In Irkutsk on Sunday at 2.50 AM the A - 310 passenger plane, executing the flight Moscow - Irkutsk was broke. 131 men was died, 70 have suffered. It’s speaking about 204 men which were on board: 193 passengers and 8 members of crew. On the preliminary data, the reason of the accident was failure of hydraulic brakes system. The exact reason of the accident will be established after examination of the plane

The new regulations will update the 1989 "Television without Frontiers" Directive in order to include modern audiovisual media services, independently of what may be the broadcasting platform they use. The new European "Television without Frontiers" Directive, which establishes a series of duties with regard to advertising and ethical contents, won't be applied to blogs and to digital papers that offer "auxiliary" video contents

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell will attack the Government over the economy as he seeks to set out his own business credentials in a speech to the CBI. Sir Menzies will also warn against a new generation of nuclear power stations, saying investment in them could jeopardise development of other technologies

MOSCOW -- Just four years after its founding, President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party is growing twice as quickly as the Communist Party under the Bolsheviks. And like the Communist Party of the past century, it has become the surest path to success in Russian society. The party formed by the Kremlin to support Mr. Putin registered its 1 millionth member earlier this year, reaching a milestone that took the Bolsheviks eight years after the Russian Revolution

At least 38 people were killed yesterday in renewed fighting in the Somali capital that sent thousands of civilians running from their homes, medical officials and a militia commander said. According to reports collected from Mogadishu's main hospitals, at least 30 people were killed when Islamist militias and their secular rivals clashed after a day's lull. Ali Muhammad Siyad, an Islamist militia leader, said his group had lost eight fighters

The Russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday returned to his feud with the US over energy supplies when he declared that Washington is in no position to deliver lectures after the invasion of Iraq. Weeks after vice-president Dick Cheney accused Moscow of using intimidation and blackmail in its energy policy, Mr Putin said he would continue to fight for Russia's interests

Scientists searching for the origin of HIV, the global pandemic infecting more than 40 million people, believe they have finally tracked its original source to two colonies of chimpanzees in a corner of Cameroon. The finding represents the culmination of a 10-year hunt for the source of the pandemic and provides a crucial link between HIV, which causes Aids in humans, and the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a strikingly similar virus that infects monkeys and chimpanzees

Russia and Algeria, the two largest suppliers of natural gas to Europe, have stepped up cooperation in the energy sector and other areas, raising fears in Europe that the two could form a gas cartel to control prices. Top natural gas executives from the two countries announced last month that they were preparing a memorandum of cooperation that would cover joint efforts in the exploration, production and marketing of Algerian gas

MOSCOW - Authorities in St. Petersburg announced Wednesday that they had broken up an extremist group that had shocked Russia with a string of racially motivated killings, including that of an African student in April and of an expert on hate crimes nearly two years ago. Authorities said they recently arrested five members of the loosely organized group

Worried that the lights could go out, EU chiefs will press President Vladimir Putin today to agree new rules on future Russian oil and gas supplies, pricing and investment. But Moscow is in no mood to haggle. It has already rejected a proposed international energy charter. And European governments lack a united front. As a result, the meeting, in Sochi on the Black Sea, is unlikely to bring relief to benighted European consumers and businesses