As a result of a collision of a tourist bus with a truck in the south-west of Iran, 27 people died last night, news agencies report. The incident occurred on the road connecting the city of Dehdez and Iza 450 kilometers southwest of the capital of Tehran. According to eyewitnesses, a group of school workers who examined the places of battles during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88 was on the bus. The tourist bus crashed into a truck, and then turned over and caught fire.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov handed the FSB director to Nikolai Patrushev a symbolic key to the new building of the FSB department in Moscow and the Moscow Region, reports “ Newsru.com ” with reference to Interfax.

By 24 years of imprisonment, an American citizen of Chinese origin for espionage in favor of the PRC was sentenced, NEWSRU reports. This decision was made by the US Federal District Court in the city of Santa-Ana (California), without healing the calls of the 67-year-old defendant Chi Mac to show condescension.

The new Governor of New York, the blind African American David Paterson admitted that he used drugs several times in his youth. The 53-year-old governor said in an interview that at the age of 22-23 he tried cocaine, and at the age of 20-marijuana. Since then, according to Paterson, he did not take drugs, reports the Associated Press. This is the second “bomb” from Paterson.

The head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Alexei Fedorov, for the first time officially recognized the possible delay in the supply of the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ) -a high -profile project of the Russian Civil Aviation Protection worth $ 1.4 billion. The delay periods are not called, but, according to Kommersant experts, it can be a year and a half.

At the end of this week, Russia will switch to the “summer” time, in accordance with the procedure for calculating the time determined by the Government of the Russian Federation, the clocks of the clock throughout the country at 2 hours on March 30 (local time) will be transferred one hour ahead, reports Echo of Moscow . In summer time, Russia will live until October 26.

The militants of the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb countries, who stole two Austrian tourists more than a month ago, extended the validity of the ultimatum until April 6, Newsru reports. This is stated in a statement by terrorists posted on Monday on one of the sites on the Internet, NEWSRU reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. “We turn to the Austrian society and the hostage families,” says it.

Tatyana Kosinova On March 21, 2008, the European University in St. Petersburg was able to resume its activities. On this day, the Federal Judge of the Dzerzhinsky Court of St.

The widow of the poisoned Russian emigrant Alexander Litvinenko demanded that the British authorities continue the investigation of his murder in order to reveal the role of the Russian authorities in him, reports Gazeta.ru . Marina Litvinenko stated that she decided to demand because there was no chance to extradite the suspect Andrei Lugovoi from Moscow to the UK, where he would appear before the court for the poisoning of her husband in London with radioactive polo.

QUESTION: Mr. President-elect, what will be your three priorities when you begin your job? D. MEDVEDEV: I think that these priorities are completely obvious. The main thing is the continuation of the socio-economic course that appeared in our country and has developed in recent years. The goal of this course is to improve the quality of life of all Russian citizens. In recent years, we have managed to change the economic situation.

The leadership of the Belarusian KGB does not confirm the information about the existence of a spy network in the republic widespread by the first national television channel in Belarus. As the head of the Center for Public Relations and Information of the KGB Valery Nadtochaev stated, he does not know anything about the existence of such a network, Telegraph reports.

Since the summer of 2008, it will be possible to replenish the contactless card for travel by public transport in Moscow using round -the -clock terminals in which the services of mobile communications and the Internet are paid, Lenta.ru reports.

The 10th International Nuclear Industry, China'2O8 "atomic industry exhibition" began its work in China. The participating in the exhibition "Atomenergoprom" is negotiating for the main conditions of the contract for the construction of 3 and 4 power units of the Tianwan nuclear power plant. The cost of the construction of two power units is under discussion.

An unidentified flying object fell to the farm in the Central Brazilian state of Goyas. This was announced on Tuesday by local media with reference to eyewitness certificates. According to their stories, an object about a meter with a diameter landed in the field, 150 meters from a residential building. After the fall, the object was deformed from a blow to the ground and at the time of detection was hot.

According to Reuters , researchers from the American Memorial Institute of Sloan-Kettering Institute and the Japanese Center for Development (Riken Center For Developmental Biology) were able to improve the condition of patients with parquinsonism with cloning. Experiments were conducted on mice in which artificially destroyed part of the brain cells with the help of chemicals, which caused a condition similar to Parkinson's disease (trembling and other motor disorders).