Chinese scientists crossed two types of flu - bird and pork , as a result of which it turned out to be a fatal, in all likelihood, for a person a virus. Chinese scientists have already condemned the world scientific community, calling this study meaningless and too dangerous. If the new virus breaks out of the laboratory, then millions of people around the world may suffer, reports The Independent .

In the capital of Kyrgyzstan, leaflets appeared with a call to pray for the accused of an attack of Boston Johar Tsarnaev. The publication "Evening Bishkek" reported this the day before, posting a photo of such a leaflet and referring to Twitter users. Residents of Bishkek claim that they saw the pasted leaflets in the underpasses and even on the fence of the buildings of one of the state institutions. On the leaflets, Tsarnaev is called innocent and urged to pray for him.

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Heigel admitted that Washington does not exclude the possibility of supplying weapons of the Syrian opposition. This was confirmed by President Obama. For the first time, officials of the American administration made it clear that the United States could revise the ban on the supply of weapons to rebels in Syria, the Russian BBC service reports. “To arm the rebels is an option,” Hagee noted to reporters, emphasizing that no final decision has yet been made.

The Chad authorities arrested the conspirators suspected of planning a coup and seizure of power. As ITAR-TASS reports, their names are known. The State Prosecutor of the Central African country, Mahamat Salekh Yunus, stated at a press conference that two generals - Weading Assu, who was the governor of one of the provinces, and the head of the military tribunal David Gomin, as well as two parliamentarians from the opposition - Mahamat Salh Macca, were detained.

In the Nizhneserginsky district of the Sverdlovsk region, a suspect in the murder of a six -year -old girl who disappeared the day before was detained in hot pursuit, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the region on the region on Friday.

On the eve of May 9, veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the Murmansk region received letters from CJSC "Military Memorial Company" (VMK), which reported that they were laid for free funeral at the expense of the state, Flashnord reports. The local television company TV-21 , which devoted this topic, the report of the veteran of the Second World War of Nina Kuznetsova and her relatives quotes this letter: she became ill from this letter. “It's time for us, it's time to die.

The situation with the detention of flights at the Domodedovo metropolitan airport continues on Friday. Several flights that were supposed to fly out during the day were detained, some of them were several hours. According to Interfax , according to the flight board, flights are delayed in Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt), Antalya (Turkey). Also, two aircraft will not fly on schedule - in Tel Aviv (Israel) and one - to Tenerife (Canar Islands).

“On the night from April 30 to May 1, many European countries celebrate the arrival of spring. On Walpurgis Night, people dress in costumes of wizards and witches, and effigies of them are burned on bonfires. This custom, still pagan, has firmly entered into everyday life and every year the entire Czech Republic celebrates this date on the first night of May.

The founder and guitarist of the American metal group Slayer Jeff Hanneman on Thursday died in Los Angeles, the USA, at the age of 49 from liver failure, according to the group’s official website . Hanneman died in a hospital, not far from his house, which is located in the south of California. For the past few years, the musician has also suffered an necrotic fascite caused by a spider bit.

In St. Petersburg, a man held a solitary protest in front of the building of the Legislative Assembly. The artist Pyotr Pavlensky, already known in that in support of Pussy Riot, publicly sewn his mouth , this time also chose a "torture" type of protest. Having undressed naked, he was wrapped in barbed wire, and in this form he lay before the arrival of doctors, reports MR7 .

Russia, like past years , has entered the annual "impunity index" , which publishes the journalists' protection committee (CPJ). This rating determines the percentage of the number of unsolved murders of journalists to the population of the country. Russia continues to remain in the first ten, in the same ninth place - last year it was about 16 unsolved murders of journalists, this year about 14, the CPJ website said.

In one of the post offices of Italy, a letter addressed to the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and containing bullets, as well as unknown powder, was found. The postal service clogged the alarm after the items similar to bullets were detected during the transmission of the message by the X-ray, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to local media. Representatives of the police work at the scene.

Businessman Georgy Trefilov was sentenced to one and a half years conditionally for using fake documents when trying to enter the country, Interfax reports. According to the decision of the judge, for each fake document - a passport and an identification card - Trefilov received nine months conditionally, in the amount of a year and a half. If during this time he again transgresses the law, then the conditional term will turn into real.

OJSC "Scientific and Production Corporation" of the Precise Instructive System (NPK "SPP") began to make a new modification of the spherical glass autonomous nanosonnik "Blitz", which is supposed to be used to practice laser rangefield technologies, Interfax reports with a link to luxury. Nanosnutnik is created in the framework of work on the GLONASS program instead of the lost first blitz apparatus.

The leadership of the law faculty of Moscow State University named after Lomonosova claims that the university illegally sends students and teachers to the International Center for Moscow State University in Geneva has no soil. The assistant dean of the legal faculty of Moscow State University on legal and organizational issues Yevgeny Kryukova told reporters. that the Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case at the request of the deputy Ryabov , not finding any violations.