22:04
ARABS CAN NOT FLY
Democracy does not seem to be a symbol of the western world anymore. The majority logic is simple: let us be non-democratic, but stay alive than vice versa
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18:56
RELEASE OF TWO RUSSIAN ENTOMOLOGISTS, ARRESTED IN INDIA FOR ILLICIT CATCHING OF INSECTS
Two Russian entomologists arrested in Sikkim, India, for illicit catching of insects have been released and the criminal case against them closed, said Russia's Consul General in Calcutta Alexei Zolotukhin on Sunday.
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17:23
NOVOSIBIRSK SURGEONS USE NOVEL METHODS IN HANDLING HEAVY TB CASES
In complicated surgery physicians from the Tuberculosis Research Institute, based in Novosibirsk, use novel physiatric methods. They give a chance to survive to many grave TB cases, says the Institute's director Vladimir Krasnov.
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18:20
BLIND SWIMMER IN COLD WATER FOR WOMAN
The data about the swimmer will be sent to Guinness Book: Valentin Zlobin performed a marathon swimming race in the ice-cold water. Zlobin is blind, he lost his sight due to an injury 30 years ago
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12:40
ADVENTURES OF A DRUNK TRACTOR DRIVER
This story, which happened one of these days in the town Uzhum, Kirov region, could decorate any blockbuster.
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21:59
OVER 1/3 OF PUPILS HAVE SEX DURING SCHOOL TRIPS
There was an interesting opinion poll carried out in England, the results of which showed that more than 1/3 of pupils under 16 years old had their first sexual experience during the trips
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14:06
MOTHER BEAR SUCKLED 16-MONTH CHILD FOR THREE DAYS
In Iran, a 16-month child has been found in a bear’s lair, Reuters reported. For three days, a rescue party was searching for the child of Iranian nomads who disappeared from the camp while the parents were working in the field.
The searchers assumed that the mother bear was suckling the child. According to medical experts, the child feels well. Probably, the bear’s milk has really refreshed the Iranian Mougli.
11:00
OLD LADY TRAVELLING AROUND THE WORLD
A citizen of of the town Novokuybyshevsk in the Volga region, Tatyana Guzova, has always dreamed about travelling around the world.
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11:20
SEX AND MONEY INCOMPATIBLE
Sociologists have concluded private life depends on money, though not in the way we could guess.
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17:31
AND THE MOST SEXUALLY HAPPY NATION IS…
The sociologists came to conclusion that the love life of a human being depended on money - but not the way we are used to thinking – quite on the contrar
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16:00
SOBER BEARS HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FOR IN RUSSIAN VILLAGES
Inhabitants of district center Selizharovo in the Tver region could confirm that the stereotype of Russia as a country where bears walk in the streets broadly spread in the West is not without grounds, RBN.Ru reports.
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11:20
DNA VACCINE AGAINST RABIES CREATED IN INDIA
At the Indian National Institute of Food in Hyderabad, the first DNA vaccine against rabies has been created. In the nearest future, it will be tested on animals, and later it will be tested on human beings bitten by sick animals, The Hindustan Times reports.
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17:59
AN IMPROPER NAME CONFERRED TO SOUTH-AFRICAN TOWNSHIP
South-African woman cannot make it out: whether they have been knowingly insulted or it has been just a practical joke. The point is that one of the newly-constructed towns has been officially conferred a name which in the local patois means female genitals.
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16:19
AUSTRALIAN OLD LADIES POSE NUDE
A group of woman pensioners from the Australian Island of Tasmania have been photographed naked for a calendar in order to raise money for curtains to be hanged in the building of their local commune. To raise money, the old ladies made up their minds to issue a calendar under the title “Take off our clothes to become different.”
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18:29
MAN’S MIDDLE FINGER BECAME HIS NEW PENIS
The patient was pleading with the doctors. The man said he had cancer, but after the operation, there were only 2cm of his penis left. He did not want to be a without his tool, so he agreed to sacrifice his finger.
