The US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Tim Polnta refused to participate in the 2012 elections and withdrew his candidacy. Poltenti made such a decision after the results of preliminary, so -called "straw" elections in Iowa received third place. The first place in the preliminary elections in Aiova was won by a member of the House of US representatives from the state of Minnesota Republic Michel Bakmann, bypassing eight other Republicans by the number of votes.

On Sunday night in the west of Libya, the battle between the Libyan rebels and the forces of Muammar Gaddafi for the key city of Navoy continued. Government troops are still holding control over the city, BBC reports. Control over the hoverings will allow the rebels to cut the road connecting Tripoli and Tunisia, in this way, weaken the position of Gaddafi and advance towards the capital of the country.

At least 11 people died as a result of an explosion in a roadside restaurant in the province of Baluchistan in the south-west of Pakistan, BBC British television broadcasting corporation reports on Sunday with reference to representatives of the Pakistani Police. It is suggested that in a two -story building where the restaurant is located, a bomb was blown up. According to one message, local residents rak the rubble with their hands in search of survivors.

Forward Kendrick Perkins, playing behind the Oklahoma, was detained for violation of public order and being intoxicated in a public place. The Bomont Police statement, Texas, said that officers drew attention to a large crowd of people at the door of the nightclub, who complained about the fight and the use of pepper spray. Inside the institution, the police discovered about 50 people surrounding Perkins, who tried to fight with the club manager.

Capital police officers detained 17 people who participated in an unauthorized action near the Solovetsky stone, told Interfax in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow. "On Sunday, police officers detained 17 participants in the illegal action near Solovetsky Stone," the press service said. They noted that they were all detained for disobedience to the requirements of police officers.

On Sunday, in the Zesky gorge of North Ossetia, an operation to evacuate the bodies of Ukrainian climbers, which died two days ago during the descent from the top, ITAR-TASS was killed in the Ministry of Emergencies of North Ossetia. "The operation, which took two days, was attended by 18 rescuers of the alpinee and 16 rescuers of the North Ossetian search and rescue detachment of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies.

The Norwegian police took Anders Breivik to the island of Uzey for an investigative experiment in the case of a double terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 77 people, Reuters reported on Sunday with reference to local media. The double terrorist attack occurred in Norway on July 22, 77 people became its victims (69 were killed on the island of Ulya, eight died during an explosion in Oslo).

The British police and special services have been arrested today by 20 people who, using smartphones and social networks, organized mass riots that had swept the country last week. This was announced today by the BBC radio station. It is expected that new arrests will be held in the coming days. As experts now admit, the UK of the first among Western countries experienced new technologies for organizing social crises and managing their development.

The 19-year-old student of the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute Yevgeny Kleshchenko, who, becoming the winner in BMX cycling, brought the first Golden Medal of Russia at the World Summer Universiade in Shangeng (China), told at what price he was given to victory. “I was counting on the medal,” said Evgeny Kleshchenko to the whole sport agency. “I was not sure that it would be possible to win the“ gold ”, but planned to get into prizes.

The ex-president of FIA Max Mosley has not appeared in Paddok for a long time and rarely commented on the events taking place in Formula 1, but in the last two seasons he is happy to watch the races and regularly calls Bernie Ecclestone. "Bernie was just very lucky: you can’t imagine this specifically, no matter how you try. I often call him after the Grand Prix and I say that I really like such a scenario! We continue to communicate with him tightly.

The British authorities intend to sharply revise and tighten their policy regarding street crime and switch to the program of the American type of “zero tolerance” to the participants in street unrest and looters. Such a statement was made today by the British Prime Minister David Cameron, BBC reports.

Over the past week, the armed forces of Syria destroyed two hospitals, the doctor of the city of Hama, who wished to remain unnamed, told the British television and broadcasting corporation BBC . According to the medic, people refuse to go to medical institutions, since they are often a target for the military, faithful to the regime of the country's president Bashar al -Assad.

In the Leningrad region, 83-year-old Irina Antonova died in the Vyborg hospital, who was nicknamed the "Russian grandmother" in Finland and which the authorities of this country have repeatedly tried to deport to Russia. "Our mother passed away. I want to thank Russia and specifically Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for another year of life donated by my mother. After all the torment and bullying of the Finnish state, my mother began to smile here, sing songs and enjoy life," said I.

The investigation opened a criminal case on the fact of murder on Saturday in Makhachkala an employee of the company "Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Pyatigorsk", a representative of the Investigative Department of the Republican Investigative Committee told RIA Novosti .

The co-chairman of the Party of People’s Freedom (Parnassus) Boris Nemtsov was detained on Sunday in St. Petersburg by law enforcement agencies. “We walked along the porches on Marshal Zhukov Street and distributed leaflets that called to vote against Valentina Matvienko. When we left one of them to the street, we met two policemen who were also given leaflets, and they detained us,” Nemtsov told Interfax .