The Turkish Air Force fighter F-16 shot down a Syrian aircraft near the border of the two states, the Turkish television channel NTV reports on Saturday. The type of aircraft is not specified. The Syrian side has a different version of what happened: it was not a plane shot down, but a “drone” that carried out an intelligence flight, Reuters reports with reference to Syrian TV. According to preliminary information, a downed plane fell on Syrian territory.

The joint income of US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is estimated from 1.9 to 6.9 million dollars, the income published by the President of the Revenue Declaration. According to the law, officials in the United States are obliged to declare the size of their assets and liabilities every year. Moreover, they may not indicate a specific amount, but the upper and lower limits, which complicates the determination of the exact amount, the Russian Air Force Service notes.

Residents of the Petrovsk-Zabaikal district of the Trans-Baikal Territory heard loud pops, which could be associated with the fall of the Proton , Interfax told the district administration. A helicopter of the Ministry of Emergencies is aimed at the scene of a possible fall. Accurate data about whether the wreckage managed to burn in the atmosphere or fell to the ground still not.

The forest caught fire in the Trans-Baikal Territory after a long rumble, possibly associated with the fall of the wreckage of the Proton missile, TASS was told in the administration of Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky district. Presumably, in the territory of this region, the wreckage of the rocket launched from Baikonur should have fallen if they did not have time to burn in the atmosphere. There is no definite data on this subject.

Hockey players of the Canadian national team won the Czech team in the semifinal match and became participants in the main meeting of the World Cup. In the middle of the first period, Taylor Hall brought the North Americans forward - 1: 0, and in the second game segment Jason Special doubled the advantage of his national team - 2: 0.

Southampton midfielder Sadio Mane became the author of the fastest hat-trick in the history of the English football Premier League. Three goals of Manet (13 ', 14', 16 ') in the match with Aston Villa, within the framework of the 37th round, met 2 minutes 56 seconds. The previous achievement belonged to the famous striker of Liverpool Robbie Fowler, who three times impressed the gates of Arsenal on August 28, 1994 in 4 minutes 33 seconds.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation published data on the income of its employees for 2014, according to which the head of the Kazan Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General of the police, Foest Zinnurov, became the highest paid employee. For 12 months of last year, his earnings amounted to 30.8 million rubles.

In Ukraine, one of the power units of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was disconnected from the network on Saturday. The radiation background is normal, the reasons for the emergency are clarified, reported at the station. The disconnection occurred at 10:40 Due to the operation of the defense of the mismatch of the position of the regulatory valves of the turbine more than 30%. "The reactor installation is at power.

China invited the United States to sign an extradition agreement. This will benefit both countries, assured the Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Van and, in negotiations with the US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is on a working trip. A similar agreement, said the head of Chinese diplomacy, is "very necessary." He called for consultations on this issue "as soon as possible", TASS reports with reference to Xinhua.

Russian striker Alexander Ovechkin will play in the three with Viktor Tikhonov and Sergey Plotnikov in the semifinal match of the World Hockey Championship with the US team, which ends in the Czech Republic. At the morning "Rolling" Forward "Washington", only on Friday, who arrived in Prague from North America, was engaged with Viktor Tikhonov and Sergey Plotnikov. “It’s good for the three last year, we hope that we will continue to play this bunch well,” Viktor Tikhonov told reporters.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin opened a tankide built on the territory of the Prokhorovskoye Field Museum-Reserve near Belgorod. The cost of the object is about 290 million rubles, about half of this amount was provided by the federal budget. The other half is the funds of the regional budget and regional companies. The area of ​​the tankodrome is 11 hectares, anyone can visit it. For the audience, stands are provided for 1.3 thousand seats.

Midfielder Alexander Tyukavin, who is the most titled player in the world hockey with the ball, returned to his homeland ten years later, which Dynamo spent in the metropolitan, the official website of the Arkhangelsk Vodnik reports. The 40-year-old hockey player is the strongest supporting midfielder not only in Russia, but also in the world.

The head of the Russian Hockey Medical Staff, Valery Konov, said that he has little optimism about the possibility of the injured striker Yevgeny Dadonov to play in the semifinals of the World Cup. “In the first period of the match against the Swedes, Evgeny was injured,” Konov quotes the official website of the FHR. “For about 20 minutes we conjured him, the hockey player returned to duty, was able to complete the key duel.

In Washington, a resonant murder occurred in the prestigious area: the head of the largest construction company of the United States, Savvas Savopulos, his family and a housekeeper, were found dead. The mansion tried to set fire to, four bodies found firefighters who arrived to extinguish. The mansion is cordoned off, detectives and arson experts work on the spot, Daily Mail reports.

More than two thousand people expressed a desire to act as a donor for the owner of the Ottava Senators Club Eugina Melnik, who needs an urgent liver transplant, according to the League official website . Melnik experiences serious health problems. Three weeks ago, he was hospitalized in connection with complications. The owner of Ottawa underwent a deep medical examination, according to the results of which the need was revealed in the urgent transplant of the liver.