One of the most famous generals of the Nazi army, the “desert fox” Erwin Rommel on the battlefield caused respect even among opponents, but in ordinary life he was a traitor, British The Daily Mail writes. In the near future, the book of the 72-year-old German Joseph Pan will be published, which tells a love story that the famous general hid so as not to stain his career.

The European Union decided to expand military operations against Somali pirates. Soon, the EU naval forces plan to start pursuing modern filibusters on land. Such a decision was made at a meeting of the heads of the Foreign Ministry of EU member countries on Friday in Brussels. Previously, operations were carried out only at sea off the coast of Somalia.

The new president of Germany, human rights activist and pastor from the former GDR Joachim Gauk took the oath in parliament and from that moment officially took office, RIA Novosti reports. The President of Germany pledged, according to the bore recorded in the Constitution, "to increase the benefits of the German people and divert troubles", as well as observe the Constitution and other laws of the state. Gauk read out the text of the oath from the rostrum of the parliament.

The Polish Football Association decided to ban the use of not only vuvousels, but at the same time also Bibles and Crosses at the Games of the Euro 2012 championship, which will be held in Poland and Ukraine from June 8 to July 1. This decision was sharply criticized by Polish Catholic organizations and the deputy of the Sejm Anna Sobeskoy, reports the Portal Sedmits.ru with reference to the Kipa-pic agency.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor, the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko, said that he could personally go to Ukraine in order to check the manufacturers of cheeses that were prohibited for importing in the Russian Federation. Earlier, the head of Onishchenko reported that the department experts intend to go to Ukraine on Monday, March 26.

Leonid Kaganov "...for the first time in its nearly 666-year history, the temple was desecrated in earnest! This holy place had never seen anything like it! The girls were immediately sent to prison for a month and a half, then they face a 7-year sentence, and many Orthodox they are collecting signatures demanding that the hooligans be punished more harshly.

Employees of the Ministry of Emergencies removed a helicopter from the water, which fell last Thursday in the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod, RIA Novosti reports. The machine was extracted by the Mi-8 EMERCOM helicopter using a special network. Earlier, rescuers planned to get a collapsed helicopter using a wheel tractor and cables, but this attempt ended in failure - the Kanat burst.

In the city of Vitoria-da-Konkista in the east of Brazil this week, an unusual experiment was launched: 20 thousand students became “carriers” of special microchips that control the movement of schoolchildren. Microchips are sewn into uniform school t -shirts, and the electronic device is not afraid of washing or ironing. The chips are placed on the sleeve or under the school emblem, which is sewn on the form, according to the British BBC television and radio corporation .

In the Sverdlovsk region, the police detained an unlucky robber who was stuck in the window of the Rospechat Kiosk when he climbed inside for prey. The curious crime was committed in the city of Asbest, where the lawyers of the law detained the 20-year-old local resident. For an unsuccessful attempt to steal children's coloring and felt -tip pens, an attacker threatens a five -year period of imprisonment, the official website of the regional police department reports.

In Argentina, seven workers died during the collapse of the building under construction. This was reported by local authorities. The tragedy occurred in the capital of the Corrientes province of the same name during construction work, during which one of the ceilings of the construction of a multi-storey building was collapsed, ITAR-TASS reports. RIA Novosti cites details, referring to the representative of the local police Sergio Agilar.

The new album of the Madna Madna can already be downloaded in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine - three days earlier than the world premiere. The official sales of the twelfth studio album of the singer will begin only on March 26. Three days of the handicap of the singer in four former Soviet republics received due to the cooperation of the Russian branch of Universal Music - Universal Music Russia and the specialized musical service of the IT company, Yandex.Muzyka .

The investigation of the death of the famous American singer Whitney Houston came to the conclusion that she drowned in the bathroom as a result of a heart attack, one of the reasons for which was the use of cocaine, AP agency reports. Houston’s body was discovered on the night of February 12 , immersed in the bathroom in one of the rooms of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Anastasia Doronina, sentenced in 2010 by four years in a colony for an accident, in which two teenagers were killed and who personally became interested in Vladimir Putin, received a chance to be released ahead of schedule. Help came from the unexpected side: the fate of the mother of two children, one of whom is seriously ill and needs urgent treatment, decided to engage in one of the richest people in Russia.

Maxim Shevchenko “I came into my hands with a list of candidates for the Board of Trustees of Public Television, carefully hidden from the society (on behalf of which the organizers of this TV want to speak). The list is presented in the form of a table with the voting results of mysterious “voters” whose names I do not know. In general, It’s possible that this list is a fake or a joke. I personally want, I really want to believe in it!

Apple begins the sale of a new iPad tablet computer in more than two dozen countries. Among the countries of the “second wave” were Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Finland, the Czech Republic and others, RIA Novosti reports. The start date of the official sales of the new iPad in Russia is still unknown, but the device can be easily bought on unofficial channels, the agency notes.