Russian and mathematics. More than 887 thousand schoolchildren passed the Russian language. Data on the exam in mathematics is still unknown.

This year, President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev will appeal with a message to the Federal Assembly. This information was confirmed today by the head of the presidential administration Sergey Naryshkin. He noted that work in this direction is already being carried out, but did not name the deadlines for its end and the date of the president’s speech. “We are working on this,” Naryshkin assured.

The issue of participating in the European Championship of the striker of the St. Petersburg Zenit Pavel Pogrebnyak, who has been in the infirmary of the Russian national team, should finally decide in the next hours. At 10.30 local time (12.30 Moscow time), the general meeting of the team began on the basis of the Russian national team. One of the issues that will be discussed on it is precisely the fate of the funeral.

In the UK, due to high inflation, a boom of gardening began. Faced with a sharp rise in price of food, the inhabitants of the United Kingdom began to line up in line behind land and seeds. In 2007, the British spent about 62 million pounds, or $ 122 million on seedlings and seeds. To engage in the cultivation of their own gardens of the British forced the increase in food prices and a decrease in customer power, the Finmarket reports.

The Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow turned to Muscovites with teenage children with a request to explain to them that it was not necessary to imitate the arsonist of cars , Interfax reports. "The leadership of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow is concerned periodically taking place in the city by arson of cars.

Deputy Head of the Administration of the Bekovsky District of the Penza Region was dismissed for driving a car in a drunken state, Interfax said on Saturday. The official, whose name is not called, was detained at night by the traffic police from Penza. For examination, he was sent to a local hospital, but the doctors, having learned who the “patient” refused to confirm his condition.

On May 5, in the evening, a large accident occurred in the southeast of Moscow, in which the car performed an unusual trick, making the so-called "candle". The Honda HR-V SUV moved along Krasnodonskaya Street in the direction of the state farm. At a traffic light at the intersection with Sudakov Street, a woman who was driving a foreign car did not stop, as it should be, on a red signal and decided to slip through.

The Olympic figure skating champion of Alexei Yagudin in Moscow stole a Porsche car, which was still a gold medal won by an athlete at one of the world championships. "The Olympic champion turned to the phone number" 02 "of the duty unit of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate this morning. From his words, in the 2nd Mosfilmovsky Lane, from the house number 21, the unknown was abducted by his" Porsche "on the eve," RIA Novosti reports.

One of the largest projects of Moscow City, owned by the Mos City Group, the Imperia Tower multifunctional complex will most likely have to change the name, writes Kommersant . Rospatent sided with CJSC Rust Inc, which is part of the Russian Standard holding and selling Imperia vodka, which required the registration of the Imperia Tower of the Imperia Tower.

A series of arson is again recorded in Moscow, ITAR-TASS reported today in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. “Tonight in the south and west of the city, six cars burned down and, presumably, all as a result of arson,” the agency’s interlocutor said. “At 03:15 MSC on Chertanovskaya Street in the courtyard of house 23, building 2, there were fire to Zhiguli, Honda and Mazda,” said the source.

In Basel, at the St. Jacob Park stadium, the first match of the European Football Championship was held, in which the Czech team with a score of 1: 0 outplayed the Switzerland team. The only ball in the 70th minute was scored by the Vaclav Sverkosh, who was replaced.