The cause of a large fire in one of the nightclubs of the South Chinese city of Shenzhen was pyrotechnic products that were used during the performance. Such a preliminary version of the investigation is called the Sinhua agency. At the moment, 43 dead are known, another 88 people were injured. Basically, they were all visitors to the King of the Dancers club, which is located in one of the most lively areas of the city of Lungan.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation decided to expand banks access to deposits of federal budget funds, Interfax was told in the press service of the Ministry on Sunday. "The Ministry of Finance of Russia, in agreement with the Bank of Russia, decided to provide the opportunity to participate in the selection of applications for concluding a bank deposit for a period of 3 months not only to three largest Russian banks - Sberbank, VTB and Gazprombank," the report said.

The mayor of Grozny Muslim Khuchiev signed an order to rename Krasnoznamennaya Street, located in the Leninsky district, to Gennady Troshev Street, Interfax was told on Sunday in the press service of the city administration.

In the fifth round of the English football Premier League, London, Chelsea, could not beat Manchester United in his field of the current champion of the country. The central meeting of the British weekend at the Stamford Bridge stadium ended with a score of 1: 1.

The Russian woman Dinara Safina became the winner of the prestigious tennis tournament in Tokyo, defeating her compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final. The sixteenth in the history of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Purely Russian final of the tournament ended with a score of 6: 1, 6: 3 in favor of Safina, which, having won three victories over Kuznetsova in 2008, now took 6-4 in full-time confrontation with her. The meeting lasted 1 hour 18 minutes.

The ex-president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the current US administration “a lot, has been injected in international relations,” he called the recent Georgian-Swigoosetic conflict “failure of politics”, which Washington led in the Caucasus.

In Sochi, they are going to introduce a forced restriction on the movement of vehicles in the summer. The relevant statement was made by the head of the city of Sochi Vladimir Afanasenkov. “Due to traffic jams that outraged by vacationers, we will be forced to apply prohibitive measures - a forced restriction of movement for the summer period,” said the mayor of Sochi.

Ferrari President Luke Di Montedzemolo on the eve of the Grand Prix Singapore is concerned that the new Formula-1 street tracks are bad for sports because they kill the struggle between pilots. “I think that in Singapore there will be the same race as in Valencia, where it is impossible to overtake. Such tracks are a bad future for Formula 1,” the Italian Sportbox.ru reports. “Another absurd thing is that there are only two points of the difference between the first and second places.

The Greek dry cargo is attacked by pirates near the coast of Somalia, a representative of the Ministry of Trade of Greece said on Sunday. The Captain Stefanos, the Ground Stefanos, belonging to the Greek company and floating under the flag of the Bahamas, was attacked by pirates in 250 sea miles from the coast of Somalia. The team of dry cargo, coal coal, is 17 Filipinos, Ukrainian and Chinese citizen, ”said the agency’s interlocutor.

As a result of the explosion at the Marriott hotel in the capital of Pakistan Islamabad, at least 60 people were killed on Saturday, about 200 were injured, AFP reports with reference to a representative of security services. Earlier, 50 dead and dozens of wounded were reported. “The number of victims is 60 people and may increase,” the source said.

A special delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) arrives in Russia to study the consequences of the Georgian-Otroseti conflict. The decision on her arrival was made at the away meeting of the authorized body of the Assembly - Bureau - in early September. During the past meeting, the theme of relations of Tbilisi and Moscow was the main one. Moscow recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on August 26.

The Russian embassy in Pakistan completed a recent attack in Islamabad, during which it was established that citizens of the Russian Federation were not injured during the explosion, Aleksey Rykov told Interfax on Sunday. "For the Russians, everything ended well, there were no injured. The Russian Embassy ended the audit," Rykov said. He said that a telephone call was carried out by Russians who could be at the time of the explosion in Islamabad. “About 30 Russians live in Islamabad.

The Pakistan Ministry of Internal Affairs assigned responsibility for the attack that occurred on Saturday in Islamabad, for the tribal grouping of militants living in the territory of the federal administration (Fata) and related to al-Qaeda, AFP reports on Sunday.

The first number of the Argentina Tennis team David Nalbandan said that he was not disappointed with defeat in a pair meeting in the Davis Cup in the Russian team . “We just lost one match,” the official website of the tournament quotes the seventh racket of the world. “We still have two single fights. So everything is fine.” Recall that the pair meeting to which David took part lasted 3 hours and 37 minutes, so he could not avoid questions about the physical condition.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert must announce his resignation on Sunday, reports AP with reference to the Israeli media. It is expected that Olmert will announce his resignation at a government meeting, and then give an official petition for resignation to President Israeli Shimon Peres. The spokeswoman for the Israeli Prime Minister Mark Reghev said that he could not confirm this information, which is transmitted in the morning, is transmitted by Israeli radio stations.