At the airport of the Sudanese capital of Hartum, the Il-76 transport aircraft crashed, which died at least four people. According to some eyewitnesses, a strong explosion thundered after the fall, Interfax reports with reference to the Civil Aviation Management of Sudan. “The wreckage of the aircraft is scattered there. Large parts of the engines are visible,” one of the eyewitnesses said Reuters.

The raw material companies, primarily oil, become the most valuable sector of the economy, ousting banks, and a sharp increase is shown by the innovative companies and companies of developing markets - these are the results of the rating of the 500 largest companies in market capitalization published by The Financial Times . The rating of FT Global 500 of the largest companies in the world in terms of market capitalization is released 12th time.

The total volume of direct investments in European real estate in the first half of 2008 amounted to 69 billion euros, which is 44% lower than during the same period of 2007, the study of Jones Lang Lasalle said. As noted in the press release, which is quoted by RIA Novosti , in the first half of 2008, even those European countries that are traditional leaders in this indicator experienced a drop in real estate investment.

Parliamentary elections in Mongolia are ending. According to preliminary data received by the Mongol capital, by 06:00 local time (02:00 in Moscow) in eight regions of the country in Sunday elections to the Great State Khural, candidates from the Mongolian People's Road Party (MNRP) won. This was stated by its Secretary General Endogin Ogonbayar, ITAR-TASS reports.

Bishop Diomid, whom the bishop's cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church deprived the dignity of the bishop of Anadyr and Chukotsky on June 27, did not repent. On the contrary, the scandalous bishop, accusing the leadership of the Moscow Patriarchate of "agreement with the authorities and rapprochement with other faiths," said that he did not intend to change beliefs.

Former President of the Airbus aircraft manufacturer, a subsidiary of the European defense corporation EADS (European Aeronautic Defense Space), Gustav Humbert was detained in France for interrogation in the case of insider trade .

The winner of the Lotto lottery won almost 19 million euros in Ireland, thus breaking a national record. The winnings will get a resident of the town of Karlow, located south of Dublin, the National Lottery, who organized a draw, said in the company. Jackpot amounted to such a large amount (18 million 963 thousand 441 euros) after nobody could disrupt the bank in a row. The winning ticket cost a lucky one 32 euros.

In Lyubertsy, Moscow Region, near the village of Nekrasovka, a terrible accident occurred involving the car of one of the most famous street racers in Russia, Andrei Ovchinnikov? organizer of the street racing club Night racing. His car flew into oncoming traffic on the wet road and crashed at high speed into a huge MAZ truck. This was reported by an Interfax source in Moscow law enforcement agencies. As a result of a head-on collision, Ovchinnikov died on the spot?

Although after the May holidays, the Moscow real estate market has noticeably slowed down, the cost per square meter continues to crawl up, it states IRN.ru. Over the past week, the average level of prices for Moscow apartments exchanged another hundred and amounted to 5.815 points, which is 0.7% higher than the previous indicator. The increase in ruble prices for metropolitan housing published by the real estate magazine www.metrinfo.ru , due to variations of the dollar, is even less.

At least seven people were killed and three more are in critical condition as a result of a collision of two helicopters of the medical services in the sky above Arizona. This was announced by the official representative of the US Federal Aviation Department (FAU). The incident occurred on Sunday evening near the Hospital of the city of Flagstuff, reports CNN . According to the department, in one of the helicopters there were three people, including one patient, all died.

Airbus 319 Airbus Air Malta National Maltese airline, which has been a flight from the Moscow Domodedovo Airport to Luka Airport (near the capital of Malta - Valletta), made a forced landing in another Moscow airport "Vnukovo" half an hour after departure. None of the passengers and crew members were injured, the representative of the press service of Domodedovo said on Monday RIA Novosti on Monday. "The flight KM561 Moscow -Malta flew out of Domodedovo today at 06:00.

In the United States, a resident of the city of Ishpeming (Michigan), who was wanted for the abduction and beating of his wife, with whom he was divorced, committed suicide. On Sunday, 49-year-old Paul Julius Nolt shot himself, escaping from law enforcement officers. The body of the suspect was discovered at about 17:20 local time. Michigan police were looking for Nolt from Saturday. “Last night we were called to Ishpeming in connection with the loss of a woman,” said investigator Brian Mulador.

The last weekend in Austria and Switzerland, the European football championship could become an object for a terrorist attack. At least, the Minister of Defense of Switzerland Samuel Schmid made this statement, reports Sport-Express with reference to Reuters. “The power structures took measures in connection with the data on the preparation of the attack,” said Schmid, by the way, which also holds the post of Minister of Sports in the country.

In Madrid, at dawn, as a result of clashes of football fans who celebrated Spain’s victory at Euro 2008, 90 people were injured with the police, 14 of them were hospitalized. "Drunk fans, mainly young people, arranged riots in the area of ​​the capital's squares of Columbus, Sibeles and Kastilian Avenue. They stopped the movement of vehicles, burned garbage containers, broke telephone machines, threw bottles of police officers," a representative of the National Police told RIA Novosti .

The Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor’s Office (UKP) completed the investigation of the criminal case against the group of Moscow skinheads accused of more than 20 murders and 12 assassination attempts for national motives. The case is sent to approve the indictment, Interfax reports. "The criminal group of skinheads of nine people acted on the territory of Moscow for eight months.