Main News of April 29

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Taliban has claimed responsibility for a murder of a British aid worker from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Khalil Dale who was found decapitated on Sunday in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, Dawn News TV channel reported

*German Chancellor Angela Merkel may order the government to boycott the Euro-2012, hosted by Ukraine, because of the alleged beatings of the jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Der Speigel reported on Sunday

*Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina moved on Saturday to the poorest district of the western city of Huitan, following government-backed charity initiative, Univision TV channel reported

*A New Zealand mayor set a new record on Sunday for the longest non-stop televised interview, the broadcaster NewstalkZB reported

*The Lebanese navy has intercepted a Sierra Leone-registered ship carrying arms and ammunition reportedly destined for Syrian rebels, al Jazeera television said

RUSSIA

*Activists from a fundamentalist Russian Orthodox organization dispersed with Holy Water a group of protesters who gathered on Sunday in downtown Moscow near the Christ the Savior Cathedral to support jailed female Pussy Riot punk group

SPORTS

*Olympic silver medalists Anastasia Pozdniakova and Yulia Koltunova are certainties to participate in the London 2012 diving competitions, Russia team coach Oleg Zaitsev told RIA Novosti on Sunday

*Zenit St. Petersburg goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeev said Sunday he was not guilty for turning his Twitter feed blue with an insult directed at Moscow rivals Spartak after winning the title Saturday

*Beijing Olympic silver medalists Yuri Kunakov and Anastasia Pozdniakova won their respective 1 meter springboard diving events at the Russian championships on Sunday

*Zenit St. Petersburg should do everything in their power to keep Andrei Arshavin at the club after his loan deal from Arsenal expires in the summer, one of their former coaches said Sunday