The terrorist attack in the Pakistanen of the South -West of Pakistan in the city of Kvetta this morning, as a result of the explosion, eight people were killed in the hospital, more than ten were injured. The attack of the suicide bomber took place at a time when journalists and relatives of the earlier Shiite, manager of the local bank gathered at the morgue. Among the dead are a television reporter and two police officers. Shiite Muslims are a religious minority in Pakistan.

The Icelandic volcano intervened in the plans of air passengers throughout Europe. The eruption of the volcano in Iceland almost completely paralyzed the air message in the north of the European continent. The airports of Britain, Ireland, France, Finland and the Baltic countries were closed, and in the morning a message appeared that the cloud of ash reached even the Moscow region.

Marina Timasheva: April 16 at the St. Petersburg Theater-Festival “Baltic House” will be the premiere of the play “The Hammer of the Witch”. Director - Vladimir Bortko. Let's listen to Tatyana Voltskaya. Tatyana Voltskaya: the play “Hans and Gretchen”, which became the basis for the play “The Hammer of the Witch”, was written by director Vladimir Bortko and playwright Alexander Chervinsky.

In the UK, on Thursday evening, the first pre -election television news of the leaders of three leading political parties in the history of the country. The British Prime Minister, leader of the Labor Party Gordon Brown, conservative leader David Cameron and the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, Nick Klegg, participated in the debate. The main topics of the discussion were the fight against the economic crisis, reducing government spending, and a policy in the field of immigration.

Today, the State Duma of Russia will consider bills that strengthen the liability of police officers for offenses and crimes. The documents were submitted to the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. There are two bills.

Today, the Tver court of Moscow will consider the complaint of the human rights activist, the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva to detain the police on December 31 last year. Alekseeva and a number of opposition activists were detained on the Triumphal Square while trying to hold an unauthorized rally in defense of the 31st article of the Russian Constitution - on freedom of assembly.

Due to the cloud of volcanic dust over part of the European continent, under the threat of a breakdown, the delivery of the bodies of the dead in the plane crash and the arrival of foreign delegations to the funeral of the presidential couple from Moscow to Warsaw. This was reported by the Radio correspondent Freedom Alexander Lemeshevsky. In Poland, only two small airports are accepted by aircraft - in Krakow and Zheshov.

Dmitry Medvedev and Vladislav Surkov, modernizers 15 Week 2010 on the pages of American weekly. Iran is tuned to revenge. Our man in Afghanistan. The concentration of power as a modernization tool. The vacuum cleaner is a divorce remedy. The modest successes of the New York summit The tasks of the nuclear security summit held last week in the New York of the Nuclear Safety summite were so modest and obvious that the success of the event was predictable, Time writes.

US President Barack Obama, speaking at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, promised that, according to his new plans for exploration of space, American astronauts would fly to Mars for about 25 years. As the correspondent of Radio Liberty in Washington Allan Davydov reports, Obama's statement was made against the backdrop of an acute criticism of his decision to abandon the expensive "Constellation" program, including the resumption of flights to the moon by 2020.

Fire in the stable of the Moscow Theater of animals "Corner of Grandfather Durov" is extinguished. The victims - both among people and among animals - no. The fire area was 200 square meters. 15 fire brigades fought with fire. The reasons for the fire are clarified.

Lyudmila Alekseeva is detained on Triumphal Square on December 31, 2009 On April 16, the first court hearing was held in the Tver District Court of Moscow on the claim of Lyudmila Alekseeva to the Main Directorate of the Interior of the capital. The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group demands to recognize its detention on the triumphal square on December 31 last year .