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2010-02-25, 10:26

Real Fact About Russian Vodka

January 31 is often considered Russian vodka`s unofficial birthday. It was the day when Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev defended his doctoral dissertation "On Combining Water

2010-02-16, 10:22

The Orgasm to die for?

On the evening of Wednesday, July 11, 2007, Chris Duchamp, 23, finished his electrical-engineering classes at a college in Ottawa, Ontario, and rode the bus home to his one-bedroom apartment across the river in Gatineau. Duchamp (not his real name) lived alone. Sometime around three Thursday morning, Duchamp took off his clothes. He then strung a length of boat rope through an eye hook he`d driven into the floor, looped it around his neck in a way that allowed him to control the tension, and threaded it through a second eye hook, which he`d affixed to the archway above his head. Then he took the free end in his left hand and pulled.

2010-02-16, 09:39

Everyone Else is Cheating-So Why Aren`t You?

Spitzer, Edwards, Sanford, Letterman. Not since Clinton rolled a Cuban in Lewinsky has our country so gorged itself on the scurrilous details of extramarital dalliances. Thousand-dollar hookers. The predilection for doing it "raw." The secret love child. The back entrances at the Beverly Hills Hilton. Those e-mails about "magnificently gentle kisses" and "tan lines." It`s as if some evil scientist had activated a microchip in all of us that made us behave like goats. One click, one maniacal cackle, and Gomorrah is upon us.

2010-02-09, 10:54

UN death toll in Haiti quake rises to 94

The number of UN personnel killed in the recent quake in Haiti has reached 94, while another eight staff remain unaccounted for, a spokesman for the UN secretary general said on Monday.

2010-02-04, 12:23

The Top 10 Wackiest Stripper Shoes

Ah, stripper shoes. So many to choose from. So many laps upon which to dance. Non-exotic dancers wear such boring heels, really, if you think about it. Dancing girls? They take stilettos to a whole new level. Take, for example, this pair, outfitted with a gun for a heel and extra bullets, just in case a customer gets too randy. Check out the rest of the craziest stripper shoes we?ve ever seen in our pole-dancing spectacular slide show.

2010-02-01, 11:48

McDonald`s: 20 years of successful work in Russia

Twenty years ago, on January 31, 1990, some 5,000 people gathered in Moscow`s Pushkinskaya Square, waiting for the opening of a McDonald`s restaurant, the first to start working in the Soviet Union.

2010-02-01, 09:24

Moscow actress arrested in African sex slave sting

A 21-year-old Moscow resident was detained on Thursday in western Moscow after she attempted to sell four African women into sexual slavery. Aiguyn Azizova accepted nearly $2,000 from an undercover police officer posing as a pimp, in exchange for the women, who came from Nigeria and Ghana.

2010-01-18, 11:22

Google probing possible inside help on attack

Google, the world`s most popular search engine, said last week it was thinking of pulling out of the world`s biggest Internet market after reporting it had been hit by a "sophisticated" cyber-attack on its network that resulted in theft of its intellectual property.

2009-12-29, 15:12

Ten key events in environment and science of 2009

1. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 was the most disappointing event of the year. Environmentalists and scientists had great hopes for the summit to be effective in curbing global warming. However, despite days of discussion, its participants failed to agree on a document that could replace the Kyoto Protocol, which will expire in 2012. Only a few leading countries signed a declarative and non-binding document, which was not approved by the other delegates.