The head of the IMF, the Dominic Stross-Kan, accused of attempts to rape, is in the prison of the Central New York district in Manhattan. It was there, in Garlem’s prison, in the department for suspects and accused of sexual crimes, that Strass-Kan was questioned late in the evening on Saturday, May 14, immediately after the detention at the airport. There, he listened to the charges against him, spent the whole night and is currently expecting a call to court, ITAR-TASS reports.

In all recent reports on the development of the real estate market of Spain, analysts argue that housing prices in the country have not yet reached the bottom and will continue to decline, Prian.ru reports. The Spanish portal about real estate Idealista calculated that in April, real estate in Spain fell into 7.3% in annual calculus. During the month, the average cost of housing decreased by 0.8%.

Due to the breakdown of electronics in the territorial waters of Sweden in the Baltic Sea, the Opera cruise liner drift, on board of which there are about 1.8 thousand passengers and 200 crew members. This was announced by the Swedish marine rescue and coordination center (MSCC). The ship, as the Italian news agency ANSA, left Amsterdam and on Sunday, May 15, was supposed to arrive in Copenhagen.

Investments in Russian commercial real estate increased in 2010 by 128% compared to 2009, amounting to 2.169 billion euros, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the study of CB Richard Ellis. The study notes that in 2010 the Russian commercial real estate market attracted the largest amount of capital compared to other countries of Central and Eastern Europe - the volume of investment transactions in the Czech Republic amounted to 613 million euros, and in Hungary - 177 million euros.

The head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergei Shoigu removed the driver from the work of the driver because he traveled around Moscow with the special signals turned on and rude to surrounding drivers, Interfax reports. “The minister was very upset about the incident about what happened.

Victor Ginzburg, who shot the film "Generation P" based on Viktor Pelevin’s novel, intends to take on the next Pelevin text - the 2006 novel "Empire V" - and already bought rights to it. The book "Empire V" has a subtitle "Tale of a real superman" - this is a story about how the 19 -year -old loader Roman Storkin becomes a vampire and gets the title of the second frame. "The picture will extend the scope of the films genre about vampires - just as Pelevin extended his framework in his book.

The children's surgeon of the Petrovsk-Zabaikal district hospital (Trans-Baikal Territory) involuntarily became the culprit of the death of a three-year-old girl. The doctor came to work drunk, and instead of helping a little patient, he simply slept. Having sorted out the tragic incident, which happened on August 21, 2010, the investigating authorities charged a 40-year-old medication, Interfax reports.

Bankers brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev, who took the first line in the ranking of the magazine "Finance" among the richest families of Russia, are deeply believers and large Orthodox philanthrops. Alexei brought his wife Daria to the Orthodox Church. He was baptized in 1991 and introduced his brother to religion. Dmitry was baptized in 1992. "On Sundays in the Moscow Temple of the Life -Giving Trinity in Serebryaniki, you can meet a two -meter man with a neatly tonsured beard.

Moscow is unhappy with the reaction of the United States and NATO to its proposals for the joint development of the European missile defense system. Americans refuse to reinforce the words that Europrop will not be directed against Russia, legal guarantees. And without this, Moscow threatens to withdraw from the contract to reduce strategic offensive weapons signed by Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, and take retaliatory measures.

President Mikhail Saakashvili thanked Russia for the ban on the import of Georgian wine and said that the embargo helped Georgian winemakers to improve the quality of wine and find the way to international markets. “In recent years, the quality of wine has improved significantly,” Saakashvili said in Batumi, where he visited the Devadze winemaker and was poured over a 20 -year exposure, Civil.ge reports.

Princess Thailand Chulabphon Valakkh, the youngest daughter of the king and queen, wearing the title of Chao Fa Chulabphon Valaklaca Prararachakumari, got into an accident in Jerusalem. The accident occurred when she, accompanied by her retinue, was heading for a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Perez, reports Newsru Israel .

The second time is the largest family businesses prepared by the Ranking magazine, and the leaders have already changed in it: the Gutseriev family, the Ananyev brothers have shifted. The company Gutseriev and Ananyev in the first three now compose the Rotenberg brothers. According to the results of 2009, the Orthodox bankers of the Ananyevs unexpectedly bypassed the Gutseriev clan: the total capital of its four members was 300 million dollars higher. But the past year placed everyone in place.

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, grew by 27.23 kopecks and amounted to 28.122 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" decreased by 2.49 kopecks - to 39.6887 rubles. The ruble weakened to the bivalyut basket.

Representatives of the Polish authorities removed a memorial plate with an inscription in Russian, which was attached by unknown to a memorable stone established in honor of the 90th anniversary of the country's independence. This was reported by the press service of the Great Polish Voivodeship. "Due to the lack of any agreements with the local authorities regarding the content of the plate and its installation, it was removed in the afternoon.

The Politburo of the French extreme right -wing national front nominated the party leader Marine Le Pen candidate for the election of the head of state in 2012, RIA Novosti reports. "The Political Bureau of the National Front at a meeting on Monday May 16, 2011 unanimously supported the candidacy of its chairman Marin Le Pen in the election of the President of the Republic," the laconic message of the National Front, widespread on Monday.