The number of people who died as a result of a fire in a two-story residential building in Irkutsk, which caught fire from a house of household gas on Sunday, increased to eight people, RIA Novosti said by telephone by a representative of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Irkutsk region. "Seven more with burns are in the hospital. In total there were 15 people in the house," said the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies.

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov plans to resign by 2019. The Chechen leader said this in an interview, which is published on Sunday by the Austrian newspaper Die Presse , AFP reports. Answering the question of what Chechnya he sees in ten years, Kadyrov said that it would be a "flowering republic with the very pretty people in the world." “I will not want to then (be the president).

The investigation in the case of the tragedy in the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (AGL) charged Nadir Aliyev, who had previously been detained as a suspect, in complicity in the crime, the Interfax agency was told in the Baku prosecutor's office. Aliyev was arrested, the representative of the prosecutor's office added. Earlier it was reported that on May 1, the person born on May 1, born in 1984, was a villain of Farda Gadirov.

The investigation opened a criminal case on the fact of an explosion near a trading tent in the north of Moscow, as a result of which two people were injured, an employee of the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti .

At the Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg, four "disagreements" were detained, conducting a picket against the ban on public actions. “During the picket against the ban on public events that took place at the Gostiny Dvor, several people were detained. Among them were a member of the Solidarity movement and three activists of the Youth Yabloko. They were all taken to the 27th police department,” the Yabloko city department said.

The President of Uganda Yove Museki called on the African countries to join forces in order to fly to the moon, BBC television and radio corporation reports on Sunday. "The Americans were on the moon, and the Russians were also. The Chinese and Indians will also fly there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here on earth," the president said, speaking to the country's leading lawyers.

In Afghanistan, a 12 -year -old girl died in an incident with the participation of Italian military today, three more people - her parents and uncle - were injured. According to the official statement by the commander of the military contingent, General Rosario Castellano, the Italian patrol noticed the suspicious Toyota Corolla car, which was moving at high speed and did not react to the military signal to stop.

A deputy of the People’s Assembly (Parliament) of Albania was killed tonight in the city of Roshkovets, in the southwest of the country.

In the Austrian Alps near the ski resort Zolden, at least 6 people died as a result of the avalanche of the avalanche, representatives of the police said. The alarm was declared immediately after the avalanche. However, rescuers and police officers could not get to the scene in time due to bad weather, Sky News reports. As a result of a rescue operation, 6 bodies were found, which have not yet been identified. It is reported that all the dead are Czech tourists.

The deputies of the ruling British Labor Party are starting a new campaign for the displacement of the party leader, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, almost all the leading newspapers of the country write on Sunday. The Labor Party, which a month before the election to local authorities and the European parliament is lagging behind in surveys from the main opposition conservative party by almost 20 percent points, needs update, Labor, including ministers of the UK government, RIA Novosti said.

An engineer from County Cornwall in the UK took birth with his wife after watching a video instruction on the YouTube website. Mark Stevens included a video on the computer on how to take birth when his wife Joe felt discomfort. Four hours later, she began to fight. “I read the information in Google, how to accept childbirth, watched several videos and thoroughly called everything,” said Stevens of the Air Force . Joe said she planned childbirth at home, but still not like that.

Fifteen people, including two children, died in the mudflows that poured from the mountains on Saturday evening in the county of the Kashand of the North Afghan Province of Balkh, the press secretary of the governor Akhmad Farhad told reporters on Sunday. According to the spokeswoman, the melting flows also flooded the county of Chakhar Kanzh, as a result of which about 200 houses of local residents were completely destroyed in these two counties.

The share of Muscovites engaged in the repair of their apartment in 2008 decreased to 18%, along with this the number of buyers in the capital's store selling construction goods and furniture also decreased, Interfax reports. According to annual monitoring of consumer preferences conducted by the research company "GFK-Rus", last year the first year was a decline in the field of apartment repair.

Ten diplomats from Iraq on Sunday arrived in Tallinn to go three-week training in courses at the Estonian diplomatic school, the press service of the Estonian Foreign Ministry reports. As the head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry Urmas Paet noted, thus Estonia contributes to the restoration of Iraq, RIA Novosti reports. “At the beginning of this year, Estonia completed the military presence in Iraq, but we will continue to contribute to the restoration of this country.

Former world boxing champion in four weight categories, Filipino Manny Pakyao last night in Moscow time in Las Vegas, won a spectacular victory over the ex-champion of the world in two weight categories by the British Ricky Hatton. Already in the first round, the 30-year-old Philippine twice sent Hatton to a knockdown, but he found the strength to rise to his feet.