For the first time in a month, Syrian television showed footage with President Bashar al -Assad, on which he prays in the metropolitan mosque, noting the end of the Ramadan post, the Russian Air Force service reports. He was accompanied by the Prime Minister, but the vice president Farok Sharaa was absent. Earlier it was reported that Sharaa fled from Damascus and went over to the side of the opposition . In his office they refuted this, but the official did not act in person.

President Filippin Benigno Akino on Sunday morning arrived on Masbate Island in the central part of the Philippine archipelago to personally lead the massive search and rescue operation to search for his nearest comrade-in-arms. The night before, a light -engine aircraft fell into the sea, a kilometer from the coast of this island, on board the Minister of Internal Affairs and local authorities of the Philippines Hesse Robredo.

In New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, statues of English football player David Beckham are installed. Three -meter figures of the athlete in underwear are represented by the public as part of an advertising campaign in support of a new collection prepared by Baekham for one of the Swedish firms. Until August 31, residents and guests of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco will be able to see metal sculptures on the street, after the statue will be transferred directly to the shops.

The head coach of Manchester United Alex Ferguson, a match with Everton in the first round of the Premier League, opens his 28th season as a mentor of Red Devils, intends to complete a professional career two years later, Daily Mail reports. According to a source close to the 70-year-old Scotsman, the specialist asked the leadership of the club additional financial injections to build his last great team.

American singer Madonna published a statement on her official website about the conviction to three Pussy Riot participants. The singer called the judge’s decision “too cruel” and “inhuman”. “I am protesting against the accusation and sentence of Pussy Riot, according to which they were sentenced to two years of correctional colony for a 40-second speech in which they expressed their political views.

The world's attendance record for games of the fourth division, set by Rangers fans, became an absolutely incredible event, said the head coach of the Scottish Football Club of Alli McCoust. The Rangers, in July, was sent to the fourth most powerful division of Scotland due to financial problems , on Saturday at the Ibrox stadium in Glasgow, East Steeringshire in the match of the second round of the championship of the fourth division of the country.

The visit of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril in Poland was a breakthrough in Orthodox Catholic relations, quotes RIA Novosti press secretary of the conference of the Bishop of Poland Priest Jozef Klokh. Patriarch Kirill arrived in Poland on a visit on Thursday. On Sunday, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church performed a worship on the Holy Mount Grabark in Poland on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

During the ceremony, an activist who came in Balaclava was detained - in solidarity with Pusse Riot punk group, condemned by two years, the Freedom radio reports. To lay white flowers to the arrived do not interfere. In the tunnel, under the new Arbat, during the events of August 91, Vladimir Usov, Ilya Krichevsky and Dmitry Komar died. As expected, the Russian opposition will hold a rally agreed with the metropolitan authorities with the metropolitan authorities.

More than 170 thousand people, according to preliminary data, took part in the festive event of Uraza-Bayram in Moscow, Interfax was told on Sunday in the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The movement on Mira Avenue at the Cathedral Mosque was restored. The adjacent streets were closed for movement from night. "The main holiday events, in which, according to preliminary data, more than 170 thousand people were taken, in the capital was completed.

The police detained the organizer of Mikhail Yakovlev, prohibited at the request of the ROC Parade of Zombie, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to an eyewitness to the events, a correspondent of the local newspaper Metrosk Pavel Akimov. Yakovlev urged the arrivals to disperse, but the young "zombies" did not listen to him. On Sunday, approximately 300-400 people came to the parade, despite the fact that it would not be agreed.

Arsenal and Reding, for which Russian football players Andrei Arshavin and Pavel Pogrebnyak are playing, failed to win the starting matches in the championship of England. Both clubs completed their meetings in a draw. Arsenal did not manage to break the resistance of Sanderland at the Emiral's home stadium. The “gunners” attacked throughout the meeting, but the opponent periodically carried out dangerous attacks.

The opening of the first Islamic Russian television channel -Al-RTV is timed to the Festival of Uraza-Bayram, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the member of the Public Council of the Al-RTV channel, the head of the Moscow Mufti of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims Albra Krganov. "It will be broadcast via satellite television in the Tricolor package. And since 2015, when the country goes to digital television, it will be more accessible," Krganov said.

The current champion of England Football "Manchester City" intends to conclude a new agreement with the striker of the team and the Italian national team Mario Balotelly. The current employment contract of the 22-year-old football player, whose mother is working as a cleaner , ends only in 2015, but the City leadership wants to extend it by the beginning of the new year.

As a result of an explosion on board the aircraft in Sudan, 31 people died today, including the Minister for Vakufs and Religion of the Republic of Khalid Abdalla. The message of the AL-ARABIIA television channel was confirmed by the representative of the Civil Aviation Department of Sudan Abelaziz Abelrahim. The place of the disaster is not specified. “All passengers died on board,” Adlerechim AFP said.

A single-engine double aircraft fell in the Kamensky district of the Penza region, Interfax was told in the press service of the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. The incident occurred at about 18:50 Moscow time, the plane fell in the field in the area of ​​the Belaya Gora camp site. "The pilot died, and the passenger was injured and hospitalized," said the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies. During the fall, the plane did not hit the structures on the ground.