The number of victims of a car accident involving a bus and a truck that occurred on Saturday increased to 21, Chinese media reported on Sunday. The accident occurred in the province of Yunnan on the south-west of the PRC on Saturday. According to available information, a truck crashed into a sharply braked from behind at high speed. The investigation of the accident showed that the bus driver had to sharply drop the speed to go around the van loaded into the road fence.

Forest fires, spreading in the settlements of the American state of South Carolina, destroyed about 70 residential buildings, Fox News reports. Fire absorbed an area of ​​more than 80 square kilometers. Firefighters reported that the fire managed to localize by 80%, but the fire element still poses a threat to residential buildings located near the foci of the fire. According to preliminary data, no one was injured. The damage is estimated at $ 16 million and will probably increase, AP notes.

The French Embassy in Moscow announced an increase in fees for a French visa and to tighten the rules for registering it for children. At the same time, as the Echo of Moskvy’s radio stations, the head of the Embassy of the Embassy, ​​Silvan Gioge, are not more stringent rules for registering a visa for a child to the history of Alisa Andrei-Belenka.

As part of the crew of the Patriot cargo ship captured by Somali pirates, one citizen of Ukraine, reports the online publication "Marine Bulletin - Council" . According to the updated data of the "sea bulletin", in the crew of the Patriot balker, 17 people: captain - citizen of Poland, senior mechanic - citizen of Ukraine, the remaining 15 people - citizens of the Philippines. The balker with a load of wheat followed the port of Hodeid, Yemen.

The four-month courses of professional retraining of the dismissed military personnel will start in the North Caucasus Military District (SKVO) on May 12, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bobrun, head of the information and public relations of the SKVO SKVO Service and Public Relations, told Interfax .

Rospotrebnadzor constantly controls the situation with the incidence of pork flu. ITAR-TASS was reported today in the department. “The situation with Pork influenza in Mexico is under control,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

In New York, 8 cases of pork flu are officially confirmed. This was stated today by the mayor of the metropolis Michael Bloomberg. On Saturday in New York, a suspicion of pork flu was announced by students of one of the schools. The tests of the children were sent to study the US Diseases to study and prevent and prevent, "and from there the answer came that this is the pork flu virus," said the mayor. At the same time, he noted that the condition of the sick does not cause fears among doctors.

The Italians did not let Russian tennis players into the final of the Tennis Cup, guaranteeing a victory in the home semi -final match based on the results of the fourth single match - 3: 1. The decisive point to the housewives of the court in the town of Castellneta Marina brought Francesca Schiavone, who outplayed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkov.

The pilot of the Brown team Jenson Batton won the Bahrain Grand Prix, the fourth stage of the 2009 Formula 1 championship. The Briton, who showed the fourth time in qualifications , was able to win one position at the start, and then ahead of the representatives of Toyota, who started the race from the first row, due to a later stop in boxes during the first wave of pit stops.

Rescue work in Tbilisi on the site of the Rustavi 2 television company that was falling on Sunday on Sunday on Sunday on Sunday, where the Academy of Stars was shooting over the last weeks, and continues at these hours. Under the wreckage of the building, rescuers have been continuing to look for two employees of the television company for 11 hours. There are no official comments about the reasons for the collapse of the building yet.

The DPRK leader Kim Jong Il visited a number of army units and visited the festive performance of the choir ensemble. According to the North Korean agency Tsat, all these events took place last Saturday. In particular, Kim Jong Ir, in the framework of celebrations dedicated to the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Army of Korea, visited the headquarters of the 851st part and attended the performance of artists of the Red Banner State ensemble.

The former head coach of Spartak Michael Laudrupe said that the Moscow club did not make the acquisitions that he was counting on, reports Sportbox.ru with reference to the Danish media. Laudrupe was removed from his post on April 15 , and the contract was officially terminated last Friday. Now the Dane gave actually the first detailed commentary on his resignation. “Yes, I won’t hide this,” Laudrupe answered the question of strengthening the team.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order to create a government commission to prevent the distribution of the so -called Pig influencies in Russia. This was announced to reporters by the press secretary of the Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov. According to him, the commission was headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov. His deputies were the chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko and the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert.

In Sochi, a vote began in the early elections of the head of the city. Exactly at 08:00 Moscow time all 211 polling stations opened. More than 293 thousand people are included in the voter lists. For the first time this year, a plot has been organized, where residents of Abkhazia, who have Sochi registration, can vote. The election campaign, according to observers, turned out to be one of the most noisy in the country over the past few years.

The Estonian border guards detained the head of the anti -fascist committee of Finland, historian Johan Bekman, who planned to take part in the conference dedicated to the anniversary of the 2007 April unrest, said the Secretary of the Antifashist Committee of Estonia , Andrei Zarenkov.