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14:43
MAGIC SPELLS TAXED IN ROMANIA
The authorities in Romania have introduced a tax on magic spells, which local wizards are supposed to pay from now on. It is planned that each magician will be annually pay to the state budget about $1.5 out of his income.
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21:44
RUSSIAN ARMY SOLDIER ATE HALF OF HIS BED
It is very hard to serve in the Russian army, to put it mildly. The soldiers do anything just to make the term of their army service shorter. However, the latest occasion is surely too much
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20:31
A TOWN BEARING ILL-FAMED BIBLICAL NAME TO BE FOUND IN SARATOV REGION
Bolshoi Sodom. A town bearing this name has just appeared on the map of the Saratov Region, Central Russia, according to the respective ruling of the regional Duma, or legislature.
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20:30
WORLD’S MOST FOOLISH LAWS: U.S.A. (CONTINUED)
Florida’s laws may be no less odd, the punishment for violating them being no less severe. Unmarried women may not make parachute jumps on Sundays in Florida. Strictly forbidden in the state are: singing with a bathing suit on, driving a skateboard without a licence plate, be naked when taking a shower.
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13:09
MUSIC HAS THE SAME EFFECT ON HUMANS AS GOOD FOOD AND SEX
US scientists have found out that under the influence of music, the same parts of the human brain are stimulated as by eating or making love. Music helps to overcome pain, alarm, and sadness.
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11:06
SCHOOL DIRECTOR’S SKELETON AS A VISUAL AID
Pupils in a village school in Romania study anatomy using an unusual visual aid: the former school director’s skeleton.
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10:00
STORK INHERITS BIG FORTUNE
US banker Rodney Lancaster had a pet – stork "Gramps." As Mr Lancaster died, it turned out that according to the master’s will, the bird inherited his fortune.
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20:56
COMPLEXES AND SECRET PASSIONS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN
The Daily Telegraph newspaper, which occasionally got a copy of fax letter with Osama bin Ladeen’s signature, has hired a graphology specialist with the task to describe the terrorist’s character.
According to the specialist, the signature belongs to the person with gigantic ego and a powerful inferiority complex.
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19:14
PRAVDA.RU: LAUNCH OF NEW WEB-BASED GAME SERVER
A new game server has been launched from by PRAVDA! Now, every PRAVDA.Ru reader can face off with opponents in the popular Counter-Strike game. Our server’s address: cs.pravda.ru: 27015.
The game is simple: two armed teams – terrorists and counter- terrorists fight with each other. What part will you take? It depends only on you. And only here you will have a unique possibility to meet with PRAVDA.Ru contributors in an informal situation ofa a web-based computer game.
14:41
WORLD'S MOST FOOLISH LAWS: U.S.A. WHY YOU MAY NOT SHOOT BUFFALOES FROM YOUR HOTEL'S SECOND FLOOR
The USA is believed to be the focal point of apparently absurd laws. Several dozens of public organizations are fighting to have those laws (which are called “dump laws” there) repealed.
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21:06
GERMAN WOMAN ROBBED 6 BANKS WITHIN 3 HOURS
33-year-old German woman was sentenced to 5 years and 3 months of imprisonment in Munich. The woman robbed 6 banks just within 3 hours
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20:52
KISS MUST LAST AT LEAST 3 SECONDS
Regular and long kisses prolong human live, strengthen his health, moreover, they are the best anti-depressant.
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21:04
ANDROGYNE MOOSE KILLED IN CANADA
A local hunter killed a very rare animal in the north of Canada this Monday - the androgyne moose. As biologist Rick Word told Reuters, the hunter thought he was killing a common male moose but when he got closer to it, he saw the animal had female genitals
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11:15
ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH MAMMOTH AND VOLCANIC ASHES NEAR VORONEZH
In summer, Russian archaeologists work especially hard: summer in Russia is a season made for archaeological discoveries – they then come under scrutiny for the rest of the year. In Kostenki village near the city of Voronezh, there is an archaeological museum which is world-known.
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19:51
MAN SELLS FATHER
A Chinese man sold his father for 1,300 USD to arrange money to pay for treatment for a venereal disease.
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