The leaders of the EU member countries at the Summit in Berlin supported the idea of ​​more rigid regulation of world financial markets and investment funds, the British television and radio broadcasting corporation of the Air Force reports on Sunday. "Financial markets, financial products, investors can not be carried out without control," the commmit said in a communique, the final version of which will be published later.

The leader of the bandit, a certain Srin Aga, involved in the laying of mines and landscapes on the roads, was destroyed during the joint operation of the Afghan army and international security forces in Afghanistan (ISAF) on Saturday in the province of Logar, a consumption of the contingent told reporters on Sunday.

The Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin believes that objective prerequisites for the possible meeting of the heads of the state of Russia and Ukraine are not expected in the near future. “At least today there is no subject for the meeting. What should the presidents should discuss today? What are the issues? What are the documents that they should discuss and sign, and who is preparing it?” V.

Laureates of the Golden Raspberry Award, annually awarded in Los Angeles for the worst film production of the year, became Paris Hilton and Pierce Brosnan, RIA Novosti reports. The worst film of 2008 in the United States according to the so-called Golden Raspberry Foundation, the film "Sex Guru" was. The “prize” for the worst main male role was received by the actor playing in this film - Mike Mayers.

Russian military personnel are in their places of their deployment in the territory of the Republic of Abkhazia and were not advanced to the Abkhazo-Georgian border, according to Tbilisi, Interfax, Colonel Igor Konashenkov, assistant to the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation. "The information coming from Tbilisi is absolutely not true. All Russian troops in Abkhazia are at constant deployment points," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The newcomer of the London Arsenal Andrei Arshavin was recognized as the best player in the debut match for himself as part of the “gunners” against Sanderland (0: 0). So the visitors to the BBC portal decided, who rated the players of both teams. The highest score was received by the striker of the Russian team, which was awarded an average rating of 8.05 on a 10-point system. In second place is the Hungarian goalkeeper of the "black cats" Marton Fulop (7.61).

Australia hosts mourning ceremonies for the victims of forest fires, which have become the most destructive of the disasters in the history of the country. Fires in Victoria took the lives of more than two hundred people, reports the Air Force On Sunday, about 50 thousand people gathered at the stadium in Melbourne for a mourning ceremony in memory of the victims of fires. According to the state of Victoria John Brahmbby, the tragedy united the whole state and the whole country.

In Yekaterinburg, on Sunday morning, as a result of a fire in the hostel of the Sverdlovsk Regional Medical College, a 19-year-old girl was injured. According to the Interfax agency in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk region, the fire began in one of the rooms on the third floor of the four-story building building. The fire area was 15 sq.m.

The arrangement of the Russian military bases in South Ossetia and Abkhazia will be completed by the end of the year. This was announced today by the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Nikolai Makarov, who is in Abu Dhabi at the international exhibition of weapons. "We promised that by the end of 2009 these bases would be equipped. This work is being carried out and conducted according to plan," Makarov said.

The special operation to neutralize participants in illegal armed groups was resumed today in the capital of Dagestan.

To introduce in the Altai Republic a ban on hunting for a period of five years and to investigate all cases of poaching was demanded from the authorities by the participants of the rally held today in Gorno-Altaysk. More than 500 people took part in it. They protested against cases of illegal hunting in the republic, including rare animals listed in the Red Book in the republic.

The Obama administration announced that to determine which of the largest US banks will need additional financing in an increasing recession, a number of so-called "stress tests" will be held, Reuters said with reference to an unnamed US administration. The White House is soon going to take a number of steps in the field of tax fees and the banking sector, the news agency notes.

In the municipal district of Barsuki, Nazran, opposite school number 8, unknown people fired at UAZ with police officers. According to the Interfax agency in the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia, the incident occurred on Sunday at 15:30 Moscow time. "Unknown faces in the UAZ -2107 car, white from automatic weapons opened fire on the UAZ car, in which there were police officers. No one was injured," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The explosion thundered on Sunday in the location of the barracks of the military contingent of the African Union (AS) in the capital of Somalia Mogadisho, reports Reuters. Local resident Ahmed Abdul said that he saw how the young man was driving at high speed to the gates of the former university, where the barracks of the AC peacekeepers from Burundi are currently located, and then the explosion thundered. “We heard a loud explosion, and black smoke rose high up.

In the Sunday male relay race 4x7.5 km at the Biathlon World Championships in Korean Pionchang, Evgeny Ustyugov, Ivan Cherezov, Maxim Maksimov and Maxim Chudov will run for the Russian team. “We identified the fourth person as part of the relay of the relay of today's mass -start, as I announced,” the whole of Andrei Makoveev’s form of the male team of Russia Vladimir Alikin reports the words of the senior coach of the male team of Russia.