News
"A change in the conservative team: Nicolas Sarkozy comes onto the field instead of Jacques Chirac," – that is how the sports magazine France Football unusually commented on the finish of the…
For many years, investors from around the world have been choosing Switzerland as a place for capital investments, and world-famous international organizations have long opened their offices in this…
Gourmets – people who primarily love and appreciate taste in dishes, not satiety, are divided into at least three groups. The first are homebodies who prefer to cook themselves or go to the same…
Everyday life
Another dispute about whether it is allowed to wear hijabs, burqas and other 'religious clothing' in public places flared up at the end of April in Italy. The head of the Italian Interior Ministry…
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have recognized the residents of Denmark as the happiest in Europe, the Daily Mail reports. The scientists surveyed 20,000 people from 15 European…
In the near future, Russian passengers may lose such a tried-and-true remedy for fear of heights as a glass of alcohol, not only abroad but also at home. The Ministry of Transport of the Russian…
Tourism
No matter how much is written about Santorini, everyone leaves this island with their own deeply personal feeling. I was struck by Santorini because in half a month of island life I did not see a…
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Aviation in Russia and the CIS countries was the most accident-prone in the world in 2006. These data were published by the International Air Transport Association. It is twice as safe to fly with…
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German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble seriously intends to completely overhaul the German legal system. Many accuse Schäuble of trying to 'roll back' democracy in the country and replace it with…
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Immigration
The US Green Card visa lottery is the simplest and therefore most popular way to obtain residency in the United States. Unsurprisingly, it attracts the attention of many scammers around the world…
One of the largest players in the U.S. mortgage lending market, the California-based company New Century Financial, is bankrupt. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in a massive crisis that has…