The famous British director and screenwriter Brian Forbes, the creator of the cult horror Stepford Wives, died at the age of 86 from multiple sclerosis diagnosed in 1975, reports Newsru Israel . Forbes died at home last Wednesday in the county of Surray in the south of England surrounded by a family. He had a wife and two daughters.

In the 28th round of the Russian football championship, the capital's “Spartak” at the Luzhniki stadium failed to defeat the “wings of the Soviets”, playing a draw with the Samara club. The first goal turned out to be curious: in the eighth minute, the midfielder of the guests Peter Nemov struck his head from the penalty line, and the ball along the amazing trajectory from the crossbar flew into the gates of Andrei Dikan - 0: 1.

40 people were killed, about a hundred were injured in explosions in the Border with Syria, the Turkish city of Reikhanly. The authorities have two versions of the attack. Data on the victims on the air of the NTV television channel was announced by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkey Muammer Guler. According to him, 29 victims are in serious condition, and the probability of increasing the number of victims remains.

The terrorist attacks in Pakistan, where the parliamentary elections are held today, took the lives of 17 people, more than 40 residents were injured. The four explosions thundered in the southern metropolis of Karachi, one in the northwest of the country in Peshavar. Also, the attacks of the Islamists, who promised to disrupt the elections, were subjected to residents of the northwestern cities of the country: Miyanvali and Charsadd, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Volgograd, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the brutal murder of a local resident, the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports. "On May 10, at about 7 a.m. in the courtyard of the house on the street of the Russian city of Volgograd, the body of a 23 -year -old local resident with multiple bodily injuries, including in the field of the genitals, was discovered.

The first racket of world tennis Novak Djokovic, known for his jokes, lost his temper at the tournament in Madrid and insulted the audience. Throughout the match of the second circle with the first racket of the world, Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov collected the applause of the audience, and starting from the second set to the end of the meeting, the audience chanted his name, which rarely for tennis. In turn, every blow by Jokovic booed, and any mistake of the Serb was accompanied by applause.

The pilot of the Mercedes team Niko Rosberg became the winner of the qualification of the fifth stage of the Formula-1 championship Grand Prix of Spain. For a German racer, this is the second Pole this season after the Bahrain Grand Prix and the third in his career. “The car was competitive along the whole weekend, we were able to optimize a lot.

Singer Vitas (Vitaly Grachev) made a small accident on the VVC - at a low speed he knocked down a cyclist. At the same time, he cursed obscenely, refused to get out of the car for a long time, and even threatened the girl knocked down by a gun, says Life News . As it turned out later - toy. Eyewitnesses claim that the singer was drunk. He refused to undergo an examination, which is equated with guilty admission.

Producer Vitas Sergey Pudovkin announced that at the time of the accident, the singer was in the passenger place of the Infiniti jeep, who shot down the cyclist at the VVC . Pudovkin did not comment on the obscene abuse of the victim, as well as the fact that the singer refused to undergo an examination for a state of intoxication.

"Galatasaray" intends to take advantage of the uncertainty with the future captain of Chelsea, John Terry, to lure the "aristocrat" to himself. The Turkish club has already made a lot of rustle, getting Uesley Sneider and Didier Drogb in January. But Galatasaray is not going to stop and intends to intensify the players from the European elite.

In Pakistan, universal elections began, marked by the election campaign rich in incidents. The last was the abduction of the son of the ex-Prime Minister directly from the election rally. Voters at the first in 66 years of democratic elections will have to choose a new parliament that the government will form. Before the elections, the authorities announced the expulsion of the American newspaper The New York Times from the country, which has already caused US protest.

At least four people were killed and 18 were injured as a result of two explosions that thundered on Saturday in the Turkish city of Reikhanly near the Turkish-Syrian border, the head of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs said on the air of local television. “Of course, we are concerned that the number of victims can increase,” Guller added.

Tourists from Russia, who disappeared in the Nepal mountains , were found, they were in a hotel in Kathmandu, the Russian Embassy in Nepal reported. According to ITAR-TASS, a press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Nepal Azrets Botashev, "all tourists were delivered to the hotel to Kathmandu yesterday. They conducted a medical examination, the results of which are positive. Now they are resting." Earlier it was reported that two amateur tourists disappeared in the province of Langtang.

The Ministry of Finance of the Cyprus decided to remove restrictions on the financial transactions of the Russian Commercial Bank - the subsidiary of VTB and the Cyprus branch of the Promsvyazbank, the Ministry of Finance of Cyprus said. In addition, the restrictions were also removed from Lebanese banks Blom Bank and Lebanese and Gulf Bank, Interfax reports. However, the internal clients of these banks can still withdraw not more than 300 euros from the account.

At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 were injured today as a result of two explosions in the Karachi metropolis in the south of Pakistan, ITAR-TASS reports. In Pakistan , universal elections are held , which extremists from the Taliban movement declared “anti -Islamic” and promised to open hunting for candidates for deputies. Explosions were carried out by suicide bias, whose targets became candidates for deputies in the universal parliamentary elections, as well as their supporters.