According to the 'World Working Families Project', created by Harvard University and McGill University, 134 countries have laws establishing a maximum working week. 137 countries have laws…
Cheap air tickets and alcohol are the main reasons for Britons' bad behavior abroad, according to a report by the UK Foreign Office. Recently, a Greek court convicted a British tourist who bit a…
Blame for one's own extra kilograms can now be safely shifted onto friends and relatives. American scientists have found that obesity is transmitted from person to person. True, not by airborne…
No one can say exactly how much money illegal immigrants spend on lottery tickets. The owner of a small store in Bensonhurst, for example, once admitted that the biggest fans of the New York lottery…
Americans are accustomed to poking fun at the British – they consider them strange, eccentric, and overly prim people, used to greeting with the word 'Turlyulyu', saying goodbye with an exclamation…
A huge number of overweight people is a long-standing reality and problem of the United States. Americans' boundless love for fast-food restaurants, high-calorie food, and lack of any physical…
Scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia stated that on 23 May 2007, a huge demographic shift occurred on Earth. On that day, for the first time in history, the…
In different corners of the world, moving capitals has become fashionable again. First of all, there are recent examples of Malaysia and Myanmar, which decided to move their "power Olympus" to…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2005, 422,000 marriages were contracted in the States in which spouses belonged to different races. In turn, according to calculations by sociologists at…
In Mexico, a bill on legalizing active euthanasia has been submitted for parliamentary discussion. Only conservative President Felipe Calderon is against it, but liberals intend to win by majority…
Thousands of officials will stroll along English streets this summer, patrolling bars, restaurants and shops - this is how compliance with the smoking ban will be enforced. Smokers are already saying…
The Year of the Pig, which began on February 18 according to the lunar calendar, threatens China with an unprecedented baby boom. The reason is an extremely widespread belief in Chinese society that…