- 18:19 21/04/2011
Expletives may work as a painkiller, according to British scientists, The Daily Mail reported.
- 13:42 21/04/2011
A Chinese writer is planning to spend $153,000 on plastic surgery to look like British playwright William Shakespeare, Shanghai Daily reported on its website on Thursday.
- 13:29 18/04/2011
Bloggers and journalists writing about ecology have come from all over the world to take part in an eco-forum in the Russian capital Moscow.
- 15:56 15/04/2011
A dead cow packed in a plastic bag, a tarantula and a car engine were among the luggage items which Virgin Atlantic passengers tried to check in for flights.
Other strange items were a huge head of cheese, a bag filled with sand and seawater and coconut palms.
- 17:15 14/04/2011
The Russian delegation at the BRICS countries summit has dubbed the group BRYUKI (slacks) by joining together the first letters in Russian of the words Brazil, Russia, South Africa, China and India, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
"To be honest, I cannot recall who thought up the BRICS abbreviation. But we have invented our own," Medevedev told journalists at the summit.
Russian for South Africa is "Yuzhnaya Africa" and for China "Kitai." Brazil, India and Russia have the same first letters in both English and Russian, when transcribed. So - BRYUKI - or "slacks" in English.
- 18:52 13/04/2011
More than 500,000 viewers have already watched a YouTube video showing Czech President Vaclav Klaus quietly pocketing a ceremonial pen during a press conference with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera.
The video inspired a Facebook campaign, which has already gathered more than 3,000 people wishing to send a pen to the Czech president.
- 18:06 12/04/2011
On April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin made the first space flight on the Vostok spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Space Center.
Since then Russia has marked April 12 as Cosmonautics Day.
- 17:11 11/04/2011
Russia's state-run gas export monopoly Gazprom will start commercial negotiations with China on gas supplies on Monday, Pavel Oderov, head of Gazprom's international business department said.
- 18:03 08/04/2011
A pack of stray dogs on Thursday attacked an AN-24 passenger jet while landing at the Tomsk airport in Siberia. The crewmembers were unable to land the aircraft on the first try.
- 09:18 07/04/2011
According to environmentalists, some 20 species of animals and plants have disappeared from Moscow during the past 10 years.
Among them are badgers, some species of woodpeckers, owls, pigeons, seagulls and other birds, as well as snakes and insects.
- 18:01 06/04/2011
Maria Shriver, Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife, forced the Terminator to get rid of his odd collection of busts of Soviet leaders.
- 17:12 05/04/2011
On April 4, U.S. President Barack Obama announced his campaign to win reelection in 2012
- 14:58 04/04/2011
The Oxford English Dictionary has added the popular acronym OMG (Oh, My God!) to its online list of words.
- 18:40 29/03/2011
U.S. President Barack Obama said in his Address to the Nation on Libya that the United States joined the military operation against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime to protect civilians.1
- 16:26 26/03/2011
Russian police at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan was put on high alert ahead of the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 5.
- 20:49 24/03/2011
Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding will be the first in the history of royal weddings, for which music will be composed, recorded and be released as a soundtrack, not only on discs, but also on audio cassettes and vinyls, the Royal Palace’s press service said.
- 15:18 24/03/2011
British rock group Deep Purple visited Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at his Gorki residence near Moscow on Tuesday night ahead of their Wednesday gig.
- 17:54 22/03/2011
U.S. President Barack Obama said Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi must give up power, adding that the military operation in Libya was aimed not at toppling the dictator but at preventing a humanitarian crisis and protecting civilians.1
- 20:10 21/03/2011
While U.S. President Barack Obama was on his Latin American tour and the Pentagon gave vague comments about its future plans for Libya, French and British diplomats took the lead in discussions on possible military intervention in Libya.
