Africa honors the first laureates of the International African Integration Award. The solemn ceremony was held on Friday in the capital of Gabon Libreville in the Center for Democracy under the patronage of the President of the Gabon Republic of Omar Bongo Onim. This award was established by the Africa-1 franco-speaking radio station to encourage projects contributing to regional unity. The award is awarded to a special jury representing the audience of this radio station in various countries.

The Prime Minister of Japan, Yasuo Fudu, as expected , completed a large-scale reorganization of the Cabinet of Ministers on Friday, Breitbart.com reports. At first, during the meeting, all ministers filed a petition for resignation, which made it possible to make significant changes to the composition of the government. There are 17 ministers in the new government, two of them are women. Only four ministers from the previous government managed to maintain their positions.

The Pacific Ocean cruise liner fell into a strong storm in the New Zealand island of Severny. According to the representative of the ship's team, as a result of pitching caused by seven -meter waves, 42 passengers were injured in varying severity. All of them were provided with urgent medical care on board the vessel. A powerful blow of the elements fell on a ship 600 km north of the city of Auckland.

From the point of view of the Vedas, the solar eclipse, in principle, is unfavorable for any lesson. If, of course, they are not related to the spiritual life of man, with the service of God, ”said the famous Russian Vedic astrologer from the Moscow Society of Consciousness of Krishna Yashomatinandana Das (Yuri Parshikov). It represents in Russia the ancient astrological school of Giotish and the esoteric tradition of the Royal astrologers dynasty Jagannatha Puri.

The Phoenix spacecraft found water on Mars. This was announced by the scientist William Boynton from the University of Arizona, leading the mission of the earth robot to detect traces of water on the Red Planet. “We got water,” he said.

Katie Holmes is tired of Tom Cruise's relatives living with the couple in a mansion in Beverly Hills, and demanded that they finally leave and leave her family alone, reports Spletni.net . The actress, who will be heading to New York later this year to appear in the Broadway play, once mentioned having to live with Tom Cruise's extended family.

Law enforcement agencies of the Sverdlovsk region are suspected of the head of the city of Biserrut Valery Neputin in abuse and financial fraud, Interfax reports.

The justice of the peace prohibited the resident of the village of Border in the Far East to feed homeless cats. As the Russian Air Force service reports, the defender of the animals Nadezhda Repko in court achieves the abolition of this decision, and the bailiffs in the morning consider cats coming to the feeder. In order to control the execution of the decision of the judge, the bailiff Tatyana Tashlykova and the guard at six in the morning come to the house where Repko lives.

The US government departments have 642 thousand 233 service cars that cost $ 3.4 billion last year. This was announced by the American public organization "Citizens against the waste of the authorities", which refers to the data of the Federal General Purpose Services. Moreover, during the calculations, a huge park of military vehicles located on the balance of the Pentagon was not taken into account.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) predicts the potential growth of positive doping tests during the upcoming summer games. The head of the scientific and medical department of the IOC Patrick Shamash explained this by an increase in the number of samples that will be taken from the athletes in Beijing, as well as the improvement of research methods.

In the Smolensk region, a sentence was sentenced to a former policeman, found guilty of murder. The offender shot a militant woman in an effort to avenge his dismissal from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In the first half of 2008, 13.1 million news was published in Runet, while in 2007 they appeared 18.5 million. The number of news at the end of 2008 will be 28.9 million, which will surpass last year’s indicator more than one and a half times. It is noteworthy that almost 40% of published texts are literary reprints from other resources, according to the WEBSCAN Technologies study.

The Council of Mufties of Russia (SMR) note the growth of the number of Muslims who want to commit Hajj , and intend to ask the authorities of Saudi Arabia to increase the allocated quota. “There are a lot of people who want to commit Hajj today in Russia. We thought that we will lay down in the quota of 20.5 thousand people, but no.

The Olympic City Presidential Directorate of the President of Russia will build up more than 1.5 thousand hectares of the territories of the agro -industrial complex (APC) Voskresenskoye in the Leninsky, Podolsky and Odoltsovsky districts of the Moscow Region, Vedomosti reported. "The Office of the President of the Russian Federation will build part of the lands subordinate to him in the suburbs - only about 1.5 thousand hectares.

The 60-year-old Russian drowned on the beach in Ashdod in Israel, reports Newsru Israel with reference to Radio Kol Israel. Vacationers who witnessed the accident pulled the man ashore and tried to provide him with first aid before the arrival of "ambulance". Resuscitation measures were unsuccessful, doctors who arrived in place a few minutes after the signal received, stated the death of a man.