Madrid "Atletico" defeated the English "Liverpool" with a minimum score in the first match of the semifinal stage of the European Football League. The fate of the meeting, which took place on Thursday in the Winent Calderon Arena in Madrid, decided the fast goal of the former Manchester United player Uruguayan Diego Forlan in the 9th minute. In general, the game was more remembered by the struggle in the center of the field than by sharp moments at the gate.

The US Air Force Air Force Spacecraft Orbital Test Vehicle on Thursday successfully started into space. In its first test flight, the orbital testing apparatus went from the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral in Florida. It is expected that the X-37B will spend nine months in orbit, then the autopilot program will return it to the air base in California. Information about the experiments that will carry out a new aircraft is classified.

In Berlin, woodpeckers cause damage to the walls of residential buildings. This problem has become so widespread that the country has opened the first "hot line" of assistance to the affected homeowners, writes Prian.ru . According to the Berlin entrepreneur Holma Draber, who began to repair the walls pierced by woodpeckers, he receives three, or even four orders a week, writes The Local. In 2009, he lay over 300 holes with a diameter of two to 10 centimeters.

With a difference of a month from the government and the presidential administration, old-worship officials were dismissed who oversaw religious topics. According to the “independent newspaper” , the Kremlin leaves the referent of the Department of Internal Policy Alexander Kudryavtsev, and the executive secretary of the Commission on Interaction with Religious Organizations Andrei Sebentsov left the government a month ago.

Director of Pyrotechnical Company LLC Sergey Derbenev, who takes place in the case of a fire in the Perm club Lame Horse, announced a hunger strike in the pre-trial detention center. As Interfax was told on Friday in the Perm Territory press service, Derbenev refused to take food on April 19. The businessman protests this action against the course of conducting the investigation, the FSIN noted. At the same time, the conditions of the detention of detainees do not have any complaints.

The MSN portal and TVSCope came to a compromise on the transmission of matches of the Russian football Premier League in Runet, writes the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to the representative of Microsoft Pavel Cherkashin. Before the break in the championship of the country, which will come in mid -May, broadcasts will be conducted on previous conditions - users will be able to watch the best games of the season for free (two matches in each of the remaining three rounds).

On April 22, the Cosmos project was launched - the largest program in history to study mobile phones and their impact on human health. A quarter of a million people aged 18 to 69, living in Britain, Finland, Holland, Sweden or Denmark, are planned to participate in a long -term study. Cell operators help scientists to recruit volunteers, reports the Rformer with reference to Reuters.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the verdict to Andrei Kosmynin, convicted in the case of the murder of the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozlov and his driver on September 13, 2006. Thus, the verdict of the Moscow City Court of March 19, according to which Cosmynin was sentenced to nine years in prison in a maximum security colony, entered into force, and a complaint of protection was rejected.

A student of a Moscow university detained a recidivist who shamelessly robbed a pensioner, taking her from her last 10 rubles. In pursuit of the robber, a novice lawyer set off on a bicycle. The real hero was the 21-year-old student of the Anton Law Academy, who rode around noon on his two-wheeled iron horse on Suslavinskaya Street. At some point, the young man saw how a stranger, threatening an elderly lady with a knife, rummaged in her bag.

There are more orphans in Russia now than during the war years-697 thousand against 678 thousand in the 1940s. Two -thirds of the current orphans are social orphans, that is, orphans with living parents. About this, Interfax reports, said Elena Mizulina, chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children (Fair Russia faction), speaking in the lower house on Friday.

The US police are looking for an elderly serial robber of banks. A gray-haired man acts in the San Diego area confidently and impudently, but it has not yet been able to catch it. So far, the elderly gangster drew seven local banks. The last goal of the offender, who was dubbed the "Bandit-Starikashka", was California Bank.

In the UK, the second round of the pre -election television devices, ending late in the evening on Thursday, April 22, remained with the leader of the British Conservative Party David Cameron, the Yougov sociological service for Sun. According to its results, Cameron's rating amounted to 36%, the Prime Minister of the Labor of Gordon Brown-29%, ITAR-TASS reports.

The large jury of the Literary Prize "National Best" announced the names of the authors who were included in the short list of the 2010 season. For 225 thousand rubles and the title of Author of the bestseller claim no less than 6 writers.

The Provisional Government of Kyrgyzstan cannot require extradition from Belarus of the former President Kurmanbek Bakiev due to the fact that he continues to have immunity. As Interfax on Friday, Deputy Head of the Provisional Government of the Republic, Azimbek Beknazarov, despite the fact that the criminal case against Bakiev has been instituted, has been defending immunity from his arrest. In this regard, the ex-head of the republic cannot be charged and send documents for its extradition.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych admitted the day before at a press conference that he had no choice regarding the agreements proposed by Russia, since the country's economy is in critical condition, and the price of gas in Ukraine is the highest in Europe. He stated that such a situation has developed due to the agreements signed at the beginning of last year, Yulia Tymoshenko, the Independent Gazeta writes.