In Hungary, at least 27 people died and 11 were injured as a result of a collision of a train and a bus with German tourists. The collision occurred on Thursday morning at the railway crossing of the resort city of Shiofok on Lake Balaton. The passenger train, who was traveling from Budapest, crashed into a tourist bus. The causes of the disaster are established.

India rejected Pakistan’s offer - to abandon nuclear weapons. India Prime Minister Atal Bikhari Vajpai said that Pakistan created his nuclear program, threatening India, while India fears aggression not only from Pakistan, but also a number of other countries. What countries are we talking about, the prime minister did not say. Islamabad expresses the willingness to get rid of his nuclear arsenals - if Delhi does the same.

Aya Kuga , Belgrade: In the coming days, NATO experts will arrive in Serbia and Montenegro, who will help to reform the armed forces of this Balkan country according to the Western model. The Minister of Defense Tadich will present the Army Reform Plan for the Council of the North Atlantic Union and, as reported in Belgrade, he received the full support of Brussels.

There are less and less refugees returned to Afghanistan from neighboring countries - the UN department for forced immigrants said. According to him, every day from Iran and Pakistan to Afghanistan arrives on average from 4 to 5 thousand refugees, but this figure is much less than before, when there were up to 23 thousand daily.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow today decided to extend for two months the detention of Victoria Tikhacheva, a former adviser to the governor of the Magadan region Valentina Tsvetkova. Tikhacheva was detained in March this year in Moscow. The Moscow prosecutor's office accuses her of embezzlement in the amount of $ 6 million - as part of the case of abuse when the quotas are allocated to catch seafood.

American military personnel and civilian specialists managed to find about 40 thousand manuscripts and almost 700 works of art and historical relics stolen from the National Museum in Baghdad during mass robberies in early April. According to the employees of the customs and immigration bureaus of the United States, only 38 museum exhibits have not yet been found in Iraq. Many valuable relics were voluntarily returned to the Iraqis.

Andrei Korolev , Murmansk: Grinis’s claims regarding the captains of Russian tankers boil down to the fact that the routes of transportation of Russian oil to Europe and further in the United States are lying in the 12-mile economic zone of Norway, the traditional fishing area, rich in cod.

The World Health Organization recommends to refrain from trips to two more Chinese provinces and the capital of Taiwan - Taibay, where the epidemic of atypical pneumonia continues to expand. According to international experts, the mortality rate from atypical pneumonia is approaching 15 percent. In the world, the number of victims has already exceeded 500, more than half of the lethal cases in China. The infected are more than seven thousand three hundred.

In the 54th year of his life, Sultan Rakhmanov, the famous string, champion of the Moscow Olympiad-80, multiple champion of the USSR in heavyweight weight, died. The name of Sultan Rakhmanov was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the strongest person of the planet. Until the last day, he headed the International Association of Sports Veterans. The semi-final match of the Champions Football League was played in Italy, where the Milan derby took place for the 254th time.

Egor Gaidar for the past few years has not been very noticeable in public policy. He retired to the cabinet quiet, which did not prevent him from influencing the real activity of the authorities, offering her the development of his institution of economics of the transition period.

In the gas sector, in the vicinity of the Jewish settlement of Kfar, an attempt to attack a terrorist attack tonight. The car, loaded with explosives, exploded near the Israeli military machine, guarding the settlement. There are no victims - the Israeli radio reports. A few hours before, a militant of the extremist group Hamas was killed in the city of Gaza. The Israeli military helicopter released two missiles through his car.

In the world, the number of deaths from atypical pneumonia reached five hundred, more than half of them in China. Today, the Chinese authorities reported five more deaths, including the first victim of the disease in Shanghai - the second largest city in the country. A group of employees of the World Health Organization went today to the Chinese province of Hebei (in which Beijing is located), where the scale of the epidemic continues to grow.

The Nordiag Norwegian company and the German Invitek corporation proved that the analysis of feces allows you to identify people with great accuracy who threatens the emergence of tumors of the colon and rectum. These companies have developed a test, which in just two hours discovers a genetic mutation that serves as a harbinger of cancer. The presence of this mutation indicates that some cells of the epithelial lining of the lower intestines have embarked on the path of malignant degeneration.

The authorities of Saudi Arabia announced the wanted list of 19 members of a terrorist organization suspected of preparing an explosion. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Prince Nepha Bin Abdul Aziz, yesterday in the capital of the country, Riyadh, a large cache with weapons belonging to them was discovered. According to the minister, all the Afghans are most likely put on the wanted list.

The Russian national team with a score of 0-3 lost to the Czech team in the quarterfinal match of the World Hockey Championship with a puck in Finland. The prefabricated Czechs, Canada, Slovakia and Sweden entered the semifinals. Canadians in extra time won the German team 3: 2, the Slovaks prevailed over the Switzerland team with a score of 3: 1. The Swedes won the owners of the championship - Finns - with a score of 6-5. The final match of the tournament will be held on May 11.