Three people were killed, six were seriously injured, about 10 more people are missing in the port of Genoa, where on Wednesday night, a context ship crashed into a dispatch tower standing on the shore. Part of the tower in which 14 people were in the sea. The missing people are looking for both in the sea and on the shore - rescuers suggest that some could get stuck in the elevator elevator. The accident happened when the ship left the port.

The building of the Viennese opera, in which Max Lorenz has repeatedly performed In Germany, the topic of Nazi crimes almost never leaves the pages of the press. It sounds especially intense in the early days of May, marked by the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945. The more valuable for the Germans themselves are rare cases of civil disobedience in the history of that time, which would seem inconceivable with the most severe dictatorship. Here is one of them.

The results of the meeting of Russian human rights activists with the US Secretary of State and the new results of hunting foreign agents - defenders of the rights of prisoners and the organizers of the film festival fell under the scope of the prosecutor's office. Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister, former deputy Kremlin administration Vladislav Surkov. In Europe today they celebrate Victory Day over Nazi Germany.

In the English county of Surrey, Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky was buried on Wednesday cemetery on Wednesday. This was announced by Radio Liberty correspondent Natalya Golitsyna. The body of the disgraced oligarch was discovered on March 23 in the house of his second wife Galina in Askot. The autopsy established that death came from strangulation. The date and place of the funeral changed many times.

Activist on the "Occupygory" shares of Twitter.com/myaekh/statu ... In protest against the detentions, the activists stood up with white sheets Twitter.com/myaekh/statu ... - Dmitry ekhilevskiy (@MITYAEKH) May 8, 2013

In the north-west of Pakistan, two people died and 23 were injured in the explosion. Two of them are in critical condition. The victims were a policeman and a local resident, among the victims there are civilians, including young children and women. A powerful explosive wave destroyed 7 neighboring houses.

Vladislav Surkov and Vladimir Putin Vladislav Surkov left at his own request the post of Deputy Prime Minister-the head of the apparatus of the Russian government. The corresponding decree on Wednesday was signed by President Vladimir Putin. According to Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s decision to sign Surkov’s statement is related to the “topics of priority tasks to implement the May decrees of the president and election promises” (the end of the quote).

John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov in Moscow May 7, 2012 US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Italy for negotiations on the Syrian problem - with members of the new Italian government, as well as with Israeli and Jordanian diplomats. Kerry arrived in Rome from Moscow, where he discussed the situation in Syria with Russian leaders.

The alleged customer of the murder of the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Igor Domnikov was detained . According to Interfax, referring to a source in law enforcement agencies, this is a businessman Pavel Sopot. The agency does not have official confirmation of information. Ivan Domnikov was killed in 2000. In September 2011, three accused were detained: the leader of the gang Eduard Tagiryanov and two of his accomplices. They were sentenced to long time.

"Black Box" was found at the crash site of the Mi-8 in the Irkutsk region. This was announced by the head of the information department of the Ministry of Emergencies Oleg Voronov. Earlier, the bodies of two dead were found and fragments of the bodies of several more victims, but they have not yet been identified. The search continues.

Serbia and Kosovo could not reach consent of measures to normalize mutual relations, officially declared on Wednesday in Brussels. The recognition of this fact occurred less than three weeks after international approval to Serbia and Kosovo, which, through the mediation of the European Union, signed an agreement on the settlement of mutual disagreements. The main problem is the position of the Serbian minority in the north of Kosovo, inhabited mainly by the Albanians.

At the Gorky Gorky Gorky Gorky Civil Promotion held in the Moscow Culture and Rest Park, the police held the first detentions. This was reported on Twitter. The action is held on the anniversary of the beginning of last year's manifestation in the center of Moscow called "Occupy Abbay". Participants in the flash mob appear under the anti-Putin slogans.