Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in negotiations in the Moscow Region, suggested that the French colleague Nicolas Sarkozy discuss the fulfillment of the Medvedev-Sarcosi plan, taking into account the events of the last month, taking into account new realities.

American Serena Williams became the winner of the US -2008 tennis opening championship, in the final match of which she defeated Serbke Elena Yankovich - 6: 4, 7: 5. Thanks to this success, Serena headed the new WTA rating. Recall that in the semifinals Yankovich prevailed over Russian Elena Dementieva, and Williams beat another representative of our country - Dinar Safina. This title in the tournaments of a large helmet series became for Williams Jr. ninth.

One Canadian soldier died, seven were injured when the Taliban of an armored personnel carrier was undermined in the vicinity of Kandahar. This was announced by the commander of the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan Brigadier General Denis Thompson. The incident with the Canadian military in the area of ​​Panjwai occurred shortly before two suicide bombers undermined themselves at the headquarters of the police in Kandahar.

The correctional court of Marseille sentenced the French surgeon Michel Mora, convicted in France for mutilating about a hundred women during plastic surgery, by three years in prison and a year conditionally. The plastic surgeon arrested at the Spanish resort, who was nicknamed "Doctor Death", has been crippled his patients for 15 years.

The sanitary control bodies of the Quebec province demanded to withdraw from the sale of a total of 11 types of local cheese from fears that they could be infected with a dangerous pathogen - a bacterium of the listeria. Not only the varieties in which the bacterium can be removed from the shelves, but also those cheeses that lay on the windows nearby.

The journalists of the Russia Today, who worked in Tskhinvali, are accusing the American CNN television channel for the coverage of the Georgian-Yugooseta conflict, RIA Novosti reported on Monday during a round table dedicated to the events in the Caucasus, the correspondent of Russia Today Nikolai Baranov. "Our group took off the plot of the destroyed Georgian army of Tskhinvali, in particular, the University of South Ossetia.

On Monday, one match was held as part of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), in which the Novosibirsk "Siberia" on its ice won a crushing victory over the Riga "Dynamo" - 6: 1 (3: 0, 0: 1, 3: 0). It was the fifth match of Riga in the championship in seven days, and Dynamo spent all five matches away - two games in Khabarovsk and Novosibirsk, and one in Novokuznetsk.

Adidas and the Russian Football Union (RFU) signed an agreement on cooperation until 2018. In accordance with the new agreement, Adidas becomes the official supplier of all national teams of Russia in football, including the Olympic. The previous partner of the RFU was Nike. I open a press conference on the case of signing a contract, the head of the RFU Vitaly Mutko called this agreement "unusually large-scale", the press service of the federation notes.

Russian dancer Alexander Litvinenko and the Olympic figure skating champion Tatyana Navka took second place at the Eurovision dance competition “Eurovision” held on Saturday evening in the Scottish city of the Glasgow, RIA Novosti .

The chairman of the Council of Elders of the Don Society of Georgia, Vardzia and the brother of the Catholicos-Patriarch Elijah II (Shiolashvili) Rafael Shiolashvili believes that the armed conflict in South Ossetia was provoked by the actions of specific politicians, but not the Georgian people. “The former politicians will leave, but the people of Georgia will never go to Russia. I believe that the relationship will be restored, and we will be brothers, as before,” R.

17 people were killed and at least 30 were injured as a result of a missile strike on a settlement in the Pakistani region of the North Vaziristan as a result of the US Air Force on Monday. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Qatari satellite television channel Al Jazeera . Meanwhile, Pakistani official sources talk about 20 dead, including women and children. According to eyewitnesses, two unmanned aircraft were released on six missiles located in the village of Afghanistan.

In the suburbs, a resident of the city of Yubileiny was evicted from the apartment for living with 20 dogs. Animals, according to the investigation, terrorized the neighbors of the woman, defecate in the porch, jumped out of the windows of the apartment and constantly barking. At the same time, there were no vaccinations against rabies and other infectious diseases in dogs. It is reported by RIA "New Region" . "The defendant made the neighbors impossible because of her 20 dogs?

Last Saturday, ASIF Ali ZARDARI , the husband of Benazir Bhutto, was elected the new President of Pakistan, the husband of the killed in December 2007. A nuclear power that rolled deeper into a crisis was led by a very colorful person - accusations of corruption, attempted murder and drug dealer were brought against him. And although he was never found guilty, the politician spent a total of 11 years in a preliminary imprisonment. During the years of his wife, Zardari earned the nickname "Mr.

The reign of the Coalition of the Social-Democratic Party of Germany put forward the former vice-chancellor Franz Munetefering to the post of chairman of the SDPG. The current vice-chancler, Foreign Minister Frank Frank-Walter Steinmeier was approved by a candidate for federal chancellors in the Bundestag elections in September 2009, ITAR-TASS reports.

Three policemen died on Monday as a result of a battle with a group of bandits in the Tabasaran district of Dagestan, Interfax reports with reference to the operational duty of the Tabasaran District Department of Internal Affairs. According to him, the search group, which carried out combing the area as part of a counter -terrorist operation, came across an armed group. “Three police officers were killed in the ensuing shootout.