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US road safety authorities announced Thursday the launch of a new mobile application designed to give consumers real-time smartphone access to vehicle safety information.
The Christie’s auction house said on Wednesday it had sold Andy Warhol’s limited edition print of Vladimir Lenin, the father of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, for over $202,000.
The pungent scent of cannabis percolates through the car fumes in places along this busy commercial strip that locals call “The Green Mile” and “Reefer Row” – a reference to the dozen or so medical marijuana dispensaries dealing legal dope in the neighborhood.1
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and NASA may opt against sending music star Sarah Brightman to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015, Russian agency’s head Vladimir Popovkin said on Saturday.
Russia’s entry in this year’s Eurovision contest unveiled the final version of her ballad "What If" on Friday, with just two months to go until the annual gathering of European pop fans.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has congratulated Pope Francis on his election as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church and expressed hope for cooperation, the Russian Orthodox Church said Thursday.
In what can only be described as a clash of civilizations, British actor, writer, comedian, gay rights activist and blogger extraordinaire Stephen Fry met on Tuesday with the Russian lawmaker who kick-started the ongoing crackdown on Russia’s LGBT community.2
The Mass for the inauguration of new Pope Francis, elected on Wednesday to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, will be held on March 19, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said.
As the newly elected Pope Francis – the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires – stepped onto the Vatican balcony to greet the faithful around the world on Wednesday, some US Catholics said they were hopeful he would heal the wounds of the recent past and help them reconcile modern American life with traditional church values.