News
The first week of the new year brought a new outbreak of bird flu. The H5N1 virus has become a real danger to people - in Turkey, three children died from it, and on Monday another victim became…
Sport
2006 is the year of the Winter Olympics and world championships in the most popular team sports. The world's strongest national teams in football, basketball, and volleyball are determined once every…
Immigration
Every year, more than a hundred thousand Germans leave their country, going abroad in search of a better life. The figure reached a record level in 2002 – 117,683. And for the capital, the most…
Tourism
New Year holidays in Europe are celebrated long and with taste: in Austria – with music and hot air balloons, in Great Britain – with ale and pantomime, in Germany – with dog races and carnivals, in…
British student Alex Tew sold the last thousand pixels on his famous page The Million Dollar Page. Tew earned even more than the million dollars he hoped for from his own idea. As Newsru.com reports…
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov set the quota for issuing temporary residence permits to foreign citizens and stateless persons for 2006 at 107,425. It should be recalled that the head of the…
The U.S. House of Representatives has once again questioned the need for the well-known Green Card lottery, which gives citizens of some countries the right to obtain resident status in the United…