The World Bank announced a reduction in poverty in the world over the past 30 years. According to the bank, the share of people living on less than 1.25 dollars per day amounted to almost half of the world's population in 1981, and by the beginning of the 2010s it decreased to 21%. At the same time, as noted by the head of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, about 1.2 billion people in the world still live in poverty.

Ex-President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf, whose arrest warrant was not going to give up so simply to the authorities. The Supreme Court in Islamabad confirmed that the politician is to be taken into custody, and Musharraf, having heard the decision, got into the car and went to his residence, Khaaama Press reports. According to the publication, the police tried to get closer to the ex-president before he "fled", but they were prevented by the guard surrounding politics and his armored car.

The bailiffs of Krasnodar, in the next few days, will complete the demolition of an arbitrarily erected six-story residential building on 9 Kadetskaya Street. The tenants tried to desperately protect it. The day before, several residents barricaded on the balconies of the third and fourth floor. But OMON employees in masks soon dragged them and, dragging them on the ground, arrested, says the Internet channel "News of the St. Petersburg".

The passenger aircraft of the Libyan private airline Al-Burak (Buraq Air) was fired during the approach at the airport of Tripoli. One of the bullets pierced the aircraft behind the cabin of the pilots, but none of the crew or passengers were wounded, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the representative of the Ministry of Transport of Libya. The incident happened on Wednesday evening, April 17. The liner has successfully landed.

Four doping tests of the legendary American bicycle man Lance Armstrong during the Tour de France -1999 really gave a positive result, the press release of the International Cyclists Union (UCI) said. The Ministry of Sports of France then helped the athlete avoid punishment. On Wednesday, the words of the former UCI lawyer appeared that 14 years ago Armstrong tests gave a positive result for the use of forbidden drugs and that the Union knew about them.

The court, which began in the criminal case of Alexei Navalny, caused a surge in interest in the Russian opposition not only in Russia, but also abroad. There, the blogger is compared with might and main with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, calling in advance the second famous political prisoner after the oligarch. In Russia, let the public has long been accustomed to comparisons of Navalny with a disgraced businessman, this topic is also popular.

Amendments to the Law on OSAGO, increasing the limits of payments, will not be adopted in the final reading until the end of the spring session of the State Duma, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the State Duma Committee on the financial market Natalia Burykin. “It will not be accepted to the spring session. You can not even worry on this issue.

All young children love to play, but sometimes children's games end sadly. A six -year -old girl from the city of Yulin in South China was lucky, she managed to help, but it seems that she will still remember this day for a long time. Playing with her friends in classics, for some reason, the girl tried to squeeze into a strange opening between two marble walls, but incorrectly appreciated the distance, and her head was extremely unsuccessful there.

The metropolitan prosecutor’s office canceled the police decision on the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of a scandalous incident with the participation of the former State Duma deputy Viktor Pleskachevsky. Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a member of the United Russia party is accused of beating a taxi driver .

The network is rapidly gaining popularity of the video about flight through the “Batman gap”: an extremist-parachutist Alexander Polly jumped off the helicopter, developed a speed of 250 km/h and rushed through a narrow arch in Montserrat Mountain in Spain. There was no particular equipment on it - only a costume that allows a person to soar in the air. The video from Polly jumps appeared just two days ago, but already gained more than a million views.

In the north-west of Iran, an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 occurred, reports Associated Press with reference to state television. The underground shocks were recorded at 15:09 local time (14:39 in Moscow) in a small town located 600 km from the capital of the state, Tehran. ITAR-TASS, citing the local ISNA agency, reports that immediately after the main strike, two aphtershoks were followed by a magnitude of 3.2 and 3.4.

In the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, an interfaith mourning ceremony was held in memory of the victims of explosions at the finish line of the Boston marathon. According to Interfax , US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle arrived on a memorial prayer. The Cathedral of the Holy Cross is the largest Catholic temple of Boston. After the prayer service, the president assured that the famous marathon, clouded this year, will continue to be held.

The woman tried to commit suicide at the Ostankino television center in order to draw attention to her problems. She doused sherself with combustible liquid and wanted to set fire to herself. But the policeman on duty at the entrance prevented the woman from doing this and took her lighter from her, which she had already brought to her clothes, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement.

In the Amur Region, investigators find out the circumstances of the impudent murder committed right in front of the guards of order. Moreover, the employees of the Center for Combating Extremism did not even detain the criminals, at the meeting with whom they were called by the victim, who became a victim of extortion.

Representatives of the housing and communal services received the right to complain directly to the migration authorities and the police against the owners of the apartments, in which unaccounted and unwritten people live for more than five days and at the same time there are no meters for accounting for water, electricity and gas. "If ...