Over 20 people were killed and 150 were wounded in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab, where three explosions thundered on Monday. According to unconfirmed information, explosions occurred at a hotel, restaurant and a bazaar popular among tourists. Preliminary data on the victims are given by Western news agencies with reference to the authorities. Other details are still unknown.

The victory of the Spaniard Rafael Nadal over Roger Federer in the final of the tournament in Monte Carpot allowed him to move to third place in the Asia Assembly Championship race. The Swiss retained the leadership position, the Croatian Ivan Lyubichich remained in second place. This is what the first eight looks like: 1. Roger Federer - 562 points 2. Ivan Lyubichich - 250 3. Rafael Nadal - 224 4. Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) - 189 5. James Blake (USA) - 185 6. Tommy Haas (Germany) - 174 7.

Alexey Yablokov (on the right) saw for attempts to prevent the merger of his organization with the party Grigory Yavlinsky (left) Kremlin's hand Part of the activists of the Green Russia party opposed the accession of the organization to the Yabloko party. The leader of ecologists Alexei Yablokov is sure that the Kremlin is trying to interfere with his union with Grigory Yavlinsky.

On April 22, at the Pushkinskaya metro station, seventeen -year -old Vagan Abramyants was killed By 16.30, at the Pushkinskaya metro station, near the transition to the Tverskaya station, where the seventeen -year -old Vigen Abramantz was killed on April 22, about 150 people gathered, and young people came mainly. Flowers were brought to the place of murder, someone hung a photo. Among people who came to honor the memory of Vagan, there were many of his classmates and classmates.

The authorities of Namibia took measures to protect the vacationers in this country of Hollywood stars of Bred Pitt and Angelina Jolie from the paparazzi. Sunday Times and three French photographer, a photographer of the South African newspaper, was invited to leave the country under the threat of arrest. The Prime Minister of Namibia Nakhas Angula supported this decision and demanded that the movie stars be left alone. Angelina Jolie is in the ninth month of pregnancy.

In the Southern Federal District of Russia, large anti -terrorism exercises begin today. More than 10 thousand military personnel of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Emergencies take part in them. According to the command, the purpose of the exercises is to develop the actions of law enforcement agencies in the conditions of a terrorist threat or in case of emergency.

In the Afghan province of Hilmen, an airplane crashed, in which there were employees of the American department for combating the drug business. Three people were killed - two on board and three Afghan nomads. At least 14 people were injured. The Canadian military representative said that the plane suffered a disaster when he tried to avoid a collision with a truck on the landing strip.

The first owners of Rosukrenergo became interested in the Verkhovna Rada The share of Rosukranergo, which is managed by Raiffeisen Investment, can belong to famous and respected Ukrainian businessmen, the newspaper Vedomosti writes today. At the end of last week, find out who is behind a half of the company that supplies the gas to Ukraine, the US Ministry of Justice has taken up. And a week earlier it became known about the same investigation by the Russian special services.

In Moscow, the court is considering a lawsuit today with a request for the rehabilitation of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas the Second and his family, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The lawyer of the Imperial House Romanov protested the decision of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, who had refused earlier in rehabilitation, since, according to her, there were no official decisions on the execution of the royal family.

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal became the winner of the Masters series tournament in Monte Carlo. In the final, he defeated the Swiss Roger Federer - 6: 2, 6: 7, 6: 3, 7: 6, defending the title obtained last year. This is the second defeat that Nadal inflicted Federer this season (in March, he won in the final of the tournament in Dubai). In addition to him, this year no one managed to prevail over the Swiss, which will force the world rating list.

Throughout the world, ethnic Armenians celebrate the day of memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Mourning ceremonies are held, in particular, in Yerevan. Over 20 countries and international organizations consider the events of 1915-1923 by genocide - according to estimates, then about one and a half million Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire.

In the classification of the World Bank, Russia is a country with "high average income." As stated in a report prepared for the spring session of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in 2004 in Russia the average income per person amounted to $ 3,400. According to the classification of the bank, countries with “low income” are considered to be a state where per capita income is less than $ 825 a year, and with “high” - more than 10,066 dollars.