From the new flu in the world, 2185 people have already died. To date, the total number of laboratory cases of people's diseases caused by the A /H1N1 /virus has reached 268,657. This was reported on the Rospotrebnadzor website with reference to the data of the World Health Organization.

The hurricane "Jimena", which formed in the Pacific Ocean south of Mexico, intensified to the third hazard category in the Suffire-Simpson scale, AP agency reports on Sunday with reference to American weather forecasters. "Jimena" is located about 490 kilometers south of the coastal Mexican city of Kabo-Correnent, located on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The maximum gusts of wind in the center of the hurricane reach 185 kilometers per hour.

Former hostages of Arctic Sea were released home - they left Moscow with an early train of Moscow -Arkhangelsk and arrived at their homeland on Saturday evening. At the station they were met by relatives and friends, despite the experienced hostages experienced and long separation, the former hostages retained the presence of the spirit and a sense of humor.

In the village of Lipovitsy, the Nekrasovsky district of the Yaroslavl region, the pensioner shot the three neighbors on his personal plot, and then committed suicide, told Interfax on Sunday a source in law enforcement agencies. "The pensioner killed three tribal neighbors from the unregistered hunting rifle, after which he committed suicide," the source said. The victims of the summer resident were the previously convicted unemployed, an employee of the Angel enterprise and a pensioner.

The body of another accident in the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, which occurred on August 17, was discovered on Sunday. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the headquarters for the liquidation of the accident. “This morning we discovered another deceased. This is a man, we found it under the ninth hydraulic unit,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Testing of the blood of the World-2009 champion in 800 meters of the South African runner of the seed, conducted in South Africa, showed that the level of the hormone of testosterone did not exceed the female norm. The results of the tests confirmed the information that the level of male hormone in the blood of the seed is three times more than that of women, but it does not go beyond the limits of the permissible for women's competitions.

Portuguese Winger Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo, summed up the results of the starting match of his team in the Championship of Spain, who brought his team a difficult homely victory over the deportivo with a score of 3: 2. “It is always important to win the first game. Our goal was to win the first official match in the season. And we did a great job with our task. I am very pleased with our work. We showed some good moments, but there is also what we must improve, what we need to work on.

On Saturday, on the website of the German edition of Der Spiegel, information was published that the Israeli soldier Gilan Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in June 2006, could be released in September this year.

On Sunday, Israeli legal authorities against the former prime minister of the country Ehudu Olmert on Sunday, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office said. The basis for the assessment of the charges transferred to the court of the District Prosecutor's Office of Jerusalem was the results of three police investigations at once, RIA Novosti reports.

Rescuers, having completed the installation of a reserve diesel generator, restored the energy and water supply in the Magadan village of Karamken, where a damage to the dam took place on Saturday, and the water flow demolished 11 residential buildings, RIA Novosti said on Sunday the press secretary of the Far Eastern Center for the Russian Ministry of Emergencies Ekaterina Potreova.

I.O. The Chairman of the Board of RusHydro presented the new head of the branch of the company - Sayano -Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. According to him, Valery Kyari was appointed the new head of the station, Interfax reports. Press Secretary of OJSC RusHydro Elena Vishnyakova explained to reporters that the change of management is associated with the need to concentrate the company's efforts to restore hydroelectric power station after the accident.

Unknown on Saturday in the Southern Afghan Province of Helmen, an armed attack on a group of Afghan Sapers who worked in a non-state organization (NGO) to mine Dafa (The Deming Agency for Afghanistan), 11 of them were abducted, a representative of the provincial department of the NGO said to journalists Abdul Wahab. According to Vahab, the incident occurred in the Safi area - one of the suburbs of Lashkargakh, the administrative center of the province.

The Croatian midfielder of the London Tottenham Luka Modric can miss several months due to a fracture of the leg received on the Saturday match of the championship of England against Birmingham (2: 1). Modric, who managed to participate in the fourth consecutive victory of Tottenham in the Premier League, suffered in a seemingly harmless clash with Havbek Lee Boyer at the beginning of the second half.

Russian tennis player Elena Vesnina could not win a tournament in New Hayven. In the final match, a 23-year-old Russian woman lost to two sets of Danishka Karolina Voznyatski with a score of 2: 6, 4: 6. Already at the beginning of the starting batch, the Danes managed to arrange a break and stories with a comfortable advantage. In the course of Set, Carolina strengthened her leadership, taking another submission of Lena.

Thousands of Americans gathered on Saturday evening at the Arlington National Cemetery in the suburbs of the US capital in order to spend the last journey of Senator Edward Kennedy. Despite the fact that the ceremony itself was closed to the public and press and there were 2 thousand invited guests on it, people literally besieged the perimeter in anticipation of the arrival of the coffin of the eminent legislator.